Aspiration

Multiplying
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Multiplying Effects: Five Ways of Multiplying Merit

Practitioners should take advantage of all opportunities to increase the accumulation of merit easily and swiftly. We need to know how to magnify our virtues....
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Chokgyur Lingpa’s Zangdok Palri Aspirations

To conclude our Copper-Colored Mountain series on this last Guru Rinpoche day of the year of the pig, I would like to share with you...

With My Guru in Tharpaling

Happy Guru Rinpoche Day to all of you! I hope you all are healthy and happy. As I am sending this message to you all...

Letter from My Guru

I would like to share this message with you all for today's Guru Rinpoche Day: My son, you need to understand the dharma that I...

Letter to Myself

I hope you have all been healthy and happy. I am at the moment at my home base in Boudhanath, Kathmandu. I have been spending...

Be Gentle with Yourself!

In this video instruction, Phakchok Rinpoche responds to a student's question about thoughts arising during four foundations practice sessions. Rinpoche advises the student to look...

Long and Meaningful Life

Happy Guru Rinpoche Day! I am at present presiding over the Tsekar “White Amitayus” Drupchen here at our Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery in Boudhanath. It...

Mahāyāna Teaching: The King of Aspiration Prayer Part Three

In this final teaching, Phakchok Rinpoche reminds us that we can do this aspiration prayer as often as we wish....
King of Aspiration

Mahāyāna Teaching: The King of Aspiration Prayer Part Two

In the second teaching, Phakchok Rinpoche continues his commentary on the text. He emphasizes that although this aspiration prayer is very ancient, we can see...
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Mahāyāna Teaching: The King of Aspiration Prayer Part One

Bodhisattvas arise from their practice of the path, but mainly through their own aspirations. Here, Phakchok Rinpoche briefly explains the importance of aspiration and the...

Aspiration: Water for Compassion

Aspiration is like water, and motivation is like the seed. You plant a seed and want to see the plant grow. Water is the aspiration....

Bodhicitta Aspiration and Application

Bodhicitta of aspiration means the to wish to benefit beings and for all beings to be enlightened. Application means integrating that with everything we do. ...