Buddhism
azw3 |eng | 2007-10-10 | Author:Thomas Laird

I came back to the Dalai Lama armed with my research. As I briefly narrated, with a sense of indignation and outrage, the game Russia and Britain had played, the ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2002-06-25 | Author:Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrub & Sakya Trizin

For the common practitioner with the common transic absorption is the vision of the common experience. The common practitioner is a person who practices the Perfections and the common path. ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1997-09-02 | Author:Thinley Norbu

ATHEISM The Pope says: Buddhism is in large measure an atheistic system. (p. 86) Atheism means not believing in God, or more generally, not having any spiritual view. The Pope ...
( Category: Comparative Religion January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-12-13 | Author:Luisi, Pier Luigi [Luisi, Pier Luigi]

Reflections As we started moving toward the exit at the end of the session, most of us were absorbed in thought. My own mind was still on Matthieu’s presentation about ...
( Category: History January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Chodron, Pema [Chodron, Pema]

6.56 Better far for me to die today, Than live a long and evil life. However great may be my length of days, The pain of dying will be all ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-05-16 | Author:Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

Now, this does not involve inference of any kind. It is not a matter of thinking, "Thoughts must be like this; they must come from here or go to there." ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Chogyam Trungpa

The Lion’s Roar THE BODHISATTVA, the committed mahayana practitioner, takes a vow to work with all sentient beings and with every life-situation. Working with the emotions is a powerful part ...
( Category: Sacred Writings January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-14 | Author:H.H. the Dalai Lama

Their pleasure’s theirs and theirs alone. No part of it is felt by me. Nice words of praise are devoid of mind: they have no wish to say good things ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2006-04-12 | Author:Matthieu Ricard

THE MECHANISM OF DESIRE The craving for pleasant sensations is readily implanted in the mind, since pleasure is accommodating and always ready to offer its services. It is attractive, instills ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-08-07 | Author:Douglas S. Duckworth

We saw how Mipam uses reason to affirm the presence of Buddha-nature and to support his tradition's claims that all appearances are divine by nature. The reasonings he employs are ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Geshe Tashi Tsering & Lama Zopa Rinpoche & Gordon McDougall

When our mind becomes more subtle, the grosser minds are absorbed. When a meditator reaches a very advanced state of meditative absorption, the sensory consciousnesses totally cease. If that is ...
( Category: Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-02-19 | Author:Situpa, Chamgon Kenting Tai [Situpa, Chamgon Kenting Tai]

Questions Question: I have heard of a Gelugpa Mahamudra lineage in the Kagyu, is that correct? Rinpoche: No, there is no such thing as a Gelug Mahamudra lineage in Kagyu. ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-06-04 | Author:Padmasambhava

5 The Natural Liberation of Awareness: Experiential Instructions on the Transitional Process of Meditative Stabilization In the third general topic, the transitional process of meditative stabilization—called the “natural liberation of ...
( Category: Sacred Writings January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:Chodron, Pema [Chodron, Pema]

First, come into the present. Flash on what’s happening with you right now. Be fully aware of your body, its energetic quality. Be aware of your thoughts and emotions. Next, ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Geshe Tashi Tsering

THE BASE, PATH, AND RESULT IN THE DEATH PRACTICE In Buddhism, the terms base, path, and result are commonly used to show where we start, what we do, and what ...
( Category: Mysticism January 22,2015 )