Tibetan Buddhist teacher Lama Thupten Gyaltsen Dorje Rinpoche describes his experiences growing up in the ghetto, mastering martial arts, studying dance, mime, meditation and the virtues of self-discipline in a series of conversations with Next Chapter Podcasts producer Michael Goodfriend.
If we don’t open our heart to the innate kindness within it will never manifest without.
5/1/24 • 44:30
These are difficult times.
4/24/24 • 39:29
Avoid the conflict before it begins.
4/17/24 • 32:58
Sometimes the demigods come to power to shake us up.
4/10/24 • 25:51
Breathe into the Sea of Tranquility, rest your mind and be free.
4/3/24 • 32:19
If there is no creativity there is no freedom.
3/20/24 • 30:38
To experience the God within, you would fall down in awe.
3/13/24 • 33:16
We are the dream of someone else’s dream. Rest in the Unknown of the Infinite.
3/6/24 • 41:29
How would you like your life to unfold? Rinpoche asks us to contemplate our death so that we may live our life.
2/28/24 • 22:32
Rinpoche describes retreating into “The Heart Drop Essence of the Great Expanse”
2/21/24 • 43:17
Rinpoche describes his experience with Butoh, the dance that emerges from the unknown.
2/14/24 • 39:27
Rinpoche recounts how following his dream of being a musician led him into a life in the arts.
2/7/24 • 26:31
Rinpoche lays the groundwork for training your mind as he reflects on his own process of discovery.
1/31/24 • 35:05
Lama Thupten Rinpoche describes his journey from being Jerry in Bed-Stuy to The One Who Sits on the Seat in The Ocean of Existence.
1/24/24 • 21:56
How do you become a Rinpoche? And what the heck is that, anyway? Michael Goodfriend reconnects with a friend he first met over 30 years ago to find out how Jerry Gardner went from being a kid in Bed-Stuy to a master teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
1/22/24 • 00:50
