On the evening of June 27th, Rinpoche spoke about his new book to about 100 people at the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver, Colorado focusing on the book’s central themes of recovering essence love, using discerning wisdom and emotional transformation to lessen trauma and reduce ego fixation, and how we can find happiness for …
Rinpoche taught for the first time in Halifax, Nova Scotia, at the invitation of the Shambhala Center. He gave a lively and quite humorous talk on Open Heart, Open Mind on June 22nd to about 170 people. Earlier in the day he visited the offices of the Shambhala Sun and met with the staff and …
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Click here to read John Makransky’s exceptional review of Open Heart, Open Mind, just posted on the Shambhala Times.
Rinpoche was scheduled to speak at Malaprops bookstore in Ashville, NC, on June 14th. Because of flight delays out of Minneapolis, Rinpoche was marooned in Atlanta. He attempted to fly stand-by on two flights to Ashville, but it wasn’t meant to be. Neverthless, Rinpoche’s long-time student Julie Green bravely jumped in and read from Open …
With 50 people in attendance at Rinpoche’s book signing event sponsored by Tergar International in Minneapolis on Friday June 8th, Rinpoche gave the group a guided meditation on mindfulness of feeling in response to a question. He talked about dropping into the body and just staying with whatever feeling was there. Not trying to do …
People waiting in the chapel for Rinpoche to arrive. Before speaking at Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago last night, Rinpoche spoke earlier in the day to an intimate group at Barbara’s Bookstore in Burr Ridge, IL. On the topic of experiencing strong emotions like anger and how different that seems than being calm …
Unity Church 5/18/12; Santa Barbara, CA. The Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies hosted Rinpoche at the Unity Church on a clear, fragrant spring evening. Rinpoche was able to stroll from his hotel across the lovely public gardens to the church, which was beautifully decorated with a horsehair thangka made by a local dharma student, …
Click here to read “Reconnecting with Essence Love: A New Interview with Tsoknyi Rinpoche” by Danny Fisher, just posted just yesterday on Shambhala Sun online!
“What’s striking about Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s new book, Open Heart, Open Mind, is that it’s so personal,” writes Michael Sheehy in his Buddhadharma review (Summer 2012). “It’s unusual for a lama to open up about his own vulnerabilities and fears, particularly in print, and Tsoknyi Rinpoche does so in a way that is both touching and …
One hundred people filled the elegant dharma hall on Friday night, May 4th at the Berkeley Shambhala Meditation Center to hear Rinpoche speak about his new book, Open Heart, Open Mind. Rinpoche emphasized how we need to be kind to ourselves to restore essence love and find a child’s heart with an adult’s fully functioning …
“Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.”
~ TSOKNYI RINPOCHE
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