Religion & Spirituality
azw3 |eng | 2009-08-07 | Author:Tarthang Tulku;J. Wilhelms

So he spoke. But dPal-gyi rdo-rje prayed: "May I be the one to subdue this evil king." And the Guru said: "Good! You will be the one to subdue him!" ...
( Category: Religious January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2006-10-06 | Author:Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

The fundamental nature of rigpa is naked awareness. That naked awareness, which is the ground luminosity, has never been polluted. The fundamental nature of mind has never been deluded. On ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2001-11-12 | Author:Richard J. Davidson & Anne Harrington

Depue, R. A., & Collins, P. E (1999). Neurobiology of the structure of personality: Dopamine, facilitation of incentive motivation, and extraversion. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(3), 491-569. Devinsky, 0., Morrell, ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-12-07 | Author:Jose Ignacio Cabezon

Accordingly, when many Mongol troops led by one called Khathasu arrived that Pig year (1587), they rushed from Oyug33 up to Nyugda.34 At that time, I had no aquaintance with ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-09-18 | Author:Kerouac, Jack [Kerouac, Jack]

“Well-makers lead the water wherever they like; fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood, good people fashion themselves.” —DHAMMAPADA One day Ananda asked the Blessed One for ...
( Category: Religious January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Stevens, John [Stevens, John]

Dai-en once asked Gessho about the village. Although there were ten or so houses there, he saw only older couples, no children. In the warmer months, each couple had two ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-12-10 | Author:Kathleen McDonald & Lama Zopa Rinpoche

To do this practice, imagine the following: First imagine that the four elements that form your own body absorb into the four external elements of earth, water, fire, and air. ...
( Category: Death January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-25 | Author:Lama Zopa Rinpoche & Gordon McDougall

If the root is medicinal, so are its shoots, If poisonous, no need to say its shoots will be the same. What makes an act positive or negative is not ...
( Category: Hinduism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-03-27 | Author:Shrobe, Richard [Shrobe, Richard]

Notes 1 . See Seung Sahn, trans., The Blue Cliff Record (Cumberland, RI: Kwan Um School of Zen, 1983), 37. 2 Seung Sahn, The Whole World Is a Single Flower ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Ryokan

This year I moved to the shore of a lake and a river. My grief multiplies as I move through space and seasons. My wandering south and north stops for ...
( Category: Love Poems January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Rinpoche, Khenchen Thrangu [Rinpoche, Khenchen Thrangu]

TRANQUILITY MEDITATION In general, meditation instructions often teach both tranquility and insight meditation. Many presentations teach that one should practice tranquility meditation first and insight meditation later. But here we ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-05-23 | Author:Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

Marpa, The Translator Marpa was the first person of the Kagyu lineage to be born in Tibet. He learned many languages and took three very dangerous trips to India to ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-04-25 | Author:Thubten Chodron & Dalai Lama

Whenever you're having a strong emotion-either an unpleasant emotion or a pleasant one-with one corner of your mind, look at the way "I" appears. Observe it. Don't intellectualize about it, ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-03-25 | Author:Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

TANTRA-INTEGRATING WITH MOVEMENT In the Tantric and Dzogchen teachings, there are specific instructions and methods that work specifically with this movement that do not rely only on remaining or resting ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-02-25 | Author:Andreas Doctor

Even though (or perhaps because) the text has prominent origins in the much hailed (but obscure) Vidyottamatantra collection, it is directly approachable only by someone of the highest spiritual caliber, ...
( Category: Asian January 22,2015 )