"Open Heart, Open Mind" : National Book Tour and Buddhist Meditation with Ven. Lama Tsoknyi Rinpoche ( April - July 2012 )
Keywords : meditation, Buddhism and Psychology, new book release and signing, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhism, Kagyu and Nyingma lineage, Pundarika Foundation Colorado.
"Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion."
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
The new book "Open Heart, Open Mind: Awakening the Power of Essence Love", by Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Eric Swanson, is coming this April.
The book theme will be the subject of his Spring 2012 coast to coast US / Canada teaching tour, April through July, with 24 dates in 10 states plus Nova Scotia Canada.
Ven. Tsokyni Rinpoche comes from a major line of teachers and holds two primary sets of tantric Buddhist lnieage, the Kagyu and Nyingma. He is a reincarnate lama ( third incarnation ), and leads several important efforts as Buddhist abbot and so forth. He has been teaching for fifteen years.
Here I will introduce this teacher, his Pundarika Foundation, and one of his previous books.
For the 2012 tour schedule, see
http://www.tsoknyirinpoche.org/program-category/booktour/
The book, scheduled for 3 April 2012, is referenced on Amazon.com at
http://www.amazon.com/Open-Heart-Mind-Awakening-Essence/dp/0307888207/
The new book has strong endorsements from well known psychologists and Buddhist teachers, such as Daniel Goleman and Ven. Sogyal Rinpoche. Like the earlier book by Ven. Tsoknyi Rinpoche, this will be a very accessible communication geared towards a modern, western audience seeking self-understanding, and clarity and balance in their consciousness.
Please note that I do not represent this teacher or his organization. This is simply a public service announcement.
I have strong connections to the Chokling Tersar tradition and HE Phakchok Rinpoche, and with this outreach can now gratefully honor those connections.
May it be auspicious! Sarva mangalam!
KT
From
http://www.tsoknyirinpoche.org/open-heart-open-mind-awakening-the-power-of-essence-love/
"Most of us yearn for a life free of fear, pain, insecurity, and doubt. We long for peace, for the ability to love and be loved openly and freely, and the confidence and clarity to meet the various challenges we face in our daily lives.
"In OPEN HEART, OPEN MIND, Tsoknyi Rinpoche – one of the most beloved of the contemporary generation of Tibetan Buddhist meditation masters – explains that such a life is not only possible: it’s our birthright. Within each of us resides a spark of unparalleled brilliance, an unlimited capacity for warmth, openness, and courage, which Rinpoche identifies as “essence love.”
"Timeless and imperishable, essence love is often layered over by patterns of behavior and belief that urge us to seek happiness in conditions or situations that never quite live up to their promise."
“Tsoknyi Rinpoche has a unique way of integrating heartfelt wisdom, brilliant clarity and playfulness on the path to awakening. In these lively and profound pages we feel the pleasure of being with Rinpoche as his delightful stories evoke a path of practical psychological insights and spiritual methods. Open Heart, Open Mind offers anyone who wants a more joyous life a masterful guide to greater meaning, a more spacious mind, and the spark of a kind love.”
—Tara and Daniel Goleman, authors of Emotional Alchemy and Emotional Intelligence
“Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s Open Heart, Open Mind is amazing in a number of ways. Tsoknyi Rinpoche grew up in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. His family is full of meditation masters and their energy surrounded him from an early age. Yet he is also interested in and experienced with Western neuroses and Westerners’ minds. The result is a refreshing, invigorating, and stimulating work: one that has the power to awaken that essence we all seek.”
—Mark Epstein, M.D., author of Thoughts without a Thinker and Going to Pieces without Falling Apart
“Tsoknyi Rinpoche is a rare gem—a teacher who combines a deep understanding of the Buddhist tradition with remarkable insight into the challenges we face in the modern world. In this book, he skilfully weaves together profound teachings on ‘essence love’ and the ‘subtle body’ with examples from everyday life to show how it is possible to overcome our fears and limitations, and ignite the boundless wisdom and compassion that we all have within us.”
—Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
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From
http://tibet.leighb.com/tsoknyi/index.html
Ven. Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Tsoknyi Rinpoche the third is an important lama of both the Drukpa Kagyu and Nyingma lineages. He was born in 1966 in Kathmandu, Nepal, to the family of the mahasiddha Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, who holds the Tsangsar Family Lineage, a special family lineage of tantric yogis which, by tradition, originated through the union of a deva and a human. Tsoknyi Rinpoche's great great grandfather was the treasure revealer Chokgyur Lingpa and Rinpoche has been trained in that family tradition by his father since an early age.
The first Tsoknyi Rinpoche was an emanation of Milarepa's disciple, Rechunga, and the Nyingmapa Terton Ratna Lingpa. He was born in Nangchen, Eastern Tibet, in the first half of the 19th Century and was a contemporary of the three great lamas of the time, Jamyang Khyentse, Jamgon Kongtrul, and Chokgyur Lingpa. He fully mastered the practices of the Six Dharmas of Naropa and became the principal guru for the 7th Khamtrul Rinpoche, Tenpa'i Nyima, in those practices. He also practiced the Nyingma tradition of Ratna Lingpa with its special yogas as well as his own Nyingmapa practices. He established many centres for the practice of the Dharma in Tibet.
The second Tsoknyi Rinpoche was born into the family of the King of Nangchen in the first half of this century and received the teachings of Naropa from the 7th Khamtrul Rinpoche to whom he had transmitted the teachings in his previous incarnation. He was expert in in the Six Dharmas of Naropa and Mahamudra as well as his own Nyingmapa lineages.
The present Tsoknyi Rinpoche was recognised by H. H. Karmapa XVI at the age of eight. When he was thirteen he was brought to Khampagar Monastery at Tashi Jong in India, the seat of Khamtrul Rinpoche. Tsoknyi Rinpoche's principal teachers have been the 8th Khamtrul Rinpoche, Döngyu Nyima, H. H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and his father Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche completed his formal studies and returned from India to Nepal in 1990. He established his seat in Kathmandu at Ngesdön Ösel Ling Monastery which he planned and built in consultation with his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Ngesdön Ösel Ling is the site of on-going, traditional, Tibetan three-year retreats and an International Buddhist Meditation Centre. It is headquarters for the Drupa Kagyu Heritage Foundation which is working to preserve the written texts of the Drupa Kagyu lineage, and the Pema Karpo Translation Committee which is translating Tibetan texts into English. In addition Tsoknyi Rinpoche is currently president of Tashi Jong; abbot of the largest nunnery in Tibet which is located in Kham in Eastern Tibet; and abbot of Chumig Gyatsa Abbey, a nunnery in Western Nepal at Muktinath. He is widely recognized as a brilliant meditation teacher and is the author of Carefree Dignity published by Rangjung Yeshe Publications.
http://www.tsoknyirinpoche.org/teaching-areas/dharma-quotes/
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book
"Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind"
by Tsoknyi Rinpoche (Author), Erik Pema Kunsang (Translator), Marcia Binder Schmidt (Translator)
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books; 1st edition (May 14, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9627341320
ISBN-13: 978-9627341321
Book review for "Carefree Dignity" at
http://www.amazon.com/Carefree-Dignity-Discourses-Training-Nature/dp/9627341320/
70 of 71 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, accessible book on Dzogchen, May 6, 1999
By A Customer
"This review is from: Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind (Paperback)
I had the good fortune to see Tsoknyi Rinpoche teaching at Lerab Ling in France last year. When I first came across this book, I wondered how such an animated and provocative performance could be brought to the printed page. Thankfully, this compilation of his talks does succeed in conveying the vitality and humour that is his hallmark. He teaches in an experiential way, getting directly to the main point in a manner that is easy to relate to and to understand.
"By his use of uncomplicated language and examples from everyday life, you begin to see that there is indeed a way to be free. He shows how a simple shift in our understanding of mind, releases our entanglement in our desires and fears, in our imaginings. Rather than struggling with thoughts and emotions, we begin to understand mind's expression as a creative, ephemeral display.
"By becoming familiar with and applying this perspective, both in meditation sessions and during daily life, we un-knot those complex habitual patterns that entrap us, becoming simpler, more carefree. "Simply having the idea that smoking is bad doesn't make us stop smoking, because we have a deeply embedded habit. (...) What is necessary is to interrupt the habitual involvement in the act, again and again."
"I found that reading the book really deepened and improved my understanding of what meditation is. He spells out how we can practice freedom from moment to moment, remaining present, uncomplicated and carefree, even amidst the busyness of life.
This carefree condition is not an indifferent dismissal of the hardships of living but an all-embracing openness, a deep and heart felt union with everything. "Carefree doesn't mean careless, that you are sloppy or that you don't care about others. "
"The talks cover meditation, distraction, refuge, ngondro, compassion, devotion, the bardos, confusion, enlightenment, emptiness; you name it, it's probably there! He explains these topics with such simple accuracy that the book is eminently readable by beginners as well as seasoned dharma veterans. . . "
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Keywords : meditation, Buddhism and Psychology, new book release and signing, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhism, Kagyu and Nyingma lineage, Pundarika Foundation Colorado.
"Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion."
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
The new book "Open Heart, Open Mind: Awakening the Power of Essence Love", by Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Eric Swanson, is coming this April.
The book theme will be the subject of his Spring 2012 coast to coast US / Canada teaching tour, April through July, with 24 dates in 10 states plus Nova Scotia Canada.
Ven. Tsokyni Rinpoche comes from a major line of teachers and holds two primary sets of tantric Buddhist lnieage, the Kagyu and Nyingma. He is a reincarnate lama ( third incarnation ), and leads several important efforts as Buddhist abbot and so forth. He has been teaching for fifteen years.
Here I will introduce this teacher, his Pundarika Foundation, and one of his previous books.
For the 2012 tour schedule, see
http://www.tsoknyirinpoche.org/program-category/booktour/
The book, scheduled for 3 April 2012, is referenced on Amazon.com at
http://www.amazon.com/Open-Heart-Mind-Awakening-Essence/dp/0307888207/
The new book has strong endorsements from well known psychologists and Buddhist teachers, such as Daniel Goleman and Ven. Sogyal Rinpoche. Like the earlier book by Ven. Tsoknyi Rinpoche, this will be a very accessible communication geared towards a modern, western audience seeking self-understanding, and clarity and balance in their consciousness.
Please note that I do not represent this teacher or his organization. This is simply a public service announcement.
I have strong connections to the Chokling Tersar tradition and HE Phakchok Rinpoche, and with this outreach can now gratefully honor those connections.
May it be auspicious! Sarva mangalam!
KT
From
http://www.tsoknyirinpoche.org/open-heart-open-mind-awakening-the-power-of-essence-love/
"Most of us yearn for a life free of fear, pain, insecurity, and doubt. We long for peace, for the ability to love and be loved openly and freely, and the confidence and clarity to meet the various challenges we face in our daily lives.
"In OPEN HEART, OPEN MIND, Tsoknyi Rinpoche – one of the most beloved of the contemporary generation of Tibetan Buddhist meditation masters – explains that such a life is not only possible: it’s our birthright. Within each of us resides a spark of unparalleled brilliance, an unlimited capacity for warmth, openness, and courage, which Rinpoche identifies as “essence love.”
"Timeless and imperishable, essence love is often layered over by patterns of behavior and belief that urge us to seek happiness in conditions or situations that never quite live up to their promise."
“Tsoknyi Rinpoche has a unique way of integrating heartfelt wisdom, brilliant clarity and playfulness on the path to awakening. In these lively and profound pages we feel the pleasure of being with Rinpoche as his delightful stories evoke a path of practical psychological insights and spiritual methods. Open Heart, Open Mind offers anyone who wants a more joyous life a masterful guide to greater meaning, a more spacious mind, and the spark of a kind love.”
—Tara and Daniel Goleman, authors of Emotional Alchemy and Emotional Intelligence
“Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s Open Heart, Open Mind is amazing in a number of ways. Tsoknyi Rinpoche grew up in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. His family is full of meditation masters and their energy surrounded him from an early age. Yet he is also interested in and experienced with Western neuroses and Westerners’ minds. The result is a refreshing, invigorating, and stimulating work: one that has the power to awaken that essence we all seek.”
—Mark Epstein, M.D., author of Thoughts without a Thinker and Going to Pieces without Falling Apart
“Tsoknyi Rinpoche is a rare gem—a teacher who combines a deep understanding of the Buddhist tradition with remarkable insight into the challenges we face in the modern world. In this book, he skilfully weaves together profound teachings on ‘essence love’ and the ‘subtle body’ with examples from everyday life to show how it is possible to overcome our fears and limitations, and ignite the boundless wisdom and compassion that we all have within us.”
—Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
-------------------------------
From
http://tibet.leighb.com/tsoknyi/index.html
Ven. Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Tsoknyi Rinpoche the third is an important lama of both the Drukpa Kagyu and Nyingma lineages. He was born in 1966 in Kathmandu, Nepal, to the family of the mahasiddha Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, who holds the Tsangsar Family Lineage, a special family lineage of tantric yogis which, by tradition, originated through the union of a deva and a human. Tsoknyi Rinpoche's great great grandfather was the treasure revealer Chokgyur Lingpa and Rinpoche has been trained in that family tradition by his father since an early age.
The first Tsoknyi Rinpoche was an emanation of Milarepa's disciple, Rechunga, and the Nyingmapa Terton Ratna Lingpa. He was born in Nangchen, Eastern Tibet, in the first half of the 19th Century and was a contemporary of the three great lamas of the time, Jamyang Khyentse, Jamgon Kongtrul, and Chokgyur Lingpa. He fully mastered the practices of the Six Dharmas of Naropa and became the principal guru for the 7th Khamtrul Rinpoche, Tenpa'i Nyima, in those practices. He also practiced the Nyingma tradition of Ratna Lingpa with its special yogas as well as his own Nyingmapa practices. He established many centres for the practice of the Dharma in Tibet.
The second Tsoknyi Rinpoche was born into the family of the King of Nangchen in the first half of this century and received the teachings of Naropa from the 7th Khamtrul Rinpoche to whom he had transmitted the teachings in his previous incarnation. He was expert in in the Six Dharmas of Naropa and Mahamudra as well as his own Nyingmapa lineages.
The present Tsoknyi Rinpoche was recognised by H. H. Karmapa XVI at the age of eight. When he was thirteen he was brought to Khampagar Monastery at Tashi Jong in India, the seat of Khamtrul Rinpoche. Tsoknyi Rinpoche's principal teachers have been the 8th Khamtrul Rinpoche, Döngyu Nyima, H. H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and his father Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche completed his formal studies and returned from India to Nepal in 1990. He established his seat in Kathmandu at Ngesdön Ösel Ling Monastery which he planned and built in consultation with his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Ngesdön Ösel Ling is the site of on-going, traditional, Tibetan three-year retreats and an International Buddhist Meditation Centre. It is headquarters for the Drupa Kagyu Heritage Foundation which is working to preserve the written texts of the Drupa Kagyu lineage, and the Pema Karpo Translation Committee which is translating Tibetan texts into English. In addition Tsoknyi Rinpoche is currently president of Tashi Jong; abbot of the largest nunnery in Tibet which is located in Kham in Eastern Tibet; and abbot of Chumig Gyatsa Abbey, a nunnery in Western Nepal at Muktinath. He is widely recognized as a brilliant meditation teacher and is the author of Carefree Dignity published by Rangjung Yeshe Publications.
http://www.tsoknyirinpoche.org/teaching-areas/dharma-quotes/
-------------------------------
book
"Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind"
by Tsoknyi Rinpoche (Author), Erik Pema Kunsang (Translator), Marcia Binder Schmidt (Translator)
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books; 1st edition (May 14, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9627341320
ISBN-13: 978-9627341321
Book review for "Carefree Dignity" at
http://www.amazon.com/Carefree-Dignity-Discourses-Training-Nature/dp/9627341320/
70 of 71 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, accessible book on Dzogchen, May 6, 1999
By A Customer
"This review is from: Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind (Paperback)
I had the good fortune to see Tsoknyi Rinpoche teaching at Lerab Ling in France last year. When I first came across this book, I wondered how such an animated and provocative performance could be brought to the printed page. Thankfully, this compilation of his talks does succeed in conveying the vitality and humour that is his hallmark. He teaches in an experiential way, getting directly to the main point in a manner that is easy to relate to and to understand.
"By his use of uncomplicated language and examples from everyday life, you begin to see that there is indeed a way to be free. He shows how a simple shift in our understanding of mind, releases our entanglement in our desires and fears, in our imaginings. Rather than struggling with thoughts and emotions, we begin to understand mind's expression as a creative, ephemeral display.
"By becoming familiar with and applying this perspective, both in meditation sessions and during daily life, we un-knot those complex habitual patterns that entrap us, becoming simpler, more carefree. "Simply having the idea that smoking is bad doesn't make us stop smoking, because we have a deeply embedded habit. (...) What is necessary is to interrupt the habitual involvement in the act, again and again."
"I found that reading the book really deepened and improved my understanding of what meditation is. He spells out how we can practice freedom from moment to moment, remaining present, uncomplicated and carefree, even amidst the busyness of life.
This carefree condition is not an indifferent dismissal of the hardships of living but an all-embracing openness, a deep and heart felt union with everything. "Carefree doesn't mean careless, that you are sloppy or that you don't care about others. "
"The talks cover meditation, distraction, refuge, ngondro, compassion, devotion, the bardos, confusion, enlightenment, emptiness; you name it, it's probably there! He explains these topics with such simple accuracy that the book is eminently readable by beginners as well as seasoned dharma veterans. . . "
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