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EveryBodhi PodcasteB 138 - I AM NOT PREDICTABLEEach of Lojong’s 59 slogans are composed of carefully selected words that can become powerful and reliable resources on the spiritual path. One's own words. Years ago, when Jampal Norbu worked on a Tibetan to English translation of the Lojong verses he was surprised to learn that Trungpa Rinpoche’s well-know translation of Verse 30, “Don’t be so predictable,” was not quite direct or literal. In this episode, Jampal Norbu begins his two part examination of Lojong’s most provocative verse. 2024-12-2425 min

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

EveryBodhi PodcasteB 125 - What Is The Point?In this episode, Jampal Norbu examines the 19th verse of Lojong, “All dharma agrees at a single point.” This verse identifies the common ground shared by all schools of Buddhism; a ground that provides the essential basis of Dharma practice. Theme music by Matt Quentin.2023-03-0722 min

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

EveryBodhi PodcasteB 123 - The Precious PathJampal Norbu explores the fourth point of mind training, which encourages practitioners to make Lojong a way of life. The seventeenth verse of Lojong, “The pith instructions briefly summarized: Apply the five strengths,” shows us the path to a life wholly integrated with bodhicitta. Theme music by Matt Quentin.2022-11-0122 min

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

EveryBodhi PodcasteB 122 - A Flexible FrameworkJampal Norbu examines what it means to bring the practice of Lojong fully into your life. The sixteenth verse of lojong, “use whatever you face as a practice immediately“, is a commitment to go beyond the framework of conventional thinking and to bring practice to everything as it arises. The power of this verse lives in the present moment, and if we can bring our practice insight to this moment, then it will change our life. Theme music by Matt Quentin 2022-09-2736 min

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

EveryBodhi PodcasteB 121 - Fueled By MeritJampal Norbu explores the practice of applying Tonglen in everyday life by utilizing specific skillful means. The fifteenth verse of Lojong, “The Four Practices are the Best of Means,” outline specific methods of practice which enhance Lojong practice in general. Theme music by Matt Quentin 2022-08-1724 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

EveryBodhi PodcasteB 120 - The Mind ProtectorJampal Norbu gives a brief introduction to the four kayas, and the significance of emptiness as guardian against samsara’s influence. The fourteenth verse of lojong, “Meditate upon illusory appearance as the four kayas. This is the unsurpassable protection of emptiness” takes the relative understanding of bodhichitta and opens it to the greater implications of just how far this practice can take us. Theme music by Matt Quentin.2022-05-2120 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

EveryBodhi PodcasteB 119 - Great Wealth Great WisdomJampal Norbu takes a look at the importance of gratitude in life, including gratitude for challenging events and people. The thirteenth verse of lojong, “Meditate upon gratitude towards all”, builds on the twelfth verse which focuses on taking responsibility for one’s mind. Adopting a practice of gratitude and responsibility, cultivates a healthy attitude for practice in a volatile world. Theme music by Matt Quentin.2022-04-2116 min

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

EveryBodhi PodcasteB 118 - The Blame GameJampal Norbu looks into the importance of taking responsibility for the activity of our own minds, without succumbing to self-aggression. The twelfth verse of lojong, “Realize all faults spring from one source” is a difficult verse to adopt into practice, but it gives rise to empowering results. Theme music by Matt Quentin.2022-02-2827 min

EveryBodhi PodcasteB 117 - Carrying the PathJampal Norbu opens up the third point of mind training - transforming adversity into the path of enlightenment. The chapters starts with the eleventh verse of lojong, ‘When the world is full of evil, transform misfortune into the path of awakening”, which speaks to the stoic quality of taking all challenges as opportunities to grow in the practice of dharma. Theme music by Matt Quentin.2022-01-1824 min

EveryBodhi PodcasteB 116 - Compassionate Boundaries Pt 2Jampal Norbu explores the application of tonglen within everyday life - especially in relationship with our selves. The tenth verse of Lojong, “Begin the sequence of taking with oneself”, is a potent slogan for caregivers who know what is required to relate with the suffering of those around them. This episode is the second of a two-part look at how tonglen can be applied within caregiving, and to honor those caregivers who regularly extend beyond themselves. Theme music by Matt Quentin.2021-12-0731 min