http://www.thepetitionsite.com/tell-a-friend/6012929
Kindly: Help our friends in Vietnam and sign. _/\_
November 30, 2009
November 26, 2009
Interdependence opens compassion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nTRqR71NzU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYyAR9YDwFs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKHw3Na4Rnw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRUeTVRWXxo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV0l6gSM-iU&feature=related
I wrote about the book of Ven Bagdro La "A Hell on Earth" earlier. Here he is talking for the welfare of so many.
I really think the importance of the welfare of our human fellows should be primordial in our daily life. To take care of others is too take care of the own being; as all is interdependent.
We cannot experience real peace by protecting our own being only, as a being which is independently existing. This is not. As to experience so, is to suffer.
The whole temporary network of causes and conditions is display of our mind. To be careful (Noble Path) with body, speech and mind and act by the precious paramitas; will stop the suffer by the grasping ego and no suffer will be spread to other beings.
Boundless joy, equanimity, compassion and love is our dwelling, when we can see the two wings of Bodhichitta; wisdom and compassion. Then our heart knocks not for our own only, but for all in genuine peace.
Real happiness is wishing others to be happy. _/\_
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYyAR9YDwFs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKHw3Na4Rnw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRUeTVRWXxo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV0l6gSM-iU&feature=related
I wrote about the book of Ven Bagdro La "A Hell on Earth" earlier. Here he is talking for the welfare of so many.
I really think the importance of the welfare of our human fellows should be primordial in our daily life. To take care of others is too take care of the own being; as all is interdependent.
We cannot experience real peace by protecting our own being only, as a being which is independently existing. This is not. As to experience so, is to suffer.
The whole temporary network of causes and conditions is display of our mind. To be careful (Noble Path) with body, speech and mind and act by the precious paramitas; will stop the suffer by the grasping ego and no suffer will be spread to other beings.
Boundless joy, equanimity, compassion and love is our dwelling, when we can see the two wings of Bodhichitta; wisdom and compassion. Then our heart knocks not for our own only, but for all in genuine peace.
Real happiness is wishing others to be happy. _/\_
November 25, 2009
May all attain Buddhahood.
In all my lives, wherever I am born,
May I obtain the seven noble qualities of the higher realms.
On being born, may I meet the Dharma
and have the freedom to practice it in the right way.
Then, pleasing the holy Lama,
May I practice the Dharma day and night.
Having realized the Dharma and achieved its essential purpose,
In that life, may I cross over the ocean of existence,
Teaching the holy Dharma to the world,
May I never tire of accomplishing the benefit to others,
Through the great wave of impartial benefit to others,
May all beings attain Buddhahood together.
Gyalwa Longchenpa. Cha Tse Lo.
May I obtain the seven noble qualities of the higher realms.
On being born, may I meet the Dharma
and have the freedom to practice it in the right way.
Then, pleasing the holy Lama,
May I practice the Dharma day and night.
Having realized the Dharma and achieved its essential purpose,
In that life, may I cross over the ocean of existence,
Teaching the holy Dharma to the world,
May I never tire of accomplishing the benefit to others,
Through the great wave of impartial benefit to others,
May all beings attain Buddhahood together.
Gyalwa Longchenpa. Cha Tse Lo.
Homage to Kyabje Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hjxHMLP6JM&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggCPClcfBhY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjdMnPiwAnY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGGokSWv7w8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWJo0cY5JXc&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuBLsD2ncWQ&feature=related
If we can overwin pride, jealousy, hatred, attachment, ignorance;
What other enemy is there to conquer?
What other ignorance one is there to conquer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggCPClcfBhY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjdMnPiwAnY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGGokSWv7w8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWJo0cY5JXc&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuBLsD2ncWQ&feature=related
If we can overwin pride, jealousy, hatred, attachment, ignorance;
What other enemy is there to conquer?
What other ignorance one is there to conquer?
November 20, 2009
Love without boundaries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E9BAOlXvCk
All our pain will dissolve
All our hopes will naturally be satisfied
All our striving will turn in calm abiding
All our fame becomes humble happiness
All our pain will dissolve
All our hopes will naturally be satisfied
All our striving will turn in calm abiding
All our fame becomes humble happiness
November 18, 2009
Heart-mind of awakening.
Bodhichitta is the one practice we cannot do without. Even if we have been given the precious oral instructions on realizing the nature of mind, they will not be the sufficient cause for realization if we have not learned to generate Bodhichitta. The great Dzogchen yogi Patrul Rinpoche said," If we have only one thing, the precious Bodhichitta is enough.
If we have nothing else, we must have the method of the precious Bodhichitta.
"We should learn to develop Bodhichitta in a twofold way: through our aspirations and through our actions. Aspiration Bodhichitta is our initial wish that all sentient beings be liberated from the vast ocean of samsara's suffering. Action Bodhichitta requires that we first generate aspiration Bodhichitta, and practice the Six Paramitas as the method to establish the two benefits of 1) attaining Buddhahood oneself to 2) be of ultimate benefit to others.
The way to practice aspiration and action Bodhichitta was taught by the omniscient Patrul Rinpoche, who said," The instructions for aspiration [Bodhichitta] are to practice the Four Immeasurables;The instructions for action [Bodhichitta] are to practice the Paramitas."
His Holiness the Dalai Lama:
Bodhicitta or the altruistic aspiration to attain Enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings is a state of mind which cannot be cultivated or generated within one's mental continuum simply by praying for it to come into being in one's mind.
Nor will it come into existence by simply developing the understanding of what that mind is. One must generate that mind within one's mind's continuum.In order to engage in meditation with sustained effort over a period of time what is crucial is first of all to be convinced of the positive qualities of that mind, and the benefits and merits of generating such a state of mind.
It is only when one has seen the qualities, merits and benefits of generating such a state of mind that one will be able to generate within oneself a genuine enthusiasm and perseverance in engaging in a meditation which would enable the individual to generate the mind.
Any sense of conceit or self-importance gets in the way of cultivating the genuine altruistic intention, and the most effective remedy against this is the cultivation of humility.I can tell you a more recent story to illustrate this point. The great nineteenth-century Tibetan Dzokchen meditator Dza Patrul Rinpoche always maintained a demeanour of true humility.
At one time, when he was giving a series of teachings to a large crowd of students, he experienced a forceful yearning for solitude. So one day he quietly left his residence and disappeared, dressed like an ordinary pilgrim and carrying a walking staff and very little else. When he reached a nomadic camp he sought shelter for a few days with one of the families.
While he was staying with them, his hostess asked him to read some texts and, since he looked just like an ordinary pilgrim, in return for his food and lodging she asked him to help with the household chores, which included the disposal of the contents of her chamber pot.
One day, while he was away from the camp attending to this task, some of his well-dressed monk students came looking for him. When his hostess heard their description of him, she suddenly realised this was the same person she had asked to throw away the contents of her chamber pot. (It is said she was so embarrassed that she just ran away!)
Such was the humility of this great teacher, who had many thousands of students....great practitioners of the altruistic intention also possess a tremendous courage grounded in real inner strength.... This combination of a total lack of conceit yet possessing great depth of courage is what is required in a true practitioner of bodhicitta, the altruistic mind of awakening.
If we have nothing else, we must have the method of the precious Bodhichitta.
"We should learn to develop Bodhichitta in a twofold way: through our aspirations and through our actions. Aspiration Bodhichitta is our initial wish that all sentient beings be liberated from the vast ocean of samsara's suffering. Action Bodhichitta requires that we first generate aspiration Bodhichitta, and practice the Six Paramitas as the method to establish the two benefits of 1) attaining Buddhahood oneself to 2) be of ultimate benefit to others.
The way to practice aspiration and action Bodhichitta was taught by the omniscient Patrul Rinpoche, who said," The instructions for aspiration [Bodhichitta] are to practice the Four Immeasurables;The instructions for action [Bodhichitta] are to practice the Paramitas."
His Holiness the Dalai Lama:
Bodhicitta or the altruistic aspiration to attain Enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings is a state of mind which cannot be cultivated or generated within one's mental continuum simply by praying for it to come into being in one's mind.
Nor will it come into existence by simply developing the understanding of what that mind is. One must generate that mind within one's mind's continuum.In order to engage in meditation with sustained effort over a period of time what is crucial is first of all to be convinced of the positive qualities of that mind, and the benefits and merits of generating such a state of mind.
It is only when one has seen the qualities, merits and benefits of generating such a state of mind that one will be able to generate within oneself a genuine enthusiasm and perseverance in engaging in a meditation which would enable the individual to generate the mind.
Any sense of conceit or self-importance gets in the way of cultivating the genuine altruistic intention, and the most effective remedy against this is the cultivation of humility.I can tell you a more recent story to illustrate this point. The great nineteenth-century Tibetan Dzokchen meditator Dza Patrul Rinpoche always maintained a demeanour of true humility.
At one time, when he was giving a series of teachings to a large crowd of students, he experienced a forceful yearning for solitude. So one day he quietly left his residence and disappeared, dressed like an ordinary pilgrim and carrying a walking staff and very little else. When he reached a nomadic camp he sought shelter for a few days with one of the families.
While he was staying with them, his hostess asked him to read some texts and, since he looked just like an ordinary pilgrim, in return for his food and lodging she asked him to help with the household chores, which included the disposal of the contents of her chamber pot.
One day, while he was away from the camp attending to this task, some of his well-dressed monk students came looking for him. When his hostess heard their description of him, she suddenly realised this was the same person she had asked to throw away the contents of her chamber pot. (It is said she was so embarrassed that she just ran away!)
Such was the humility of this great teacher, who had many thousands of students....great practitioners of the altruistic intention also possess a tremendous courage grounded in real inner strength.... This combination of a total lack of conceit yet possessing great depth of courage is what is required in a true practitioner of bodhicitta, the altruistic mind of awakening.
November 13, 2009
Behaviour of people.
It is very interesting to investigate in some psychology regarding behaviour of our human fellows on internet. Psychology ( and Antropology...) are showing us how people interact with what is percieved as strange, far away from me, not mine in different cultures.
The coarse view is explained in Buddhism as well, and this is really great to see how science connect with Buddhism in research. The underlying background of behaviour is more important than the words adressed, often with pride, arrogance and aggression toward the one who is seen as having other opions than the own being.
Before people did so to protect their area, their status in the group, now this happens on internet and the objects which has to hide the background on places like a forum is the special focus on "I only know and the other strange one knows not." Through this misperception afflictions as arrogant behaviour are flooding.
Verbal arrogance or hitting each other with a stick or stone! What is the difference?
Still humans's nature is not harmed, the obscurations are temporary in the dualistic view.
With deep compassion for all sentient beings. _/\_
The coarse view is explained in Buddhism as well, and this is really great to see how science connect with Buddhism in research. The underlying background of behaviour is more important than the words adressed, often with pride, arrogance and aggression toward the one who is seen as having other opions than the own being.
Before people did so to protect their area, their status in the group, now this happens on internet and the objects which has to hide the background on places like a forum is the special focus on "I only know and the other strange one knows not." Through this misperception afflictions as arrogant behaviour are flooding.
Verbal arrogance or hitting each other with a stick or stone! What is the difference?
Still humans's nature is not harmed, the obscurations are temporary in the dualistic view.
With deep compassion for all sentient beings. _/\_
November 11, 2009
See the protected enemy.
To can love our imagined enemy is to meet our own delusion as no enemy is. Our coarse mind is projecting its' view, this gets support by obscured emotions and the enemy out of ignorance is born. The real enemy, ego-clinging is not recognized.
The Dalai Lama says: conditioned friendships are easy turning in enemies in this same life. Genuine friends are supporting each other in Dharma with Dharma.
Here I could talk by the kindness of this offered blog.
Only some words, mostly misunderstanding, is enough for the birth of the outer enemy.
When one sees faults in others is one easely blind for the faults in own mind. Therefore may I see the kindness in others and those, insulting me and disrespecting me; may I see them as my own parents or children who are temporary sick.
May I love them even more and keep the view simple pure.
The Dalai Lama says: conditioned friendships are easy turning in enemies in this same life. Genuine friends are supporting each other in Dharma with Dharma.
Here I could talk by the kindness of this offered blog.
Only some words, mostly misunderstanding, is enough for the birth of the outer enemy.
When one sees faults in others is one easely blind for the faults in own mind. Therefore may I see the kindness in others and those, insulting me and disrespecting me; may I see them as my own parents or children who are temporary sick.
May I love them even more and keep the view simple pure.
November 09, 2009
Forgiveness.
"It would be much more constructive if people tried to understand their supposed enemies. Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest potential for doing good both for oneself and others." His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Our stubborn attitude is bringing us so much suffer by clinging to the self. I saw someone back who abandoned me long years ago. I felt so much compassion and putted my arms around the person. Take care I added. A quick contact of value. What a release to feel forgiveness transforming in love and compassion.
Our stubborn attitude is bringing us so much suffer by clinging to the self. I saw someone back who abandoned me long years ago. I felt so much compassion and putted my arms around the person. Take care I added. A quick contact of value. What a release to feel forgiveness transforming in love and compassion.
misperception.
I had a nice talk about science and Buddhism which I like to share here with you all. It offers maybe a contemplation.
When we look around us, is it like our eyes are seeing three-dimensional view. The images landing in our brain are arriving there upside down and the brain is turning them in the view we see. When we look with two eyes is the brain combining the flat views, which appear and transforms them in three-dimensional view outside of it.
And so the observer get its’ birth. In reality the view is not outside us but in the brain. What we see are phenomena or mental images. Test: When we close one eye and look then, we see two-dimensional view; the perception changes.In that way, our brain is creating a view in panorama and we, we are out of that. Lol.
And those temporary interdependent not solid images are not our innate nature but the work of the film camera.
And that film camera we call “me”. Hello “me”! No peace to find in that suffering compounded and conditioned one!
Guru Rinpoche: “If we don’t focus or attach on mental concept we can recognize our natural original state. All phenomena are mind of spacious vastness beyond conceptual attributes.
We are not that film studio of mind; in which creations by the senses are taken for truth. Experiences are not showing us the truth. We always “think” to know. But when we think so, is this again our colourful film producer in action. When we can see that, we also see that conventional and absolute aren’t separated.
Longchenpa gave the advice: to see the innate primordial wisdom; learn the unapprehended view which is free from partiality. It will not depend on experiences, everything will appear as realization. No peace to find in fabrications.
When we look around us, is it like our eyes are seeing three-dimensional view. The images landing in our brain are arriving there upside down and the brain is turning them in the view we see. When we look with two eyes is the brain combining the flat views, which appear and transforms them in three-dimensional view outside of it.
And so the observer get its’ birth. In reality the view is not outside us but in the brain. What we see are phenomena or mental images. Test: When we close one eye and look then, we see two-dimensional view; the perception changes.In that way, our brain is creating a view in panorama and we, we are out of that. Lol.
And those temporary interdependent not solid images are not our innate nature but the work of the film camera.
And that film camera we call “me”. Hello “me”! No peace to find in that suffering compounded and conditioned one!
Guru Rinpoche: “If we don’t focus or attach on mental concept we can recognize our natural original state. All phenomena are mind of spacious vastness beyond conceptual attributes.
We are not that film studio of mind; in which creations by the senses are taken for truth. Experiences are not showing us the truth. We always “think” to know. But when we think so, is this again our colourful film producer in action. When we can see that, we also see that conventional and absolute aren’t separated.
Longchenpa gave the advice: to see the innate primordial wisdom; learn the unapprehended view which is free from partiality. It will not depend on experiences, everything will appear as realization. No peace to find in fabrications.
November 06, 2009
Peaceful atmosphere.
The Dalai Lama said: "A good heart is both important and effective in our daily life. If in a small family, even without children, the members have a warm heart for each other, a peaceful atmosphere will be created. However, if one of the persons feels angry, immediately the atmosphere in the house becomes tense.
Despite good food or a nice television set, you will lose peace and calm. Thus things depend more on the mind than on matter. Matter is important, we must use it properly but in this century we must combine a good brain with a good heart."
We have the responsability to remain mindful not only for our own being but for all around us. Whether there appears someone acting in attachment-aversion or in insight; there is compassion and devotion; both are love.
Despite good food or a nice television set, you will lose peace and calm. Thus things depend more on the mind than on matter. Matter is important, we must use it properly but in this century we must combine a good brain with a good heart."
We have the responsability to remain mindful not only for our own being but for all around us. Whether there appears someone acting in attachment-aversion or in insight; there is compassion and devotion; both are love.
November 03, 2009
Humanity.
Whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim and each and every religion or phylosophy; we all can be there for each other. In this attitude in our life, we feel vividly our interconnection and the happiness and love to be there for each other.
Someone told me; we should first take care of ourselves. But that is happening all the time and what that brings as result? A little temporary pleasure and lots of disatisfaction, disillusion and pain. It is also easy to take care of our own being and there it stops.
Many due to deluded view are dominating and torturing their human fellows, making lives like hell on earth.
Ven Bagdro who suffered so extremely due to being political prisoner went to talk all over our world. Unimaginable torment he had to undergo.
***His book: A HELL ON EARTH. A brief Biography of a Tibetan Political Prisoner.
By Ven. Bagdro from Ganden Monastery.***
To master own mind and sending warmth. I pray for human harmony in my simple way for all of us.
Someone told me; we should first take care of ourselves. But that is happening all the time and what that brings as result? A little temporary pleasure and lots of disatisfaction, disillusion and pain. It is also easy to take care of our own being and there it stops.
Many due to deluded view are dominating and torturing their human fellows, making lives like hell on earth.
Ven Bagdro who suffered so extremely due to being political prisoner went to talk all over our world. Unimaginable torment he had to undergo.
***His book: A HELL ON EARTH. A brief Biography of a Tibetan Political Prisoner.
By Ven. Bagdro from Ganden Monastery.***
To master own mind and sending warmth. I pray for human harmony in my simple way for all of us.
November 02, 2009
Never give up.
No matter what is going on, never give up.
Develop the heart.
Too much energy in your country is spent
developing the mind instead of the heart.
Be compassionate, not just for your friends
but to everyone
Be compassionate, work for peace in your heart,
and in the world.
Work for peace and I say it again
Never give up!
No matter what is happening
no matter what is going on around you.
Never give up! By His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
If we give up, is there no joy in our heart and no joy is spread around us, in warm humanity.
Develop the heart.
Too much energy in your country is spent
developing the mind instead of the heart.
Be compassionate, not just for your friends
but to everyone
Be compassionate, work for peace in your heart,
and in the world.
Work for peace and I say it again
Never give up!
No matter what is happening
no matter what is going on around you.
Never give up! By His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
If we give up, is there no joy in our heart and no joy is spread around us, in warm humanity.
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Help Vietnam.
>> November 30, 2009
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/tell-a-friend/6012929
Kindly: Help our friends in Vietnam and sign. _/\_
Interdependence opens compassion.
>> November 26, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nTRqR71NzU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYyAR9YDwFs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKHw3Na4Rnw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRUeTVRWXxo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV0l6gSM-iU&feature=related
I wrote about the book of Ven Bagdro La "A Hell on Earth" earlier. Here he is talking for the welfare of so many.
I really think the importance of the welfare of our human fellows should be primordial in our daily life. To take care of others is too take care of the own being; as all is interdependent.
We cannot experience real peace by protecting our own being only, as a being which is independently existing. This is not. As to experience so, is to suffer.
The whole temporary network of causes and conditions is display of our mind. To be careful (Noble Path) with body, speech and mind and act by the precious paramitas; will stop the suffer by the grasping ego and no suffer will be spread to other beings.
Boundless joy, equanimity, compassion and love is our dwelling, when we can see the two wings of Bodhichitta; wisdom and compassion. Then our heart knocks not for our own only, but for all in genuine peace.
Real happiness is wishing others to be happy. _/\_
May all attain Buddhahood.
>> November 25, 2009
In all my lives, wherever I am born,
May I obtain the seven noble qualities of the higher realms.
On being born, may I meet the Dharma
and have the freedom to practice it in the right way.
Then, pleasing the holy Lama,
May I practice the Dharma day and night.
Having realized the Dharma and achieved its essential purpose,
In that life, may I cross over the ocean of existence,
Teaching the holy Dharma to the world,
May I never tire of accomplishing the benefit to others,
Through the great wave of impartial benefit to others,
May all beings attain Buddhahood together.
Gyalwa Longchenpa. Cha Tse Lo.
Homage to Kyabje Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hjxHMLP6JM&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggCPClcfBhY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjdMnPiwAnY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGGokSWv7w8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWJo0cY5JXc&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuBLsD2ncWQ&feature=related
If we can overwin pride, jealousy, hatred, attachment, ignorance;
What other enemy is there to conquer?
What other ignorance one is there to conquer?
Love without boundaries.
>> November 20, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E9BAOlXvCk
All our pain will dissolve
All our hopes will naturally be satisfied
All our striving will turn in calm abiding
All our fame becomes humble happiness
Heart-mind of awakening.
>> November 18, 2009
Bodhichitta is the one practice we cannot do without. Even if we have been given the precious oral instructions on realizing the nature of mind, they will not be the sufficient cause for realization if we have not learned to generate Bodhichitta. The great Dzogchen yogi Patrul Rinpoche said," If we have only one thing, the precious Bodhichitta is enough.
If we have nothing else, we must have the method of the precious Bodhichitta.
"We should learn to develop Bodhichitta in a twofold way: through our aspirations and through our actions. Aspiration Bodhichitta is our initial wish that all sentient beings be liberated from the vast ocean of samsara's suffering. Action Bodhichitta requires that we first generate aspiration Bodhichitta, and practice the Six Paramitas as the method to establish the two benefits of 1) attaining Buddhahood oneself to 2) be of ultimate benefit to others.
The way to practice aspiration and action Bodhichitta was taught by the omniscient Patrul Rinpoche, who said," The instructions for aspiration [Bodhichitta] are to practice the Four Immeasurables;The instructions for action [Bodhichitta] are to practice the Paramitas."
His Holiness the Dalai Lama:
Bodhicitta or the altruistic aspiration to attain Enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings is a state of mind which cannot be cultivated or generated within one's mental continuum simply by praying for it to come into being in one's mind.
Nor will it come into existence by simply developing the understanding of what that mind is. One must generate that mind within one's mind's continuum.In order to engage in meditation with sustained effort over a period of time what is crucial is first of all to be convinced of the positive qualities of that mind, and the benefits and merits of generating such a state of mind.
It is only when one has seen the qualities, merits and benefits of generating such a state of mind that one will be able to generate within oneself a genuine enthusiasm and perseverance in engaging in a meditation which would enable the individual to generate the mind.
Any sense of conceit or self-importance gets in the way of cultivating the genuine altruistic intention, and the most effective remedy against this is the cultivation of humility.I can tell you a more recent story to illustrate this point. The great nineteenth-century Tibetan Dzokchen meditator Dza Patrul Rinpoche always maintained a demeanour of true humility.
At one time, when he was giving a series of teachings to a large crowd of students, he experienced a forceful yearning for solitude. So one day he quietly left his residence and disappeared, dressed like an ordinary pilgrim and carrying a walking staff and very little else. When he reached a nomadic camp he sought shelter for a few days with one of the families.
While he was staying with them, his hostess asked him to read some texts and, since he looked just like an ordinary pilgrim, in return for his food and lodging she asked him to help with the household chores, which included the disposal of the contents of her chamber pot.
One day, while he was away from the camp attending to this task, some of his well-dressed monk students came looking for him. When his hostess heard their description of him, she suddenly realised this was the same person she had asked to throw away the contents of her chamber pot. (It is said she was so embarrassed that she just ran away!)
Such was the humility of this great teacher, who had many thousands of students....great practitioners of the altruistic intention also possess a tremendous courage grounded in real inner strength.... This combination of a total lack of conceit yet possessing great depth of courage is what is required in a true practitioner of bodhicitta, the altruistic mind of awakening.
Behaviour of people.
>> November 13, 2009
It is very interesting to investigate in some psychology regarding behaviour of our human fellows on internet. Psychology ( and Antropology...) are showing us how people interact with what is percieved as strange, far away from me, not mine in different cultures.
The coarse view is explained in Buddhism as well, and this is really great to see how science connect with Buddhism in research. The underlying background of behaviour is more important than the words adressed, often with pride, arrogance and aggression toward the one who is seen as having other opions than the own being.
Before people did so to protect their area, their status in the group, now this happens on internet and the objects which has to hide the background on places like a forum is the special focus on "I only know and the other strange one knows not." Through this misperception afflictions as arrogant behaviour are flooding.
Verbal arrogance or hitting each other with a stick or stone! What is the difference?
Still humans's nature is not harmed, the obscurations are temporary in the dualistic view.
With deep compassion for all sentient beings. _/\_
See the protected enemy.
>> November 11, 2009
To can love our imagined enemy is to meet our own delusion as no enemy is. Our coarse mind is projecting its' view, this gets support by obscured emotions and the enemy out of ignorance is born. The real enemy, ego-clinging is not recognized.
The Dalai Lama says: conditioned friendships are easy turning in enemies in this same life. Genuine friends are supporting each other in Dharma with Dharma.
Here I could talk by the kindness of this offered blog.
Only some words, mostly misunderstanding, is enough for the birth of the outer enemy.
When one sees faults in others is one easely blind for the faults in own mind. Therefore may I see the kindness in others and those, insulting me and disrespecting me; may I see them as my own parents or children who are temporary sick.
May I love them even more and keep the view simple pure.
Forgiveness.
>> November 09, 2009
"It would be much more constructive if people tried to understand their supposed enemies. Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest potential for doing good both for oneself and others." His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Our stubborn attitude is bringing us so much suffer by clinging to the self. I saw someone back who abandoned me long years ago. I felt so much compassion and putted my arms around the person. Take care I added. A quick contact of value. What a release to feel forgiveness transforming in love and compassion.
misperception.
I had a nice talk about science and Buddhism which I like to share here with you all. It offers maybe a contemplation.
When we look around us, is it like our eyes are seeing three-dimensional view. The images landing in our brain are arriving there upside down and the brain is turning them in the view we see. When we look with two eyes is the brain combining the flat views, which appear and transforms them in three-dimensional view outside of it.
And so the observer get its’ birth. In reality the view is not outside us but in the brain. What we see are phenomena or mental images. Test: When we close one eye and look then, we see two-dimensional view; the perception changes.In that way, our brain is creating a view in panorama and we, we are out of that. Lol.
And those temporary interdependent not solid images are not our innate nature but the work of the film camera.
And that film camera we call “me”. Hello “me”! No peace to find in that suffering compounded and conditioned one!
Guru Rinpoche: “If we don’t focus or attach on mental concept we can recognize our natural original state. All phenomena are mind of spacious vastness beyond conceptual attributes.
We are not that film studio of mind; in which creations by the senses are taken for truth. Experiences are not showing us the truth. We always “think” to know. But when we think so, is this again our colourful film producer in action. When we can see that, we also see that conventional and absolute aren’t separated.
Longchenpa gave the advice: to see the innate primordial wisdom; learn the unapprehended view which is free from partiality. It will not depend on experiences, everything will appear as realization. No peace to find in fabrications.
Peaceful atmosphere.
>> November 06, 2009
The Dalai Lama said: "A good heart is both important and effective in our daily life. If in a small family, even without children, the members have a warm heart for each other, a peaceful atmosphere will be created. However, if one of the persons feels angry, immediately the atmosphere in the house becomes tense.
Despite good food or a nice television set, you will lose peace and calm. Thus things depend more on the mind than on matter. Matter is important, we must use it properly but in this century we must combine a good brain with a good heart."
We have the responsability to remain mindful not only for our own being but for all around us. Whether there appears someone acting in attachment-aversion or in insight; there is compassion and devotion; both are love.
Humanity.
>> November 03, 2009
Whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim and each and every religion or phylosophy; we all can be there for each other. In this attitude in our life, we feel vividly our interconnection and the happiness and love to be there for each other.
Someone told me; we should first take care of ourselves. But that is happening all the time and what that brings as result? A little temporary pleasure and lots of disatisfaction, disillusion and pain. It is also easy to take care of our own being and there it stops.
Many due to deluded view are dominating and torturing their human fellows, making lives like hell on earth.
Ven Bagdro who suffered so extremely due to being political prisoner went to talk all over our world. Unimaginable torment he had to undergo.
***His book: A HELL ON EARTH. A brief Biography of a Tibetan Political Prisoner.
By Ven. Bagdro from Ganden Monastery.***
To master own mind and sending warmth. I pray for human harmony in my simple way for all of us.
Never give up.
>> November 02, 2009
No matter what is going on, never give up.
Develop the heart.
Too much energy in your country is spent
developing the mind instead of the heart.
Be compassionate, not just for your friends
but to everyone
Be compassionate, work for peace in your heart,
and in the world.
Work for peace and I say it again
Never give up!
No matter what is happening
no matter what is going on around you.
Never give up! By His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
If we give up, is there no joy in our heart and no joy is spread around us, in warm humanity.
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