azw3 |eng | 2003-04-25 | Author:Dalai Lama & Christine Cox & Thupten Jinpa

After having undertaken the practice of refuge, you should observe the precepts of refuge, the abandonments and the affirmations. All these precepts should be studied from Lamrim Chenmo by Lama ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-04-16 | Author:Mipham, Jamgon [Mipham, Jamgon]

Just as a sesame seed is filled with oil, so too is the nature of the mind pervaded by primordial wisdom, ultimate and self-arisen, dwelling within it as the youthful ...

azw3 |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:Alejandro Chaoul & Yongdzin Lopon Tenzi Namdak & Tenzin Wangyal

FIGURE 6. Damaru. Illustration by Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak. The skulls and their desired characteristics seem to be the most symbolic aspect of the damaru. They represent the state of union ...

azw3 |eng | 2011-11-14 | Author:Thupten Jinpa Ph.d.

This training is the great counterbalance to happiness, and the great successor to misery; it is a charm that attracts misfortune, and a wish capping the useless ones.126 These are ...

azw3 |eng | 1990-05-02 | Author:Chogyal Namkhai Norbu & Adriano Clemente & John Shane

In Tibet the cuckoo is considered to be a sign of good fortune and prosperity because it heralds the arrival of spring. When the Tibetan people heard the cuckoo's song ...

azw3 |eng | 2007-09-25 | Author:Thekchok Dorje & Jamgon Kongtrul Lodo Taye

White Feast No. S z°1N ~°l °l~~ ~~ ~l (RIG DRUG NE TONG MA) ("Emptying the Six Realms") Again, as in the BUM GYE MA [i.e., White Feast No. 31, ...

azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-03-03 | Author:B. Alan Wallace

If memories are indeed stored in a continuum that precedes this life, we might well ask, why is it that we do not remember our past lives? Tibetan Buddhism likens ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-01-14 | Author:Jonathan Landaw & Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa Rinpoche

The Fully Renounced Mind If all the main points of the Dharma were reduced to their essentials, they could be grouped into three categories commonly called the three principal aspects ...

azw3 |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Chodron, Pema [Chodron, Pema]

13 Meeting the Enemy With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or what ever, the next ...

azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jamgon Mipam

ULTIMATE TRUTH IN FOUR PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS The ultimate truth becomes progressively more empty in the four philosophical schools, as indicated by the shading. BUDDHIST VEHICLES The reality of a buddha ...

azw3 |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Trungpa, Chogyam & Gimian, Carolyn Rose [Trungpa, Chogyam]

220 Tell the Truth TRUTH ALWAYS WORKS. There always has to be basic honesty; that is the source of trust. When someone sees that you are telling the truth, then ...

azw3 |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Padmasambhava

THE HEART OF YOGA We can apply the same approach to yogic practice. In the Tibetan tantric tradition there are yogic practices such as Yantra Yoga, involving movements and postures, ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Zen Master So Sahn

54 When studying Buddhist sutras, if you do not reflect deeply on your own mind at the same time, you could study the entire 84,000-volume canon of the Buddha’s words ...

azw3 |eng | 2004-02-10 | Author:Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation PERHAPS AT THIS POINT there is a sense of being bombarded with the classifications of the abhidharma—the process of the development of the skandhas and the various aspects of ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Trungpa, Chogyam [Trungpa, Chogyam]

61 THE WARRIOR IS NOT AFRAID OF SPACE THE COWARD lives in constant terror of space: Afraid of darkness because he can’t see anything, afraid of silence because he can’t ...