Upcoming Talks There are no upcoming events. Register for GoToWebinar Subscribe to the Podcast Spotify Apple Podcasts Each Sunday morning, Mangala Shri Bhuti offers a teaching series known as the Link. The Link teachings explore Buddhism from the practitioner’s perspective. These talks are a live audio broadcast. They begin at 10 am Mountain Standard Time (USA) and are free of charge. The Link features Dungse Jampal Norbu and senior students of Mangala Shri Bhuti. We welcome you to listen.GoToWebinarWe use GoToWebinar to broadcast the Link. Register directly on the Goto Webinar registration page. Once you’ve filled out the registration form, you will begin to receive weekly reminder e-mails that contain the URL for the live stream. You can listen on your computer, or download the GoToMeeting app for iPad, iPhone and Android devices.*Important Note: Your registration is good for one year, after which you will need to re-register. You will know that time has come when you no longer receive the weekly reminder e-mails. We also send out an email to all Link participants at that time.The PodcastThe Link podcast is a wonderful way to access the entire archive of Link teachings at your convenience. Subscribe to the Link Podcast to automatically receive each talk in your Apple Podcasts library or however your listen to podcasts. Search or listen to episodes chronologically below. UPCOMING TALKS There are no upcoming events. Episodes Working With Emotional Pain (Link #705) MSB Student Greg Seton | April 28, 2024 | 1:22:44 Min. Speaker: Greg Seton. Greg delves into working with emotional pain, outlining the process from a ground, path and fruition perspective. Emotional pain or “klesha” in Sanskrit is loosely translated as “affliction”. It causes pain and contaminates our thoughts, feelings and actions. The afflicted ego-mind is the cause of klesha. It is afflicted because it struggles to maintain what it constructs as self-image and becomes attached to that mental image. This fixation is painful and causes one to interpret everything through the ego-image as a stream of thinking, which then sets up false duality. In the path, we need to first learn to recognize our emotions, then apply antidotes. For learning about the relative-based Mahayana approach, Greg recommends reading ‘Light Comes Through’ by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche as it covers the five, self-centered emotions and their antidotes. For the absolute-based Vajrayana approach, he suggests we bring the pain of the emotion into our experience and then stare at it, looking at its basis, seeing its emptiness and luminosity. Thus, the fruitional aspect (the goal of the Mahayana and Vajrayana) is not to end up emotionless but to have one’s nature shine forth with non-dual wisdom and compassion. https://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2024_04_28_LINK705_GS.mp3Contemplating Concepts (Link #704) MSB Student Scott Kleihege | April 21, 2024 | 42:02 Min. Speaker: Scott Kleihege. Scott delves into the topic of conceptual mind in this LINK given from Fort Collins, Colorado. https://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2024_04_21_LINK704_SK.mp3Getting Cooked By the Warmth of the Dharma (Link #703) MSB Student Catherine Houston | April 14, 2024 | 54:04 Min. Speaker: Catherine Houston. Catherine shares her experience of the parinirvana of her root teacher, Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche, and her experiences in retreat following his passing. https://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2024_04_14_LINK703_CH.mp3Training In Tenderness: 2018 Book Tour (Link #702) Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche | April 7, 2024 | 41:15 Min. Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This is a previously-recorded talk given by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche from Northshire Book Store in Manchester, Vermont on August 31, 2018. The talk was from Rinpoche’s 2018 Book Tour, ‘Training in Tenderness: Buddhist Teachings on “Tsewa”, the Radical Openness of Heart That Can Change the World’. https://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2024_04_07_LINK702_DKR.mp3 More
Working With Emotional Pain (Link #705) MSB Student Greg Seton | April 28, 2024 | 1:22:44 Min. Speaker: Greg Seton. Greg delves into working with emotional pain, outlining the process from a ground, path and fruition perspective. Emotional pain or “klesha” in Sanskrit is loosely translated as “affliction”. It causes pain and contaminates our thoughts, feelings and actions. The afflicted ego-mind is the cause of klesha. It is afflicted because it struggles to maintain what it constructs as self-image and becomes attached to that mental image. This fixation is painful and causes one to interpret everything through the ego-image as a stream of thinking, which then sets up false duality. In the path, we need to first learn to recognize our emotions, then apply antidotes. For learning about the relative-based Mahayana approach, Greg recommends reading ‘Light Comes Through’ by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche as it covers the five, self-centered emotions and their antidotes. For the absolute-based Vajrayana approach, he suggests we bring the pain of the emotion into our experience and then stare at it, looking at its basis, seeing its emptiness and luminosity. Thus, the fruitional aspect (the goal of the Mahayana and Vajrayana) is not to end up emotionless but to have one’s nature shine forth with non-dual wisdom and compassion. https://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2024_04_28_LINK705_GS.mp3
Contemplating Concepts (Link #704) MSB Student Scott Kleihege | April 21, 2024 | 42:02 Min. Speaker: Scott Kleihege. Scott delves into the topic of conceptual mind in this LINK given from Fort Collins, Colorado. https://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2024_04_21_LINK704_SK.mp3
Getting Cooked By the Warmth of the Dharma (Link #703) MSB Student Catherine Houston | April 14, 2024 | 54:04 Min. Speaker: Catherine Houston. Catherine shares her experience of the parinirvana of her root teacher, Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche, and her experiences in retreat following his passing. https://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2024_04_14_LINK703_CH.mp3
Training In Tenderness: 2018 Book Tour (Link #702) Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche | April 7, 2024 | 41:15 Min. Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This is a previously-recorded talk given by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche from Northshire Book Store in Manchester, Vermont on August 31, 2018. The talk was from Rinpoche’s 2018 Book Tour, ‘Training in Tenderness: Buddhist Teachings on “Tsewa”, the Radical Openness of Heart That Can Change the World’. https://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2024_04_07_LINK702_DKR.mp3