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What Are the Six Realms?

by Lion's Roar Staff| October 24, 2017

What Are the Six Realms?

The six realms are different forms of existence in which we can take rebirth, or psychological states we experience in the human realm.

What Turns the Wheel of Life

by Francesca Fremantle| August 8, 2017

What Turns the Wheel of Life

Francesca Fremantle, from her book Luminous Emptiness, discusses the wheel of life and how the Buddha decontructed it.

Knowing This Truth is Noble

by Traleg Rinpoche| January 20, 2017

Knowing This Truth is Noble

When we accept dukkha or suffering in all its forms we stop denying it. A person is noble when one understands dukkha and how to work with it.

Life as Cinema

by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche| May 31, 2016

Life as Cinema
Blank screen at the cinema.Illustration by Kenneth Lu.

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche uses film and the cinema as a metaphor for Buddha’s teaching about samsara and nirvana.

“Look, Look!”

by Judith Simmer-Brown| September 24, 2013

“Look, Look!”

Here is the gate through which the buddhas come into the world, born of women, born of wisdom. Judith Simmer-Brown comments on this koan.

Now the Bad News: Birth, Old Age, Sickness, and Death

by Rachel Neumann, Stan Goldberg, Lewis Richmond and Brenda Feuerstein| July 1, 2013

Now the Bad News: Birth, Old Age, Sickness, and Death

A prince was so shocked that he went off to seek enlightenment. Now, birth, old age, sickness, and death is still the impetus for awakening.

Video: See more of Samsara

by Lion's Roar Staff| July 30, 2012

Video: See more of Samsara

There’s a new trailer out for Samsara, director Ron Fricke’s upcoming sequel, of sorts, to his 1992 masterpiece, Baraka.

The Wisdom Mind of Thinley Norbu: A Selection of Teachings

by Thinley Norbu Rinpoche| May 23, 2012

The Wisdom Mind of Thinley Norbu: A Selection of Teachings

Selected teachings from books by Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, the Nyingma lineage master considered to be an emanation of the 14th-century Nyingma master Longchenpa.

Director Ron Fricke to deliver Samsara, the movie

by Rod Meade Sperry| April 24, 2012

Director Ron Fricke to deliver Samsara, the movie

Ron Fricke’s newest work is entitled Samsara, described by the director as a “guided meditation on the cycle of birth death and rebirth.”

Mahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free Wakefulness

by Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche| November 1, 2002

Mahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free Wakefulness
Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche

Chökyi Nyima RinpocheThe ability to dissolve thoughts is essential to attaining liberation, says renowned Dzogchen teacher Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche. Devotion and Pure Perception are two principles that lie at the root of Vajrayana practice that lead beyond confusion to thought-free wakefulness. Meditation training, in the sense of sustaining the nature of mind, is a way […]

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