ACI Foundation Course 1: The Principal Teachings of Buddhism (2019, Arizona)
The Asian Classics Institute (ACI) is launching its first live teacher training during the Lam Rim intensive event at Diamond Mountain in April 2019.
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Geshe Michael Roach
A Gift of Liberation 32: Empty Coming, Mental Bombs: A New Way to Live Our Life (2019, Arizona)
In the pristine, high desert of Arizona, we will go into a 10-day retreat exploration of our mental mind fields. In this study that will show us how to Search &... Read More...
THE DEVIL DEBATES AN ANGEL, PART 13: A DIALOGUE ON MIND AND MEDITATION (2019, Arizona)
Geshe Michael Roach gave three days of special teachings on meditation and the nature of the mind in Sedona. These teachings are taken directly from The Angel Debates The Devil, a dialogue between the good and evil that happens in our mind, by Lobsang Chukyi Gyeltsen. The text is at the same time extremely funny and extremely deep, as it reveals the tricky ways that our mind deceives us into believing we are thinking and acting in a way that actually helps us. This teaching will help us to unravel these seductive arguments of the Devil in our own mind to order to be successful in this life, and to learn how to develop the skills necessary to confront any obstacle.... Read More...
Important Ideas from the Ancient Schools of Buddhism (2019, New York)
Geshe Michael Roach gives a really inspiring and deep teaching at The Three jewels in New York City about 9 great ideas from different schools of ancient Indian... Read More...
Cracks in the Wing: Learning to see the signs that things aren’t quite like that (2019, New York)
This brilliant wisdom of Nagarjuna, now shared with us by Geshe Michael Roach, shows how to give and receive more affection with everyone we meet. Ultimately, love serves a purpose beyond our own close relationships, to make a world full of compassion bigger than we can imagine.... Read More...
Arya Nagarjuna’s 8 Impossibles in the Kitchen: Highest Wisdom for Real Life (2018, Thailand)
This is a special class that Geshe Michael taught to the volunteers during the recent retreat in Thailand. It focuses on Buddhism's most important idea, f... Read More...
A Gift of Liberation 31: How to Make Your Mind a Beautiful Place (2018, Thailand)
Geshe Michael Roach continues the Gift of Liberation series, taught originally by Pabongka Rinpoche in a 24-day lecture in the early 20th century. With ex... Read More...
IDIMS: 500 Images for Meditation on the Steps to the Path of Enlightenment
Lam Rim Review IDIMs
This is a video playlist. Just click for the next video to see additional videos in the series.
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Lam Rim Idea Images
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The Devil Debates an Angel, Part 12: A Dialogue on Meditation and the Nature of the Mind (2018, Arizona)
Geshe Michael Roach will be offering three days of special teachings on meditation and the nature of the mind in Sedona. These teachings are taken directly from... Read More...
Poetry by Lobsang Chukyi Gyeltsen, His Holiness The First Panchen Lama from Recitations for the Tantric College (2004, Translated by Geshe Michael Roach)
This selection of poetry is from His Holiness the First Panchen Lama, Lobsang Chukyi Gyaltsen. The poems are meant to convey the First Panchen Lama’s own inner progress in developing the steps of the path, and also to illustrate for us how he conducted his life and practice in the external world, as a real example for us to follow. In each case, these selections are chosen to relate in some way to a particular lam-rim, or step of the path, that we ourselves are working on.... Read More...
The Complete Dance of the Lion: Riding the Elevator to the Direct Perception of Emptiness (2018, Arizona)
Class Video
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The Wisdom of Arya Nagarjuna Course One: The Eight Invisibles (2018, Arizona)
In the pristine, high desert of Arizona, Geshe Michael Roach will lead us through a 10-day retreat exploration of Arya Nagarjuna's Wisdom. We will inves... Read More...
Daily Practice Series Course 07: Marriage of Karma and Emptiness (1997, Raleigh)
This presentation provides a good overview of how karma and emptiness (ultimate reality) interact to form you, your world, and all of its experiences. Ultimate reality is described along with the principles of karma, and how those two come together to form all things and experiences. The union of karma and emptiness is the basis of all reality, and this practice explores what you can do to affect and change your reality. It is a wonderful practice to transform the world around you by understanding the laws of karma, and the idea of ultimate reality, in your everyday life.... Read More...
Death and Love Meditation (1999, Raleigh)
These are two public talks that Geshe Michael Roach taught in Raleigh, North Carolina back in April, 1999. Death is feared, avoided, and denied in ways that often causes us to live as if we will never die. At the end of life, people often die with intense regret from not having done the important things they wanted to do in their life. Acknowledging the fact that we will die, and that we have a limited, unknown amount of time left is essential to making our life choices. By meditating on death in the proper way, we can make every moment of life precious and meaningful. A good death meditation results in a happy, clear mind, free of anxiety and fear. One learns to live each day of life as if it were the last, thereby avoiding meaningless activity and spending each moment in the most fulfilling way possible.... Read More...
ACI Course 05: How Karma Works (1998, Brisbane)
Topics include: an Abhidharma overview; the definition and nature of karma; good, bad and neutral karma; karma of body, speech, and mind; the definition of virtue and non-virtue; black and white deeds; projecting and finishing karma; karmic consequences; how karma is carried; how emptiness allows karma to function; karmic paths; the five immediate misdeeds; how to make a karmic result powerful; and the purification of karma. ... Read More...
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 Eight) from The Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life.... Read More...
Daily Practice Series Course 05: Meditation on Death and the End of Death (1999, Raleigh)
By meditating on death in the proper way, we can make every moment of life precious and meaningful. A good death meditation results in a happy, clear mind, free of anxiety and fear. One learns to live each day of life as if it were the last, thereby avoiding meaningless activity and spending each moment in the most fulfilling way possible.... Read More...
The Diamond Cutter Sutra (1999, Mongolia)
Here's a really nice teaching from our archives of Geshe Michael teaching in Mongolia in 1999. This was part of a teaching tour that Geshe Michael did before go... Read More...
A Gift of Liberation 30: Navigating The Great Journey, Understanding the Wheel of Life (2018, Mexico)
Geshe Michael Roach continues the Gift of Liberation series, taught originally by Pabongka Rinpoche in a 24-day lecture in the early 20th century. With ... Read More...
An Idim Review of Master Kamalashila’s Great Commentary to the Diamond Cutter Sutra
This is a mnemonic system which Geshe Michael has designed and coined the term "Idim" (idea images) which gives students and teachers a very powerful tool to learn, review, and meditate on all of the great ideas of the Diamond Cutter Sutra in a series of easily recallable images from Master Kamalashila's great commentary.... Read More...
Geshe Michael Roach
Geshe Michael Roach (born December 17, 1952) is the first American to have been awarded the degree of Geshe, or Master of Buddhism, after more than 20 years of study in Tibetan monasteries. He has used this training to become a prominent international teacher, businessman, philanthropist, author, educator, public speaker, textual scholar, and musician. Geshe Michael graduated with honors from Princeton University and has received the Presidential Scholar Medal from the President of the United States at the White House. In 1981 he helped found Andin International Diamond Corporation and bring it to annual sales of over $100 million, donating his profits to international aid projects. His book about achieving business and personal success through generosity, The Diamond Cutter, has become a global bestseller in 20 languages. He is the founder of the Asian Classics Institute, Diamond Mountain University, the Asian Classics Input Project, Worldview, the Yoga Studies Institute, Star in the East, Global Family Refugee Aid, Three Jewels Community Outreach Centers, and the Diamond Cutter Institute.