Archive for July, 2019

Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche read a preliminary translation of “The Xian Most Excellent Oceanic Mind-Essence” from the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL) at the New Renaissance Bookshop in Portland, Oregon this morning. This dharma is one of three great mind-essences from the SAUMOL that provides the preliminary practice for The Blessings, Longevity, and Wealth Accomplishment Dharma and part of the preliminary practice for The Ascending to the Stage of a Great Bodhisattva Accomplishment Dharma. The rinpoche also provided background ...

A cruise to see the famous glaciers of Alaska shown above aboard the Ruby Princess from July 20-27, 2019 went up to the State’s capitol to Juneau, then to Skagway, the gateway to the Klondike Gold Rush territory and its rich and colorful history via a delightful recycled narrow gage railway. The White Pass and Klondike line ran through the beautiful Tongass National Forest to the Canadian border and beyond. Next a day was spent exploring Glacier Bay National Park ...

Classes were held in San Diego on July 13 & 14 on the “Most Excellent Enlightenment Emptiness-Practice Oceanic Mind-Essence” from the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL). This is the third mind essence from this dharma. the second mind essence, “The Xiaman Most Excellent Oceanic Mind-Essence” was heard and discussed last month. Out-of-town participants also toured downtown San Diego and enjoyed the sunset at the aircraft carrier-museum-park shown above and the boats in the harbor shown below.

We contemplated ...

The Spanish Sangha of Northern California has been meeting monthly to study a preliminary English translation of three related discourses given by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III in 2015 and published as Learning from Buddha. The content of these three lessons is so important that His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha requires that anyone wishing to receive a dharma transmission or initiation from Him, must bring this book with them and be interviewed to make certain they understand these lessons before ...