2021

After Dinner Teaching Part 7: “Now is the Time to Eat the Food of Dharma!”
An excerpt from spontaneous teachings Rinpoche gave one evening while sitting around the table after dinner.
After Dinner Teaching Part 7: “Now is the Time to Eat the Food of Dharma!”

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After Dinner Teaching Part 6: “Already In Your Pocket”
An excerpt from spontaneous teachings Rinpoche gave one evening while sitting around the table after dinner.
After Dinner Teaching Part 6: “Already In Your Pocket”

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After Dinner Teaching Part 5: “Don’t Bother Me With Your Blessing!”
An excerpt from spontaneous teachings Rinpoche gave one evening while sitting around the table after dinner.
After Dinner Teaching Part 5: “Don’t Bother Me With Your Blessing!”

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After Dinner Teaching Part 4: Needing A Poke With The Wisdom Needle
An excerpt from spontaneous teachings Rinpoche gave one evening while sitting around the table after dinner.
After Dinner Teaching Part 4: Needing A Poke With The Wisdom Needle

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After Dinner Teaching Part 3: Your Nature Itself is Benefit
An excerpt from spontaneous teachings Rinpoche gave one evening while sitting around the table after dinner.
After Dinner Teaching Part 3: Your Nature Itself is Benefit

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After Dinner Teaching Part 2: What Are You Prostrating To?
An excerpt from spontaneous teachings Rinpoche gave one evening while sitting around the table after dinner.
After Dinner Teaching Part 2: What Are You Prostrating To?

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After Dinner Teaching Part 1: Cleaning Yourself Up by Recognizing Yourself
An excerpt from spontaneous teachings Rinpoche gave one evening while sitting around the table after dinner.
After Dinner Teaching Part 1: Cleaning Yourself Up by Recognizing Yourself

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This is for Everybody: Practice! Don’t Wait!
Rinpoche mentioned several times recently to give everyone this message:
This is for Everybody: Practice! Don’t Wait!

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Thank You for Keeping the Monthly Practices: Connecting To the Energy of Guru Rinpoche’s Tradition
While watching a livestreaming monthly puja one afternoon, Rinpoche sent the following message to the sangha: “I would like to say something: Everybody, thank you for doing all the monthly practices!”
Thank You for Keeping the Monthly Practices: Connecting To the Energy of Guru Rinpoche’s Tradition

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A Piece of Paper
Rinpoche offered these comments over the course of several minutes while watching a student write out a list on a piece of paper.
A Piece of Paper

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Vajrasattva Shrine Teaching: On Buddhanature
This teaching contains excerpts from spontaneous teachings Rinpoche gave while sitting in the Vajrasattva shrine at his residence in Half Moon Bay one afternoon during the 2021 Vajrasattva Retreat.
Vajrasattva Shrine Teaching: On Buddhanature

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2021 Vajrasattva Retreat Teaching
During the 2021 online Vajrasattva retreat, Rinpoche gave this message to everyone who was participating: “Now, everybody be conscious. Practice consciously, not just crazily. We have an opportunity to focus consciously on Vajrasattva. Vajrasattva—wow! This is a buddha. This is a bodhisattva. This is the wisdom deity. This is the wisdom nature. This is not some ordinary guy.”
2021 Vajrasattva Retreat Teaching