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FEATURE: Tantric Science

Tantric Science and Transformation
by H.E. Tai Situ Rinpoche
Tantric science refers to the many advanced explanations for mental, physical and universal causes and conditions. Tantric science also involves advanced mathematics, or astrology. It involves medicine—external physical healing, internal healing of energy patterns in the body, and the healing of the mind, such as methods to deal with too much anger, jealously or energy. There are explanations as to why these disturbances or imbalances happen as well as methods to correct them.

TEACHINGS
Excerpts from Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection
by H. H. the Dalai Lama
When we say that 'mind' is the agent responsible for bringing the universe into being, we are talking about mind in the sense of rigpa, and specifically its quality of spontaneous presence. At the same time, the very essence of that spontaneously present rigpa is timelessly empty, and primordially pure—totally pure by its very nature—so there is a unity of primordial purity and spontaneous presence.

Mahamudra in the Big City
by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
That this life is like a watermoonŠmeans that everything that appears is
appearance-emptiness. If our bodies become sick, then that sickness is just
appearance-emptiness‹beyond true and false like a watermoon. All the things
that appear to us‹all conflicts, all enemies, all disturbances without and
within‹are just like watermoons: appearance-emptiness, beyond true and
false.

Five Styles of Creative Expression
by Ven. Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
By working with the five buddha families, we are trying to develop some basic understanding of how to see things in their absolute essence, their own innate nature. We can use this knowledge with regard to painting or poetry or arranging flowers or making films or composing music. It is also connected with relationships between
people. The five buddha family principles seem to cover a whole new dimension of perception.

The Role of Intellect & Conceptuality on the Path
by Dr. Phillip Stanley
One's gentleness is the mark of study because the process of study involves
connecting with one¹s own experience, one's own existence. One develops
confidence that the teachings make sense because they connect with and
clarify one¹s experience.

SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT

Embracing Ambiguity:
The Practice of Buddhist Chaplaincy
by Mark Power
According to Webster¹s New World Dictionary, a chaplain is “a clergyman serving in a religious capacity with the armed forces, in a prison, hospital etc.” The current face of Chaplaincy challenges the common understanding by introducing the clergy of an increasingly diverse world.

DEPARTMENTS

Karmapa News by Marty Marvet

Seeds & Sprouts:
Tashi¹s Gold
by Naomi Rose

Teaching Schedule of The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Teaching Schedule of Ven. Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche

Bodhi Directory