The Knowledge Base

Revelando las claves para la prosperidad en los negocios (2012, Lima, Geshe Michael Roach)

Michael Roach, primer monje budista estadounidense que alcanzó el grado de Gueshe y uno de los más populares profesores de Budismo Tibetano en Occidente, vendrá al Perú como parte su gira internacional del presente año. Roach, conocido popularmente como Gueshe Michael, ofrecido tres distintas conferencias públicas en Lima, que se celebró en el Auditorio Juan Julio Wicht, de la Universidad del Pacífico.

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.

Intro to The Diamond Cutter: A Two Night Lecture in Phoenix (2013, Phoenix)

After many years of teaching with the Diamond Cutter Institute all over the world, this is the first time that Geshe Michael Roach taught these principles in his home town of Phoenix, Arizona. In this two night lecture, Geshe Michael teaches how to achieve success in every aspect of your life

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.

What Would Happen in the World? (2012, Buenos Aires)

A 30 minute talk by Geshe Michael Roach in Buenos Aires, Argentina. What would happen in the world if everyone believes that the only way to make money is to help another human being?

Pareja Espiritual: El camino para hacernos completos (2012, Buenos Aires)

In this talk in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Geshe Michael gives us answers to the six most commonly asked questions about relationships that he encounters in his travels around the world.

The Four Steps to Make a Karmic Seed More Powerful (2012, Moscow)

In this video clip, Geshe Michael Roach is explaining a four-step method for making assuring that a karmic seed will ripen faster and more powerfully.

DCI Level Two, Public Lecture (Moscow, 2012)

Audio of the DCI Level Two, Public Lecture in Moscow, 2012.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Better History of Time: A Solution to the Uncertainty Principle from Ancient Buddhism

The Principle of Emptiness explains our unanswered questions about the Uncertainty Principle, and the underlying nature of the physical world. A professional physicist—or a student on their way to becoming such a physicist—who gained some serious training in the Principle of Emptiness might be able to affect the entire future course of western science.

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.

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.

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.

Surrendering Ourselves To Find Ourselves: Secrets of the Ancient Tibetan Practice of Chod, Part 2 (2012, New York)

Chod is an ancient meditation practice from Tibet which was made famous by the female saint Machik Labdrun, who was born in 1062 AD. Chod teaches us a practical way of reaching daily peace and happiness by learning to surrender ourselves in the service of others. Along the way, we get everything we ever wanted; financial security, a strong body, a fantastic relationship.

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.

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

During this retreat we will learn how to identify the tendencies within ourselves to be attracted to deeper things and how to maintain the love and quest for our highest aspirations.

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.