Karma Thegsum Choling Minneapolis

Click on the “Our Sangha’s Footprint” page under ‘Pages’ in the righthand column of this blog to read about our sangha’s footprint. of course!

Blog visitors may wonder about the purpose of this category of postings. As part of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, our sangha is committed to relieving the suffering of all sentient beings. We do this through meditation, ritual practices, and our lifestyle choices. It is now a widely accepted fact that human beings have wrought great environmental damage upon our planet, as evidenced by phenomena like global warming and the loss of animal and plant species and habitat. By reducing our footprint, that is, our impact upon the environment and the consumption of world resources, we seek to relieve the suffering of all sentient beings.

This blog category is intended to provide our community with an opportunity to share information and ideas about reducing our footprint and employing alternatives to our present patterns of consumption. It is not intended to promote political parties or candidates. We hope that its content moves you to examine your own choices. What size are your feet?

Properly applied the practices of Tibetan Buddhism facilitate shifts in consciousness to higher levels where true, far-reaching wisdom manifests. Real wisdom is so rare there’s almost no reason to mention it these days. Very few people know what it is, why we need it, how different things would be if, on balance, people had it or at least could connect to it. Given the set of challenges the human race faces NOW, not some time in the future, we urgently need problem solving based in transcendent wisdom. For this reason alone, everyone should engage in meditation every day. All people free to do so should be doing daily meditation practice. Start now. Adopt a daily meditation practice. WAKE UP.