Chenrezig Project

06/01/2023

From an ancient -- and miraculous -- French Canadian cathedral to a northern Colorado mountain meadow . . . a tale of faith, practice and empowerment. (Length: 14 minutes) Written and shared here by Mark Winwood of the Chenrezig Project ([email protected]), with musical accompaniment by San Francis...

04/26/2023

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(Weekly e-mag) The Elegant Mind A bi-weekly e-mag from the Chenrezig Project  Wednesday, April 26, 2023  Infusing Western Life with Tibetan Buddhist Sensibilities Dharma 101 Yakity-Yak Beautiful

04/20/2023

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(Weekly e-mag) The Elegant Mind A bi-weekly e-mag from the Chenrezig Project  Wednesday, April 12, 2023  Infusing Western Life with Tibetan Buddhist Sensibilities Dharma 101 Yakity-Yak Your Next

04/18/2023

"Tonglen" is Tibetan and translates as 'giving and taking’. Tong means "giving or sending", and len means "receiving or taking.” Tonglen refers to a meditation practice found in Tibetan Buddhism which is used to awaken compassion. Tonglen practice gradually wears away our habitual grasping at a ...

03/27/2023

Reflections on Buddhist Dharma, Indra’s Jewel Net and the Trees with which we share our planet . . . as metaphor for the vast intra-connectedness of phenomena, ideas and life. Since all things are intimately -- and infinitely -- intertwined with one another, every action is echoed throughout time ...

02/17/2023

For your contemplation: Appreciative thoughts and kindness-empowering visualizations are shared here in this gentle meditation; as the River flows . . . May all beings be happy -- May all beings be safe -- May all beings be well -- May all beings be peaceful and at ease. Sit, center . . . meditate ....

01/24/2023

It is auspicious awareness for Dharma practitioners to remain mindful how each and every moment presents opportunities for empowering wisdom energies to arise and abide. Then, as insights blossom, long-held perspectives and self-oriented attitudes will often transform in quite unexpected way. Consid...

12/23/2022

The inherently potent merging of Tibetan Buddhism-supported mind states, in concert with the vibrational qualities of Sanskrit sounds and syllables, provides a direct, enriching stimulus to the energies -- and results -- of our Dharma practice. This has been understood and experienced by practitione...

11/09/2022

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(Weekly e-mag) The Elegant Mind The Chenrezig Project In the year of the Water Tiger Thursday, Nov. 9 2022  Infusing Western Life with Tibetan Buddhist Sensibilities Dharma 101 Yakity-Yak a I, Eco

10/15/2022

Everything is changing/advancing . . . grossly and/or microscopically, moment-by-moment. Until instinctive awareness begins to manifest, reactions to impermanence set many of our challenges into motion, swirling into what Siddhartha termed mind-states of "dukkha" – ignorance-sourced confusions and...

09/16/2022

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(Weekly e-mag) The Elegant Mind The Chenrezig Project In the year of the Water Tiger Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022  Infusing Western Life with Tibetan Buddhist Sensibilities Dharma 101 Yakity-Yak a "O

07/30/2022

Visualize a palatial waiting room resembling New York City’s Grand Central Station, with newly dead people entering all the time, mulling around, eventually moving toward the track on which their departure train sits, ready to take them away on a journey through the Bardo of Becoming to their next...