e-Skillful Means

Knowledge, freedom and responsibility are our most valuable assets, the essential ingredients for our growth and prosperity. With them our potential is unlimited.

Tarthang Tulku, Knowledge of Freedom

The Tibetan Lama Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche has presented Skillful Means teachings in the West since 1969. Now, for the first time, the Center for Skillful Means offers an online program of Tarthang Tulku’s Skillful Means teachings on how to release our human potential.

Work is a perfect arena for exploring your potential. While you are working, the Skillful Means practices will elicit your hidden talents and the promise of the situation. This program may give a true sense of what it means to have a “good time” at work: joy, satisfaction, meaning, creativity and positive accomplishments.

Skillful Means is a body of knowledge that you can uniquely incorporate into your daily life. It is not a set of techniques to add to your arsenal of behavioral patterns, but a teaching on how to let wisdom inform your actions. Gradually your inner world—the world of the mind, heart, energy and senses—is transformed. As you open up your inner world, the riches you find can better your own life and those of others.

Skillful Means is not an arduous, gradual path towards attaining specific goals. It is a process of unfolding what is already within you. Behind the everyday patterns of success and failure lies wholeness. Your being is not lacking anything. Through your daily life you can cultivate and refine the qualities inherent in your being. Working with Skillful Means requires a gentle intent, an unrelenting interest in the feedback life provides in every moment, and the resolve to change. As you learn to know yourself, growing wisdom will inform your actions. Skillful Means is a path of action.

Course Structure and Commitment:

There will be twelve weekly sessions, each with a unique topic. Each will lesson will include:

• Video introduction
• Narrative with some highlights that provide a theoretical basis for the topic
• Suggested focus for the week
• Exercises to practice
• Required and optional readings

At each level, we offer the option of three coaching sessions by phone with one of the team leaders at the Center for Skillful Means. In these sessions you will have the opportunity to discuss and plan your progress in study and practice.

Dharma Publishing requires a signed statement from each participant agreeing to our honor system that emails cannot be duplicated or passed on to others, or used for any other purpose than private use only. These levels can be further explored during weekend seminars and retreats at Ratna Ling, the home of Dharma Publishing and our retreat center on the Sonoma coast of Northern California.

Registration and Payment:

After having received the introductory email the participant makes a 12 week commitment to complete one level. The price is USD $108 to be paid in advance. Visa/Master/US checks accepted.  Additionally students are invited to take take advantage of three coaching sessions with the Skillful Means team for additional $ 250 total.

For more information or to register for an e-Skillful Means program: Call us: 1-800-873-4276 OR E-mail us:programs@dharmapublishing.com

e-Skillful Means Courses

e-Skillful Means Level 1: The Spirit of Life