Drikung Kagyu Dharma Circle of Madsion WI

Drikung Kagyu Dharma Circle of Madsion WI Khenchen Rinpoche in 1992 started our grp.We meet Monday's 5:30- 7pm via Zoom. Fridays zoom & Wilmar Center to study Kamma, 1-2:30 pm. Sat.

Fridays 6- 7:30pm zoom only ordination support grp/study. at Wilmar /zoom 10:00am-11:30pm practice discussion. The teachings state that this basic goodness, or Buddha Nature has been covered by afflictive emotions and negative habitual tendencies.

05/01/2026
05/01/2026

From Samsara and Nirvana Two Sides of Same Hand Commentary by Khenchen Rinpoche: “Appearance” means all manifestations — the forms you can see and sounds you can hear, plus smell, taste, touch, and then mental objects or thoughts which constitute appearance. All manifestations are appearance. But the very nature of this appearance is emptiness. Since everyone is familiar with the Heart Sutra, you remember that “Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form.” Many people chant this daily as a prayer, but you can see that is the true nature of all phenomena. Look at the clouds in the sky. All clouds appear in space from the sky, and then dissolve back into the sky. Look at your mind, how many thoughts come that you don’t like, such as, “I feel unhappy.” All this manifests from the mind itself. It is emptiness. From the emptiness of the mind there are all these thoughts which dissolve back into emptiness. The waves in the ocean dissolve into the ocean, and wind manifests from the sky and dissolves back into the sky. This is reality. When we don’t realize this, we are caught and become entangled and just suffer helplessly. Looking elsewhere, we can’t find the solution. But here, Buddha teaches that everything is non-dual, inexpressible. To experience the benefit of this we need to practice. If we don’t practice, no matter how much we read these words, and though we get some sense of them, we don’t get the benefit. To get the benefit, we need to follow the path. This is what great masters like MIlarepa, Gampopa, and others taught their students. They then told these students to go to the mountains to get the message themselves. The students went, meditated for months and years, and returned to the teacher, telling him, “I did this and that and received benefit, but at the same time I have some misunderstanding and confusion. Please give me wisdom to dispel this confusion.” So in that way the masters led these great disciples toward enlightenment. We need to practice as much as we can the teachings that Buddha taught and that the great masters have brought down to us.

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504 S Brearly Street
Madison, WI
53703

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Monday 5:30pm - 7pm
Wednesday 9am - 12pm

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(608) 832-6522

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