Guru Rinpoche Day Message - October 12, 2024
“What needs to become liberated? Your own mind must become liberated.  When it isn’t, it’s the thread stringing from dualistic perception.  Ways to subdue the mind must be established through three valid modes of knowledge: the teaching of Buddha, the transmission of the Lama, and your own self-knowing awareness.” 
Sera Khandro, A Letter of Foolish Advice. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS  
  • Tupten Osel Choling is pleased to announce an opportunity to attend a retreat and receive oral transmissions and teachings from Venerable Sogan Rinpoche on the spiritual advice of the great Tibetan treasure-revealing dakini Sera Khandro Dewai Dorje (1892-1940).  The retreat will be held from September 23 to October 1, 2024.  For more information , click HERE
  • Ven. Sogan Rinpoche's book, Dreams and Truths from the Ocean of Mind, is now available on PRINT and AUDIOBOOK.  
     
2024 Suka Vajra Sangha Retreat -- Galilee Episcopal Camp and Retreat Center
“In a solitary place where the thought of death penetrates your heart, the practitioner that completely relinquishes attachment seals the retreat boundaries of forsaking this life’s phenomena and will no longer encounter the outsiders of the eight worldly concerns.” 
H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche, Extracting the Essence of Accomplishment through Direct Instructions that are Easily Understood.
GROUP PRACTICE
Welcome to our Sangha.  We are a Tibetan Buddhist community following the Teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha under the care and compassion of Sogan Rinpoche, who has generously offered to share his knowledge of the Buddhadharma with anyone wishing to receive it.  Click HERE to add your name to our email list.  
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"While I am away, I urge you to study and practice the Dharma diligently. I would also like to recommend that you make an effort to get together and discuss the teachings and do the practices that I have shown you:
Ngondro
Guru Yoga tsok
Shakyamuni Buddha
Chenrezig
Phowa
I would like you to alternate the practices. This will help you to build our Dharma community and support each other's practices so you can grow together as Dharma brothers and sisters."  – Sogan Rinpoche, 11/3/13, Oakland, CA