Religion & Spirituality
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-03-10 | Author:Leighton, Taigen Dan [Leighton, Taigen Dan]

79. Whenever Zen Master Luzu Baoyun saw a monk coming, he would immediately face the wall.1474 Alone my teacher walked the path of turning the self, Beyond difference and sameness ...
( Category: Sacred Writings January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Khyentse Rinpoche, Dilgo & Patrul Rinpoche

SIMPLICITY 41. By examining relative truth, establish absolute truth; Within absolute truth, see how relative truth arises. Where the two truths are inseparable, beyond intellect, is the state of simplicity; ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Gimian, Carolyn Rose & Mukpo, Diana J. [Gimian, Carolyn Rose]

ELEVEN In the Summer of 1976, Gesar and I returned to Boulder to visit Rinpoche, who had just moved into town from Boulder Heights. Later that year, we would move ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-02-16 | Author:Karma Chagme

[704] These are the profound practical instructions of Avalokitesvara. Having already presented introductions to both the Breakthrough and Leap-over stages of the Great Perfection, the reason why the union of ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1991-08-06 | Author:Chogyam Trungpa

Taking the bodhisattva vow is a public statement of your intention to embark on the bodhisattva path. Simply acknowledging that intention to yourself is not enough. You have to be ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2006-10-10 | Author:Brown Ph.D., Daniel & Robert Thurman

TABLE 18: A COMPARISON OF SŪTRA AND MAHĀMUDRĀ STAGES OF CONCENTRATION 6. SPECIAL INSIGHT THROUGHOUT THE STAGES of concentration, the practitioner has gained considerable insight into the workings of the ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-02-09 | Author:Norman, Alexander [Norman, Alexander]

Accordingly, Lobsang Gyatso instructed Sonam Rabten to compose a letter to Gushri Khan authorizing an attack on the king of Beri, but requesting that his troops return to Mongolia directly ...
( Category: Chinese January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-11-15 | Author:Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

But this discrimination is itself in the service of a paean to the nondiscriminating amplitude of the Buddha's pedagogy. "I explain the law to creatures, after having recognized their inclinations," ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-09-25 | Author:Glenn H. Mullin

While residing at Tashi Lhunpo, the Second Dalai Lama made frequent visits to other holy places and monasteries in the area, teaching and giving initiations in them. Included in the ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-09-10 | Author:Chogyal Namkhai, Norbu

The Eighth Word of Advice Stewards, close friends, principals, and cooks Are indeed the pillar of life[44] of the monastic community; Yet commitment to these roles is a cause for ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-04-15 | Author:Geshe Tashi Tsering & Tashi Tsering (geshe) & Gordon McDougall

Most Buddhist philosophical schools agree on the way that karmic imprints are created, but opinions differ about where they are based. Some scholars use the word stored for imprints, but ...
( Category: Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Trungpa, Chogyam [Trungpa, Chogyam]

13 Making Friends with Fear WE ARE DISCUSSING HOW to benefit others by joining heaven and earth, while fulfilling our own wishes and developing a perfect notion of warriorship. Because ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1992-08-25 | Author:Rnin-ma-pa

Vajrayana sadhanas are intended to remedy human alienation from the totality of what is: the energies that constitute the play of the universe, and their corresponding active presence within the ...
( Category: Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-09-16 | Author:Gen Lamrimpa & B. Alan Wallace

As I have stated, ignorance apprehends the “I” as being truly existent; it apprehends true existence with reference to the “I,” and the “I” is apprehended upon its basis of ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Reginald A. Ray

THE EMPTY ESSENCE IS RIGPA The empty essence is rigpa, knowing. This knowing quality has two options. It can face away from itself towards external objects, making thoughts that grasp ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )