Palpung Ireland Buddhist Centre

01/11/2025

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲⁣
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Proper generosity is to give whatever we have and there are many wonderful, inspiring stories of great Bodhisattvas who have given their own flesh to nourish starving animals. Whatever we can manage to give, we give to those who need it, paying particular attention to help those who represent the Three Jewels, those who have helped us - our parents especially - who are sick and unprotected, and also those who are our particular enemies or rivals. The way in which we make our gift to them should be joyfully, respectfully, with a compassionate heart and without regret. It is better to give with one’s own hand rather than through others, to give at just the right time, and, of course, to give without harming others. Impartial giving is best and a wise person gives⁣
just what is needed.⁣
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An extract from the book 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭 by His Holiness Guru Vajradhara the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa.

30/10/2025

24/10/2025

Discover Buddha within year 3 with Venerable khenpo Phurba Wangchuk .

17/10/2025

A group from Palpung Ireland will attend DBW1 "Inner Peace" in Delhi April 2026. The 6 day retreat will be presided over by our Guru Vajradhara HH Tai Situ Pa . Guru Vajradhara will teach twice a day and there will be 2 meditation sessions.
DBW manifested out of pure compassion and a wish to benefit beings from the mind of Guru Vajradhara. Even if you have attended DBW1 before, this opportunity to receive the transmission from him is not to be missed.
For further information and registration please visit palpung.org
All welcome to join Palpung Ireland's group palpungireland@gmail.com for information

30/09/2025

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐚⁣
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When you have compassion, a bodhisattva’s compassion for all sentient beings, why you have bodhicitta for all sentient beings is because of your joy, not because of your sorrow. When you see that all sentient beings are suffering, you see that they don’t have to suffer, they can get out of that suffering, but not from somewhere else, the means of getting out of suffering is in them. Buddha-nature is in them, primordial wisdom is in them. When you see that then you get the natural aspiration, “May I reach liberation so that I can liberate all mother sentient beings who are suffering absolutely unnecessarily.” You have aspiration, confidence and a destination; it is more than just hope. So that is joy, it is not sorrow. It is not like, “These poor sentient beings are suffering. I have to do something for them.” It is, “These future Buddhas are unnecessarily suffering. They are having a nightmare. Their essence is perfect so they have all the means in them to overcome this suffering. So may I be the aspiration and guide for them. May I have that honor to be the guide and example and giver of that great realization for them, to make them realize who they are,” that’s all. You are not bringing something from somewhere and giving it to them, or cutting something from yourself and sewing it on to them. It is just making them realize who they are. That is what bodhicitta is. And it is joy, confidence, and an honor. It is not suffering, it is not pain and it is not misery.⁣
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From 𝘕𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘢: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦, 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘳 a selection of teachings of Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa⁣.
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https://justdharma.org/the-joy-of-bodhicitta/

19/09/2025

𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧.
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It is very important for us to develop a true, true compassion and true love and kindness. True one. So how can you do that? You and I, we should develop true compassion, true love and true kindness to our self first. We don't do anything that is harmful to our self. We do everything that is positive and meaningful and good to our self. Compassion means we we don't create suffering for our self. Loving kindness means we create, we do everything to make our self feel positive as possible. When we are able to do that then we are able to at least - at least - to have the taste of true joy and true absence of suffering and then we can translate this - and we will translate this - to others. If you don't love yourself -I sincerely feel and experience - if I can't love myself it is just a sort of illusion that we love all sentient beings, because we don't know what love is. It's just a word and so when we truly experience the love, the joy, the absence of suffering, absence of struggle, absence of negativity, then we know what compassion is, what loving-kindness is. Then, we want this for our family members, we want this for our neighbours we want this for everyone all parts of the world regardless of religion, caste, creed, ideology, ethnicity and not only human beings, to animals, to everything.⁣⁣
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An extract from 𝘎𝘶𝘳𝘶 𝘗𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘢'𝘴 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘴, the first teaching in the Living Wisdom series given by Guru Vajradhara, His Holiness the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa, on the 27th of June 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=530p-CR_Ny8

19/09/2025

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA.🙏🪷🙏

Edit: Now with English subtitles.

The exalted White Tara is a special yidam deity whose practice is easy to accomplish and whose path to realization swiftly leads to the attainment of both su...

07/09/2025

𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞⁣
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When we take medicine, when we talk to others, when we go shopping, when we do business, when we are employed by someone, in every situation the backdrop – our purpose – should be bodhichitta. If you are an employee, for example, you can bring bodhichitta into your work by reminding yourself that you are working to earn a living so that you can make the best of your life and you want to make the best out of your life so you can progress towards enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings and eventually become a Buddha.⁣
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From the book 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥, 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 by Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa⁣.

23/08/2025

𝗪𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝⁣
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People make such a big deal about immortality, but if you look at karma closely we are all immortal; only our bodies are mortal. Our minds are immortal, they have never died, they were never born, they were never children, teenagers, grown-ups or elderly. They are beyond these limitations, they are immortal and so are we. We do not have to worry about living for ten more years, we are countless eons old and we will go on forever. The problem is that we want to be here forever in the same form as we appear in now. We will continue but as what we are, not how we appear. What we are are Buddhas, we have limitless potential, freedom and liberation. Wouldn’t it be better to forever manifest this full potential? We don’t really want to go around forever in this limited way – searching and struggling, having ups and downs – we don’t really want to continue this way.⁣
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From the book 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥, 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 by Guru Vajradhara, His Holiness the 12th Chamgon Tai Situpa. ⁣

19/08/2025

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23/07/2025

𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦⁣
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I have a good life, but I enjoyed my life the best when I was 22, 23, and 24 years old. These three years in Ladakh, in the Changtang northern plateau desert, were incredible. The people invited me from place to place. So, every summer I would spend about three or four months on horseback. My convoy was about 25 to 30 lamas, and from one village to another would take two days. Oh my goodness, that's so good!⁣
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Middle of nowhere, you know, we were just going from one place to another. I have a special hat, and I'd take this out and give it to my teacher. I'm very tidy, everything is very tidy—horseback riding monk's clothes are very tidy, not like this! Very tidy. Then I would race just by myself in the desert. In front, I'd see red sand and blue sky, like they were touching. And when I looked behind, I'd see a cloud of red dust. My horse's hooves and his breathing is in sync. My face was met with the cold wind of the plateau, and then the heat reflection off the sand. "Ah, I'm burning here [Rinpoche indicates his chin], but I'm freezing here! [Rinpoche indicates his forehead]" It was so nice, so nice. I felt like I was the only guy in the whole universe. That was freedom - physical and mental freedom for me. In my physical body, my physical world, my samsaric mind's experience, that was the best time.⁣
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So, this way, when I say to my disciples, "practice" it doesn't mean doing that. Practice means sitting down on your cushion and relaxing. Then, whatever particular teaching you are practicing right now, you fully complete it. First, complete it. Then after that, you don't have to go through 1, 2, 3, 4, because it is already there. Then you spontaneously flow through your practice. After some time, you and your practice become one.⁣
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Then, at that time, I think of my horse, the high desert plateau, the cold wind and hot wind together—everything is one. Yes, but I'm not a horse-riding mahasidda. I used to be very good at riding a horse, I tell you, but now I cannot, I would fall down. So, in that way, what I'm telling you is, you are free. But when you practice, you should be disciplined and not free about the method of the practice. You just don't put any of your ideas in there. You just follow the method of the teaching, but then after some time, that will free you from everything. So then it becomes freedom. Yes.⁣
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So, it is like a very good way for me to feel happy about telling you to practice. Practice diligently, practice accurately, and at the same time feel free.⁣
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From a short teaching entitled 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥-𝘓𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘗𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 given Guruvajradhara His Holiness the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa in March 2025 at Sherabling.

Teaching can be viewed at the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i86sC691Am8&list=PLM93Hm5TNYIJLb48e1sywYa5DuszVAC4Y&index=321&ab_channel=Palpung

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘵𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘩𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘭 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟽. 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 😊

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