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- Public Teaching with Rigdzin Shikpo and Path of Freedom Classes Starting Now!We are very happy to announce a public teaching with Rigdzin Shikpo on October 1st as part of the Longchen Foundation’s Heart of Buddha programme. For Heart of Buddha talks, Rigdzin Shikpo…
- Path of Freedom Retreat: Last Call for Online Tickets, In-person Tickets Sold OutWe have sold out of in-person tickets for the Path of Freedom retreat, but you still have a chance to attend online via Zoom! The retreat will consist of meditation, discussion, and…
- Path of Freedom Retreat and Lion’s Roar Gate 4 TicketsThe Path of Freedom retreat is a special opportunity for Longchen Foundation students to hear teachings directly from Rigdzin Shikpo, especially for those who recently have begun studying on a Longchen programme…
- Monthly Newsletter for JulyPath of Freedom Retreat Update We sold out all of our in-person tickets at the Priory but we’re very pleased to announce that the Priory has allocated us more rooms, and they…
- Cinema Shikpo Showing This Friday, 15 JulyThe experience of love and compassion means a love and compassion that reaches out to all beings equally. You will perceive that. And you will perceive that that embodiment of love and compassion…
- Monthly Newsletter for JuneThe Path of Freedom retreat is a unique time of year when all of the Longchen Foundation students are able to practice together as one Sangha, as well as being perfectly suitable…
- This Weekend: Lion’s Roar Retreat Starts June 4thIt’s not too late to sign up for this year’s Lion’s Roar Retreat! Beginning this Saturday June 4th, the retreat will cover teachings and practices of the first year of the Lion’s…
- Cinema Shikpo This Friday May 27thMark your calendars for a viewing of Rigdzin Shikpo’s Heart of Buddha teaching “What is Buddhism?”, this Friday! Cinema Shikpo is an opportunity to watch previous recorded teachings of Rigdzin Shikpo together…
- Monthly Newsletter for MayJoin Our New Open Meditation Group! Starting this Thursday, May 19, join us for the Longchen Open group, an hour’s session of teachings and meditation open to all. The hour starts with…
- Cinema Shikpo This Friday!From Heart of Buddha: Mandalas and Longchen, Longchen Rabjam’s Notions of Mandalas (Oxford 2015) Longchen Rabjam talks about the mandala of reality, the mandala of the deities themselves that are—and I love…
- Monthly Dharma Quotation: Vision of the MahayanaAs our view of the world changes, it becomes possible to love others in a way that we previously reserved for ourselves alone. This genuine love is self-existent, beyond all contrivance and…
- Monthly Dharma Quotation: The Importance of Longchen RabjamThe word Longchen refers to a person, Longchen Rabjam, the great 14th century Nyingma figure without whom there would be no current Nyingma tradition, there’s no doubt. Longchen also refers to the…
- Cinema Shikpo This Friday!From Heart of Buddha: Mandalas and Longchen Rabjam’s Notions of Mandalas (Oxford 2015) And it’s said in the Buddhadharma that this sense of the un-satisfactoriness of everything is much greater than we…
- Monthly Newsletter for JanuaryMonthly Dharma Quotation: The Ungraspable Self As you begin to allow thoughts and feelings to be there, the mind often seems to become more, rather than less, irritating. It is not really…
- Monthly Dharma Quotation: A Feeling for TruthHow can we know we are genuinely relating to direct experience rather than just fooling ourselves? The only way to tell is by feeling the general direction of your practice. If egocentricity…
- Monthly Dharma Quotation: On Letting Go of ConceptsYou have to notice whether you are clinging to particular ideas so that they become part of the way you think you are. You think, this idea is me somehow and I’m…
- Monthly Dharma Quotation: The Indestructible Heart EssenceTo be sensitive there has to be some degree of openness and awareness, so these three qualities are the basis of what it is to be a sentient being, whether animal or…
- Monthly Dharma Quotation: On Failure and The Path of TrainingOne of the dangers of expressing Dharma in the West is people have this idea that you’ve got to behave in a particular way. It’s prescriptive in other words. You have to…
- Monthly Dharma Quotation: On The Importance of TeachersNobody can tell you, “Reality is like this!” or “Read my book for a complete explanation of all the secrets of the universe.” The truth has to be perceived directly, which is…
- Just Announced: New Cinema Shikpo on Friday 13 AugustFrom Heart of Buddha: Openness Clarity Sensitivity (Oxford 2016) The mind becomes bored very easily, so it begins to create things to make life interesting for you. It starts creating its own…
- Monthly Dharma Quotation: On Feeling GuiltyOpinions, emotions, prejudices and ideas change, but even so they are still what we identify with. We think all this is ‘me,’ but actually it is just something that arises within that…
- Monthly Dharma Quotation: On the Power of SuperstitionThis month’s quotation is from a teaching Rigdzin Shikpo gave on Refuge and Bodhisattva vows. The entire teaching is made available to students who prepare to go for refuge with Rigdzin Shikpo.…
- New Path of Freedom Courses Starting This WeekBoth the Oxford and Bristol Path of Freedom groups are starting new courses this week as we ease into the summer months. Both courses are part of our Path of Freedom programme,…
- Monthly Dharma Quotation: On The Importance of The ViewMeditation is most powerful and effective when we start with the right kind of view. View, in this sense, is a way of seeing that leads to a deeper understanding of the…
- CINEMA SHIKPO – Talk 2 Mandala Principles – May 28From Mandala Principles in the Dzogchen Tradition (Heidelberg 2016) If the buddhas are able infinitely to help sentient beings, why is the world in such a mess? Well, you must never forget…
- Reminder: Mandala Principles Teaching This Friday on ZoomFrom Rigdzin Shikpo’s talk on Mandala Principles in the Dzogchen Tradition The most important thing perhaps in a dharma mandala is that the central principle should be what is called bodhicitta, the awakened…
- Monthly Dharma Quotation: On Empathy and Caring for OthersAs a group we recently watched the recordings of Rigdzin Shikpo’s teachings on “Death and Dying” over Zoom together. One of the students from that event felt that this quotation from those…
- Forthcoming and Ongoing Longchen Foundation ClassesWe have one final Lion’s Roar Foundation weekend coming up next month, 8-9 May. For those unfamiliar with the Lion’s Roar, this is our foundational and introductory programme in Buddhist practice and…
- Monthly Dharma Quotation: On relating to experienceEvery month on Guru Day (10th day of the Lunar Month) we will publish an excerpt from one of Rigdzin Shikpo’s teaching. This teaching is from the book Never Turn Away. What…
- Reminder: Lion’s Roar Foundation Weekend and Rigdzin Shikpo Teachings on ZoomWe have two exciting events coming up this weekend. First, on Friday evening, join the Longchen Foundation for a public viewing on Zoom of Rigdzin Shikpo’s second Heart of Buddha teaching on Death…