Author: Albert

  • The Ringu Tulku Archive

      The Ringu Tulku ArchiveTHE RECORDED TEACHINGS OF RINGU TULKU RINPOCHE ABOUT TOPICS COURSES ARCHIVE Account THE ARCHIVE Welcome to the archive of audio and video recordings. These teachings are only accessible to members, except for the ‘Public Talks’. Find out more about becoming a member here. Organise Results by: Most Recently Added Date Oldest-Newest…

  • Editorial

    We can use metaphors to help envision interconnectedness. . . . thinking of reality as a net.  We can also see it as a fabric that has been woven through causal relationships.  Like threads that run through a piece of fabric, the actions of one person serve as causes whose effects others must experience.  In…

  • The Main of Light

    Dónal Creedon, The Main of Light: Common Ground and Dividing Lines in the Teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti and Buddhism. 2017, Dónal Creedon, 143 p. Printed in Poland by Amazon Fulfilment, Poland Sp. z o.o, Wroclav This work is the fruit of Dónal Creedon’s many years of study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism, and of his…

  • An Indian Piece

    Six in the morning and the heat was already rising in waves from the earth. Runnels of sweat ran down the faces of the two passengers swaying to and fro in the rickshaw.  Crows cawed ominously and flew down from the trees, scavenging the streets for carrion. A cow ruminated at the side of the…

  • Harriet Tubman

    A story of overcoming fear in your workplace, and in your heart. Excerpted from Jaiya John’s new book of healing, Your Caring Heart: Renewal for Helping Professionals and Systems. Online where books are sold. Harriet Tubman was a baaad woman. She didn’t play. One story I appreciate telling about her (creatively adapted, of course) is a story of…

  • When No Place Feels Like Home

    REAL PEACE IS POSSIBLE – WHEN WE ALLOW EACH OTHER ROOM TO BE THE BEST WE CAN WHEN NO PLACE FEELS LIKE HOME In SACRED WORLD by Cristina Luhmann11/24/2017Leave a Comment Since I began this life of a modern nomad, one of the things in time you start to get used to, is the ability to detach…

  • Through the Gateway of the Senses

    When we cleanse our perceptions of grasping and attachment, we experience a universe that is infinite, awakened, and full of delight. Francesca Fremantle on sight, sound, touch, and other miracles. David Gabriel Fischer William Blake famously wrote: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite, for man…

  • The Emptiness of Curtains:   Some reflections in retreat.

    We need to make a practical decision – where to sit Donal our facilitator. The choice is limited to beside a door or in front of a window on the north side of the room: and we choose the latter.  Then, another decision – should the curtains behind him be open or closed?  These are…

  • The Practice of Compassion

    Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara)- the practice of Compassion

  • Remember by Christina Rossetti

    Remember me when I am gone away,          Gone far away into the silent land;          When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day          You tell me of our future that you plann’d:          Only remember me; you understand…

  • Chilli Haw Ketchup

    October 19, 2017  by Monica Wilde This is one helluva ketchup meets brown sauce baby. There is nothing like Chilli Haw Ketchup to put some fire in the belly this winter. It’s got an amazing taste, sweet and sour, peppery, tangy, umami. I remember Chinese haw flakes from when I was a child. This is that…

  • The Benefits of Saving Lives by Chatral Rinpoche

      I bow down before the Lama, Buddha Amitāyus, And the bodhisattvas in training. I shall now in brief describe the benefits Of freeing animals and ransoming their lives. To save animals from slaughter or any mortal danger, With entirely pure motivation and conduct, Is without doubt a practice to be taken up By all…

  • Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche

    Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche Vin Harris talks about the life of a remarkable man     I knew Akong Rinpoche as a friend and teacher for about forty years. Between 1978 and 1988, the Samye Ling community under his leadership built the first authentic Tibetan Buddhist temple in the West; it is named after Samye…

  • Haiku, Chögyam Trungpa

    The beginner in meditation Resembles a hunting dog having a bad dream ۞ His parents are having tea With his new girlfriend – Like a general inspecting his troops. ۞ Skiing in a red and blue outfit, Drinking cold beer with a lovely smile – I wonder if I’m one of them? ۞ Coming home…

  • A Rabbi on Holy Isle

    RABBI ADAM KLIGFELD | PUBLISHED AUG 21, 2017 | OPINION I’m a rabbi. I have experienced hundreds of Shabbat celebrations with Jewish communities of all sorts, in synagogue,  at camp, as part of youth groups, leading youth groups, with my family.  So how did it come to be that the most unexpectedly joyful, meaningful and deeply spiritual one I…

  • EDITORIAL

    An appreciation of the unity and sacredness of all life is integral to awakening to our own awareness.  (Lyse Lauren) Welcome to the late summer edition of Many Roads for Bodhicharya.   Wishing all well and hoping to hear from you soon. Albert Harris FEATURES LIVING AND DYING IN PEACE:  Ringu Tulku Rinpoche REACHING OUT TO…

  • SATURDAY MORNING

    On Saturday morning I was on the coach early to get to Brighton in time to hear Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche teach on Santideva’s 9th chapter. It was just after 6am. I pulled out my new dharma book The 6 Perfections by Dale Wright (an excellent book) and tried to read the section on tolerance. It…