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Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Our actions matter, even though we cannot control their outcomes. Our responsibility is to keep engaging with life while making mind training our priority. Highlighting the U.S. midterm elections, Dungse La asks us to notice how much we invest in a particular outcome: We can swing between believing our choices should result in our desired results and, when they don’t, concluding that our choices make no difference. Dharma offers a way to stay engaged through both victory and defeat. Recognising that outcomes arise from causes and conditions that are always changing, we can keep working for beneficial change while loosening our attachment to the result. Dungse La urges us to engage in politics as Dharma practitioners. To “abandon all hope of fruition” is to keep working for change while loosening our grip on the outcome. Mind training helps us notice when we're cultivating sympathetic joy or taking someone else’s victory as our own. By practising generosity, patience, compassion and equanimity between elections, we cultivate merit and continue to benefit others.

Speaker: Jennifer Shippee. In this teaching, Jennifer reviews the nine ways of resting, the five obstacles and eight antidotes of shamatha practice while encouraging us to explore these teachings as a means to open to the guidance of our teacher on our path. She draws connections between shamatha and the diligence chapter teachings of Shantideva, highlighting the complementary aspects and nature of these teachings. Ultimately, she emphasizes these teachings as a tremendous support to our personal process of awakening to our buddha nature.

Speaker: Abba Hatcher. Abba recounts how Rinpoche composed the Guru Supplication Prayer during the first Mangala Shri Bhuti pilgrimage in India, at a time of crisis for both himself and the sangha. The prayer expresses devotion to Guru Rinpoche, the aspiration to overcome obstacles, and the wish to become an excellent noble friend to all beings. As a tour guide at Sangdo Palri, Abba describes how the temple embodies the Buddhist path. More than simply a physical structure, it is a sacred environment whose three floors correspond to the three kayas, or dimensions of enlightened being. The temple is a physical manifestation of the Magnificent Copper-Colored Mountain, while the prayer offers a means of cultivating devotion, compassion, and wisdom. Together, they invite us on an inward journey of awakening, through which we can recognize our own enlightened nature.

Speaker: Marjorieke Glaudemans. Marjorieke shares her experience of navigating life and Dharma practice by means of a personal koan, "Discern when you become ordinary", which Rinpoche requested of his students in a 2016 Shedra talk. Over the years, this koan has offered her clear instruction in how to stay connected to the emptiness view and how to understand the many ways she imprisons herself in ordinary, self-absorbed mind.

Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This LINK was originally given by Rinpoche on September 7, 2014 at Phuntsok Choling, in Ward, Colorado. Rinpoche describes the wisdom and skillful means of aging gracefully, and gives students specific advice for right conduct leading up to old age and death.

Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la begins with the importance of calling to mind the precious human life we have with all of its freedoms and advantages. He then reminds us how this may not be the case in the future unless we actively work to accumulate merit. On the path, we need to accumulate merit to gain wisdom. Our habitual tendencies and afflictive emotions are difficult to renounce without something to facilitate a change in attitude. Ultimately, taking responsibility for one's mind is a privilege. We can make the most of this opportunity by practicing the six paramitas and letting wisdom to guide the way.

Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This is the fifth and final talk given during a weekend program to students of Naropa University in November 2002. The program focus was the practice of meditation. The entire series re-aired over the summer of 2026.

Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This is the fourth of five talks given during a weekend program to students of Naropa University in November 2002. The program focus was the practice of meditation. In this fourth talk, Rinpoche revisits the pith instructions on in-meditation and post-meditation practice, including the fruition, which is to "wake up".

Speaker: Moni Banerjee. Moni opens with an analogy between devotional dance and devotion to the guru. She then reflects on Rinpoche's teaching from NSS on the eight consciousnesses being a framework for working with mental proliferation and delusion. Rinpoche emphasized how every moment has self-awareness, which can be harnessed through the practices of shamatha, completing our thoughts, contemplating the four immeasurables, and applying Madhyamika logic. With this "roadmap", Moni concludes that we can work with our own minds to break free from a bleak mindset. She brings her analogy full circle by describing how the dance to Shiva enacts the eight consciousnesses and arrives at devotion.

Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explains how the direct experience of our world has more to do with penetrating our own assumptions about the world in which we live, teasing apart the influences that cause the world to appear the way it does. He relates this to the more esoteric practices we engage in, where the focus of practice is based on a relationship with the lineage (the "view") as opposed to, for example, the study and practice of Buddhist logics and reasoning.

Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This talk was originally given by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche during a three-day, weekend program at Naropa University in November 2002. Part 1 of the third talk aired September 23, 2026. In Part 2, Rinpoche continues the series with detailed teachings and instruction on the practice of meditation.

Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This talk was originally given by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche during a three-day, weekend program at Naropa University in November 2002. The third talk from these weekend teachings was one hour and thirty minutes long, so it was split into two parts airing September 23 and 30, 2026. Rinpoche guides students through the view and fruition of Buddhist meditation practice.

Speaker: Stephanie Kindberg. "Bring your struggles onto the path and appreciate them." Stephanie recalls important advice Rinpoche gave her when she started a new business. "Let your work become your practice and bring skillful means and wisdom to each situation rather than rigidly following a manual." Stephanie reflects on how this unconventional approach extends well beyond our work situation, informing how we contemplate impermanence and death.

Speaker: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This talk was originally given by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche during a three-day, weekend program at Naropa University in November 2002. This second talk centers around the practice of meditation from a Buddhist perspective. Additional talks from this 2002 weekend program will air later in 2026.

Speaker: Dungse Jampal Norbu. Dungse-la explores ideas about AI and how it can expose assumptions about the causes of happiness and suffering. He illustrates how technology can be a way of recreating the eight worldly concerns, similar to how social media serves as a platform on which to build a reputation, digging one deeper into samsara. He encourages us to look into our reliance on outer means for happiness, contrasting that to the foundation of Dharma practice being self-reflection. As a method of support, Dungse-la underscores the importance of connecting with the four immeasurables: equanimity, loving-kindness, compassion and sympathetic joy.