In this vintage teaching from a series on Foundational Practices (Ngondro), Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma notes that practice can begin to erode even the habits we most tightly identify with–but cautions that dharma practice itself can become an expres...

Episode 21: In this teaching, Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma connects refuge and compassion.  We have to know what suffering is in order to seek genuine refuge from it, and when we recognize our own suffering,

Episode 20: Harvey Aronson/Lama Namgyal Dorje discusses refuge as a basic practice that informs the most profound practices, allowing us to apprentice to teachers (the Buddha or Guru Rinpoche) who have figured out better ways to cope with suffering.

Episode 19:  Harvey Aronson/Lama Namgyal Dorje guides this meditation, which begins with accepting the support of the earth itself and the alignment of the body.  Deeper in the meditation, Harvey asks us to recall a time when we felt delight in a perso...

Episode 18: In this teaching, Harvey Aronson/Lama Namgyal Dorje reminds us that Dzogchen practice includes everything–samsara and nirvana–and both contrived and uncontrived practice are necessary in this path.

Episode 17: In this brief meditation, Harvey Aronson/Lama Namgyal Dorje guides us through feeling and accepting the support of our seat, our spine, and our central energetic channel.  Then we rest our attention on the breath at the center of the abdome...

Episode 16: Harvey Aronson/Lama Namgyal Dorje delivers the second part of the teaching started in last week’s episode featuring Anne.  He delivers variations on the theme of freshness: how digging deeply into suffering (our own and others’) can cultiva...

Episode 15: In this teaching, Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma reflects on the different intensities of compassion and reminds us that cultivating bodhichitta involves both deepening our commitment to alleviate others’ suffering and also recognizing more ...

Episode 14: Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma begins this meditation by directing us to connect with our three supports: the earth’s support, our own skeletal structure, and our body’s alignment.  Then she guides us to imagine a luminous and healing orb (w...

Episode 13: Anne Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma begins this teaching by reminding us that a mistaken sense of duality doesn’t just separate us from others; it actually separates us from our own deepest nature.  Harvey Aronson/Lama Namgyal Dorje closes the ep...