Buddhism
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-31 | Author:

It commands the masterful ability to clearly distinguish the essential features of each and every worldly phenomenon, the wisdom of discernment, in essence Amitābha. This pacifies ordinary desire. Carrying out ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:His Holiness The Dalai Lama & Jeffrey Ph.d. Hopkins

AFFLICTIVE EMOTIONS ARE BASED ON A MISTAKE Impure states of mind such as desire and hatred are not part of the basic nature of the mind, and must be produced ...
( Category: Inspirational January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-12-15 | Author:Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

How to Follow the Teaching Often Western people are a bit strange and think the teaching is like something to take or to steal. As I have already said, they ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1994-01-18 | Author:Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

The study of emptiness in the sutras is the study of the Prajiidpdramitd. In the vajrayana or tantra teachings the realization of emptiness is accomplished by looking at mind itself. ...
( Category: Eastern January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-11-14 | Author:McMahan, David L. [McMahan, David L.]

If we look into this sheet of paper even more deeply, we can see the sunshine in it. If the sunshine is not there, the forest cannot grow.... And if ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-06-01 | Author:Thubten Yeshe & Robina Courtin & Geshe Lhundub Sopa

MEDITATION 3 CLARITY AND DIVINE PRIDE This time, I want you to actualize clarity and divine pride. Remember that clarity is an antidote to our ordinary vision, to mundane thoughts, ...
( Category: Mysticism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-01-25 | Author:Kehnchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche & Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche

He stands on one leg with the other slightly bent, as he crushes Rudra and samaya corrupters (these refer to the abovementioned tiras). His right leg is slightly extended, and ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-07-25 | Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche & Padmakara Translation Group

If we are struck by evil forces, we should think, 'By making me suffer, these evil beings are helping me to practise Bodhichitta; they are of great importance for my ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-04-07 | Author:Yongey Rinpoche Mingyur & Eric Swanson

1 Bruno Bettelheim, Freud and Man's Soul (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.), 1982. 7 ATTENTION To see the mountain on the other side, you must look at the mountain ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-20 | Author:Lama Thubten Yeshe & Nicholas Ribush & Lama Zopa Rinpoche

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q: We are supposed to see others as Heruka Vajrasattva, but what happens when we see someone doing something negative? A: You mean, should you try to ...
( Category: Mysticism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Trungpa, Chogyam [Trungpa, Chogyam]

The Eightfold Path THERE SEEM TO be so many sidetracks in relating to our life situations, sidetracks of all kinds by which we are seduced: “Food, gas, and lodging, next ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:Rinpoche, Dudjom [Rinpoche, Dudjom]

The sadhana of the Great Compassionate One is the very essence of all the sutras and the tantras. Guru Rinpoche distilled it as a method whereby disciples who have connections ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-09-25 | Author:Aryadeva & Geshe Sonam Rinchen & Ruth Sonam

People of good caste and so forth who are not inflated with pride are rare. Moreover, since those who are conceited think themselves best and out of envy want to ...
( Category: Sacred Writings January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Urgyen, Tulku, Rinpoche [Urgyen, Tulku, Rinpoche]

And: Grant your blessings so that my meditation is free from conception. “Nothing whatever” means that mind essence is no concrete thing. The very moment you recognize, it is like ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-08-29 | Author:Dzogchen Ponlop

THE PRACTICE OF PHOWA Phowa is a practice that is especially connected to the time of death, when our minds and bodies start to separate and begin to lose the ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )