Urban retreats at local centers around the world – Oases of peace
Jan 28, 2025
In this podcast, Gen Rigpa takes a lighthearted look at the profound meditations on “taking and giving.” Through deep familiarity with these meditations our mind will eventually transform from a self-centered and painful state into the compassionate, blissful and altruistic mind of a bodhisattva – a being bound for enlightenment. This is an extract from a teaching given at KMC Los Angeles and based on the book The New Eight Steps to Happiness by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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