Dharma Talks at Columbus KTC

This week’s 1 P.M. Dharma Talk is entitled “Making Friends with Your Meditation, Part I”  by Lama Kathy Wesley. These days more and more people are connecting to the practice […]

This week Lama Kathy will cover the third level of the Buddha’s teachings, the Vajrayana. Also called “The Indestructible Path,” the Vajrayana builds on the foundation of the Hinayana’s ethics […]

This week’s 12 Noon Dharma Talk is entitled “The Teachings of Khenpo Karthar Rinpoché: Transition to Perfection” by Lama Tom Broadwater. At the beginning of the spiritual path is the […]

In this Dharma Talk, Lama Kathy will review the first two of the three levels (often called the Three Yanas) of the Buddha’s teaching. The initial level of teaching, called […]

This week’s 12 Noon Dharma Talk is entitled, “Four Noble Truths.” Two thousand five hundred years ago, a prince in northern India left his palace to find a solution to […]

The first part of this talk answers questions from viewers of Lama Kathy’s video webcasts and covers the topics of the traditional Tibetan Buddhist 3-Year Retreat and meditation practice. In […]

This week’s talk, given by Lama Kathy Wesley, is entitled, “What Is Buddhist Retreat? & How to Do Retreat at Home.” With so many of us under “stay-at-home” orders due […]

This week’s talk, given by Lama Kathy Wesley, is entitled, “Prayers for a Pandemic, Part 2.” In this second talk given during the COVID-19 epidemic, Lama Kathy reviews the previous […]

This week’s talk, given by Lama Kathy Wesley, is entitled, “Prayers for a Pandemic, Part 1.” The COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic took much of the world by surprise in late 2019 […]

This week’s talk, given by Lama Kathy Wesley, is entitled, “Finding Inner Strength and Resolve.” When we try to make changes in our lives, sometimes we meet with inner resistance […]

This week’s talk, given by Lama Kathy Wesley, is entitled, “Path of Compassion, Path of Bodhisattvas, Part II: The Bodhisattva Vow.” The aspiration to be of benefit to others is […]

This week’s talk, given by Lama Kathy Wesley, is entitled, “Path of Compassion, Path of Bodhisattvas, Part I: The Bodhisattva Attitude.” Finding purpose and meaning in life is a quest […]

This week’s talk, given by Lama Kathy Wesley, is entitled, “Going with the Flow of Blessings: The Buddhist New Year and Calendar.” The Buddha’s teachings on Interdependence tell us that […]

This week’s talk, given by Lama Kathy Wesley, is entitled, “How Do We Pray when Our Teacher Passes Away?” Buddhist Teachings say that our spiritual masters are essential to the […]

This week’s talk, given by meditation instructor Eric Weinberg, is the first talk in a series examining the book, “Freedom Through Meditation” by His Holiness 17th Karmapa. Talk 1: Love […]

This week’s talk, given by Lama Kathy Wesley, is entitled, “The Eightfold Noble Path, Part III: Coming to Freedom through Meditation and Wisdom.” After changing our view of the world […]

This week’s talk, given by Lama Kathy Wesley, is entitled, “The Eightfold Noble Path, Part II: Right View Produces Right Speech and Action.” The Eightfold Noble Path is the “how-to” […]

This week’s talk, given by Lama Kathy Wesley, is entitled, “The Eightfold Noble Path, Part I: Our Path Out of Confusion.” First given 2,500 years ago, the Buddha’s teachings on […]

This week’s talk, given by Senior Meditation Instructor Cathy Lhamo Jackson, is entitled, “The Mahamudra Lineage Prayer: A Guide to Practice, Talk 5.” The view of Mahamudra – that our […]

This week’s talk, given by Meditation Instructor Marcus Casey, is entitled, The Mahamudra Lineage Prayer: A Guide to Practice, Talk 4. How can the nature of thought be nothing whatsoever, […]

This week’s talk by Lama Kathy Wesley is entitled: Khenpo Karthar Rinpoché: A Remembrance, Talk 3, I Am Always With You. In this final installment of Lama Kathy’s remembrance of […]

This week’s talk by Lama Kathy Wesley is entitled: Khenpo Karthar Rinpoché: A Remembrance, Talk 2: Reading Transmission and Carrying a Lineage. Since the time of the historical Buddha, the […]

This week’s talk, given by Senior Meditation Instructor Cathy Lhamo Jackson, is entitled, “The Mahamudra Lineage Prayer: A Guide to Practice, Talk 3.” All beginning students in our lineage are […]

This week’s talk by Lama Kathy Wesley is entitled: Khenpo Karthar Rinpoché: A Remembrance, Talk 1: An Unexpected Retreat. After returning from a four-month retreat at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery […]

This week’s talk, given by Meditation Instructor Eric Weinberg, is entitled, “Teacher-Student Relationship in Buddhism, Part 2.” The devotion students have for their teacher and teachers have for their students […]