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EveryBodhi PodcasteB 133 - Mind Your Own BusinessThe Lojong mind training slogans don’t offer practitioners advice so that we might simply become nice or agreeable people. Mind training aims to aid us in genuine transformation, but we need to challenge ourselves to understand its deeper, nuanced layers. In this episode, Jampal Norbu is joined by Dharma teacher, Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, in contemplation of Verse 26: “Do Not Ponder Others’ Business”.2024-04-2527 min
Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkShowing Up in Life and Death (Link #688)Speaker: Stephanie Kindberg-Velasco. Stephanie reflects on the past year focusing on several Sangha members who've died and also on Rabjam Rinpoche's visit to Boulder, Colorado. Her contemplation of these events is guided by by Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel's question: "When are we at our best?" Stephanie relates how the Sangha shows up for one another around sickness and death, and the opportunity it provides for directing our minds away from self clinging and towards tsewa, for example through the practice of tonglen. This applies not only to those who are dying but also to working with our own suffering.2023-12-3155 minEveryBodhi 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 minMangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkOpening the Heart of Sadness (Link #627)Speaker: Sara Namgyel. Sara identifies the genuine heart of sadness as the key to generating bodhicitta, cultivating renunciation, taking refuge, and attaining enlightenment. The genuine heart of sadness (choshe) arises from our willingness accept all our feelings fully. Unlike depression or despair, which lead us to feel stuck, choshe motivates us to gain freedom from samsara. Accepting our feelings fully develops the fundamental quality of Dharmic warriorship: fearlessness in the face of fear. By cultivating the genuine heart of sadness, we foster renunciation, the desire to liberate ourselves from samsara, and the determination to take refuge in the Three Jewels...2022-10-0957 minMangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkFinding Agency within the Hinayana (Link #615)Speaker: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel. Elizabeth discusses the Hinayana vehicle on the first of three weekends at the 25th annual Nyingma Summer Seminar. She emphasizes the need for analysis which she translates as "to loosen or to set free". A flexible mind is needed to traverse the path of the three yana system. This path is based on having a realistic view of what it means to be alive. Having a sense of agency counteracts feeling we are living in a state of emergency all the time. In the Hinayana we have a choice to feel like a victim or own...2022-07-101h 54
Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers & PractitionersGuided Practice: Four Immeasurables: Loving-kindness, Compassion, Joy, and EquanimityStay tuned after the meditation for Comfortable with the Fluidity of East-West, Tradition-Modernity, Dungse-la’s interview with ODA co-host Lama Karma Yeshe Chödrön.DUNGSE 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 st...2022-06-2122 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
Open QuestionOQ 206 - Don't Be So PredictableIn this episode, Elizabeth and her son, Dungse Jampal Norbu, discuss his project the "Everybodhi Podcast". In his podcast, and this interview, Dungse Jampal offers a fresh and contemporary look at one of Mahayana Buddhism's seminal texts - "The Seven Points on Mind Training", or as it's more commonly known, Lojong. Elizabeth and Dungse la discuss several of Lojong's 59 pithy and playful slogans which were intended to challenge, open and counter our ordinary, habitual mind. It is easy to misinterpret these short slogans and misunderstand their sometimes provocative tone. Dungse Jampal shares his deeply reasoned appreciation of the many precio...2021-08-0530 minMangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkNyingma Summer Seminar- Talk 4 (Link #565)Speaker: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel. Elizabeth teaches on the Hinayana in Talk 4 of the 2021 Nyingma Summer Seminar.2021-07-041h 56Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkUnconditional Well-Being (Link #544)Speakers: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel. In this re-broadcast of the Open Question Podcast #201, Elizabeth speaks with her own teacher, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, about the practice of patience described in Rinpoche' s new book, "Peaceful Heart: The Buddhist Practice of Patience". This practice, Rinpoche says, can protect our hearts and minds in a complex world, opening up new vistas of peace and richness for ourselves and others. It is, as the Buddha said, "a great armor". Together Elizabeth and Rinpoche explore what it means to practice patience as a skillful means on the spiritual path.2021-02-0741 minEveryBodhi PodcasteB 102 - First Things FirstJampal Norbu welcomes Dharma teacher and author Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel to examine the first verse of Lojong: “First, train in the preliminaries. The preliminary practices in Mahayana Buddhism are an essential support for any student of Lojong. They set the stage to inspire and motivate, while reminding us of why we turn to Dharma in the first place. Theme music by Matt Quentin2020-12-2326 minMangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkMahayana Essentials: Being In Healthy Relationship With the World (Link #513)Speaker: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel. This is the first talk of a weekend series given on June 6-7, 2020: In our lives we tend to relate to the world as if it is other. The category encompasses almost everything that we can think of: the weather, the government, the coronavirus, our boss, our adversaries and even our loved ones. Other also includes our unpredictable all-consuming thoughts and emotions. In this dynamic with the world where it seems as if things are always happening to us beyond our control, we have little agency and often encounter suffering and confusion. Mahayana teachings on interdependence...2020-06-071h 50Mangala Shri Bhuti - The Link2018 Nyingma Summer Seminar (Link #420)Speaker: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel. Talk 3 given by Elizabeth in the Hinayana section of the 2018 Nyingma Summer Seminar.2018-07-151h 51Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkBurning With Love In a World We Can' t Fix (Link #394)Speaker: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel. Elizabeth talks about how we apply relative and absolute bodhicitta in our life.2018-01-071h 32Mangala Shri Bhuti - The Link2017 Nyingma Summer Seminar (Link #372)Speaker: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel. Elizabeth teaches on the Hinayana during the annual sangha retreat held in Colorado.2017-07-092h 00Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkPractical Nature of Awe (Link #355)Speaker: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel. Elizabeth talks about how to navigate unstable times without falling into the extremes of fearful or rigid thinking by being appreciative and open to whatever arises.2017-03-1256 minMangala Shri Bhuti - The Link2016 Nyingma Summer Seminar (Link #325)Speaker: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel. Elizabeth teaches on the Hinayana at the 19th annual Nyingma Summer Seminar.2016-07-101h 48Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkSomething Too Important To Forget (Link #49)Speaker: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel. Elizabeth comments on the poem, "The Art of Disappearing", by Naomi Shahib Nye, exploring renunciation as desirable rather than a loss of things desirable.2010-11-2143 minMangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #46: Emic, Edic and FaithSpeaker: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel. Elizabeth discusses another angle on our experience of faith2010-10-2400 minMangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #42: Three Aspects of Faith by Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, 20 Jun 2010Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel2010-06-201h 10Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #41: Not Taking Ourselves Too Seriously: Accomplishment Without GraspingJampal Norbu Namgyel2010-06-1359 minMangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #37: Drive All Blames Into One: Life as an Opportunity for LearningElizabeth Mattis Namgyel2010-05-1658 minMangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #36: Being Deliberate: Creating Conditions for PracticeJampal Norbu Namgyel2010-05-091h 05Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #32: Bodhicitta: Make it PersonalJampal Norbu Namgyel2010-04-1128 minMangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #29: Wonderment: The Ability to Not KnowElizabeth Mattis Namgyel2010-03-2158 minMangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #28: Jampal Norbu NamgyelJampal Norbu Namgyel2010-03-1451 minMangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #25: The Perfect TeacherElizabeth Mattis Namgyel2010-02-211h 18Mangala Shri Bhuti - The LinkThe Link #23: Know Your Own MindElizabeth Mattis Namgyel2010-01-1758 min