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Heidi Koppl

Heidi is a Translator of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures, practices and lectures, and instrumental in starting the academic department at Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Boudhanath, Nepal. She is the editor in chief of Tara's Triple Excellence program and loves healthy living.

BE LIKE A GOLDSMITH

Living in a world focused on what is outside us, and not looking within, we are taught from a young age that we need to become something more than we are right now. We are encouraged to always be doing: we must learn; we must buy; we must acquire and achieve. And for absolute certain we must become better than we are right now just sitting here doing nothing. The Buddha taught the opposite. He said that by learning to let the mind be, just as it is right now, all our good qualities can unfold from within.

TARA’S TRIPLE EXCELLENCE

I have heard my teacher say that in the same way a summer rain will bring forth countless mushrooms in a meadow, the mind-training and meditation practices of Tibet brought forth an uncountable number of masters who awakened to their own potential. These masters attained a degree of fulfillment and insight in their lives that far surpasses anything we can imagine.