At least once a year, we plan a trip to Sonora, California to visit a menagerie of wild turkeys, peafowl, cats, deer, etc. Four new peachicks have joined the ostentation of peafowl that have congregated at Reba and...
In 2008, I had the good fortune to meet with H.H. Penor Rinpoche at his American retreat center in upstate New York and heard the former head of the Nyingma Sect, the oldest Buddhist lineage in Tibet, praise H.H. Dorje...
Akou Lamo Rinpoche stated that traditionally, the vidyas are divided into the five major vidyas and the five minor vidyas. The five major vidyas are the silpakarmasthanavidya (craftsmanship vidya), the cikitsvidya...
It has been said that some people who are not proficient in the Five Vidyas are still Bodhisattvas, but how can this be? Just being kind, doing good deeds, and being generous with others is good practice and should be...
H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha has told us that only when the crown opens up, even with a tiny opening, can the basic accomplishment of ending the cycle of rebirth and death be reached. One cannot achieve liberation without...
The Buddha Master clearly notes from the first of the ten articles for special attention in the Holiest Utmost Secret Sutra of The Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL), that we can not regard...
I was able to have my own crown opened through the Ni-Wan Lambre or Mud-Pill Dharma, a State Practice from The Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation. It was an awesome experience that produces concrete...
Cultivation is cultivating the increase of good karma and cultivating the avoidance of bad karma. It is increasing good karmic conditions, planting good causes, and reaping good effects. It is avoiding the increase of...
Many of the evil and erroneous views pertain to cultivation because there are many incorrect teachings on this matter. The most complete and helpful writing on this can be found in The Dharma of Cultivation Transmitted...
Great Holy Beings showed their approval when H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III first gave the discourse “What Is Cultivation?” that was published in both English and Chinese as The Dharma of Cultivation...