The Secret of our Mind
Buddhist Teaching by Tibetan Meditation Master
Khentrul Lodrö Thayé Rinpoche
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:00 pm
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fayetteville
901 W. Cleveland Street, Fayetteville, Arkansas

The Tibetan Cultural Institute of Arkansas and the Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship of Fayetteville host an evening with Khentrul Lodrö Thayé Rinpoche on Tuesday, September 23 at 7:00 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fayetteville, located at 901 West Cleveland Street in Fayetteville. This event is free and open to the public. Voluntary donations support Khentrul Lodrö Thayé Rinpoche’s monastery in Tibet and his Dharma activities in the United States.

The Secret of Our Mind
Our minds are filled with myriad thoughts that move ceaselessly like waves on the surface of the ocean. We are in constant turmoil and our minds are obscured, like a sky enshrouded by clouds. Thus, we cannot develop inner peace and happiness. This is the main source of suffering. If we know how to meditate correctly, we will be able to unveil the secret of our mind and thus, in this and future lives, establish a basis for happiness.

Our experience proves that unhappiness and suffering are created only by the mind and by our internal processes of over-thinking. Thus, the remedy lies also in our mind; it depends wholly upon meditating. When we learn meditation methods and put them into practice, the result is that day by day, week by week, and month by month, our inner peace and happiness grows. Gradually, through the energetic force of meditation, countless positive qualities and changes arise within our experience. This is because the true peace and happiness we seek are found within us.

Khentrul Lodrö Thayé Rinpoche
Khentrul Lodrö Thayé Rinpoche was born in eastern Tibet in the region of Golog, where he is now the abbot of Katog Mardo Tashi Choling Monastery. At the age of seven, he began the formal practice of dharma by taking monastic ordination. Rinpoche studied and practiced under his main root guru, His Holiness Jigmé Puntsog Rinpoche, a true pillar of the Buddha’s teachings, for more than twenty years. He also spent many years studying with H.H. Katog Moktza Rinpoche at Katog Gonpa in Tibet, as well as for five years with H.H. Penor Rinpoche at Namdroling Monastery in India. He not only studied, contemplated, and meditated on all the scriptures of sutra and tantra, including those of Mahamudra and Great Perfection, but also received all of the associated empowerments, reading transmissions, and oral instructions, and thus received the degree of khenpo (equivalent to a Ph.D.) from each of the three monasteries. During that time, Rinpoche also spent three years in retreat.H.H. Katog Moktza Rinpoche formally recognized Khentrul Rinpoche as a reincarnation (tulku) of Katog Druptopchenpo Namkha Gyamtso, a mahasiddha of Katog Monastery, and conducted an elaborate enthronement ceremony for him at Katog before an assembly of monks, lamas, khenpos, and lay people. Thus he is called a khentrul, someone who is both a khenpo and a tulku.

There are more than 300 monks and 100 children at Katog Mardho Tashi Choling for whom he provides food, lodging, education, a temple, and other facilities. In addition, Khentrul Rinpoche offers support to the main mother monastery of Katog as well as a few of its branch monasteries.

Additional information:

Khentrul Rinpoche: www.katogcholing.com

Tibetan Cultural Institute of Arkansas: www.artibet.com

Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship: www.uubuddhist.com