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 Love: Immeasurable and Universal (Link #707) MSB Student Chris Holland | May 12, 2024 | 1:03:38 Min. Speaker: Chris Holland. Chris examines buddhanature as the foundation of enlightened qualities, including love. In this talk, he sets the stage to understand the genuine or absolute ground of buddhanature in order to see how the path functions. He describes absolute ground as a living presence, primordially existent with radiant qualities, the “enlightened essence” or absolute nature. Love is the radiance of absolute nature. Chris sees the Four Immeasurables practice as the “structure” of enlightened essence because the practice stirs up the qualities of enlightened essence (wisdom, love and power). Enlightened essence is the limitless source of all worlds, all positive qualities, all goodness. What separates us from allowing this essence to flow freely through us is grasping to a limited self; the path is simply to purify the obstacles that block us from recognizing the absolute nature. From there, we become a limitless source of love. https://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2024_05_12_LINK707_CH.mp3Around the World in 72 Days (Link #706) Dungse Jampal Norbu | May 5, 2024 | 1:10:58 Min. Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la shares his experience of travel and the unique opportunity it brings to step out of our comfort zone and actively engage with our mind. He describes the difference between being a pilgrim or a tourist, the latter being one who seeks fun and comfort, the former being one who brings Dharma practice along for the ride, perhaps even seeking discomfort. Experiencing his own discomfort, Dungse-la closely examined his own mind and discovered that his experience was dependent on his attitude. Knowing there is no happiness to be found in outer circumstances, he allowed himself to relax into his discomfort and a positive mindset blossomed. That mindset allowed him to walk through the world and offer everything as if he owned it; his enjoyment and appreciation became a mandala of offering. https://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2024_05_05_LINK706_DJN.mp3Working 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.mp3 More
Love: Immeasurable and Universal (Link #707) MSB Student Chris Holland | May 12, 2024 | 1:03:38 Min. Speaker: Chris Holland. Chris examines buddhanature as the foundation of enlightened qualities, including love. In this talk, he sets the stage to understand the genuine or absolute ground of buddhanature in order to see how the path functions. He describes absolute ground as a living presence, primordially existent with radiant qualities, the “enlightened essence” or absolute nature. Love is the radiance of absolute nature. Chris sees the Four Immeasurables practice as the “structure” of enlightened essence because the practice stirs up the qualities of enlightened essence (wisdom, love and power). Enlightened essence is the limitless source of all worlds, all positive qualities, all goodness. What separates us from allowing this essence to flow freely through us is grasping to a limited self; the path is simply to purify the obstacles that block us from recognizing the absolute nature. From there, we become a limitless source of love. https://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2024_05_12_LINK707_CH.mp3
Around the World in 72 Days (Link #706) Dungse Jampal Norbu | May 5, 2024 | 1:10:58 Min. Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la shares his experience of travel and the unique opportunity it brings to step out of our comfort zone and actively engage with our mind. He describes the difference between being a pilgrim or a tourist, the latter being one who seeks fun and comfort, the former being one who brings Dharma practice along for the ride, perhaps even seeking discomfort. Experiencing his own discomfort, Dungse-la closely examined his own mind and discovered that his experience was dependent on his attitude. Knowing there is no happiness to be found in outer circumstances, he allowed himself to relax into his discomfort and a positive mindset blossomed. That mindset allowed him to walk through the world and offer everything as if he owned it; his enjoyment and appreciation became a mandala of offering. https://podcast.mangalashribhuti.org/2024_05_05_LINK706_DJN.mp3
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