Audios of Dharma Teachings by Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen (Lama Mark Webber)
Yangzab Preliminary Liberating Instructions
Why Practice the Extraordinary Preliminaries?
Commentaries and Instructions
by Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen (Lama Mark Webber)
March 1st, 2025
Namgyal Choling Gompa, Galiano Island, Canada
“Don't do this! If you just want to get yourself clear and be free, don’t do this. But if you want to have great compassion for other beings and be able to help liberate other beings one day—and know why and how—then, this is why you have to practice these Extraordinary Foundation practices.”
Namgyal Rinpoche
“To help other beings also requires skill, an understanding of the Dharma in a very deep way. And it also requires that you have quite a high degree of a merit field. That merit field has many components. But essentially, the merit field is the degree to which you can harness, understand and manifest the six paramita: generosity, ethics, patience, energy, mental concentration—natural mental concen-tration, one-pointed concentration—and wisdom, both causal wisdom and the wisdom of the unborn.”
Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen
Listen to the Short & Pithy Audio:
Preliminary Liberating Instructions
AUDIOS OF DHARMA TEACHINGS BY LAMA CHOKYI GYALTSEN
New Zealand Online Teachings, February 2025
by Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen (Lama Mark Webber)
These thirteen Teachings and commentaries were given over Zoom to participants in New Zealand who gathered for 6 days in February 2025, hosted by the New Zealand dharma group and NYBCC.
Lama Gyaltsen began the Teachings by giving a reading transmission of Khunu Lama Rinpoche’s extraordinary text on bodhicitta, The Jewel Ship, also published as Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea: Verses in Praise of Bodhicitta.
He also gave a reading transmission of his root text, Eight Confidences and a Garland of One Hundred Mindful Recollections that served as a framework for enhancing awareness and bringing forth the inherent awareness of unconstructed mind inseparable with great love.
The series of talks included Lama Gyaltsen leading participants in an ever-deepening practice of Amitabha, the wisdom Buddha of Boundless Light, from the Drikung Yangzab and Orgyen Nuden Dorje traditions.
Transmission and Teaching on the Phowa
The Practice of Phowa
Transmissions and Commentary
by Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen (Lama Mark Webber)
IIn January 2025 at the conclusion of the 100 Day Retreat, Lama Gyaltsen bestowed nine days of transmission and teaching on the Phowa. The practice of Phowa is directing the transference of consciousness at the time of death, either for one’s own benefit or for the benefit of another. Select audio excerpts have been made available for listening.
The Special Teachings of Khepa Shri Gyalpo (Garab Dorje)
Three Words Striking the Vital Point – Root Text and Auto-Commentary
by Paltrul Rinpoche
Transmissions and Commentary
by Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen (Lama Mark Webber)
In late November, Lama Gyaltsen gave five classes at Namgyal Gompa on Galiano Island to retreatants, focused on Garab Dorje’s Final Testament; striking the vital point in three statements, an amazing text and auto commentary by Dza Patrul Rinpoche. As a holiday season offering, for peace and awake compassion, a gift to fill the hearts of all beings on this planet, Lama Gyaltsen asked these recordings to be shared.
“These talks are in memory and endless gratitude to two great Lamas residing in my heart, Kyabje Lho Ontul Rinpoche and Kyabje Tenzin Namgyal Rinpoche. From their extraordinary brilliance and transmission of these precious texts, some words of Dharma sprung forth from my mind. My prayers they will be of some benefit.”
Some Essential Points on Meditation and Awakening
View, Meditation and Action & The Four Noble Truths
By Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen (Lama Mark Webber)
Lama Gyaltsen reads and comments on his pithy text where he lays out essential points on how to swiftly proceed on the path to liberation. It aims to, “give you a feeling—which may not always be comfortable—of relieving and liberating the cultural, historic human ‘soup’ that clouds the view of Dharma.”
These five Dharma classes were given in-person and online at the Crystal Mountain Society retreat property on Galiano Island, B.C. in July 2024.
The way in which we unfold and cycle back and forth through the paths entering the Dharma and unfolding liberation can be described and distinguished from three different aspects: View, Meditation, and Action (Conduct). This follows a classical framework given by Guru Padmasambhava in the 8th century. Furthermore, how freedom is gradually approached and unfolded can be divided into four avenues: 1) Before entering the path of Dharma, 2) Hinayāna, 3) Mahayāna and 4) Vajrayāna. Here, Lama Gyaltsen’s method is to shed light on our key experiences as we traverse the four avenues framed as personal dialogues, hidden concepts, perspectives and life approaches. Each of these four perspectives is organized by View, Meditation and Action connected to our ever-deepening understanding of the Four Noble Truths, the Buddha’s first teaching, the very core of all Buddhist practice and unfoldment.
The Seven Points of Mind Training
Commentaries and Instructions on Lojong and Tonglen, based on the Root Text of
‘The Great Path of Awakening - The Classic Guide to Lojong, A Tibetan Buddhist Practice for Cultivating the Heart of Compassion’ by Jamgon Kongtrul.
(Transl. by Ken McLeod, Shambala Classics)
Generously offered to the in-person practitioners of an 8-day retreat in Ortisei, Italy, and to the online participants in May 2024.
By Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen
Listen to all 7 Classes -Audio recordings with occasional German translation
Listen to some of Lama Gyalten’s Short & Pithy Dharma Statements here:
How to Gather Sufficient Merit for Liberation?
Trusting in What when All is Illusory?
Is Hatred Always Connected to Greed?
Key Points for Unfolding the Dharma in an Orderly and Unified Way
Commentaries given to the in-person participants of a Dharma weekend at Egebjerg, Denmark, hosted by NYBCE, and the online participants, hosted by NYBCC.
June 14 to 16, 2024
«I kept getting asked: ‘Lama, is there one thing I should be doing?’ And I said: ‘No, not one thing. A list of things!’ So, this is a list of the key things that a spiritual practitioner of the Vajrayana would do at least every day, and if not, then at least every week. It is the rich gathering of all the kinds of practices, attitudes, and intentions that you need to bring together. And actually, we generally practice this every day when in full retreat.”
-Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen
Commentaries on White Tara Practice
Audios of White Tara online-retreat December 5-6 and 19-20
“How do I start? Start with the little things. Try to put Tara into an email, try to put Tara into a text, try to put Tara into the lab, into the kitchen, try to put Tara into your footsteps, into your voice and into your manner.”
“Purify the greed, the hatred, the delusion, the pride, and jealousy, until you see the White. Until you see the purity come out, and you can say ‘My god, that is glorious!”
-Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen
Commentaries on Chenrezig Practice
Audios of Chenrezig online-retreat November 7-8 and 21-22, 2020
“Every bit of Dharma Teaching is solely for the purpose of refining mental intention towards full Buddhahood—like you would refine gold, ore. When I hear comments that generation and completion stage practice and saying mantras and visualizing the deity, is difficult and is challenging: Yes, it is, as it is challenging to refine ore to get the pure gold out of it.”
-Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen (In Commentaries on Chenrezig Practice)
Audio of “Covid-19-Online-Teachings 2020”
Audio of “Covid-19-Online-Teachings 2020”
Audio of “Covid-19-Online-Teachings 2020”
Audio of “Covid-19-Online-Teachings 2020”
Audio of “Covid_19-Online-Dharma-Teachings 2020”
"If you change the word “prayer” – which you should do! – into “wise, compassionate, liberative intent,” and placing that in your mindstream over and over again, it has incredible benefits for sentient beings!"
-Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen
Audio of “Covid-19-Online-Teachings 2020”
“For the body to be radiant, even when it is full of worms and bacteria and virally infected and wracked with pain, it is still a holy temple.”
-Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen
Audio of “Covid-19-Online-Teachings 2020”