Podcast Episode #3: Living and Dying Today Part 3
This episode of The Tibetan Blog of Living and Dying podcast features the third and final part of the talk Living and Dying Today. Sogyal Rinpoche gave this talk in Glasgow, Scotland during a visit by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in May of 2004.
Read MoreNo truer words to live by
Felicia Chan from Manchester, in the United Kingdom, writes: “Happy 20th anniversary! I seem to be taking just as long to get through the book and am only about halfway through several years after picking it up. Taking in a book at this pace is very unusual for me, but for some reason, I have […]
Read MoreLetter from Death Row
In the early 90s, not long after The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying was published, a young man called Greg from the United States, wrote to Rinpoche from his prison cell, where he was preparing to be executed. He wrote: “I am not writing this for any benefit to myself, other than the possibility […]
Read MoreComing Home to Our Fundamental Goodness
“The fundamental message of the Buddha is that, regardless who we are, we all have Buddha nature, the potential of enlightenment. In fact our true nature is the Buddha. That means our true nature is goodness.”
Read MoreGiving My Life Meaning
Damien Moyeuvre, from France, kindly agreed to share this letter he wrote to Rinpoche in July during a retreat at Lerab Ling in the south of France: “Dear Rinpoche, Before meeting you, my life was rather chaotic. My dad was murdered when I was ten years old. As my mum was an alcoholic, it was […]
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