Suffering comes from negative emotions. Both suffering and happiness come from mental dealings. Three reasons why we become unhappy: 1. We don't appreciate what we have 2. We don't get along with others 3. We are jealous of someone's success. The best remedy is realization of Prajñaparamīta. Life goes so fast. We need to live moment by moment healthily and happily. A mental change is needed. Appreciation, forgiveness and kindness leads to happiness. The remedy of not getting along is to get along. The point is to be calm and aware, To be kind and helpful, To be clear with no clinging.

We need to be calm and aware, kind and helpful, clear and without clinging! Kindness is the source of health, happiness and harmony. Regardless of the different beliefs people may have, kindness is always appreciated. Technology has great power, but people become powerless. Greed is destroying our world. We need to be aware of where the world is headed. We remedy this through being calm and aware. Through being kind and helpful. Through being clear without clinging, the wisdom of Prajñaparamita.

Karma is undeniably working in our daily life. Our facial expression can spread to hundreds of others. If we look to others with a genuinely kind attitude, this will spread to others and touch their hearts. Loving-kindness and compassion have much more power now than before because of technology. So does anger and greed. Who is the boss? - Humans are. Gods are those who have a genuinely kind heart. Those who have only concern for oneself are like ghosts, and will harm others including themselves.

We know that we are full of negative emotions and that this makes our hearts dry and our brains polluted. Until we gain realization there will still be some level of depression. The medicine we need is taming and training, applying the teachings in our daily life day after day and moment by moment. We need to change into becoming more soft, wise, kind, more tolerant. That there should be a feeling that one is changing in a positive direction from one day to the other, one week to the other, one month to the next.

In this talk Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche says that instead of attempting to find happiness in unreliable external conditions, we need to understand that the application of Dharma is the only thing that can truly save us. Namely, through acting ethically, through calming the mind, and through gaining insight into the nature of reality, we can find what it really means to be “rich” and “successful.” Kindness is the ultimate healer for oneself and others, and the positivity born of practicing contentment, forgiveness, and rejoicing, is the key to a happier life. Rinpoche gave these teachings in English.

At beautiful Gomde Pyrenees in the south of France, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche taught on the incredible value of contemplating impermanence. Rinpoche explains that remembering impermanence makes the mind soft and gentle, and that the insight born of this recollection makes us grounded and wise. In that way, our negative emotions decease and our good qualities grow and expand. Rinpoche explains that it is this very contemplation that will lead us to liberation. Translated by Heidi Köppl

Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche teaches that the minds of humans are becoming more skeptical and more doubtful. We say that we are more “civilized,” but the basis of this so-called civilization is an increasing sense of doubt. We study a lot and become highly educated, but we don’t feel deep trust in anything, even our family members and friends. This makes our mind unsettled. As Buddhists we want to help everyone become happy, and we understand that realizing the true nature of phenomena is what brings genuine happiness and frees us from suffering. However, humans have different inclinations and not everybody pursues Buddhism. Therefore, if one wants increased happiness in this life, one can practice three simple things. First, practice contentment by appreciating what you have. Second, create harmony through forgiving each other. Third, let go of jealousy and rejoice in the success of others. Rinpoche says that he applies these practices and to his own mind, and they really do make him happy. Translated by Heidi Köppl

In this series of talks, esteemed scholar-practitioner, Khenpo Tokpa Tulku, describes how each of us fully possesses the potential for realization, but that we are obscured by afflictive emotions and cognitive obscurations. In order to free ourselves, we need to walk a spiritual path that effectively diagnoses our deluded state of suffering and applies the remedies to remove it. Khenpo Tokpa Tulku explains that through studying, contemplating and meditating, and through endeavoring in the three trainings of discipline, concentration, and wisdom, we are able to transform our subconscious mind in such a way that it naturally discerns what is correct and incorrect, leading us to a state of freedom. Furthermore, Khenpo elaborates on the foundational teachings of dependent origination and the Four Seals of Dharma, and the correct view of reality, as well as the various vehicles of Buddhism. Khenpo says that ultimately our job is to attain the realization that liberates us from the torments of hope and fear.

In this series of talks, esteemed scholar-practitioner, Khenpo Tokpa Tulku, describes how each of us fully possesses the potential for realization, but that we are obscured by afflictive emotions and cognitive obscurations. In order to free ourselves, we need to walk a spiritual path that effectively diagnoses our deluded state of suffering and applies the remedies to remove it. Khenpo Tokpa Tulku explains that through studying, contemplating and meditating, and through endeavoring in the three trainings of discipline, concentration, and wisdom, we are able to transform our subconscious mind in such a way that it naturally discerns what is correct and incorrect, leading us to a state of freedom. Furthermore, Khenpo elaborates on the foundational teachings of dependent origination and the Four Seals of Dharma, and the correct view of reality, as well as the various vehicles of Buddhism. Khenpo says that ultimately our job is to attain the realization that liberates us from the torments of hope and fear.

In this series of talks, esteemed scholar-practitioner, Khenpo Tokpa Tulku, describes how each of us fully possesses the potential for realization, but that we are obscured by afflictive emotions and cognitive obscurations. In order to free ourselves, we need to walk a spiritual path that effectively diagnoses our deluded state of suffering and applies the remedies to remove it. Khenpo Tokpa Tulku explains that through studying, contemplating and meditating, and through endeavoring in the three trainings of discipline, concentration, and wisdom, we are able to transform our subconscious mind in such a way that it naturally discerns what is correct and incorrect, leading us to a state of freedom. Furthermore, Khenpo elaborates on the foundational teachings of dependent origination and the Four Seals of Dharma, and the correct view of reality, as well as the various vehicles of Buddhism. Khenpo says that ultimately our job is to attain the realization that liberates us from the torments of hope and fear.

In this series of talks, esteemed scholar-practitioner, Khenpo Tokpa Tulku, describes how each of us fully possesses the potential for realization, but that we are obscured by afflictive emotions and cognitive obscurations. In order to free ourselves, we need to walk a spiritual path that effectively diagnoses our deluded state of suffering and applies the remedies to remove it. Khenpo Tokpa Tulku explains that through studying, contemplating and meditating, and through endeavoring in the three trainings of discipline, concentration, and wisdom, we are able to transform our subconscious mind in such a way that it naturally discerns what is correct and incorrect, leading us to a state of freedom. Furthermore, Khenpo elaborates on the foundational teachings of dependent origination and the Four Seals of Dharma, and the correct view of reality, as well as the various vehicles of Buddhism. Khenpo says that ultimately our job is to attain the realization that liberates us from the torments of hope and fear.

In this series of talks, esteemed scholar-practitioner, Khenpo Tokpa Tulku, describes how each of us fully possesses the potential for realization, but that we are obscured by afflictive emotions and cognitive obscurations. In order to free ourselves, we need to walk a spiritual path that effectively diagnoses our deluded state of suffering and applies the remedies to remove it. Khenpo Tokpa Tulku explains that through studying, contemplating and meditating, and through endeavoring in the three trainings of discipline, concentration, and wisdom, we are able to transform our subconscious mind in such a way that it naturally discerns what is correct and incorrect, leading us to a state of freedom. Furthermore, Khenpo elaborates on the foundational teachings of dependent origination and the Four Seals of Dharma, and the correct view of reality, as well as the various vehicles of Buddhism. Khenpo says that ultimately our job is to attain the realization that liberates us from the torments of hope and fear.

In this series of talks, esteemed scholar-practitioner, Khenpo Tokpa Tulku, describes how each of us fully possesses the potential for realization, but that we are obscured by afflictive emotions and cognitive obscurations. In order to free ourselves, we need to walk a spiritual path that effectively diagnoses our deluded state of suffering and applies the remedies to remove it. Khenpo Tokpa Tulku explains that through studying, contemplating and meditating, and through endeavoring in the three trainings of discipline, concentration, and wisdom, we are able to transform our subconscious mind in such a way that it naturally discerns what is correct and incorrect, leading us to a state of freedom. Furthermore, Khenpo elaborates on the foundational teachings of dependent origination and the Four Seals of Dharma, and the correct view of reality, as well as the various vehicles of Buddhism. Khenpo says that ultimately our job is to attain the realization that liberates us from the torments of hope and fear.

In this series of talks, esteemed scholar-practitioner, Khenpo Tokpa Tulku, describes how each of us fully possesses the potential for realization, but that we are obscured by afflictive emotions and cognitive obscurations. In order to free ourselves, we need to walk a spiritual path that effectively diagnoses our deluded state of suffering and applies the remedies to remove it. Khenpo Tokpa Tulku explains that through studying, contemplating and meditating, and through endeavoring in the three trainings of discipline, concentration, and wisdom, we are able to transform our subconscious mind in such a way that it naturally discerns what is correct and incorrect, leading us to a state of freedom. Furthermore, Khenpo elaborates on the foundational teachings of dependent origination and the Four Seals of Dharma, and the correct view of reality, as well as the various vehicles of Buddhism. Khenpo says that ultimately our job is to attain the realization that liberates us from the torments of hope and fear.

In this series of talks, esteemed scholar-practitioner, Khenpo Tokpa Tulku, describes how each of us fully possesses the potential for realization, but that we are obscured by afflictive emotions and cognitive obscurations. In order to free ourselves, we need to walk a spiritual path that effectively diagnoses our deluded state of suffering and applies the remedies to remove it. Khenpo Tokpa Tulku explains that through studying, contemplating and meditating, and through endeavoring in the three trainings of discipline, concentration, and wisdom, we are able to transform our subconscious mind in such a way that it naturally discerns what is correct and incorrect, leading us to a state of freedom. Furthermore, Khenpo elaborates on the foundational teachings of dependent origination and the Four Seals of Dharma, and the correct view of reality, as well as the various vehicles of Buddhism. Khenpo says that ultimately our job is to attain the realization that liberates us from the torments of hope and fear.