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Often when we talk about compassion we ask, “How I can increase my compassion?” And the Buddhist teachings do say that we need to expand our compassion. But practically speaking, we need to increase our resilience and our heedfulness

Acclaimed Buddhist teacher Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche will teach from his life-changing book, Emotional Rescue: How to Transform Hurt and Confusion Into Energy that Empowers You. The rollercoaster of emotions such as anger, fear, and jealousy gets its power from a simple but deep-seated source: our lack of self-knowledge. By learning to relate skillfully to our emotions, we become able to connect with the richness and wisdom of emotional energy, rather than letting it control us. With clarity, warmth and great humor, Rinpoche will explain how we can turn our emotional overload into empowering energy.

Rinpoche will be teaching at Chagdud Gonpa – Odsal Ling in São Paulo, Brasil on August 21. Sometimes what we see as the worst crisis of our lives is actually a wonderful opportunity to discover enlightened mind, says Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. In this teaching, based on his book Mind Beyond Death, Rinpoche will explain how to recognize the precious opportunity of our human birth, and how even the time of our death can become a great opportunity for awakening, for enlightenment. With warm informality and profound understanding, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche makes the Tibetan teachings on the bardos—the moments of life, death, and beyond—completely relevant to modern life.

In the Heart Sutra, one of the most well-known texts of Mahayana Buddhism, the Buddha reveals the teaching on emptiness, culminating in the famous statement, “Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. This sutra expresses the essence of all of the Buddha’s teachings on the perfection of wisdom, Prajnaparamita. Within the Heart Sutra, the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara reveals to the disciple Shariputra the emptiness of the five skandhas (form, sensation, perception, mental formation and consciousness) and explains how even the teachings of the Four Noble Truths, including the very path that leads to freedom from suffering, are of the nature of emptiness. During this retreat, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche will offer oral transmission and commentary on The Heart Sutra text.