The Knowledge Base – Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand

Idea Images: Opening the Door to the Diamond Way: The Five Houses Course 1 (2025, Arizona)

Here is a collection of Idea Images (Idims) which represent all the important ideas of the final final course on our 14 year journey through the Steps on the Path and the profound teachings of…

byGeshe Michael Roach

Opening the Door to the Diamond Way: The Five Houses Course 1 (2025, Arizona)

Without exaggeration, we can say that the Tibetan master Je Tsongkapa (1357–1419) was the greatest Buddhist writer who ever lived in this world. Over 325 works – totaling more than 12,000…

byGeshe Michael Roach

49 Years After Seeing Emptiness Directly: A Personal Reflection by Geshe Michael Roach (2024, Mexico)

In this heartfelt and candid talk, Geshe Michael Roach marks the 49th anniversary of a profound moment in his spiritual journey—the direct perception of emptiness and the direct experience of…

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 44: The Spark of Joy (2024, Kyoto)

The final course on our 14 year journey through the Steps on the Path and the profound teachings of Pabongka Rinpoche's Liberation Thrust into the Palm of Your Hand. Having just finished a…

byGeshe Michael Roach

Idea Images: A Gift of Liberation 44: The Spark of Joy (2024, Kyoto)

Here is a collection of Idea Images (Idims) which represent all the important ideas of the final final course on our 14 year journey through the Steps on the Path and the profound teachings of…

byGeshe Michael Roach

Idea Images: A Gift of Liberation 43: The Modern Bodhisattva (2024, Arizona)

Here is a collection of Idea Images (Idims) which represent all the important ideas of this course. It's a great tool to connect the image mentally with the important idea. There's a tradition…

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 43: The Modern Bodhisattva (2024, Arizona)

We're excited to reach the part of Liberation Thrust into the Palm of Your Hand that talks about the six main practices of a bodhisattva, and Geshe Michael will explore with us what it is to…

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 42: The Power to Dream: Bringing Great Ideas to Life (2023, Kyoto)

Compassion stands unrivaled as the most potent force for good. How can we integrate compassion as a foundational element of our daily lives? And how can we channel the immense force of…

byGeshe Michael Roach

New: A Gift of Liberation Interactive Outlines

A Gift of Liberation Interactive Outlines

Tibetan Interactive Outline – A Gift of Liberation 01: The Deepest Meditation (2010, Phoenix)

A Gift of Liberation Interactive Outlines

English Interactive Outline – A Gift of Liberation 01: The Deepest Meditation (2010, Phoenix)

A Gift of Liberation 44: The Spark of Joy (2024, Kyoto)

The final course on our 14 year journey through the Steps on the Path and the profound teachings of Pabongka Rinpoche's Liberation Thrust into the Palm of Your Hand. Having just finished a deep explanation of the Perfection of Giving, this final chapter of Pabongka Rinpoche’s Steps on the Path will explore the…

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A Gift of Liberation 21: The Joy of Impermanence Retreat (2016, Arizona)

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 22: Unlimited Fortune Retreat (2016, Mexico)

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 05: Finding What We Were Always Meant to Be (2011, Arizona)

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 34: Victory Over Our Negative Thoughts (2019, Bali)

Yoga Sutra Intensive (2010, Los Angeles)

The Principles of Yoga: The Connection Between Breath and Prana

Advice to Yoga Teachers, Part Three: Help Them Define Their Dream

Yoga Sutra Intensive (2011, Hong Kong, Geshe Michael Roach)

Compassion and the Inner Body: Asana as a Road to Love (2011, New York)

Upper Middle Way – The Great Books of Wisdom Series: Making the ancient classics of Tibetan Buddhist literature accessible to the modern world

Daily Practice Series Course 06: The Four Powers to Remove Negative Karma (1999, California)

byGeshe Michael Roach

The Lion’s Dance: A Meditation for the Wheel of Life (2017, Mexico)

byGeshe Michael Roach

22 Metaphors for Bodhichitta: A Special Class (2022, Arizona)

byGeshe Michael Roach

Lower Middle Way – An Analysis of Dependence: All Things Depend on Each Other: The Buddhist Teaching of the Wheel of Life

byGeshe Michael Roach

The Realized Asanga on Higher Protection, Part One (2016, Arizona)

byGeshe Michael Roach

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ACI In-Depth Course 3: Master Shantideva’s Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Exchanging Self and Others (2004, New York)

This third course of the ACI In-Depth Course Series presents the entire section on the practice of exchanging ourselves and others, which is a large part of the chapter on meditation (Chapter…

byGeshe Michael Roach

ACI In-Depth Course 2: Master Shantideva’s Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, The Chapter on Killing Anger (2004, New York)

byGeshe Michael Roach

ACI In-Depth Course 4: The Art of Interpretation, Part 1 (1998, Bylakuppe, Geshe Thupten Rinchen)

byGeshe Thubten Rinchen

ACI In-Depth Course 1 Teacher Training – Teachings of the Future Buddha: The Uttara Tantra of Maitreya (2003, Arizona)

byGeshe Michael Roach

The Devil Debates an Angel, Part 1 (2011, Phoenix)

What’s amazing is that—as we listen to the Devil and the Angel debating—we unexpectedly begin to get some new ideas about how the world around us works: why things happen to us the way they…

byGeshe Michael Roach

How to do a Daily Practice 17: Nuts & Bolts of a Daily Practice (1999, New York)

byGeshe Michael Roach

How to do a Daily Practice 09: A Guided Meditation on Compassion for Yourself (1998, New York)

byGeshe Michael Roach

How to do a Daily Practice 02: Guided Meditation through the Preliminaries and a Meditation for Protection (1997, New York)

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation (Lam Rim) Course Series

A Gift of Liberation 11: The Art of Appreciating Yourself & Your Life (2013, Arizona)

Want a good relationship, financial independence and great energy – as well as inner peace, or peace in our world? Then you must learn to master the Art of Appreciating Yourself and Your Life,…

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 12: Master Magnet Retreat (2013, Prescott)

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 13: Jorchu: The Meditation Song (2013, Arizona)

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 14: The Beauty of a Teacher (2014, Guadalajara)

byGeshe Michael Roach

How to do a Daily Practice

How to do a Daily Practice 06: A Pure World (1998, New York)

This collection of classes is for the purpose of having a regular daily practice. It’s different than many of the other courses here on The Knowledge Base which are meant to teach the…

byGeshe Michael Roach

How to do a Daily Practice 03: Guided fixed meditation on the Image of a Teacher or Enlightened Being (1998, New York)

This collection of classes is for the purpose of having a regular daily practice. It’s different than many of the other courses here on The Knowledge Base which are meant to teach the…

byGeshe Michael Roach

How to do a Daily Practice 19: A Daily Practice (1999, New York)

byGeshe Michael Roach

How to do a Daily Practice 18: Core Elements of a Successful Daily Practice (1999, New York)

byGeshe Michael Roach

How to do a Daily Practice 07: The Gift of Deathlessness (1998, New York)

byGeshe Michael Roach

The Wisdom of Arya Nagarjuna

Idims – Die Weisheit Von Nagarjuna Kurs 4: Das Mysterium Der Kapitel (2022, Arizona)

Atención: Para hacer de esta una herramienta de estudio aún más poderosa, vinculamos cada imagen con el momento exacto en el video donde Geshe Michael explica la idea importante. Simplemente…

byGeshe Michael Roach

The Wisdom of Arya Nagarjuna Course 6: The Final Chapters (2024, Arizona)

byGeshe Michael Roach

The Wisdom of Arya Nagarjuna Course 4: The Mystery of The Chapters (2022, Arizona)

byGeshe Michael Roach

The Wisdom of Arya Nagarjuna Course One: The Eight Invisibles (2018, Arizona)

byGeshe Michael Roach

Relationships

The Yoga of Relationships (Lambertville, 2010)

In these two nights of talks, Geshe Michael proposes a radically different method‘from the point of view of physical yoga practice‘of finding the partner of your dreams, of sustaining a good…

byGeshe Michael Roach