Advice on Medicine Buddha Practice For These Times by Yangsi Rinpoche
(May 10, 2020) During this time of the Covid-19 crisis, let us keep the people who are on the front-line, the people who are directly affected by this crisis, and particularly people in places such as Nepal and Africa in our prayers. Their challenges are much worse than ours. Physically, we should now focus [...]
Compassion Without Distraction by Yangsi Rinpoche
In our daily lives, how much do we actualize compassion? We all agree that compassion is wonderful. At the practical level, when we engage in compassion, the karma of two individuals is involved. Compassion is not clear-cut in this situation and it often becomes naive compassion or compassion that lacks skillful means. Usually, the details [...]
The Practice of Self-Forgiveness by Yangsi Rinpoche
How can I free myself from the past? I do not want to forget and erase the past but I do want to be able to move forward. When we have an internal contradiction, we feel stuck; our energy keeps circling in the same place. How can we move our energy forward? The best [...]
A Meditation on Self-Forgiveness by Yangsi Rinpoche
The First Power: Compassion Practice Cultivate empathy by becoming aware of the suffering and confusion of all sentient beings. Also become aware of your own suffering and confusion, but try to see it as relatively small. Your empathy includes the awareness of your suffering and confusion, as well as suffering and confusion of another [...]