Mangala Shri Bhuti - The Link

Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la begins with the importance of calling to mind the precious human life we have with all of its freedoms and advantages. He then reminds us how this may not be the case in the future unless we actively work to accumulate merit. On the path, we need to accumulate merit to gain wisdom. Our habitual tendencies and afflictive emotions are difficult to renounce without something to facilitate a change in attitude. Ultimately, taking responsibility for one's mind is a privilege. We can make the most of this opportunity by practicing the six paramitas and letting wisdom to guide the way.

Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This is the fifth and final talk given during a weekend program to students of Naropa University in November 2002. The program focus was the practice of meditation. The entire series re-aired over the summer of 2026.

Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This is the fourth of five talks given during a weekend program to students of Naropa University in November 2002. The program focus was the practice of meditation. In this fourth talk, Rinpoche revisits the pith instructions on in-meditation and post-meditation practice, including the fruition, which is to "wake up".

Speaker: Moni Banerjee. Moni opens with an analogy between devotional dance and devotion to the guru. She then reflects on Rinpoche's teaching from NSS on the eight consciousnesses being a framework for working with mental proliferation and delusion. Rinpoche emphasized how every moment has self-awareness, which can be harnessed through the practices of shamatha, completing our thoughts, contemplating the four immeasurables, and applying Madhyamika logic. With this "roadmap", Moni concludes that we can work with our own minds to break free from a bleak mindset. She brings her analogy full circle by describing how the dance to Shiva enacts the eight consciousnesses and arrives at devotion.

Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explains how the direct experience of our world has more to do with penetrating our own assumptions about the world in which we live, teasing apart the influences that cause the world to appear the way it does. He relates this to the more esoteric practices we engage in, where the focus of practice is based on a relationship with the lineage (the "view") as opposed to, for example, the study and practice of Buddhist logics and reasoning.