Palpung Ireland Buddhist Centre

25/02/2026

17/02/2026

Losar Greetings and Blessings for the Fire Horse Year from Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa. 🙏🪷🙏

08/02/2026

𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬⁣
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The first thing we all have to know is who we are. And when we are happy about ourselves, I tell you, when you know who you are according to the teaching of Dharmakirti and Atisha Dipankara—based on the teaching of Lord Buddha, of course. Their teaching introduces you to yourself. And when you know that, it's impossible not to feel good about yourself. You have to feel good about yourself. ⁣
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What they tell us is: I am good, you are good, everybody is good naturally. Naturally. So the ultimate nature of you, I, and everybody is perfect. There is no ultimate badness in anybody. Of course, there are bad people. Sometimes we also act very bad and angry, jealous, greedy, tricky, all of this. But it is not ultimate. It is a mistake, it is relative, it is impermanent. Our perfectness will never be corrupted by anything, but our imperfection cannot last long. So, this negative side of us is the outcome of so many circumstances: yourself, other people, surroundings, so many things, and also basically misunderstanding. We don't understand what is "me," we don't understand what are all these people, we don't understand what is our world. We don't understand. Then we misunderstand, we have misperceptions, then we become ignorant. And when we become ignorant, we can be desperate, we can be restless, we can be aggressive, or when it goes the other way around, we will be totally, totally depressed. And that is not our nature.⁣
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The sky is always clean and clear. Sometimes there is a storm, sometimes there is a cloud, but it is never ultimately clouded. It is temporarily clouded, and ultimately, at that whole time, primordial clearness and cleanness is the nature of the sky. In the same way, our mind is perfect at all times.⁣
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Extract from a teaching on 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 given on the 16th of January 2026 at the Jakarta International Expo Convention Centre, Indonesia by Guru Vajradhara His Holiness the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa. ⁣

Image © PAVA (Palpung Audio and Visual Archive)

30/01/2026

🌕 Full Moon Practice Day
🗓 Sunday 1st February | 2:00–5:30pm
✨ Happy Saint Brigid’s Day! ✨

Join us in person or on Zoom for a afternoon of meditation and compassion practices. Come for any session — no booking needed.

🕑 Schedule
• 2:00–3:00pm – Meditation (3×20 mins)
• 3:15–4:15pm – Loving-kindness & Butter Lamp prayers
• 4:30–5:00pm – Chenrezig Practice
(No experience needed | Mantra: Om Mani Padme Hung)

💶 €15 (includes Butter Lamp) or included in €35 monthly contribution
🌈 Everyone welcome

🧘 Weekly Practices
• Mon 7–8:30pm – “Calm Down & Breathe” (No session on 2 Feb)
• Wed 7–7:45pm – Medicine Buddha (free)
• Thu 10–11:30am – Meditation
• Sat – White Tara (10am) & Tong-len (11am)

📅 Upcoming
🍛 Sat 7 Feb – Indian Cooking Class (only 3 places left!)
🙏 Sun 8 Feb – Guru Yoga for HH Tai Situ Rinpoche
🎉 Tue 17 Feb – Losar: Tibetan New Year (Fire Horse)
Sun 22nd Feb- DBW3 Review 5 - Restricted to DBW retreatants

📍 Palpung Ireland, Banteer, Co. Cork
💻 Zoom link shared after registration
📧 For details: palpungireland@gmail.com

26/01/2026

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘶𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦;⁣
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘩-𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥.⁣
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘴⁣
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥. ⁣
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Recent photographs of the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa and Chamgön Vajradhara Kenting Tai Situpa, accompanied by an auspicious verse written spontaneously by the Gyalwang Karmapa immediately after they met on the first day.

🙏🙏🙏

15/01/2026

𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞⁣
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The path will go on until enlightenment. Whether it takes ten lifetimes or a million, the path goes all the way from the beginning of the practice until final enlightenment, the fruition. Until then, regardless of which level of ordinary being or bodhisattva you are, or what level of realization you reach, until full enlightenment, every single moment is the path. Although the different phases of development and realization might be described as levels of fruition, in terms of the Mahamudra definition of the ground, the path, and fruition, fruition refers only to the final fruition, Buddhahood. The interim levels of realization, development, and fruition may be considered the path. ⁣
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The path is the answer of how to overcome relative obstacles. Our path is alive, it is not dead. It is not just history. It is an experience, a practice, an instruction - our path is alive. We certainly should be grateful for it. But it is also not the only path. If we think this path is the only path, we do not understand our path deeply enough. Doing anything perfectly, doing anything good is the path. ⁣

An excerpt from 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘉𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘩𝘢 by Guru Vajradhara His Holiness the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa. ⁣

Image © PAVA. Image taken during Guru Vajradhara's teaching on 'Wisdom for a Meaningful Life' which took place on the 9th and 10th of January at Graha Palpung Padmasambhava near the sacred site of Borobudur. ⁣

The full album of photos of the pilgrimage can be viewed here:

https://web.facebook.com/share/p/17v9y2WubL/

12/01/2026

January at Palpung Ireland

In person & on Zoom · Everyone welcome

💠 WEEKLY SCHEDULE
🧘 Monday Meditation

🕖 7pm – 8.30pm (in person and Zoom)
“A Meaningful New Year” — reflections, meditation, and New Year messages to inspire our year ahead.
All welcome.

Followed by tea and chat.
Suggested donation: €10 (included in monthly donation)

💙 Wednesday Medicine Buddha Practice

🕖 7pm – 7.45pm (in person and Zoom)
Healing the body and mind for oneself and others, transforming the causes and conditions of illness.
Everyone is welcome, with no prior knowledge necessary.
You are welcome to send names for inclusion.

No donation expected.

🌸 Thursday Morning Meditation

🕙 10am – 11.30am (in person and Zoom)
“A Meaningful New Year” — reflections, meditation, and New Year messages to inspire our New Year.

Followed by coffee and chat.
Suggested donation: €10 (included in monthly donation)

🕊️ Saturday White Tara Practice

🕙 10am – 10.45am (in person and Zoom)
White Tara is a practice for long life and realizing deathlessness.
Everyone is welcome, and you are welcome to send names for inclusion.

No donation expected.
(Text courtesy of Palpung Wales)

💓 Saturday Tong-len Practice

🕚 11am – 12 noon (in person and Zoom)
Tong-len, or “sending and receiving,” develops compassion and loving-kindness.
Through visualisation and breath, we learn to transform suffering into compassion and deepen our connection to others.

No prior experience needed.
Suggested donation: €10 (included in monthly donation)

💠 MONTHLY & SPECIAL EVENTS
📿 Sunday 18th January

Mahamudra Gangamma — Final Session

🔥 Monday 19th January – New Moon Day
Riwo Sang Chod Fire Puja

(In person and Zoom)

“The aromatic smoke offering” is a meaningful ritual in which everyone participates.
Each person offers a plate of aromatic “white” substances (butter, biscuit, milk, oats, incense, etc.).

The offering is made to the Buddhas, Yidams, protectors, and all sentient beings — especially those we owe karmic debts to.
The mantra is very simple: OM AH HUNG.

If attending in person:
You are welcome to bring incense, butter, yoghurt, biscuit, honey, or sugar.

If attending on Zoom:
You are welcome to sponsor offering substances.

📘 Sunday 25th January

Discover Buddha Within 3 — Review 4
(Restricted event)

🌿 Monday 26th January – 8th Lunar Day
Green Tara Practice

🕙 10am – 11am (in person and Zoom)
Green Tara deity is practiced to transform fear and obstacles.
You are welcome to send names for inclusion.
Text is available at the Centre.

No donation expected.

✨ Whether you are beginning meditation for the first time or continuing your practice, you are warmly welcome to join us this January.

📍 Palpung Ireland, Banteer, Co. Cork
💻 Zoom link shared after registration
📧 For details: palpungireland@gmail.com

11/01/2026

2026 Compilation of Dalai Lama's short teachings and previous New Year's messages to celebrate the New Year created by a devotee. 🙏🏼 (Teaching at the end of the video is in Tibetan).

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09/01/2026

2026 New Year Message from His Eminence Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.

Happy New Year 2026!In this New Year’s message, Mingyur Rinpoche invites us to let go of the baggage from the past year and embrace a fresh start with a new ...

09/01/2026

2026 New Year Greetings from His Holiness Guru Vajradhara the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa.

༄༅། ། ༸ བྱམས་མགོན་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་མཆོག་གི་ཞལ་སྔ་ནས་སྩལ་བའི་ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༢༦ བསུ་བའི་འཚམས་འདྲིའི་གསུང་འཕྲིན།Greetings and...

07/01/2026

𝐌𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞⁣
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Nothing in samsara has a heart, an essence. This is vividly exemplified by the banana tree - when its first skin is peeled away there is another skin, when that skin is peeled there is another, and so on. Eventually one reaches the centre: the tree is hollow - there was nothing more than the skin. In samsara, nothing is any more than illusion and, because it is like that, everything is impermanent yet nevertheless we still see things and then believe in them as ‘I’ and ‘mine’. How the illusion can be taken for real is exemplified by rivers and flames. When we look at the river from a bridge, we see its ripples, current and motion. If we go back the next day, we will see the same thing; even after a year it still looks the same. Actually, since the river is composed of flowing water, it never stays still for even one second and the water we looked at yesterday has long since gone down to the ocean yet we look today and say it is the same river as yesterday. The lamp-flame is dark at its centre, then reddish, then yellow and then again red. It is shaped like an arrow-head. Once again, although it always seems more or less the same, it never does stay the same for even an instant yet we look at it and say ‘the’ flame. In a similar way to these easy-to-understand examples, everything that we see, hear and feel, is not permanent, even for a second. ⁣Moment by moment there is impermanence.
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From the book 𝘞𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘎𝘰 by His Holiness the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa.

Image © PAVA. Image taken during a pilgrimage by His Holiness to the sacred site of Borobudur in Indonesia on the 7th of January 2026.

The full album of photos of the pilgrimage can be viewed here: https://web.facebook.com/share/p/1DQQWNdcXn/

23/12/2025

𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐔𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟⁣
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All Buddhist practices are methods of transformation. When applied correctly, these can transform an ignorant person into a possessor of wisdom. The word transformation, as it is used here, signifies a change within an individual being that is a revolutionary change, but one that does not change that being’s essential nature. It brings out the essential nature. Buddhist practice is a process of transformation through purification that brings out the best of what is already there. It does not make people into what they are not, nor import any new material. It allows your ultimate identity as an enlightened being to emerge as you overcome the relative delusions and defilements that mask your buddha nature. It is transformation into your ultimate self.⁣
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From the book 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘉𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘩𝘢 by Guru Vajradhara the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa. ⁣
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Just Dharma Quotes https://justdharma.org/transformation-into-your-ultimate-self-tai-situ-rinpoche/

Photo © Palpung Audio and Visual Archive (PAVA)