Dharma Talks at Columbus KTC

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled This Precious Life by Lama Kathy Wesley. When we face hard times, it’s hard to remember what the Buddha taught about our lives – […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Absolute and Relative Bodhicitta: What They Are, Why They Matter, and a Simple Way to Meditate on Them by Eric Weinberg. Eric sums up […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled “The Essence of Buddhism, Part 2” by Lama Tom Broadwater. In “The Essence of Buddhism, Part 1,” Lama Tom explained that the essence of […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Vivid and Insubstantial by Lama Adam Berner. Ourselves and everything we experience are both vivd and insubstantial.  Fixation on either one alone inevitably leads […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Finding the Sacred in Every Moment: The Purpose of Buddhist Ritual by Lama Kathy Wesley. Tibetan Buddhism is famous for its many types of […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled “Independence Day: Freeing Ourselves from Samsara” by Lama Kathy Wesley. The Buddha taught ways to free ourselves from the bondage of Samsara – the […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled “Customs and Rituals – Why we take off our shoes” by Cathy  Lhamo Jackson. Have you ever wondered why we have so many customs […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Essence of Buddhist Teaching by Lama Tom Broadwater. When the Dalai Lama says love is his religion, he is expressing the very heart of […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Mantra of Great Compassion by Lama Kathy Wesley. One of the main practices of the Columbus KTC since the beginning is the practice of […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled The Four Thoughts That Turn the Mind To Dharma by Eric Weinberg. The great Nyingma Lama Dudjom Lingpa said, “It is vital that you […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Doing No Harm by Lama Adam Berner. Our lives are a process, full of change and uncertainty.  Forgetting this, we suffer.  One method the […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled The Short Vajradhara Lineage Prayer by Lama Tom Broadwater. This short prayer outlines the Kagyu path in a very concise and beautiful way. We […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled “All My Mothers, Throughout Space …” by Lama Kathy Wesley. Using a famous Refuge prayer as her basis, Lama Kathy will talk about Buddhist […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Searching for Certainty: Are You Certain? by Lama Kathy Wesley. Fear and anxiety appear to be part of the human condition. We spend a […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Seven Branch Prayer, Part 2 – The Why and How of Accumulating Merit by Cathy Lhamo Jackson. In many of our Sadhana liturgies there […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled In the Footsteps of Our Kagyu Masters: A Spiritual Treasury of Our Ancestors by Lama Tom Broadwater. This talk will include a very brief […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled To Fill the World with Love by Lama Kathy Wesley. Hearing the news of war in Europe and strife in local and national politics, […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled “Equality, Illusion, and Intention” by Lama Adam Berner. The first step toward finding true happiness is to understand suffering.  We’ll explore how equality, illusion, […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled The Forgiving Heart by Lama Tom Broadwater. In the abstract, forgiveness makes so much sense! But where the “rubber meets the road” forgiveness can […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Re-arising and Renewal: KTC Comes Home by Lama Kathy Wesley. In this first Dharma Talk after the opening of the new KTC center, Lama […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled The Servant’s Heart  by Lama Kathy Wesley. As we approach the reopening of Columbus KTC after six years of “nomad life,” it’s a great […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Seven Branch Prayer by Cathy Lhamo Jackson. In many of our Sadhana liturgies there is a special prayer insert, called the  Seven Branch. This […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled The Song of the Wild Asses by Lama Tom Broadwater. Milarepa, beloved 12 century Tibetan saint had a difficult student to teach…Rechumpa. We will […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled “Exploring Buddhist Prayer: Taking Refuge” by Lama Kathy Wesley. In this first in an occasional series on Buddhist Prayer, Lama Kathy reviews a prayer […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled “Vajrayana Part 2: The Radiance of Mind” by Lama Kathy Wesley. In this second installment, Lama Kathy picks up from her “Vajrayana Part 1” […]