Mangala Shri Bhuti - The Link

Speaker: Michael Velasco. Michael reflects on the myriad of opportunities the Dharma offers from enlightenment in one lifetime to honoring our precious human birth.

Speaker: Mary Lee Mooney. Mary offers helpful insights on relaxing with practice and retreat.

Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. Rinpoche discusses the wisdom that comes through intelligent introspection of one' s mind and the self, which when analyzed and personalized, dawns as wisdom.

Speaker: Kate Dobbertin. Kate explores how to reconcile being in the world and being in retreat, and how to wake up living in the circumstances of day to day life.

Speaker: Tina Toriello. Tina talks about the blessing of "Digital Dharma" in her life, helping her to become a meditation practitioner, meet her teacher and serve the lineage.

Speaker: Joey Waxman. Joey discusses mind' s habit of worry and provides personal antidotes to quell worry including cultivating bodhicitta and practicing tonglen.

Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. In this fifth talk in the series, Rinpoche discusses the blessing in cultivating qualities of conscientiousness, propriety and dignity in our mind, speech and actions.

Speaker: Kelly Smith. Kelly explores ways to weave practice into a very busy life.

Suzy discusses three ways of viewing phenomena and encourages growing conceptual and non-conceptual meditative wisdom.

Dungse-la explores renunciation on the path of Real Dharma.

Rinpoche continues his exposition of the Seven Aryan Riches. In this fourth talk he explores Hearing Wisdom, both its practice and its benefits.

Doug recollects memories of being in the kitchen, a place he feels is central to his life' s practice.

Bill shares his experiences with the lineage training and practices of Mangala Shri Bhuti.

Katarina describes how the cultivation of confidence and bodhicitta have helped to dispel the need to find a "right size".

Dungse-la talks about the "Jackalope Phenomenon", a rabbit with horns, which is a classic Tibetan example of the impossible, something which does not exist. He relates that to our culture and the belief in the self.

Rinpoche speaks of generosity as a "hook" for a happy, joyful and meaningful life.

Pam describes her experiences embracing and practicing the middle way in her daily life.

Greg talks about how the brain and memory work and how that leads to a construct of self.

Dungse-la describes how the teachings of Dharma are woven together in a simple and elegant way and relates that to our motivation to enter the path.

Rinpoche speaks about Buddhist ethics and delves into the topic of treating others as we would like to be treated as a way to cut through religious dogma and cultivate peace in our lives.