February was an eventful and busy month at the Northern gar. Despite the harsh winter weather, the snowy and sparsely populated gar prepared for Losar and the Mandarava practice retreat in advance.
February was an eventful and busy month at the Northern gar. Despite the harsh winter weather, the snowy and sparsely populated gar prepared for Losar and the Mandarava practice retreat in advance.
I wanted to find a method using music that would give some tools to young people to become less conflictual, less problematic, or at least recognize that, and then work with it in a creative way instead of being destructive or moving into depression or anxiety.
Dear all, we are happy to invite you to the Dzogchen Teachings retreat, which Yeshi Silvano Namkhai will hold in Merigar from the 12th to the 17th of May 2023.
A Google Group has been established for members of the Dzogchen community related to the challenge of providing support and identifying resources for those with a life threatening condition or terminal illness.
Through the ripening of karma and by magical synchronistic events, I found myself winning a raffle ticket in February, which would send me to Nepal
Born in China and currently living in England, Red Hardingham had teachers in the Taoist, Theravada, Gelugpa and Pure Land traditions before meeting Rinpoche
Thus generosity does not depend on the worth of the offered gift but rather on one’s mind being free of attachment that hinder giving anything internal or external.
Another point of view from the pen of Tenzin Gendun
Nadia Gaggioli’s poem inspired by Merigar West from her collection “E sono io ..”
You could practice this with something non conceptual, like the perfect circle of enso, any person can load a brush with ink…
In the history of Indo-Tibetan tantric Buddhism, the figure of the mahāsiddha, or sorcerer-saint, has been a trusted archetype for study and veneration because so many sincere practitioners in India, Tibet, and Bhutan have had access to the visionary opportunity of utpattikrama,….
Poupee Brunatto recounts how she came to meet Rinpoche in 1968 and the first three month retreat with him in Subiaco