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Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkUnshakable Confidence (Link #760)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la shares open questions he is exploring on how to develop genuine confidence in our own direct experience of life in a world full of contrasting information. He describes the complexity of making a commitment to the path amidst contemporary discourses overloaded with opinions. Rather than providing answers, he offers a few questions for reflection including, (1) How do we reconcile the universal insights of Dharma with our culturally conditioned narratives, including those shaped by culture, family, and personal identity? (2) How can we have genuine confidence in our experience in an age dominated by relativism, where our...2025-06-0855 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkCultivating Choice (Link #755)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. This LINK was originally given on August 2, 2015. In this talk, Dungse-la describes how careful introspection coupled with the study of karma cultivates choice, changes perceptions, clears habitual tendencies and creates one's environment.2025-05-0454 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkOvercoming Obstacles Through Longing (Link #751)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la reminds us to review the eighteen freedoms and advantages and ascertain whether we are meeting them in our lives. If we find that we are lacking any, then we can strive to overcome the obstacles that prevent them from being present. Pointing to Milarepa as an example, Dungse-la emphasizes that it was his longing to meet the Dharma and his deep devotion that allowed him to overcome all circumstantial obstacles. Therefore, we too, need to keep our longing alive to whatever extent it currently resides in each of us, and reaffirm aspiration bodhicitta to engage...2025-04-0627 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Intention to Return (Link #743)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la stresses the importance of aspiration to navigate life's circumstances and work with them in an uplifted manner. For example, when we get lost in our daily activities, not moving in any particular direction, he advises us to apply ourselves to a meaningful goal, or aspiration. In this way all our intentions culminate toward that goal. He speaks at length about having a fierce intention to return to aspiration bodhicitta, the vehicle that transforms an obstacle into a blessing. In this way we avoid the subtle neurosis of ego-grasping, which can turn blessings into obstacles.2025-02-021h 04

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkContemplating the New Year (Link #739)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la shares his thoughts and advise for the new year ahead. For a fresh start, he underscores the importance of cultivating a positive mental attitude to counteract negativity. Looking forward to brighter horizons, he recommends setting aspirations for the year ahead. We must remind ourselves that despite how things may appear, we have the ability to break the cycle of samsara and this starts with taking refuge in the Three Jewels.2025-01-0530 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkFully Engaged (Link #734)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la describes how the spiritual life asks us to look inside of our mind to find peace from the constant grasping and rejection of things- "the eight worldly concerns" in Buddhism. We strive to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings, and learn that our own true happiness comes from wishing for the happiness of others. In this way, the spiritual life involves not only engaging our mind but also being fully engaged in life and our environment where our activity is expressed. If we sometimes get stuck generating this intention, Dungse-la suggests that...2024-12-011h 20

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkGetting to Know Yourself (Link #718)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la describes the spiritual path as a path of getting know oneself. Having grown up in a Dharmic family, the practice of self reflection has been a constant in his life from a young age. Being a Dharmic person means going beyond improving the self based on worldly concerns, to develop a relationship with one’s internal world of thoughts and emotions. A daily practice of meditation is foundational to self-knowing. By observing thoughts and emotions arising and dissipating, the habit of identifying with them as belonging to one's self begins to unravel. Looking more deeply at...2024-08-041h 11

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkA Practitioner's True North (Link #710)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explores the practice of self-reflection as the way of finding our true north as practitioners. We can use the interrelated methods of analysis (‘tokpa’, in Tibetan) to look at things in general and ‘chopa’ to examine details for clarifying our own thought process. With the internet and social media we meet with many contrasting perspectives and narratives that push agendas. Dungse-la encourages us to align ourselves with the perspectives of the Buddhas by being honest with ourselves, holding ourselves accountable to mind training and facing our mind with equanimity. We learn to trust ourselves as the prim...2024-06-021h 03

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkAround the World in 72 Days (Link #705)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la shares his experience of travel and the unique opportunity it brings to step out of our comfort zone and actively engage with our mind. He describes the difference between being a pilgrim or a tourist, the latter being one who seeks fun and comfort, the former being one who brings Dharma practice along for the ride, perhaps even seeking discomfort. Experiencing his own discomfort, Dungse-la closely examined his own mind and discovered that his experience was dependent on his attitude. Knowing there is no happiness to be found in outer circumstances, he allowed himself to...2024-05-051h 10

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkSonam and Appreciation (Link #693)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la speaks about "sonam" or merit, and explains how things manifest in our lives. Merit is the energy that brings joy. We cannot be dependent on circumstances for our happiness and well-being as it is dependent on sonam. We know that even those who have wealth are sometimes unable to appreciate their wealth. What's more, we are naturally predisposed to avoid suffering and rather than seeking to find an outer remedy for our suffering, we need to generate merit through actions that are in line with bodhicitta (based on an altruistic mind). Dungse-la further speaks to...2024-02-041h 09

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkSelf Reflection, Renunciation and Appreciation to Bring in the New Year (Link #689)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la speaks about self reflection as the entry to Dharma practice, about disillusionment and appreciation for our present opportunity as practitioners, particularly as we enter the new year. Topics include a profound appreciation for this precious human life, reflections on the past year to motivate us to make changes when we see how they contribute to our suffering and disillusionment, and the power of aspiration for the future. In order to rise above our circumstances, we can start by asking ourselves if we are still looking for short term benefit or if we truly appreciate this...2024-01-071h 10

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkXX (Link #668)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu.2023-08-061h 11

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkAppreciation and Taking Refuge (Link #665)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la, speaking from the 2023 Nyingma Summer Seminar, reminds us that the Buddha's first teaching in Sarnath was that there is suffering. The Buddha went into great detail about his investigation into how we suffer. Our suffering springs more from our own mind and attitude than from the our physical conditions, as evidenced by people in developing countries. Our neurotic self-attachment and the five destructive emotions spin the wheel of samsara. The Dharma teaches that the path to the cessation of suffering involves working with karmic cause and effect in an open-eyed manner, seeing the results of...2023-07-091h 58

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkKarma (Link #664)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la, speaking from the Illustrious Moon children's program, explores karma or cause and effect. Each of our actions and the primary tone of our approach to life will eventually come back to us as karmic results. The effect will be related to the cause, so if we're angry a lot, the effect will be related to anger. Our intention matters and amplifies karmic results. Lojong mind training slogans like "don't be so predictable" remind us to be less habitually reactive to karmic results that appear in our life and respond in new ways that gradually shift...2023-07-0258 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkBaggage Handling(Link #660)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explores how the practice of bodhicitta (awakened mind) includes investigating one's own egoic reactions in daily life. Holding onto our history with self-importance results in emotional baggage that leads to habitual reactions in the present that cause suffering. Our emotional baggage is not who we are; it is not intrinsically existent. We can transform it as it surfaces through self-reflection using lojong mind training teachings like "transform obstacles into the path of awakening". Using the four immeasurables to meditate on our "enemies" and objects of hurt or heartbreak can change our relationship with them, turning...2023-06-041h 13

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkLojong: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet (Link #651)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. This LINK is an excerpt from a talk originally given on December 4th, 2021, at a three-day program called, "Lojong: Where Wisdon and Compassion Meet". Dungse-la gives a history of Lojong with a focus on Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points of Mind Training and its numerous, available English translations. Developing bodhicitta, the intention to generate warmth and become enlightened for the benefit of all sentient beings, is at the core of the Lojong teachings. Dungse-la reviews foundational teachings of Buddhism and how they enable us to switch gears from the eight worldly concerns to the four immeasureables...2023-04-021h 14

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkBe Like India (Link #649)Speaker: Joey Waxman. Joey refers to two recent Link talks to trace the causes that recently led him to experience a sense of heaviness about samsara. One talk, given at Losar by Dungse Jampal Norbu, explored the importance of cultivating disillusionment with samsara. The other, given last week by Jennifer Shippee, expressed appreciation for the capacity of Indian culture to accommodate and embrace all experiences without rejecting anything. Disillusionment requires us to develop a sense of sadness or "kyoshe", which is associated with renunciation, by recognizing the suffering of samsara. This disillusionment might give rise to a sense of heaviness...2023-03-191h 09

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkService: The Mantle of Responsibility (Link #647)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explores service from the perspective of the Dharma, reminding us that we have a responsibility to apply our good merit and skills through service to others. The proper motivation for this is not guilt or self-importance, but interaction with the world through bodhicitta and a growing freedom from our habitual patterns through the practice of service.2023-03-051h 16

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkEveryday Dharma (Link #645)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la reflects on what it means to orient ourself toward enlightenment, from the moment we wake up in the morning. Gratitude for our precious human birth, the Dharma, and even things we enjoy like tea and coffee, uplifts us and cuts through the tendency toward cynicism. When our mood is affected by an experience we don't like, it can be an opportunity to analyze our self-grasping and practice compassion for others. He touches on many topics, including death practice, guilt, privilege and merit.2023-02-191h 03

EveryBodhi PodcasteB 124 - We Die As We LiveJampal Norbu considers the 18th verse of Lojong, “The Mahayana Instructions for the transference of consciousness are the five thoughts. Conduct is vital.” We examined how the Five Strengths apply to everyday life in the previous episode. Now, we will see how the Five Strengths apply to the end of life. Dharma teacher Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel joins Dungse Jampal for a thoughtful dialogue on how mind training can make a difference at the pivotal moment of disillusionment. Theme music by Matt Quentin.2023-01-2454 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkCultivating Disillusion (Link #641)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explores the defects of cyclical samsara and how disillusionment is an important seed for our commitment to the path of transformation rather than just hoping for change. This requires moving beyond our comfort zone, like we do when on pilgrimage. Dungse-la shares his New Year's resolutions.2023-01-221h 00

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkLojong: The Fearless Path (Link #634)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Lojong, the Buddhist practice of mind training, is where compassion and wisdom meet. The slogans on mind training provide an important framework for how we meet the world with kindness and equanimity. In this weekend program hosted by Pema Osel Do Ngak Choling in Vermont, Dungse-la continues his teachings on Lojong, drawing on commentaries by great Lojong practitioners, and other texts referring to foundational teachings of Buddhadharma. This program is a continuation of a series of talks Dungse-la has given on Lojong over the past three years.2022-12-042h 01

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkCommitting to Mind Training (Link #631)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse Jampal Norbu explores our polarized political climate through the lens of Lojong mind training. How do these seeds of anxious thinking arise? Can we cut through catastrophic narratives? Are we prepared to deal with loss? Mind training gives us tools to steer ourselves out of whirlpools of thinking and shift our focus to equanimity and bodhicitta. In this way, we can be a practitioner first.2022-11-061h 11

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkIs Samsara Fair? (Link #628)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Fairness seems to be a contemporary ideal that does not clearly appear in the Dharma. It refers largely to what is reasonable or equal. But what arises is governed by karmic theory, the nature of the vast web of interdependence, not by fairness. Fairness is usually a view from the standpoint of self-importance. The fact that samsara is not fair calls us to examine when we are caught in attachment to our ideas of fairness and self-importance. We have a great future ahead of us as practitioners when we apply the Dharma to our sufferings in...2022-10-161h 32

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkDharma and the World (Link #623)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la points out that last thing we usually do in difficult circumstances is to appreciate and respect them. We tend to respond in a dualistic framework to get rid of "the bad" and grasp onto "the good." As practitioner's of the Dharma, we have the opportunity to use adversity to work with our own mind. We can see beyond the consensus view using the lenses of emptiness and interdependence.2022-09-1155 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkPractice Now (Link #619)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. We can practice with whatever arises in our life, immediately. Even our busyness and especially our challenges in daily life are opportunites to look at life through the lens of the Dharma. We can "Make Good Art" with whatever arises. At the root of all suffering is self-importance. We don't grow in the Dharma or even experience genuine connection until we start to let go of this self-importance. Enthusiastically engaging in service to the sangha is a powerful context for releasing self-importance.2022-08-141h 10

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkDon't Be a Loyalist To Ego (Link #616)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Speaking from the 25th annual Nyingma Summer Seminar on the second weekend, covering the Mahayana vehicle, Dungse-la encourages not being a loyalist to the ego's narrative and impulses. By applying lojong mind training practice, we can have the tenacity to be with our own mind with the intention to be kind and compassionate. If instead we're focused on building a fortress around the heart, it will be very hard to see from a Dharmic perspective. Lojong gives us the ability to train in the face of difficulties, to not trust the ego, and see through its...2022-07-162h 11

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkChoosing Kindness (Link #614)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Speaking from the Illustrious Moon Children's Summer Camp, Dungse-la explores the relevance of Dharma for daily life, how samsara and its incessant change doesn't lend itself to being fixable. We always have the power to respond to what feels unfair or uncomfortable in life with kindness and compassion.2022-07-0353 min

Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers & PractitionersDungse Jampal Norbu: Comfortable with the Fluidity of East-West, Tradition-ModernityDUNGSE JAMPAL NORBU is son and Dharma Heir of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche in the Mangala Shri Bhuti community. His mother is Dharma teacher Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel.Dungse la has lived and traveled extensively in Asia, but spent much of his youth in Colorado. If you were to ask Dungse la how long he has been studying the Buddhist path, he would say, “Since I was born.”When Dungse la was still an infant, Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche instructed Kongtrul Rinpoche to train Dungse la to uphold and continue Kongtrul Rinpoche’s lineage, particularly that o...2022-06-0732 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkTo Be Determined (Link #605)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la reflects on working with our emotions and neuroses by examining our determination to practice the Dharma. Where are we investing our freedom? Are we making time for practice and retreat? Are we working with our habits? Are we accumulating merit?2022-05-011h 16

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkTime For Courage (Link #601)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la offers his contemplations on bodhicitta and compassion as the universally profound, true source of courage. He describes courage as the flip side of fear, pointing to the source of fear as grasping, rejection and ignorance. Because of these three habitual tendencies, it takes a great deal of compassion, steeped in bodhicitta, to be truly courageous.2022-04-031h 39

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThoughts from Retreat (Link #597)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la shares thoughts from his current retreat. Retreat is not vacation. The point is to face everything that arises in our mind. If we look closely, we see that in moments of fear and anxiety, we often default to the sense of self and the five afflictive emotions resulting in our acting with attachment and aggression. Moving beyond this worry, "what about me?" to asking "how can I benefit others?" opens up so many more options to us.2022-03-061h 37

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkLojong: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet (Link #585)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la teaches from the most famous lojong text, Seven Points of Mind Training, drawing on commentaries by great lojong practitioners in this weekend program held December 4-5, 2021. Lojong, the Buddhist practice of mind training, gives us the tools we need to journey through our constantly changing lives and meet unexpected and unwanted experiences with confidence and clarity. The training begins with getting to know ourselves and finding solidarity and friendship with our own minds. Gradually the practice frees us from the negative habits that prevent us from realizing our full potential to benefit others deeply.2021-12-052h 16

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkAdapting to Dharma (Link #583)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la asks some big questions about how we are approaching life. As we ponder the changing world and issues like climate change and our own mortality, are we just trying to get by in samsara or are we truly applying the Dharma to cut through our negative emotions and cross the ocean of samsara? How are we responding to the challenges of life? Are we contemplating and applying the teachings in a way that penetrate samsara?2021-11-2159 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkDeveloping Authenticity (Link #568)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explores the aspiration to live a meaningful life and how freedom from the need to validate our own identity leads to the development of true authenticity. As we make the commitment to turn to the path of the Dharma and see through our neurotic grasping at a self, we can find a naturalness that goes beyond self.2021-08-011h 04

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkNyingma Summer Seminar- Talk 7 (Link #566)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la teaches on the Mahayana in Talk 7 of the 2021 Nyingma Summer Seminar.2021-07-112h 06

Windhorse Journal PodcastDON’T BE SO PREDICTABLE: A Conversation with Dungse Jampal Norbu on the Practice of LojongWelcome to an opportunity to listen to a spontaneous discussion about the Lojong slogan training with a wonderful teacher. In this discussion, Polly Banerjee Gallagher and I join Dungse Jampal Norbu to address a few of these slogans and how they may be of use in society today and in the Windhorse community in particular. We discuss some slogans—such as “Don’t be so predictable” and “Don’t wait in ambush.” Dungse-la, as he is referred to in this discussion, and the group bring up Tonglen as a thread that runs through these slogans and how that practice (of taking in s...2021-06-151h 10

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Space Between (Link #561)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la draws contrasts between being in and out of retreat and how the transition between them can be like bardo experiences. Retreat provides an opportunity to relax the process of identification, where we are less focused on projecting a self. Instead we focus intently on practice and resting in the nature. When we transition out of retreat, we get to watch how our tendency to develop identity rushes back in, how we contrive an identity amidst the push and pull of our preferences and aversions.2021-06-061h 13

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkTraining the Mind, Bringing Uncertainty Onto the Path (Link #558)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. This is the third of three talks in an ongoing series Dungse-la is giving on Lojong. The weekend program was held on May 15-16, 2021 in Crestone, Colorado.2021-05-161h 54

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkCan I Check Your ID? (Link #552)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la contemplates death and identity on this Easter Sunday talk. Our grasping and attachment to the sense of self are the source of our suffering and an obstacle to gracefully meeting the moment of death. And yet a healthy sense of self is important for functioning in the world. Exploring and analyzing our identity is an integral part of Dharma practice.2021-04-041h 02

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkSerious Need for a Laugh (Link #548)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explores lojong slogan 21, always maintain a joyful attitude, and touches on our negativity bias as biological organisms wired for survival. Humor has a great power to cut through our seriousness in the face of suffering.2021-03-071h 02

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkLearning Through Adversity in 2020 (Link #539)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la reflects on 2020 as a year of learning through adversity. When the defects of samsara are so plainly evident, so is the opportunity of working with our mind by honestly investigating our reactions to impermanence and other difficulties, noticing where we contract into self-centeredness.2021-01-0346 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkResting In Change (Link #523)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la discusses change and impermanence as being the very nature of things, what enables everything to function. In our self-cherishing and fixations, we resist change and therefore suffer. However, we can choose to rest in change by engaging a bigger view that acknowledges the reality of impermanence and constant change. For example, we can place the changes we are experiencing in the larger perspective of history.2020-09-061h 02

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkAn Act of Service (Link #518)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explores the topic of service from multiple angles, enumerating the kinds of service and how the noble attitude of service of benefitting others is best accomplished without grasping to a sense of self. In this way all dharma practice becomes an act of service as it serves that primary intention.2020-08-021h 07

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkTonglen: Expanding The Heart With Wisdom (Link #510)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la does a thorough explanation on the basis of the practice of tonglen or exchanging self for other. He reviews how we feel ourselves to be a solid entity and the suffering that arises from that misapprehension. The practice of tonglen undercuts that fixation on a sense of self. He explains the prajna paramita teachings, the four noble truths and then goes on to describe three forms of tonglen. Tonglen can happen on the cushion during a meditation session and also off the cushion after one has developed fearlessness.2020-05-172h 09

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThree Wisdoms for All Eras (Link #508)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explains how the three wisdoms of listening, contemplation and meditation are useful during this time of uncertainty. When we join those three wisdoms with bodhicitta, we provide ourselves with a ground to navigate these difficult times.2020-05-031h 23

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkHow To Change Our Future (Link #491)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. For the new year, Dungse-la advises us to reflect upon our past year using the Four Thoughts That Turn the Mind Toward the Dharma as our guide, then make our new years aspirations based upon bodhicitta.2020-01-0557 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkNot Too Tight, Not Too Loose (Link #486)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la adresses how we need to approach our practice with a sense of balance and use self reflection to determine when we are pushing ourselves too hard or not hard enough.2019-12-0158 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkNo Excuses (Link #483)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la describes a practitioner' s path from renouncing the eight worldly concerns to freedom beyond dualism.2019-11-031h 14

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkGenerating Inspiration (Link #479)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explains the four thoughts that turn one' s mind toward the Dharma and addresses the three lords of materialism.2019-10-061h 07

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Carrot of Merit (Link #470)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. In this pre-recorded talk from 2018, Dungse-la discusses how we accumulate merit through intentional, skillful action, and how to create merit that spans lifetimes.2019-08-0451 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The Link2019 Nyingma Summer Seminar (Link #468)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. In the third talk of MSB' s annual, Nyingma Summer Seminar program, Dungse-la talks about taking refuge and what that entails. He explains the five skandas, renunciation, the 8-fold path, being natural, the three wisdoms and habitual patterns.2019-07-142h 08

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkSaga Dawa (Link #463)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explains the meaning of Saga Dawa and suggests ways to honor the Buddha during this auspicious month.2019-06-091h 07

Mindful U at Naropa University58. Dungse Jampal Norbu: Cultivating the Mind with Awareness"[Meditation] can be a little unfamiliar and scary, but it's something that we all can do. We just lean into it. Lean into the openness. What is it like to just be free? I mean, think of when you graduated college for instance—you'd been studying your whole life—filling your time with acceptance essays or homework or a thesis or something like that, and then you come out the other end of the education curriculum. And suddenly there's all this room. It's like, what do I do? And society says get a job. But for a brief moment when...2019-01-2947 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkA New Year' s Message (Link #443)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la suggests we take the time between western and Tibetan new years to review what has benefitted and harmed us during the past year, aspiring to practice bodhicitta and the four immeasurables as the best way to make the new year meaningful.2019-01-061h 05

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkEmpty Money (Link #439)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la addresses how lay practitioners can maintain the view of emptiness while engaged in worldly activities.2018-12-091h 46

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkEveryday Conduct (Link #434)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. In this pre-recorded talk from September, 2018 Dungse-la talks about how everyday moments provide the opportunity to liberate ourselves from suffering.2018-11-0452 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkReflections on Bodhicitta (Link #432)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la describes the two aspects of bodhicitta and how the four immeasurables and the three wisdoms are connected to them.2018-10-1436 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkSeason' s Impermanence (Link #426)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Reveling in the beauty and changes of the fall season, Dungse-la traces the interconnectedness of impermanence, interdependence and emptiness.2018-09-0255 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkPick and Choose Dharma (Link #422)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explores the potential dangers of the careless disassembly of traditional and cultural origins of genuine spiritual practice.2018-08-0555 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkDisputed Reality (Link #417)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explores the concept of reality.2018-06-241h 18

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkMaking Friends With The Mind (Link #414)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la speaks how the practice of maitri or friendliness to one self is the basis of the practice of bodhicitta.2018-06-031h 05

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkFollowing Impermanence (Link #381)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la discusses how examining impermanence and karma is imperative to our well-being.2017-10-0151 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkGetting Back To Basics (Link #375)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la talks about the importance of self reflection to keep our spiritual practice genuine and integrated with our life.2017-08-061h 06

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkAbility To Make Choices (Link #371)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la discusses the illusion of autonomous choice in the realm of interdependence.2017-07-0232 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkFoundations Of Practice (Link #367)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la recounts his recent travels, which revealed the importance of self reflection, the practice of the four immeasurables and how choice matters.2017-06-0459 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkHow To Meditate (Link #363)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la talks about the importance of meditation to help navigate modern day difficulties.2017-05-0733 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkEnlightened Activity (Link #360)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la address the importance of integrating our heartfelt connection to others with our activity of service.2017-04-161h 04

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Paramita Of Pilgrimmage (Link #342)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la talks about being on pilgrimage in India and how being on the dana requires practicing the five paramitas.2016-12-0431 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkWorking With Difficult Situations (Link #338)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la speaks about taking personal responsibility for our state of mind especially when encountering difficult situations. He recommends self reflection and the lojong slogan: "Change your attitude and remain natural".2016-11-061h 05

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkPractice In The "Real" World (Link #333)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la addresses the problem of our practice being separate from our "real life". He gives tips on how to integrate the two.2016-10-0251 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Practice of Taking Refuge (Link #328)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la discusses the meaning and practice behind taking refuge and the lineage.2016-08-0759 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkEveryday Ways of Working With Ego (Link #324)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la speaks to the MSB youth at the annual Illustrious Moon Youth Retreat in Ward, Colorado.2016-07-031h 11

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkAdventure and Meaning (Link #320)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la investigates how travel stretches our boundaries and takes us out of our comfort zone, a good opportunity to go beyond the self.2016-06-051h 13

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkPractice Versus Path: Mindfulness (Link #315)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la investigates the current mindfulness movement in the west and compares and contrasts it with traditional buddhist teachings about mindfulness.2016-05-011h 00

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Most Difficult Attitude To Have In Response To Tragedy: An Open Heart (Link #291)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la discusses how to remain free from the extremes of anger and passivity in difficult situations and remain open to working with what arises.2015-11-151h 02

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkCultivating Choice (Link #279)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la describes how careful introspection coupled with the study of karma cultivates choice, changes perceptions, clears habitual tendencies and creates one' s environment.2015-08-021h 06

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkSelf Reflection and the Four Noble Truths: Openness is Required (Link #277)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la gives his first of several talks at the 19th annual gathering of the Nyingma Summer Seminar.2015-07-121h 51

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkRadically Present (Link #273)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la contemplates what it means to live a meaningful life within the context of who we really are, and the importance of self reflection and openness along the way.2015-06-0754 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkMind Games (Link #268)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la opens a conversation about the mind' s experience of impermanence and merit.2015-05-031h 08

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The Link2012 Nyingma Summer Seminar Live Talk (Link #128)This LINK was a live broadcast of a Hinayana talk given by Dungse Jampal Norbu at the 2012 Nyingma Summer Seminar.2012-07-081h 35

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkBodhicitta As A Bridge (Link #95)Dungse-la underscores the importance of openness and trust as the link to the larger self, and in opening to the larger self how bodhicitta serves as both the vehicle (to enlightenment) and the bridge (counters the small self and negative habits).2011-11-1331 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkClinging to the Concept of Self and Other (Link #90)Dungse-la contemplates how building an identity around an object changes the value of our experience thereby leading to a loss of appreciation, joy and contentment for what is.2011-10-0939 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Individual and The Community (Link #87)Dungse-la discusses the necessity of having a solid "individual life" as a foundation to be of benefit to the larger community, which he defines as all sentient beings. He describes how thinking of and caring for others brings greater joy than caring for ourselves, and with repeated practice how the "illusion of duality begins to fade."2011-08-141h 11

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Affliction of Timuk (Link #82)Dungse-la speaks about Timuk- "a dull flat state of disconnectedness" and outlines various remedies including mindfulness, a keen awareness of one' s environment and how the practice of the four noble truths brings us back.2011-07-1057 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkMaintaining Awareness as a Bodhicitta Practice (Link #78)Dungse-la observes that in our fast paced modern world, awareness often gets "stretched thin." Without awareness, there' s more of a chance that the five negative emotions will slip in and overtake our mind. So putting an emphasis on maintaining awareness as a bodhcitta practice bridges the gap between meditation and post meditation practice, allowing us to carry out working with the paramitas to counter the negative emotions in our daily lives, even with the speed of modernity.2011-06-1250 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Essence of Mother' s Day (Link #73)Jampal contemplates materialistic mind in the modern world and discusses the remedy to the mistaken belief that "things bring happiness".2011-05-0849 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkReflections on Faith (Link #69)Dungse-la reflects on the power of faith and gives suggestions on how to cultivate faith.2011-04-1051 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkKarma and Responsibility (Link #52)Dungse Jampal Norbu continues his exploration of karma. While dieties and our teachers ' supplement' our path, we each must clarify how our intention informs our actions as we seek to walk toward awakening.2010-12-1200 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkIs it Karma or Fate? (Link #48)Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse Jampal explores karma in this eloquent and insightful talk. By identifying two types of karma, personal and general (general meaning phenomena like gravity), we can address what in our karma we can do something about through practice and the view. The Q and A contains engaging discussion of topics such as fate.2010-11-1400 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #45: Exploring Absolute BodhicittaSpeaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse Jampal Norbu explores some of the misconceptions one may naturally have about emptiness and its relation to relative experience.2010-10-171h 05

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #41: Not Taking Ourselves Too Seriously: Accomplishment Without GraspingJampal Norbu Namgyel 2010-06-1359 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #36: Being Deliberate: Creating Conditions for PracticeJampal Norbu Namgyel 2010-05-091h 05

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #32: Bodhicitta: Make it PersonalJampal Norbu Namgyel 2010-04-1128 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #28: Jampal Norbu NamgyelJampal Norbu Namgyel 2010-03-1451 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #22: Fear, Being Fearful, and Fearlessness: Cutting the Roots of Attachment and AversionJampal Norbu Namgyel 2010-01-1039 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #18: Contentment: The Supreme Treasure of Not Wanting to be Anywhere Other Than Where You AreJampal Norbu Namgyel 2009-12-1343 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #13: What to do when in a rut: positive attitude and flexible mindJampal Norbu Namgyel 2009-11-0850 min

Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #2: From the Cushion to the Grocery Store: Developing Positive HabitsJampal' s first talk to the Sangha 2009-08-0955 min