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Meeting Don Season with Mindfulness – HIGHLIGHT
Sakyong Mipham teaches on meeting don season with mindfulness. This year, don season begins Tuesday, February 22nd and concludes on Thursday, March 3rd. In the lunar calendar, the weeks preceding each New Year can be fraught with inner and outer obstacles. In these teachings, offered to the ... continuePosted February 21, 2011 by
Hold Your Seat – HIGHLIGHT
From the weekly column Dharma Snacks by Cynthia Kneen Once I met a Chinese Buddhist Abbot, who gave me this advice. “You have to hold your seat when circumstances of obstacle arise. It is from habitually seeing external circumstances as real that they become real obstacles.” ... continuePosted July 15, 2009 by
How to Work with Obstacles – HIGHLIGHT
By Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche Whatever our level of practice, there will always be obstacles. The Tibetan word for obstacle, parche, means “what cuts our progress.” In fact, sometimes the more we are engaged in practice, the greater the obstacles become. If we understand that obstacles are ... continuePosted May 11, 2009 by Jennifer Holder