Words of My Perfect Teacher Seminar — Live Streamed

What truly brings happiness and what causes our suffering? Is karma "fate"?

What is the teacher's role on the Buddhist path?

Kongtrul Rinpoche addresses these questions and others through his commentary on the revered Tibetan Buddhist classic The Words of My Perfect Teacher. This guidebook to a spiritual person's life looks at the cornerstones of human experience —impermanence, suffering, and karma—from an honest and deeply
intelligent perspective. At once dryly humorous and admonishing, and always full of heart, this powerful and transformative text has inspired generations of spiritual practitioners.

Kongtrul Rinpoche brings out the full impact of The Words of My Perfect Teacher by weaving together his own experience as a practitioner with traditional Buddhist stories and the teachings themselves. His appreciation of this volume shines through, making this  two-weekend seminar a unique time to discover our misconceptions about spiritual practice and clarify our way forward.

Weekend One (February 17–19)

focuses on the "ordinary preliminary practices"
section of the text, which includes fundamental
reflections on the preciousness of human life,
impermanence, karma, and suffering—and it is
perfectly suited for those new to the spiritual
or Buddhist path.

Weekend Two (March 2–4)
focuses on the "extraordinary preliminary
practices" that are more specifically associated
with the Vajrayana ngondro practice, such as
vajrasattva mantra, mandala practice, and so
on up to Guru Yoga.

The program includes a full reading of the text, commentary, question and answer with Rinpoche, and periods of meditation.

Registration and program information.

IN PERSON
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Per talk: $ 25
Full program: $ 250
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Pirith from Kelaniya Temple 1/3

Jaya Piritha from the Kelaniya Temple in Srilanka . This is the 1st part of video intended for the Buddhists living abroad away from our Srilanka

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