Nitartha Institute

Combining an in-depth course of study with training in meditation, Nitartha Institute takes exploring your own mind and awakening your own heart to a new level!

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Each o us has to realize what's going on in our mind. Generally, we rely on many diff. conditions, techniques, practices, our guru’s words, etc. But when it comes to actual realization, it happens in our individual mind. We have to do the job ourself.
-Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen

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“Logic and rationalism is the obstacle to understanding the profound teachings, such as Tantra.”
-Khyentse Norbu

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“What the world looks like to us in any given moment—a pleasure palace or a battleground—depends on how we relate to the appearances we meet with in our life.”
-Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche | Mind Beyond Death

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Our Mind & Its World III course starts today. You can still register here: https://t.co/230ZwjTJWb
Students explore foundational classifications of knowable objects: the five bases, five aggregates, twelve sources and eighteen constituents.

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Celebrating Nalandabodhi Centre's Re-opening with teachings on the Six Paramitas by Lama Rabten
Register at https://t.co/sGhzWJ5bVh
The Six Paramitas are an essential part of Mahayana Buddhism and key practice of a bodhisattva for awakening the heart.

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Drawing Khadiravani Tara
Presentations with studio time: Saturdays, September 10 & 17 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Pacific)

Dedicated studio sessions: Tuesdays, September 13 & 20 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm (Pacific)
Register at https://t.co/sGhzWJ5bVh

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What actually exists? The definition of existence is that which is observable by valid cognition. What is valid cognition? VC is new and undeceiving awareness. What is “new”? What is “undeceiving”?-Alison McKee
Check this out for answers: https://t.co/2mmuYvEcQt

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Check out the Semester Courses starting in September. There is still time to register, but do it today while you have the reminder. https://t.co/xZrv9MDB1Y
#buddhistcourses #buddhism #buddhistphilosophy #mind
#consciousness #nitartha

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At the path of seeing bodhisattvas realize the actual nature of everything that exists in seeming reality. However, they deliberately keep some kleshas to proceed on the path and to do activity for others. -Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen Path of Seeing https://t.co/PYSLwVqkF4

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Thank you to everyone who joined us during our 2022 Nitartha Summer Institute. Watch a short video of this year’s Summer Institute: https://t.co/t87cmeArP4 Included are amazing music from Noah Hoffeld, Erik Chang and Andreas Fosdal for background music.

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“Posture is the foundation of meditation”
-Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen
2022 Nitartha Summer Institute

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"Renunciation is self compassion"
-Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
2022 Nitartha Summer Institute

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What he Buddhas see is the minds of ordinary beings, their duality and suffering-as if they are looking at a tv screen. They are only witnessing. Buddhas have perspective-Dharmakaya.
-Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen

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🙏 Jim and Birgit's unique way of teaching Lujong, a series of 15 physical exercises developed by the Tibetan Buddhist master Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, by explaining how the exercises relate to our subtle bodies is something one definitely needs to experience. 🌈

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AND....we are off! The first day of The 2022 Nitartha Summer Institute is under way in full swing.
#dzogchenponloprinpoche #buddha #buddhism #buddhistretreat #nitartha #nitarthainstitute

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(Some) Masters of Meditation 🌈 🙏
Enjoy your weekend!

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When u see the skandhas’ true nature being empty, even if it’s just a thought, from your analysis, it’s the beginning of vipashyana. It doesn’t have 2 be truly seeing emptiness at the beginning. It can be just having a positive doubt, “Yes, I think it's emptiness.”Ponlop Rinpoche

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"Birth and death have no essence
So in between those two is merely the unborn, free from fabrication.
Self and other have no essence,
So in between those two is merely the unborn, free from fabrication."
-Khenpo Tsultrim Gymatso Rinpoche
Photo by Karma Demed Dawa

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This article by Rinpoche includes an interesting short exercise: "Listening to your mind" https://t.co/C0rgCLtekd #listening #sel

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Madhyamaka provides a method for cutting the final ties to our attachments to the mundane world. It also serves as a remedy for the subtle clinging that can arise when resting in the luminous nature of mind.
But what is it?
https://t.co/Wp3uVSncT9