Recorded Teachings

Training Monks and Meditators

Learning is not about facts, although we may need some relative knowledge. We need to be respectful of the different ways people receive...

Reference Points

What I’m endeavoring to point to is very challenging and very difficult to see. I’m endeavoring to give your true identity back to you,...

Protector/Warrior

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche brought this concept up to date when he came to the west. I prefer to use the word protector; The ultimate...

Conflict

A Matrix

Dependent origination is not parts; it’s really more than that. Nagarjuna says, “Neither samsara nor nirvana exist, but all is a complex...

Working with Addictions

Observe what you produce on the cushion and in your life. The thought production is covering up what it is you need to see. Receive...

Observe Your Production

Observe what you produce on the cushion and in your life. The thought production is covering up what it is you need to see. Receive...

The Circle of Thoughts

Just watch the rotation that is trying to seduce you into into some kind of thought pattern of passion, aggression or ignorance. That...

Mountains and Rivers (XXVIII)

This Q & A session begins with a question about the teaching, “Don’t do what you’re told.”

Chants, Precepts and...