Buddhism
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Urgyen, Tulku Rinpoche [Urgyen, Tulku Rinpoche]

8 Overcoming Obstacles and Demons There are definitely obstacles, and generally speaking there are three kinds: outer or external, inner, and innermost. External obstacles are imbalances in the outer elements, ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2008-11-11 | Author:Chogyam Trungpa & Judith L. Lief

Nobody’s World There are three types of perception: the sense of experience, the sense of emptiness, and the sense of luminosity. With those three levels of perception, we are able ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Nawang Khechog & His Holiness The Dalai Lama

The Importance We Place on Outward Appearances The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) has reported more than ten million cosmetic procedures performed in the United States every year ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:Jacob P. Dalton

In many ways, the Dalai Lama’s language here follows the well-worn tracks of the language of ritual violence and of past Tibetan prophets warning of threats from the borderlands. Pointing ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-08-14 | Author:

[9] Gavāṁpatī20 stood up, bowed at the Buddha’s feet, and said to him respectfully: “I committed an offense in the karma of speech. Once, during an eon in the past, ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
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 | 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 | 2011-12-20 | 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, 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 |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 )