Sublime

Often when you go to a Western Dharma center you’ll find a shrine room full of shabbily dressed men and

Since the early 1990s, Khandro Rinpoche has been traveling and teaching in Europe, Asia, and North America, and has established a nunnery and retreat center in India called Samten Tse especially for Asian and Western women monastics.

It can be practised by regular practitioners—and to a certain degree by people who are not Buddhist—but this is not the audience to whom the Nyi-da Mélong is speaking.

Our practice is to help people, and to help people, we find out how to practice our way in each moment.

The charnel ground is not merely the hermitage; it can also be discovered or revealed in completely terrifying mundane environments where practitioners find themselves desperate and depressed, where conventional worldly aspirations have become devastated by grim reality.

If we clearly experience a single koan, the other koans will become transparent.

When Soto Zen founder Dogen said, “A Zen master’s life is one continuous mistake,” he was pointing out how mistakes and openhearted learning from them are central to spiritual life.

are appreciating each moment of

I was particularly aided by an early interview with Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, a renowned Tibetan yogin-scholar of the Kagyü lineage whose spontaneous teachings emerged as foundational in my understanding of the ḍākinī.