Tsoknyi Rinpoche

06/13/2026

"We all experience little awakenings—we could call them 'buddha moments.' For example, when we’re stuck in traffic and find ourselves cursing other drivers, we might experience a lightning recognition of how lucky we are to have a car, to be going somewhere to meet someone.

When we grumble about children who need attention—for whatever reason, homework, meals, school tuition—we wake up suddenly to the realization of how fortunate we are that these bright, young, capable people are a part of our lives.

Buddha moments may sometimes be uncomfortable on the surface but are ultimately quite liberating. They offer us an opportunity to get to know the angry thoughts and feelings that drive our behavior, and to welcome them as friends that point out areas of limiting thoughts and feelings rather than dismissing them as enemies."

- Tsoknyi Rinpoche

06/09/2026

"Do you understand what is meant by 'the present'?

Not following the past, not planning the future, not holding an object in mind right now.

Just leave your attention totally relaxed, and remain like that. Remain in nowness."

- Tsoknyi Rinpoche

06/08/2026

Tsoknyi Rinpoche speaks about a kind of letting go in meditation so complete that the mind is no longer governed by fear of loss or change.

This is not a rejection of responsibility or relationships, but an invitation to stop constantly bracing against life.

Rinpoche sometimes calls this “silly-smart”: stretching beyond our habitual fears to rediscover a more relaxed and healthy way of moving through the world.

06/02/2026

Tsoknyi Rinpoche speaks about dropping and letting go in meditation, releasing the mental tightness and fixation that keep the mind burdened.

But not everything can simply be dropped. Some experiences, emotions, and wounds must instead be met gently and directly. Through awareness and practice, these more difficult and “undroppable” parts of ourselves can gradually soften, transform and heal.

Rinpoche describes this as a “handshake” with our habitual patterns: awareness remaining gently and compassionately present with difficulty rather than rejecting this experience.

05/29/2026

Letting Go in Meditation | Short teaching and guided meditation with Tsoknyi Rinpoche from the 2025 "Stillness with Movement" Retreat in Crestone, CO.

Now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YWx3Wvz-YkM

This short teaching is from the 2025 retreat in Crestone, Colorado. Visit the Pundarika Teachings library to access the full recording and decades of archive...

05/28/2026

Tsoknyi Rinpoche speaks about what he sometimes calls “chicken heart”, when kind-hearted people become trapped in worry, responsibility, and anxiety.

He explains that caring itself is not the problem. The problem is when we hold too tightly. When care becomes mixed with fear and attachment, the mind becomes tense and paralyzed.

Healthy care allows us to love others more openly and steadily. In order to care well, sometimes we also need to let go.

05/12/2026

Thank you to Tsoknyi Rinpoche for today’s teaching and to everyone who joined us for the opening session of "Simple Inside, Complex Outside".

Today’s teaching explored how we can use handshake practice even when met with stuckness in the physical body, work with speedy energy in the subtle body to reconnect with a steadier sense of well-being, and settle into what Rinpoche calls “happiness without reason.”

Registration remains open through the final day of teachings on May 17. All registered participants will receive access to the recordings for two months following the program.

Register here: https://tsoknyirinpoche.org/events/deepening-2026-may-online-teaching/

05/08/2026

"Mind has 'emotional rights.'
Anything can come into the mind—happy, unhappy, good thought, bad thought…
You can allow anything to come.
But whether you cling to it or not is your right.
The rights of the emotions are to come in as they please.
Your right is to decide not to follow."

- Tsoknyi Rinpoche

05/05/2026

“We humans have many different experiences. 84, 000 different things. That is the beauty of our minds and feelings. Allow. It's like a wind, allow and let it come let it go.”

- Tsoknyi Rinpoche

05/03/2026