HHST Through meditation, you can change the mind.

[kirtu]

Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche

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Through meditation, you can change the mind. After all, everything is mind. Samsara, nirvana, happiness, suffering, good deeds, bad deeds - everything is in your mind. It is the mind that does right and wrong things and experiences happiness and suffering. So, you have to tame your mind.
Unless and until you tame the mind, you can´t make any progress on the path. Therefore, it is very important to train your mind.


His Holiness Sakya Trichen

[Johnny Dangerous]

HHST is just fantastic. I've had the opportunity to be around him in person twice and I feel both times were a -serious- blessing to my beleaguered mindstream, even though once was just lunch at a buffet. One of the most transformative practices I've learned came from him and I feel serious lucky it did.

Here's a talk from here I very much loved: https://www.sakya.org/2015/01/good-buddhist/

By the title you'd think it was general, and in a sense it is, but it's also vast.

[karmanyingpo]

HHST is just fantastic. I've had the opportunity to be around him in person twice and I feel both times were a -serious- blessing to my beleaguered mindstream, even though once was just lunch at a buffet. One of the most transformative practices I've learned came from him and I feel serious lucky it did.

Here's a talk from here I very much loved: https://www.sakya.org/2015/01/good-buddhist/

By the title you'd think it was general, and in a sense it is, but it's also vast.

Wow that sounds marvelous. How did you manage to get to meet him?

[Johnny Dangerous]

HHST is just fantastic. I've had the opportunity to be around him in person twice and I feel both times were a -serious- blessing to my beleaguered mindstream, even though once was just lunch at a buffet. One of the most transformative practices I've learned came from him and I feel serious lucky it did.

Here's a talk from here I very much loved: https://www.sakya.org/2015/01/good-buddhist/

By the title you'd think it was general, and in a sense it is, but it's also vast.

Wow that sounds marvelous. How did you manage to get to meet him?

Well first time I had an empowerment from him, but the second time was a lunch at a buffet where my sangha group honored him and we ate together, we had the reception line outside the restaurant and everything, pretty cool! I don't recall exactly but I think it may have been a kind of thank you for my teachers translation work. He gave an empowerment at the center a few years before I was involved, and the current Sakya Trizin has given empowerment there recently. My center is connected to Sakya Monastery, being a Sakya/rime center So I'm pretty lucky to be in close proximity to serious juju sometimes.

Anyway, HHST's teachings are something special, one of the things I have really gotten from Sakya teaching style in general is the importance of the Mahayana foundation with Vajrayana practice. It sounds cliche, but I have never had anyone else explain it and connect the dots quite like him. Of course I have not had any of the Lamdre, Hevajra or any of that, so most of my experience is these teachings, and various smaller scale empowerments from a number of Sakya figures.