Author Archives: Lobpon Palden Gocha
Holiday Cards for Inmates
As is our yearly tradition, we are inviting you to participate in our program of Holiday Cards for Buddhist Inmates. Packets will be available for the first 12 people who would like to participate this year. All you have to do is purchase postage stamps $11, write a message and drop the cards in the mail. It’s so simple and yet it makes such a difference in the lives of our Buddhist inmates. If you are interested in participating please fill out the following form to let up know if you will be picking up your packet. If you live in the Kansas City metro we can also arrange to have the packet dropped off to your home.
Rime Gift Shop Reopened
Thanksgiving Day Kum Nye Yoga
Celebrate GivingTuesday With Us!
GivingTuesday is an online movement to create a national day of giving at the beginning of the holiday season. On Tuesday, December 1, 2020, charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and give.
TWELVE ways to support the Rime Buddhist Center this holiday season: Continue reading
Stages of the Path – Part 5
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness
What is it like to be transgender and Buddhist?
The Rime Buddhist Center celebrates transgender awareness week by highlighting Rime sangha member, Circe Namkha Rangdrol, she/her/hers. Lama Matt asked Circe to share about her experience with coming out as transgender and how being a Buddhist has helped her along the way.
As Buddhist experiences go, and as transgender experiences go, I can only speak for myself.
When I first realized I was a transgender woman, I was confused and frightened and anxious. I felt profoundly vulnerable, and had no examples among Buddhist teachers or teachings that I knew of that could help me make sense of it all. I struggled with many questions, including how can I reconcile my insistence on this truer self with the teachings on no-self? I had no understanding of how to bring this onto the spiritual path. Continue reading
The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas Verses 15-18
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Dharma talk given by Ven. Geshe Tsewang Thinley October 18, 2020.
Music by Barefoot Bran Music. Continue reading