What if we already have everything we need to live an engaged, joyful, and purposeful life?
Our deepest nature is wakeful and wise—and through training, we can bring that nature forth to profoundly transform our lives.
What if we already have everything we need to live an engaged, joyful, and purposeful life?
Our deepest nature is wakeful and wise—and through training, we can bring that nature forth to profoundly transform our lives.
ABOUT THIS COURSE
Why do we feel inadequate or incomplete so much of the time? And what, if anything, can we do about it? According to Phakchok Rinpoche, the answer lies in tapping into the power of dignity. This sense of dignity is not something others confer upon us, but rather the quality of our basic nature. Although dignity is inherently available, we seldom experience it, and instead often find ourselves plagued by feelings of self-doubt and fear.
The Power of Dignity draws upon the rich wisdom of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and Phakchok Rinpoche’s own experiences and insights. This exploration leads us to investigate the causes of our own discontentment and to discover our inner power.
In a world confronted with enormous challenges—such as catastrophic climate change, social injustice, economic inequality, etc.—the question of how to live a life of deep fulfillment becomes ever more urgent. This training in dignity is an amazing tool for filling that void. According to the teachings of Buddhism, dignity is the power that comes from knowing decisively that our heart is pure and complete. This understanding enables us to maintain balance and calmness in our daily lives as we reshape the sense of who we are. By cultivating dignity, we learn to develop genuine compassion and wisdom along the way.
ABOUT THIS COURSE
Why do we feel inadequate or incomplete so much of the time? And what, if anything, can we do about it? According to Phakchok Rinpoche, the answer lies in tapping into the power of dignity. This sense of dignity is not something others confer upon us, but rather the quality of our basic nature. Although dignity is inherently available, we seldom experience it, and instead often find ourselves plagued by feelings of self-doubt and fear.
The Power of Dignity draws upon the rich wisdom of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and Phakchok Rinpoche’s own experiences and insights. This exploration leads us to investigate the causes of our own discontentment and to discover our inner power.
In a world confronted with enormous challenges—such as catastrophic climate change, social injustice, economic inequality, etc.—the question of how to live a life of deep fulfillment becomes ever more urgent. This training in dignity is an amazing tool for filling that void. According to the teachings of Buddhism, dignity is the power that comes from knowing decisively that our heart is pure and complete. This understanding enables us to maintain balance and calmness in our daily lives as we reshape the sense of who we are. By cultivating dignity, we learn to develop genuine compassion and wisdom along the way.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
In this six-week, interactive online course, Phakchok Rinpoche will show you how to access and stabilize your inner dignity.
Embrace Your True Self
Shift the view of yourself from your social identity to who you genuinely are.
Allow Healing
Heal from the habitual emotional patterns arising from your mistaken identity.
Develop Courage
Cultivate the power and courage that arises from knowing that your nature is pure.
Activate Wisdom
Gain understanding of the way things are through discriminating awareness.
Deepen Compassion
Through self-understanding, open your heart to engage the world.
Feel Ease
Gain an openness that affords living with carefree ease.
THIS COURSE INCLUDES
This online course includes a rich set of resources designed specifically to support your at-home study and practice.
This online course includes a rich set of resources designed specifically to support your at-home study and practice.
6 Hours of Brand-New 4K Video
(With Subtitles)
Deepen your understanding of essential Buddhist teachings and learn how to apply them in your own life path with 6 hours of video teachings from Phakchok Rinpoche
6 Hours of Brand-New 4K Video
(With Subtitles)
Deepen your understanding of essential Buddhist teachings and learn how to apply them in your own life path with 6 hours of video teachings from Phakchok Rinpoche
3 Live Calls
Join live Q&A calls with Phakchok Rinpoche and Sophie Wu (11:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday, March 31; Saturday, April 13; and Sunday, April 28) in which they will take your questions about the course material and your practice
Audio Guided Meditations and Downloadable Audio Files
Portable audio versions and six guided meditations led by Sophie Wu let you take the teachings with you on your commute, into nature, or anywhere else
Audio Guided Meditations and Downloadable Audio Files
Portable audio versions and six guided audio meditations led by Sophie Wu let you take the teachings with you on your commute, into nature, or anywhere else
Interactive Discussion Boards
Connect with other students and receive guidance from our assistant teacher on facilitated discussion boards for each lesson
Supplemental Practices and Contemplations
Explore opportunities to bring the practices and teachings into your daily life
Supplemental Practices and Contemplations
Explore opportunities to bring the practices and teachings into your daily life
Course Workbook
A printable guide with seven components designed to draw out an in-depth understanding of the course and enhance your learning experience
Printable Transcripts
Review the lessons at your own pace, make notes, or add to your practice library with transcripts for all videos
Printable Transcripts
Review the lessons at your own pace, make notes, or add to your practice library with transcripts for all videos
Recommended Readings and Discounts
Enrich your study with lesson-by-lesson readings and receive a special 50% discount on recommended books for the course when you order at Shambhala.com
Unlimited Access
Study at your own pace and access the teachings on any of your devices whenever inspiration arises
Unlimited Access
Study at your own pace and access the teachings on any of your devices whenever inspiration arises
THE POWER OF DIGNITY
Sign up today and experience the profound effect of these teachings on your own life!
SPECIAL PRICE: $199
3-month payment plan option available
100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE
If for any reason you are not completely satisfied, please e-mail us within 30 days, and we will promptly refund your purchase price.
THE POWER OF DIGNITY
Sign up today and experience the profound effect of these teachings on your own life!
SPECIAL PRICE: $199
3-month payment plan option available
100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE
If for any reason you are not completely satisfied, please e-mail us within 30 days, and we will promptly refund your purchase price.
COURSE CURRICULUM
LESSON 1
Meet Your Inner Dignity
In this first lesson, Rinpoche uses “vajra pride” to describe dignity. Vajra is like a diamond, the hardest of all stones. “Vajra pride” is deeply rooted in our inherent pure nature and has the qualities of strength and stability. Our ordinary pride, on the other hand, is associated with negative emotions based on inflated ego; it is unstable and can easily be crushed. To cultivate dignity, or vajra pride, it is important to begin with checking our motivation and making aspirations.
LESSON 1
Meet Your Inner Dignity
In this first lesson, Rinpoche uses “vajra pride” to describe dignity. Vajra is like a diamond, the hardest of all stones. “Vajra pride” is deeply rooted in our inherent pure nature and has the qualities of strength and stability. Our ordinary pride, on the other hand, is associated with negative emotions based on inflated ego; it is unstable and can easily be crushed. To cultivate dignity, or vajra pride, it is important to begin with checking our motivation and making aspirations.
LESSON 2
Discover the Obstructors of Your Inner Dignity
Negative emotions disturb the mind and obstruct our inner dignity. The emotions that disturb our mind vary in strength depending on the degree of our mind’s stickiness. We can know ourselves better by getting to know our negative emotions and the sticky quality of our mind. It can be very healing to treat our negative emotions and sticky mind with gentle kindness, without judgment or blame. In this lesson, you’ll find meditation exercises to work with your negative thoughts and emotions and become a genuine friend to yourself.
LESSON 2
Discover the Obstructors of Your Inner Dignity
Negative emotions disturb the mind and obstruct our inner dignity. The emotions that disturb our mind vary in strength depending on the degree of our mind’s stickiness. We can know ourselves better by getting to know our negative emotions and the sticky quality of our mind. It can be very healing to treat our negative emotions and sticky mind with gentle kindness, without judgment or blame. In this lesson, you’ll find meditation exercises to work with your negative thoughts and emotions and become a genuine friend to yourself.
LESSON 3
Explore the Roots of Obstruction
The eight worldly concerns of gain and loss, pleasure and pain, praise and blame, and fame and disgrace pervade our daily lives. We are so used to their presence that we are unaware of how they dominate our thinking. They are the roots of our judgment and discontent. Simply noticing and not judging them will lessen their power over us and free us from the tyranny of self-judgment and self-hatred. In this lesson, you will find practices on loving-kindness and compassion to act as an antidote to judgment.
LESSON 3
Explore the Roots of Obstruction
The eight worldly concerns of gain and loss, pleasure and pain, praise and blame, and fame and disgrace pervade our daily lives. We are so used to their presence that we are unaware of how they dominate our thinking. They are the roots of our judgment and discontent. Simply noticing and not judging them will lessen their power over us and free us from the tyranny of self-judgment and self-hatred. In this lesson, you will find practices on loving-kindness and compassion to act as an antidote to judgment.
LESSON 4
Uncover the Heart of Dignity
We all have the good heart to want to help those in need. But our capacity for compassion might be limited because of our habit of cherishing ourselves over others. True compassion can arise only when we see others as equal: like us, they also want to be happy and to not suffer. In this lesson, we will learn how to open our heart and mind through the practice of the four immeasurable qualities of love (loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.) By reducing our self-cherishing tendency, we will grow in dignity and power to help others as well as ourselves.
LESSON 4
Uncover the Heart of Dignity
We all have the good heart to want to help those in need. But our capacity for compassion might be limited because of our habit of cherishing ourselves over others. True compassion can arise only when we see others as equal: like us, they also want to be happy and to not suffer. In this lesson, we will learn how to open our heart and mind through the practice of the four immeasurable qualities of love (loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.) By reducing our self-cherishing tendency, we will grow in dignity and power to help others as well as ourselves.
LESSON 5
Cultivate Genuine Compassion
Our compassion can become more stable, inclusive, and effortless when it transcends emotions and is anchored by dignity. If we are angry, our compassion will be angry compassion. If we are judgmental, our compassion will be judgmental compassion, and we may act like moral police. These kinds of compassion are not genuine because they are focused on our own agenda. In this lesson, we will learn how to exchange ourselves with others to develop genuine, agenda-free compassion.
LESSON 5
Cultivate Genuine Compassion
Our compassion can become more stable, inclusive, and effortless when it transcends emotions and is anchored by dignity. If we are angry, our compassion will be angry compassion. If we are judgmental, our compassion will be judgmental compassion, and we may act like moral police. These kinds of compassion are not genuine because they are focused on our own agenda. In this lesson, we will learn how to exchange ourselves with others to develop genuine, agenda-free compassion.
LESSON 6
Awaken the Power of Dignity
In this final lesson, we focus on awakening and stabilizing our dignity. We must remember that our dignity can never be lost, even though we may temporarily lose contact with it. Awakening dignity is a process, and it is inevitable that we will make mistakes along the way. In this lesson, we will learn how to amend our mistakes and restore our relationship to dignity by applying the four powers of (1) remorse, (2) support, (3) commitment, and (4) antidote. This lesson also includes a short and important teaching on dying with dignity.
LESSON 6
Awaken the Power of Dignity
In this final lesson, we focus on awakening and stabilizing our dignity. We must remember that our dignity can never be lost, even though we may temporarily lose contact with it. Awakening dignity is a process, and it is inevitable that we will make mistakes along the way. In this lesson, we will learn how to amend our mistakes and restore our relationship to dignity by applying the four powers of (1) remorse, (2) support, (3) commitment, and (4) antidote. This lesson also includes a short and important teaching on dying with dignity.
COURSE EXCERPTS
What is Dignity? A Buddhist Perspective
Difference between Dignity and Pride
Great Master Attitude
COURSE EXCERPTS
What is Dignity? A Buddhist Perspective
Difference between Dignity and Pride
Great Master Attitude
RETREAT SUMMARY
6 Hours of Brand-New 4K Video
3 Live Calls
6 Hours of Brand-New 4K Video
3 Live Calls
Audio Guided Meditations
Interactive Discussion Boards
Audio Guided Meditations
Interactive Discussion Boards
Supplemental Practices and Contemplations
Course Workbook
Supplemental Practices and Contemplations
Course Workbook
Printable Transcripts
Downloadable Audio Files
Printable Transcripts
Downloadable Audio Files
Recommended Readings and Discounts
Unlimited Access
Recommended Readings and Discounts
Unlimited Access
THE POWER OF DIGNITY
Sign up today and experience the profound effect of these teachings on your own life!
SPECIAL PRICE: $199
3-month payment plan option available
100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE
If for any reason you are not completely satisfied, please e-mail us within 30 days, and we will promptly refund your purchase price.
THE POWER OF DIGNITY
Sign up today and experience the profound effect of these teachings on your own life!
SPECIAL PRICE: $199
3-month payment plan option available
100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE
If for any reason you are not completely satisfied, please e-mail us within 30 days, and we will promptly refund your purchase price.
THE POWER OF DIGNITY
Sign up today and experience the profound effect of these teachings on your own life!
SPECIAL PRICE: $199
3-month payment plan option available
100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE
If for any reason you are not completely satisfied, please e-mail us within 30 days, and we will promptly refund your purchase price.
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