To meditate means to become familiar with your positive thoughts and positive mind. Try to increase the positive potential of your mind and reduce negative imprints in your mind. If you can’t do that, it’s useless to focus your mind on just your breath. It’s meaningless. The main thing is to increase the positive potential that is already in your mindstream. This is truly meditation.

Through joyful effort and generosity, Gyalten Khen Rinpoche and the many supporting students of Awakening Vajra International are building the Lama Gaun campus complex near Pharphing, Nepal to fulfill the wishes of H. E. Chöden Rinpoche. The nearly completed campus includes the Lama Gaun monastery, the Gyalten Health and Wellness Clinic, the Lama Gaun School for Monks, and a proposed nunnery. It houses many young monks, older lifelong meditators, and international students who come for retreats. Gyalten Khen Rinpoche's mission is to create an epicenter for studying the Nalanda Five Branches of Knowledge — Buddhism, medical healing, linguistics, astrology, and arts and crafts. H. E. Chöden Rinpoche firmly believed that this classical knowledge offers significant benefits for humanity.