Videos of Dharma Teachings Given by Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen (Lama Mark Webber)
THE ART OF CRAFTING SUPPORTIVE CONDITIONS FOR LIBERATION
11 Public Zoom Classes on The Art of Crafting Supportive Conditions and Building Foundations for Liberation, given in the first week of the 2022 three weeks in-person Summer Retreat of Crystal Mountain Society on Galiano Island, Canada B.C.
'It’s very straightforward: If you have a seed and you do not have the right conditions, no matter what you do, it just does not turn into a plant. So too, one has to have the notion that there is liberation, and one has to encounter and be willing to be in the right causal conditions.' Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen
'Retreat means building confidence and trust in the development of freedom and in one’s awake mind.' Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen
BLOSSOMING FUNDAMENTALS INTO COMPASSION-WISDOM
Two Online Dharma Teachings Requested by the Queenstown Dharma Centre, New Zealand, on July 9 and 10, 2022
'Yes, Nirvana and Samsara are of the same nature. But don’t start that way! You want to get out of Samsara! Until you realize that Samsara cannot be gotten out off, you want to get out of Samsara!' Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen
THE JEWEL ORNAMENT OF LIBERATION by JE GAMPOPA
Commentaries and Transmissions by Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen given in a Two Month Series of Online Classes in the Namgyal Gompa on Galiano Island, Canada, March – April 2022
Why Study the Jewel Ornament of Liberation by Je Gampopa? An Overview and Introduction
'It is quite common that beings ripen when just hearing the Dharma, or when reading and studying the Dharma. It is not just meditation!' Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen
Faith and Confidence as Working Basis
'An ‘excellent vase’ – it is not just a vase with a bonk on the head; it is to practice, meditate, have a life where you feel jewelled-vase-like. Feeling! It is a physical and mental feeling of being a vessel that is suitable to receive gifts of Dharma, treasures of Dharma.'
Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen - On Faith and the Vase Empowerment
How to Accumulate Merit in Retreat?
Overcoming the 5 Hindrances - Entering the Meditative Absorptions
CAN MINDFULNESS MAKE YOU HAPPY?
When do mindfulness and meditation become liberating from suffering?
Excerpt of a Dharma Teaching in the Nelson Dharma Centre, New Zealand, on April 5, 2019
'I am not trying to sell you anything. But I am trying to at least propose some things that perhaps you have never heard; to present some very, very classic statements and teachings on what the Path of Liberation is about, what mindfulness is, the purpose of the Dharma, the purpose of meditation, the two major trainings … just a few topics for tonight.' Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen
'TEN KINDS OF WASTE' OR 'TEN CAUSES OF REGRET' BY LORD GAMPOPA
Excerpt of a series of Online Teachings on Gampopa's "The Precious Garland Of The Sublime Path" in March-April 2021
'It's wonderful to pause and sometimes reflect where one's at. Whether we wish for our liberation, our freedom, or we actually wish for such an extraordinary capacity that would be for the liberation of all the countless kinds of beings - Buddhahood.'
'It's very important to be mindful, attentive, throughout the day to keep one's precepts, study the precepts, and keep to a very, very high ethical standard; not rule bound, but study the heart of the precepts.' Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen
COMMENTARIES ON WHITE TARA PRACTICE
Videos 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
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHIST MIND TRAINING: LOJONG AND TONGLEN
Excerpt of Dharma-Teachings at Namgyal Choling Gompa, Galiano Island B.C., April 28-29, 2019
'All mystical experiences happen because of causes and condition. They just happen quickly usually; therefore, we call them spontaneous, forgetting how much work went into the arising of that spontaneous experience. As Jigten Sumgön said in his ‘Gongchig’: The Path is gradual.' Lama Chokyi Gyaltsen