Articles | Patrul Rinpoche

Welcome to the Nangchö Mönlam 2024

Attending this festival will bring great benefit to everyone. I invite whoever can to join this mönlam, or peace prayer. There’s a general benefit for the whole world, especially in these difficult times with so much turmoil. War, pandemic, and many natural...

New Shedra Study Cycle in 2024

Articles, Featured, Reading Room, Uncategorized

We are very happy to announce a new Study Cycle taught by Dzogchen Ranyak Patrul Rinpoche, with the assistance of Lopön Tsering Gönpo and Lopön Jampa Norgyal. Launched in 2005, this program is an excellent way to understand the “Nine Vehicles”, a gradual approach to...

The Art of Meditation

Articles

‘Calm abiding’ means the mind resting peacefully. In order to pacify the mind, we start from different skillful means that enable us to diminish our thoughts. Having gradually reduced the flood of our thoughts, if we habituate ourselves to maintaining the mind in its...

The Year of the Male Wood Dragon – Losar February 10, 2024

Articles, Featured, Reading Room, ZPI articles

The period starting from the first day until fifteenth day of this lunar month is known as Chotrul Duchen, commemorating the event when Buddha Shakyamuni performed a different miracle each day to instill devotion and increase merit Celebrating it...

Why meditate?

Articles, Reading Room

“Do not let your mind get too tense or too inwardly concentrated.Let your senses be naturally at ease, balanced between tension and relaxation.”DZA PATRUL RINPOCHE Troubled by emotions, suffering and anxietywe look for an escape, an exit, a liberation from that.What...

Studying the basics? Too easy for me?

Articles, Featured, Reading Room

So… what’s the point of the new shedra cycle? Many of us have known Rinpoche for a long time, attended many advanced courses and have a feeling of being with the Dharma pretty long. So is it worth going back to study the basics now? Rinpoche opened the shedra study...

« Older Entries

Next Entries »