Geshe Michael Roach
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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.

Beziehungen positiv gestalten (2012, Hamburg)

In diesem vortrag werden Roach und sein Team von erfahrenen Lehrern des Diamond Cutter Instituts die Teilnehmer darin unterrichten, wie sie Beziehungen mit Geschäftspartnern und Konkurrenten, aber auch persönliche Beziehungen und die Beziehung zu sich selbst, positiver gestalten können.
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Diamond Cutter Success Principles: A Karmic Management Seminar (2012, Tel Aviv)

במהלך 15 שנה, שימש רואץ’, כסגן נשיא ומנהל חטיבת היהלומים בחברת Andin International. בתקופת כהונתו, עבד רואץ’ על פי עקרונות הניהול הקארמי המבוססים על הפילוסופיה הבודהיסטית, והחברה הכפילה מידי שנה את מחזורה במשך כ-10 שנים ברציפות והגיעה למחזור של 100 מיליון דולר.
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A Gift of Liberation 08: Learning to be Quiet (2012, Prescott)

During this week-long teaching retreat, Geshe Michael Roach will lead us through the section called “Learning to be Quiet,” from one of the greatest books ever written in Tibet: the Gift of Liberation by Pabongka Rinpoche. This intensive series of teachings is meant to give us all the ancient secrets for making a meditation session really successful and this intensive meditation retreat is a chance to actually put into practice these meditation secrets.
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Eight Verses for Developing the Good Heart (2012, Bowie)

Dorje Senge (Diamond Lion) lived from (1054-1123) and is the author of one of the most famous buddhist texts for developing a good heart (lojong) called the Eight Verses. It’s full of very practical advice for being a kinder and more compassionate person. Diamond Lion was one of the Kadampas, who were the first generation Buddhists in Tibet. Lojong texts for developing a good heart were very popular amongst the Kadampas.
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A Gift of Liberation 07: Learning to be Quiet (2012, Phoenix)

Turn off your laptop. Put down your iPhone. Learn to be quiet. For 10 days we’ll be learning all the tricks that it takes to have a peaceful and powerful meditation session, based on the Tibetan classic, Liberation in Your Hands. Learn to balance your inner life and your life on Facebook. Ten days of incredible teachings on how to meditate, directly from one of the greatest books ever written in Tibet. Plus awesome practice classes, beginner to advanced, to help you get started.
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Geshe Michael Roach

Essays to Answer Questions from My Friends

Friends of mine have asked me to write some details about my life, partly to clarify information which appears online or in the press about me as my teachings become more prominent around the world, and partly because one of my Tibetan lamas has asked some of my students to write a biography about myself. These friends have been pestering me for some years—but I felt hesitant to respond, since it seemed a pretty self-centered thing to do. But as it may be helpful to my students and friends, I have decided to relent.
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Nirvana Immersion (2012, New York and Bahamas)

Nirvana is a kind of peace free of this cycle of misunderstanding, and is a stepping stone to full enlightenment. This immersion is designed to help all of us on a spiritual path, in an immediate practical way, get to the root of our own worst qualities, and see directly how a pattern of ignorance within our mind is perpetuating our experience of pain, and how to end that experience for good.
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Me as Buddha: What Will I Be Like? (2012, New York)

During this special teaching by Geshe Michael Roach, we’ll find out exactly what we’ll be like when we get to this highest goal. We’ll be hearing about the Four Forms and the Five Wisdoms of a Buddha—the body and mind that we will have when we Get There—and just how, in practical terms, this will change our life on this planet.
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Great Retreat Teachings, Part 2: The Power of Samaya: Reaching Stillness on the Wings of Sacred Pledge (2012, Bowie)

Stillness is a sublime, exalted state of mediation, a single-pointed, undistracted concentration. You must reach Stillness in order to attain any of the highest spiritual realizations — Perception of Emptiness, Great Compassion, Clear Light. What is the true cause for reaching Stillness? It is keeping your sacred pledges. They become the wings that lift you into highest realms.
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A Gift of Liberation 06: Passion Retreat (2012, Prescott)

In the last course in this series Lam Rim Series Course 3: Finding What We Were Always Meant to Be continuing our ten-year journey through Pabongka Rinpoche’s Gift of Liberation, an important spiritual classic from Tibet. We learned how to look deep inside ourselves to find that vein of pure gold—the one thing that we were always meant to do, and to be. And then we are no longer tired or bored with our life: we feel a sudden joy in finding our one true purpose.
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Fearless Success (2012, San Francisco)

This talk is about how to plan for growth–your company, department, career–while not forgetting about your community. It’s about the right kind of success, with the right kinds of methods. We may feel torn by conflicting demands from work, family and community. But it’s possible to plant seeds for success–meaningful work and a meaningful life–right now, from the beginning.
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A Gift of Liberation 04: The Energy Retreat (2011, Prescott)

This is a special retreat focused on getting more energy in your life, work and relationships, through meditation & yoga, new ideas about food and special ancient ceremonies from the Tibetan tradition for increasing energy and overcoming fatique, along with the continuation of Pabongka Rinpoche’s famous teaching on the steps to enlightenment or lam-rim.
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