A Place to Sit - Meditation Center in Boulder

11/27/2025

Criminal justice - true justice, not just punishment - is important to decent society. The incarceration rate in the US is approximately 716 per 100,000 residents versus 69 per 100,000 in the Netherlands. There is a Buddhist-based meditation program in every prison in the Netherlands. The Milarepa Prison Community (aka A Place to Sit) conducted a training for 37 Buddhist instructors in Amsterdam, many of whom went on to teach meditation in Dutch prisons.

11/21/2025

Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
Quote of the Week
November 21, 2025

It just gets better and better!

First it would be good to sing “Examples of Illusion That Teach Impermanence.” Because the antidote for clinging to things as being permanent is to meditate on impermanence, it is important to this song. Later, we will find out that impermanence also does not exist.

Impermanence is emptiness.
Emptiness is beyond concept.
Beyond concept is equality.
Equality is inexpressible.
Inexpressibility is beyond the intellect.

It just gets better and better!
[Laughter; all sing.]

Composed by Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche at Karma Choling in the summer of 2002.Translated by Ari Goldfield.

10/29/2025