Religion & Spirituality
azw3 |eng | 2005-12-10 | Author:Kathleen McDonald & Robina Courtin

2. Recall that all things are impermanent. By their nature they change from moment to moment and will inevitably perish. The object of your attachment will not always be attractive ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Trungpa, Chogyam [Trungpa, Chogyam]

FIVE Overcoming Moralism WE HAVE DISCUSSED the hinayana level represented by the shravakayana and the pratyekabuddhayana and the mahayana level, represented by the practice ideal of the bodhisattva. Last, we ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Trungpa, Chogyam & Gimian, Carolyn Rose [Trungpa, Chogyam]

1. Vajra is a Sanskrit word meaning “diamond,” “adamantine,” or “indestructible.” The thunderbolt scepter held by Indra, the king of the gods in Indian mythology, is known as a vajra. ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2000-09-28 | Author:Evans-Wentz, W. Y. & Marett, R. R. & Lopez, Donald S. [Evans-Wentz, W. Y.]

VII. THE ORIGIN OF DISEASE ACCORDING TO THE LĀMAS Inasmuch as the Mystery-Play, like certain aspects of the Chöd Rite, presented more particularly by the second of the two manuscripts, ...
( Category: Yoga January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:Robert Thurman

A particularly sad fact of human history is that conflicts have arisen in the name of religion. Even today, individuals are killed, their communities destroyed, and societies destabilized as a ...
( Category: Diplomacy January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Kongtrul, Dzigar Rinpoche [Kongtrul, Dzigar Rinpoche]

Student: When you say remove ourselves from our prayers, do you mean completely from our prayers or just from the center? Rinpoche: If you can remove yourself completely, that would ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan [Wallace, B. Alan]

THE SHAMATHA–VIPASHYANA SEQUENCE Buddhaghosa’s compilation of the ancient commentaries on the Connected Discourses of the Buddha includes a simile describing the practice of vipashyana without the support of shamatha as ...
( Category: Neurology January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron

Whether we give a dollar or a million dollars isn't important. The important thing is that we want to support what is virtuous and feel joy in doing so. The ...
( Category: Health, Fitness & Dieting January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-10-25 | Author:Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye

This natural luminosity is distinguished by great bliss. It is emptiness (the letter E) and great compassion (the letter VAnn).875 It is primordial wisdom, which is the unification of clarity ...
( Category: Sacred Writings January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Norbu, Chogyal Namkhai [Norbu, Chogyal Namkhai]

19 The Death of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö IN THE YEAR OF THE EARTH DOG (1958), I began the study of Sanskrit at the Namgyal Research institute in Gangtok, capital ...
( Category: Religious January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-07-28 | Author:Dalai Lama & Geshe Lobsang Jordhen & Losang Choephel Ganchenpa & Jeremy Russell

In order to accomplish the purposes of both others and ourselves, all obscurations should be eliminated. Those who intend to realize transcendent wisdom in such a way should initially practice ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Preece, Rob [Preece, Rob]

The hazards of this projection are that we must be alert to the possibility that the guru will not carry this projection particularly well. He may not know how to ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Thondup, Tulku [Thondup, Tulku]

A woman told me, “Sokhe Jomo24 says, ‘This present luminous absorption25 is the realization of emptiness. Because if this is not the emptiness that is the nature of primordial wisdom, ...
( Category: Reincarnation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1983-01-02 | Author:Aryasura

From this story one can see how an unfounded opinion that they possess some virtuous quality acts upon the virtuous like a spur. One can see how important it is ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Rinpoche, Sogyal [Rinpoche, Sogyal]

July 5 In horror of death, I took to the mountains— Again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, Capturing the fortress of the deathless ...
( Category: Meditations January 22,2015 )