Buddhism
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, 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 | 2001-10-25 | Author:Thubten Chodron

Chapter Ten ACCEPTANCE AND EMPOWERMENT Underneath our anger, we often find a refusal to accept the reality of a situation and a feeling of powerlessness in its face. These feelings ...
( Category: Emotions January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-06-25 | Author:Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye

Those who proceed sequentially rely on the cause, the view of wisdom, And the condition, contemplation with application, which comprises devotion meditation and definitive perfection. The path of liberation emphasizes ...
( Category: Sacred Writings January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-07-29 | Author:Migmar Tseten

Then when we are able to increase our level of meditation and have no fear of the meditation on emptiness, we have patience toward the meditation itself. It has become ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Mitchell, Stephen [Mitchell, Stephen]

52. Lin-Chi's KATZ Whenever Zen Master Dok Sahn was asked a question, he would answer only by hitting the questioner. Zen Master Ku-ji would answer only by raising one finger, ...
( Category: Zen Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2001-04-02 | Author:Diki Tsering

Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MOTHER of COMPASSION 16 The Long Journey We left for Lhasa on ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-03-10 | Author:Jamgon Kongtrul & Ngawang Zangpo

The Melody of Faith: A Supplication to the Great Onton Kyergang-pa byJamgon Kongtrul (A Garland of Udumvara Flowers, pp. iib-izb) HIS LINEAGE HOLDER also sports an impressive portfolio of names. ...
( Category: Sacred Writings January 22,2015 )