The Three Indispensable Keys to a Good Life

Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche returns to Olympia.
September 8, 2023 – September 9, 2023

Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche came to Olympia last October on his International Book Tour for his newly published book, The Power of Mind. Over 130 people attended his public presentation. I am pleased to announce he is returning to give additional, more extensive teachings on September 8 & 9.

The Three Indispensable Keys to a Good Life
We need meditation to calm our thoughts and emotions. We need loving kindness to break open narrow-minded self-centeredness and to expand kindheartedness toward others. In order to support both of those, we need methods for transforming everything—even negative circumstances—into something positive.

On Friday evening, September 8, and all day Saturday, September 9, Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche will teach these three indispensable keys to a good life, which summarize the entire meaning of his new book, The Power of Mind, which is available at Browser’s Bookshop. They will also have his book for sale at the Friday night talk, where Rinpoche will do a book signing after the teachings.

All are welcome to attend Friday night as a stand-alone talk. However, if you are planning to attend Saturday’s teachings, we request that you also come on Friday evening as it will serve as the introduction that forms the entire basis for Saturday’s talk.

Friday, Sept 8 — 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Saturday, Sept 9 — 10:00 am to noon & 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm

Olympia Community Center, Rm A
200 Columbia St. NW
Olympia, WA, 98501
COST:

Friday evening only — 6:30 to 8:30 Suggested donation at the door: $10 – $20
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Friday and Saturday — Sliding scale of $45 – $75.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

REGISTRATION:

To register for both Friday night and Saturday teachings, go here: https://katog.org/event/friday-evening-and-all-day-saturday-teaching-in-olympia-wa/

If you are only attending Friday night, you may make your donation at the door.

For more information, contact Candace Palmo @ candacepalmo@gmail.com.

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Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche is the director of Katog Choling, a nonprofit organization based in the United States. He oversees more than twenty practice groups across North America and in China, Australia, and South Africa, as well as a large retreat center in the mountains of northwest Arkansas. He is also the abbot of Katog Mardo Tashi Choling, in Tibet, where his family has overseen the monastery for several generations. There, he established a Buddhist university, a three-year retreat center, a primary school, and a number of community outreach programs.

Khentrul Rinpoche is one of the very few people in the world to hold three Khenpo degrees—the equivalent of three PhDs—in Buddhist philosophy. Rinpoche combines his profound knowledge of the Buddhist canon with an equally extensive capacity for presenting information with simplicity and clarity. He is an expert at extracting the meaning of a teaching, conveying it concisely, and supporting it with both logic and kindhearted humor. Although he has a vast scope of expertise and can teach on any philosophical treatise, including those that are the most scholastically complex, he emphasizes mind training (lojong). This is because he has always held the approach of love, compassion, and applicable wisdom to be the foundation of the path, and has found these techniques the most practical for taming the modern mind. It is these practices he passes on to his students and others, like a lifeline, in these turbulent times.

Rinpoche speaks in Tibetan and English and has a translator, Paloma Lopez Landry, whom he’s worked with for 21 years.