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Mangala Shri Bhuti - The Link
by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, Dungse Jampal Norbu and students
Pith instructions and practical inquiries into Buddhist view and meditation
Episodes
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How to Live and Age Skillfully (Link #826)
Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This LINK was originally given by Rinpoche on September 7, 2014 at Phuntsok Choling, in Ward, Colorado. Rinpoche describes the wisdom and skillful means of aging gracefully, and gives students specific advice for right conduct leading up to old age and death.
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Privilege and Responsibility (Link #825)
Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la begins with the importance of calling to mind the precious human life we have with all of its freedoms and advantages. He then reminds us how this may not be the case in the future unless we actively work to accumulate merit. On the path, we need to...
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Breeze of Simplicity: Talk 5 (Link #824)
Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This is the fifth and final talk given during a weekend program to students of Naropa University in November 2002. The program focus was the practice of meditation. The entire series re-aired over the summer of 2026.
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Breeze of Simplicity: Talk 4 (Link #823)
Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This is the fourth of five talks given during a weekend program to students of Naropa University in November 2002. The program focus was the practice of meditation. In this fourth talk, Rinpoche revisits the pith instructions on in-meditation and post-meditation...
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From Bleakness to a Positive State of Mind: A Roadmap (Link #822)
Speaker: Moni Banerjee. Moni opens with an analogy between devotional dance and devotion to the guru. She then reflects on Rinpoche's teaching from NSS on the eight consciousnesses being a framework for working with mental proliferation and delusion. Rinpoche emphasized how every moment has...
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Direct Experience in Meditative Practices (Link #821)
Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explains how the direct experience of our world has more to do with penetrating our own assumptions about the world in which we live, teasing apart the influences that cause the world to appear the way it does. He relates this to the more esoteric practices...
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Breeze of Simplicity: Talk 3, Part 2 (Link #820)
Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This talk was originally given by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche during a three-day, weekend program at Naropa University in November 2002. Part 1 of the third talk aired September 23, 2026. In Part 2, Rinpoche continues the series with detailed teachings and...
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Breeze of Simplicity: Talk 3, Part 1 (Link #819)
Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This talk was originally given by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche during a three-day, weekend program at Naropa University in November 2002. The third talk from these weekend teachings was one hour and thirty minutes long, so it was split into two parts airing…
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Practical Concerns, Unconventional Approach (Link #818)
Speaker: Stephanie Kindberg. "Bring your struggles onto the path and appreciate them." Stephanie recalls important advice Rinpoche gave her when she started a new business. "Let your work become your practice and bring skillful means and wisdom to each situation rather than rigidly following a...
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Breeze of Simplicity: Talk 2 (Link #817)
Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This talk was originally given by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche during a three-day, weekend program at Naropa University in November 2002. This second talk centers around the practice of meditation from a Buddhist perspective. Additional talks from this 2002 weekend...
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Contemplating Claude (Link #816)
Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explores ideas about AI and how it can expose assumptions about the causes of happiness and suffering. He illustrates how technology can be a way of recreating the eight worldly concerns, similar to how social media serves as a platform on which to build a...
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Buddhanature vs. Schmuckness (Link #815)
Speaker: Joseph Waxman. Joey unpacks a poignant talk given by Rinpoche at the 2015 Nyingma Summer Seminar. The talk centered on obscurations that veil our true nature. These include emotional obscurations such as attachment, aggression and jealousy, cognitive obscurations such as grasping at...
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Breeze of Simplicity: Talk 1 (Link #814)
Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This talk was originally given by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche during a three-day, weekend program at Naropa University in November 2002. The first talk included detailed instructions on the practice of meditation. The second and third talks from this 2002 series…
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The Good Fortune of Encountering the Dharma and the Confidence to Walk the Path (Link #813)
Speaker: Sarah Gomes. Sarah recounts how she met the Dharma through the writings of Pema Chödrön during a difficult period in her life. She experienced an immediate sense of meaning, particularly in the teaching that ‘within suffering lies the potential for transformation’. Sarah has been a…
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My Sevas, Challenges and Findings (Link #812)
Speaker: Daisuke Inaba. Dai-san discusses his seva activities, the challenges they present, and his findings in working with challenges. He divides a period of service into beginning, middle, and end and offers methods for dealing with difficulties that arise at each stage. In the beginning…
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The Five Perfections (Link #811)
Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la reflects on how the willingness to show up, especially with "a heart full of bodhicitta" is 60% of success in getting anything done in the Dharma. He relates the power of showing up to the five perfections, which are taught in a Tibetan medical text: place,...
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Compassion Without Limit: Talk 3, Part 1 of 2 (Link #810-1)
Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This talk was originally given to the European sangha on September 16, 2024 as part of an online, weekend program called "Compassion Without Limit". The first of three talks aired on the LINK in August 2025 and the second in February 2026. This is the third and...
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Compassion Without Limit: Talk 3, Part 2 of 2 (Link #810-2)
Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This talk was originally given to the European sangha on September 16, 2024 as part of an online, weekend program called "Compassion Without Limit". This is the final portion of the program's third talk which did not air as a live LINK, but is made available on...
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From Equality to Compassion (Link #809)
Speakers: Junglan Bang. Junglan recalls watching a documentary of an old man climbing mountains in China. When asked why he did it, he smiled and said he was, "...doing it for the happiness of all sentient beings". Carrying that old man's smile in her heart, Junglan went on to study Buddhism and...
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Unconditional Well-Being (Link #808)
Speakers: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel. Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel speaks with her teacher, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, about the paramita of patience. A common misconception is that patience is a passive ability to "grin and bear it" or to endure suppressed anger. Rather, it...
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Refuge During a Year of Disruption (Link #807)
Speaker: Peter Lauritzen. Peter reflects on the meaning of refuge in a time of personal and global disruption. He discusses how meditation on the four thoughts that turn the mind toward the Dharma offers a true refuge and lasting protection from anxiety, distress, and distraction. Cultivating the...
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Life Release and the Six Perfections (Link #806)
Speaker: Aline Gomes. As a member of MSB Brazil, Aline joins her sangha's regular efforts to release crabs and other animals back into the wild. More than 200,000 beings have been freed to date. Today's LINK illuminates the practice of life release as a direct and tangible expression of…
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Bodhicitta (Link #805)
Speaker: Bob Reid. Bob explores bodhicitta and the heart practice of the four immeasurables. He shares an approach he learned from Pema Chödron that enables him to work with the difficult tendencies of self-aggression and lack of warmth towards his own experience. In this approach, one begins…
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Illness As Path (Link #804)
Speaker: Sharon Lukert. Sharon explores how the Buddha's teachings on birth, old age, sickness, and death can be brought directly into the lived experience of illness. Sickness brings us into intimate contact with our deepest attachment, which is the body itself. Drawing on her lived experience...
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Steps on the Path of Daily Practice (Link #803)
Speaker: Kate Keach. Kate reflects on the challenges of walking the path of daily practice. Following Rinpoche's new ngöndro parameters, she experimented for two months with establishing a consistent daily practice. Kate reads from the journal she kept during that period and shares her three...
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From Me to We: Unlocking the Self-Centered Mind (Link #802)
Speaker: Wendy Conquest. Wendy shares her process of discovering equanimity, the first step toward a mind poised for bodhicitta. The wish to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings is challenging. It requires acknowledging the equality between ourselves and others in our…
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Being in Love with Dharma (Link #801)
Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la discusses a phrase he recently heard from a fellow Dharma teacher: "The mark of a good student is when they have fallen in love with the Dharma". This resonated strongly with him because he sees Dharma as the way we are in relationship with the world. It...
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How to Hold It All Lightly: Finding Balance on the Path (Link #800)
Speaker: Ambika Samarthya-Howard. Ambika shares her journey of balancing a devotional Buddhist path with her life as a filmmaker, activist, and working mother. She introduces the concept of "holding it lightly" as an antidote to overwhelm, focusing on maintaining connection rather than forcing a...
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Unobscured World is Not Elsewhere (Link #799)
Speaker: Amy Wallace. Amy describes her experience of unobscured world as that which is revealed when nothing is pushed away. Sharing her poetry and her lived experience of intense loss and grief, she explores how we can stay close to direct experience even in the midst of "the raw scene of now"....
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Guides and Guideposts (Link #798)
Speaker: Suzy Greanias. Suzy calls to mind significant guides on her spiritual path and urges listeners to reflect on, and rest in the presence of their guides. She shares two guideposts that serve as her personal "lines of defense" against inner obscurations and suffering: 1) the problem is not...
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Transforming Perception (Link #797)
Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Speaking from New Delhi at the start of the MSB Dana Pilgrimage, Dungse-la explains that the journey is not about comfort or sightseeing but about transforming perception. By stepping outside familiar environments and accepting discomfort and uncertainty…
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Universal Tender Heart and Universal Responsibility (Link #796)
Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This is a rebroadcast of a talk given by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche to the local sangha on January 5, 2014 at Osel Ling in Crestone, Colorado. Rinpoche describes the wish for happiness that all beings share, that when stripped down to its very basic form, awakens...
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Heart of Sadness (Link #795)
Speaker: Tara Di Gesu. Tara draws our attention to Dzigar Kongtrul's teaching on "the saddened heart that recognizes the futility of seeking happiness in samsara." She explores how chyoshe, or ‘unconditioned sadness’ as described by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, holds profound potential. Chyoshe may...
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Cultivating An Uplifted Mind (Link #794)
Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la emphasizes the responsibilities and benefits of uplifting our internal world and cultivating "sweet" relationships with others and the world. He reflects on how this practice of setting a positive tone in our mind aligns with the Dharma because it involves...
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Compassion Without Limit: Talk 2, Part 2 of 2 (Link #793)
Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This talk was originally given to an online, European audience on September 15, 2024 as part of a weekend program, "Compassion Without Limit". The first of three talks aired on the LINK in August 2025. This is the second talk from that program and it is split…
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Compassion Without Limit: Talk 2, Part 1 of 2 (Link #792)
Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This talk was originally given to an online, European audience on September 15, 2024 as part of a weekend program, "Compassion Without Limit". The first of three talks aired on the LINK in August 2025. This is the second talk from that program and it is split…
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From Afar (Link #791)
Speaker: Alice Gormley. Alice discusses the importance of the four immeasurables practice in her life. She expresses deep gratitude for the ability to connect remotely, which has allowed her to maintain a connection to the Dharma and precious family members. She marvels at all of the modern…
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Aging in the Dharma (Link #790)
Speaker: Nicholas Carter. "We are all moving towards death". With this fundamental recognition, Nick contemplates how the Dharma offers meaning, purpose, and direction in aging and death. He acknowledges the profound inspiration he has received from older women in his life who are aging with...
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Closing Shop and Preparing to Open (Link #789)
Speaker: Katsutoshi Okabayashi. Oka-san uses "closing shop" as a metaphor for letting go, and "preparing to open" as a means of finding freedom through gratitude. Though sadness may arise from facing endings, openness dawns, which brings joy and natural cheerfulness. This is achieved by working...
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Time To Take Time (Link #788)
Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la emphasizes the importance of reflection as we enter into a new year. It is, "the time to take time" to bear witness to what has unfolded and to allow that experience to shape our aspirations for the future. As we enter 2026 and the Year of the Fire Horse…
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Ignorance and Buddhanature (Link #787)
Speaker: Sasha Dorje Meyerowitz. While gathering information for one of Rinpoche's books, ‘It's Up To You’, Sasha describes the profound impact that revisiting past teachings on ignorance had on him- "an openness to a new way of being". Sasha realized that ignorance and buddhanature are two sides...
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Joy, Enthusiasm, Intention (Link #786)
Speaker: Jill Oppenheimer. Jill reflects on how clarity of intention and confidence in practice unveil the causes of happiness and suffering. She analyzes three primary obstacles to clarity and stability of mind: ego-clinging, lack of enthusiasm, and internet use. She emphasizes the antidotal...
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More Mud, More Lotus (Link #785)
Speaker: Mary Albrittain. Mary shares a number of personal experiences that have allowed her to bring suffering onto the path of awakening. Having faced profound loss, including the deaths of loved ones and health issues of her own, Mary meets these experiences with curiosity and compassion. She...
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Investments (Link #784)
Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la discusses Dharmic investments in mind and meritorious action. He discusses the unexamined premise of investing in external factors that we believe will bring us closer to our goal of obtaining happiness and being free from suffering. Dungse-la examines the...
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Be Content (Link #783)
Speaker: Vanessa Waxman. "Be content! Be content! Be content!". That is what Rinpoche told her. Vanessa shares her reflections on advice from her guru and the art of being content. She begins by contemplating how one stays in the present moment, remaining content, when one is anxious about the…
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Drama Trauma (Link #782)
Speaker: Bill Roberts. Using the first and second noble truth as a starting point, Bill talks about the deep fear of failure and unrelenting anxiety that overshadowed his career as an actor. Offering his experience as a window into the workings of ego, Bill states that until we choose to boycott...
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Courageous Self-Reflection: Turning Toward Fears (Link #781)
Speaker: Jen Kern. Jen reflects on maitri aspiration and how it leads to warm-hearted courage and "buddhanature self esteem". She contemplates two profound questions related to maitri that came up after recent talks given by Rinpoche: "Why am I still putting up walls of protection and closing…
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Word By Word (Link #780)
Speaker: Fredi Kaufmann. Fredi reflects on how language shapes experience and spiritual growth. Words are creative forces- our inner and outer speech manifest reality. Cultivating kind, compassionate self-talk supports well being and transformation. On the Buddhist path, mantra recitation is a...
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Parting from the Four Attachments (Link #779)
Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This previously-recorded teaching was originally given by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche to the Sangha on December 6, 2015 in Crestone, Colorado. Rinpoche extensively explains the meaning of four famous lines from the Sakya tradition that address being a spiritual...
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Breeze of Simplicity: Part 3 (Link #778)
Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This previously-recorded LINK was the third teaching of a weekend program called, "Breeze of Simplicity", given to the Naropa University student body by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel in October 2012. Part 1 aired on the September 21st…
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