Mangala Shri Bhuti - The Link
At the heart of the Buddhist path is the individual practitioner who integrates the teachings with his or her own experience. Posting weekly since August of 2009, the Link Podcast features pithy teachings by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, Dungse Jampal Norbu, and Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel that illustrate the creativity and practicality that are the hallmarks of being a successful meditator. Talks by students of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche offer an intimate window into the spiritual paths of Western students of Buddhism as they bring the teachings to life in their own unique and personal ways. Most talks in this podcast draw from a weekly Live broadcast on Sundays at 10 am Mountain Time.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 776
- Years Active
- 2004 - 2025
A Moment of Pure Sympathetic Joy: The Cricket World Cup and The Power of Mind to Bring Happiness (Link #68)
Rinpoche reflects on how the Cricket World Cup united one billion people of all classes, colors and ages in a moment of pure joy. He contemplated how we could cultivate this same sympathetic joy in o…
00:56:26 |
Sun 03 Apr 2011
Shoot the Hostage: The Wisdom of Letting Go May at First Seem Counterintuitive (Link #67)
Scott describes the impact Kongtrul Rinpoche' s introduction to the way ego mind works has on our mind. With that knowledge, when strong clinging to the self comes about, we know what to do, though l…
00:29:00 |
Sun 27 Mar 2011
Bearing Witness (Link #66)
In this talk Elizabeth discusses how to not close down around either beauty or suffering. She describes bearing witness as the inner practice of the Bodhisattva where as one serves one awakens and m…
Sun 20 Mar 2011
Small Self, Large Self (Link #65)
Expanding the view beyond the self and the resultant relief from the suffering of the five negative emotions and the concept of "Small Self, Large Self".
00:20:59 |
Sun 13 Mar 2011
Understanding How We Suffer (Link #63)
The final talk in a series of four recordings of Rinpoche played in February, 2011, all taken from teachings he gave during the Fall/Winter semester at Guna Institute, 2010 - 2011.
00:36:23 |
Sun 27 Feb 2011
The Purpose of Generating Bodhicitta (Link #62)
The third in a series of four recordings of Rinpoche played in February, 2011, all taken from teachings he gave during the Fall/Winter semester at Guna Institute, 2010 - 2011.
00:31:43 |
Sun 20 Feb 2011
The Medicine of the Four Immeasurables (Link #61)
The second in a series of four recordings of Rinpoche played in February, 2011, all taken from teachings he gave during the Fall/Winter semester at Guna Institute, 2010 - 2011.
01:06:40 |
Sun 13 Feb 2011
How to Meditate (Link #60)
The first in a series of four recordings of Rinpoche played in February, 2011, all taken from teachings he gave during the Fall/Winter semester at Guna Institute, 2010 - 2011.
00:50:00 |
Sun 06 Feb 2011
Opening the Door to Emptiness (Link #59)
When we hear about the emptiness things, we might visualize that emptiness is like a hologram, having form but no substance. However, nothing we think of can actually prepare us for what the real ex…
00:56:00 |
Sun 30 Jan 2011
A Short Personal History (Link #58)
Rebecca recounts how she entered the Buddhist path and her experience as a student of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche over the last 20 years.
00:27:00 |
Sun 23 Jan 2011
Commentary on "Looking into the World", a poem by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (Link #57)
What does Trungpa, Rinpoche mean by "don' t trust"? He is not addressing things that are conventionally untrustworthy such as drug dealers, used car salesmen or large corporations. He is talking ab…
00:55:00 |
Sun 16 Jan 2011
How to Accomplish a New Year' s Resolution (Link #56)
The beginning of the new year is a time when people often make resolutions to change. They might want to quit a bad habit such as smoking or excessive drinking, or to cultivate something such as he…
00:45:00 |
Sun 09 Jan 2011
Welcoming the New Year: Clarity about the Past and Intention for the Future (Link #55)
New Year is a good time to review the past year to evaluate what has worked for us and what has not, what has been beneficial to others and what has not. Since we are human and not perfect, we are s…
00:50:00 |
Sun 02 Jan 2011
What motivates us to practice? (Link #54)
Joey Waxman, one of Mangala Shri Bhuti' s khenchungs, examines his own motivation for practice, and asks the question, "how do you develop disciplne without being hard on yourself", in this personal …
Sun 26 Dec 2010
What Drives us? (Link #53)
Elizabeth suggests that we need to examine where our mind is coming from when we feel driven. Is it tight, fearful and contracted? Is there something inside that is unsettled? That discomfort is o…
Sun 19 Dec 2010
Karma and Responsibility (Link #52)
Dungse Jampal Norbu continues his exploration of karma. While dieties and our teachers ' supplement' our path, we each must clarify how our intention informs our actions as we seek to walk toward aw…
Sun 12 Dec 2010
In the Blink of An Eye(Link #51)
Kongtrul Rinpoche reminds us how fast time passes, from a day to a month, a year and then our entire life. What will we have made of this precious opportunity? How do we determine what is important, …
00:50:00 |
Sun 05 Dec 2010
Something Too Important To Forget (Link #49)
Speaker: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel. Elizabeth comments on the poem, "The Art of Disappearing", by Naomi Shahib Nye, exploring renunciation as desirable rather than a loss of things desirable.
00:43:35 |
Sun 21 Nov 2010
Is it Karma or Fate? (Link #48)
Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse Jampal explores karma in this eloquent and insightful talk. By identifying two types of karma, personal and general (general meaning phenomena like gravity), we c…
Sun 14 Nov 2010
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