July/August 2012
... dissolves-down is up, up is down, north is west and so is east. You find yourself being roughly pushed into a chair and a little voice whispers in your ear, "Just sit still and the blindfold will be removed shortly." As you begin to catch your breath and gather your senses, you hear the footsteps of ...
... dissolves-down is up, up is down, north is west and so is east. You find yourself being roughly pushed into a chair and a little voice whispers in your ear, "Just sit still and the blindfold will be removed shortly." As you begin to catch your breath and gather your senses, you hear the footsteps of ...
The Practices of Tibetan Buddhism
... that brutality and selfishness are countered by positive, selfless action. Selfless action creates a world of peace and gentleness around us—positive people have a particular kind of pleasant, happy energy about them, and tend to make others feel at ease as well. That’s why the Buddha gave the teach ...
... that brutality and selfishness are countered by positive, selfless action. Selfless action creates a world of peace and gentleness around us—positive people have a particular kind of pleasant, happy energy about them, and tend to make others feel at ease as well. That’s why the Buddha gave the teach ...
Introduction of philosophy
... those constructs into complex interpretative schemes. All this happens only half consciously, and as a result we often see things obscured. Right mindfulness is anchored in clear perception and it penetrates impressions without getting carried away. Right mindfulness enables us to be aware of the ...
... those constructs into complex interpretative schemes. All this happens only half consciously, and as a result we often see things obscured. Right mindfulness is anchored in clear perception and it penetrates impressions without getting carried away. Right mindfulness enables us to be aware of the ...
Untitled
... satisfactory assurance, not by “the creation of any new knowledge [science] but by bringing to an end a beginningless ignorance.” 6 As such, Buddhism is the true “science” that provides the most satisfactory worldview for our engaging and experiencing reality. The author then proceeds in the attempt ...
... satisfactory assurance, not by “the creation of any new knowledge [science] but by bringing to an end a beginningless ignorance.” 6 As such, Buddhism is the true “science” that provides the most satisfactory worldview for our engaging and experiencing reality. The author then proceeds in the attempt ...
Week One: The story of the Historical Buddha and its symbolic
... go back to square one and learn how to do it properly. I can assure you that insight to any useful degree will never arise without the development of the varying layers of concentrated states. In general terms, Buddhist ethics is about what we think, say and do. It isn’t just about the end result. ...
... go back to square one and learn how to do it properly. I can assure you that insight to any useful degree will never arise without the development of the varying layers of concentrated states. In general terms, Buddhist ethics is about what we think, say and do. It isn’t just about the end result. ...
Historical Timeline
... The Karmapa pretends to enter into a solitary retreat, and instead, dons civilian garb and slips out a window. Leaving Tsurphu Monastery with a handful of attendants, he begins a daring escape by car, foot, horseback, helicopter, train and taxi, a heroic journey which will become the stuff of headli ...
... The Karmapa pretends to enter into a solitary retreat, and instead, dons civilian garb and slips out a window. Leaving Tsurphu Monastery with a handful of attendants, he begins a daring escape by car, foot, horseback, helicopter, train and taxi, a heroic journey which will become the stuff of headli ...
Indigenous Religion
... Tenzin Gyatso Dalai Lama 14th Dalai Lama Born: 1935 in Tibet Leader of Tibetan people Left for India in 1959 First Dalai Lama to travel ...
... Tenzin Gyatso Dalai Lama 14th Dalai Lama Born: 1935 in Tibet Leader of Tibetan people Left for India in 1959 First Dalai Lama to travel ...
Sutra on the Eight Realizations of Great Beings
... other shore, the shore of liberation from sickness, poverty, hunger, ignorance, desires and passions, birth and death. How can a person practicing “Knowing how to feel satisfied with few possessions” also practice generosity? It is by living simply. Almost everyone who spends his or her life servin ...
... other shore, the shore of liberation from sickness, poverty, hunger, ignorance, desires and passions, birth and death. How can a person practicing “Knowing how to feel satisfied with few possessions” also practice generosity? It is by living simply. Almost everyone who spends his or her life servin ...
Issue 1 - Beginner`s Mind Zen Center
... Our practice means facing each moment without preconceptions. The person you meet is your friend and not your friend, your spouse and not your spouse, your child and not your child, your enemy and not your enemy, your boss and not your boss, your coworker and not your co-worker. Who is the one you m ...
... Our practice means facing each moment without preconceptions. The person you meet is your friend and not your friend, your spouse and not your spouse, your child and not your child, your enemy and not your enemy, your boss and not your boss, your coworker and not your co-worker. Who is the one you m ...
Introduction to the Dhammapada - Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara
... to operate, governing the endowments and circumstances of the individual within his given form of existence. Thus, within the human world, previous stores of wholesome kamma will issue in long life, health, wealth, beauty and success; stores of unwholesome kamma in short life, illness, poverty, ugl ...
... to operate, governing the endowments and circumstances of the individual within his given form of existence. Thus, within the human world, previous stores of wholesome kamma will issue in long life, health, wealth, beauty and success; stores of unwholesome kamma in short life, illness, poverty, ugl ...
Meditation on the Buddha
... Just as your innermost wish is to be free from suffering and to abide in happiness, so too is it the aspiration of all other beings. But, they, like you, encounter sufferings and problems in their lives, and often their difficulties are much worse than your own. Examine your capacity to help them. A ...
... Just as your innermost wish is to be free from suffering and to abide in happiness, so too is it the aspiration of all other beings. But, they, like you, encounter sufferings and problems in their lives, and often their difficulties are much worse than your own. Examine your capacity to help them. A ...
RELIGIOUS STUDIES 2610 RELIGIONS OF INDIA
... keep them out of sight. You can miss 3 classes for any reason whatsoever ("I had to go snowboarding to celebrate my best friend turning 21"); no questions asked. After that your total grade begins to drop if the absence is not justified by a doctor's excuse. Attendance is worth 1 point off for each ...
... keep them out of sight. You can miss 3 classes for any reason whatsoever ("I had to go snowboarding to celebrate my best friend turning 21"); no questions asked. After that your total grade begins to drop if the absence is not justified by a doctor's excuse. Attendance is worth 1 point off for each ...
THE LIVING MESSAGE OF THE DHAMMAPADA by Bhikkhu Bodhi
... goodness meets with happiness and evil meets with suffering. But everyday experience shows us exactly the opposite. We all know of highly virtuous people beset with every kind of hardship and thoroughly bad people who succeed in everything they do. We feel that there must be some correction to this ...
... goodness meets with happiness and evil meets with suffering. But everyday experience shows us exactly the opposite. We all know of highly virtuous people beset with every kind of hardship and thoroughly bad people who succeed in everything they do. We feel that there must be some correction to this ...
Karma/Kamma: Teachings on Action and its Consequences
... The choices we act on make a difference. Because the changing world follows the laws of cause and effect, we can create new causes and conditions that will have a consequent effect on what we experience. Though the word ’karma' may suggest metaphysical ideas, karma can be seen in the pragmatic activ ...
... The choices we act on make a difference. Because the changing world follows the laws of cause and effect, we can create new causes and conditions that will have a consequent effect on what we experience. Though the word ’karma' may suggest metaphysical ideas, karma can be seen in the pragmatic activ ...
The Buddha`s Noble Eightfold Path Lecture 50: The Principles of
... their home life as the Victorians called it, continued to conform to Christian ethics. People like Darwin, people like Huxley, even people like Marx. Apart from one or two occasional slips they were models, we may say, of morality in the full sense. But that is all changed now. Now the situation is ...
... their home life as the Victorians called it, continued to conform to Christian ethics. People like Darwin, people like Huxley, even people like Marx. Apart from one or two occasional slips they were models, we may say, of morality in the full sense. But that is all changed now. Now the situation is ...
What Does It Mean To Be Enlightened?
... usually refer to as our self. What we usually refer to as our self is this complex of body and mind. For most of us, from the time we are born right up to the time of our death, our minds face outwardly, engaged in a tireless quest for pleasure and sensual gratification, for the enhancement of our ...
... usually refer to as our self. What we usually refer to as our self is this complex of body and mind. For most of us, from the time we are born right up to the time of our death, our minds face outwardly, engaged in a tireless quest for pleasure and sensual gratification, for the enhancement of our ...
Awareness Place Well-Being Centre - Dharma Resources
... 6310 6410, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.tenderlovingcare.sg to find out more. 88 Recycling Kiosk All plants, animals and human beings complement one another’s survival. Rejuvenate our environment and practise compassion at the same time through recycling. Collection hours: 7.00am – 7.00pm d ...
... 6310 6410, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.tenderlovingcare.sg to find out more. 88 Recycling Kiosk All plants, animals and human beings complement one another’s survival. Rejuvenate our environment and practise compassion at the same time through recycling. Collection hours: 7.00am – 7.00pm d ...
Mitra Foundation Course - Triratna Centre Support
... though we each had our own map of reality that we use to find our way around. This map is highly simplified, because reality is far too complex for us to hold in our heads. Our map bears a similar relationship to reality that a road map of France – say - bears to the actual country. If it is accurat ...
... though we each had our own map of reality that we use to find our way around. This map is highly simplified, because reality is far too complex for us to hold in our heads. Our map bears a similar relationship to reality that a road map of France – say - bears to the actual country. If it is accurat ...
The Four Noble Truths: A Scientific Perspective
... However to have a properly completed research, one must go a step beyond this mere identification of a solution and consider what the solution really means and what consequences it may have. For example, some practical applications of the solution may be presented or a more general solution may be f ...
... However to have a properly completed research, one must go a step beyond this mere identification of a solution and consider what the solution really means and what consequences it may have. For example, some practical applications of the solution may be presented or a more general solution may be f ...
Third Karma Kuchen Bio
... Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, Lhatrul Pedma Garwang, Drubwang Drodul Pawo Dorje, and many other eminent masters of the time. ...
... Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, Lhatrul Pedma Garwang, Drubwang Drodul Pawo Dorje, and many other eminent masters of the time. ...
Leaving a Guru – Discriminating bad from good Gurus
... identification of the incarnation of the highest lamas of their lineage. A few have even taken police action against each other’s claims over inherited property. Sutra-level gurumeditation, as His Holiness the Dalai Lama has experienced, may help traumatized Western Dharma students to deal with thes ...
... identification of the incarnation of the highest lamas of their lineage. A few have even taken police action against each other’s claims over inherited property. Sutra-level gurumeditation, as His Holiness the Dalai Lama has experienced, may help traumatized Western Dharma students to deal with thes ...
Learning the Buddha`s Great Compassion
... the translation from an ancient Indian word ‘maitri’, meaning the desire to give everyone comfort that transcends love and hatred out of true friendship or fellowship. Hi originated from ‘karuna’, meaning pity or sympathy for those who suffer and the desire to end their suffering. To learn the great ...
... the translation from an ancient Indian word ‘maitri’, meaning the desire to give everyone comfort that transcends love and hatred out of true friendship or fellowship. Hi originated from ‘karuna’, meaning pity or sympathy for those who suffer and the desire to end their suffering. To learn the great ...
course information
... A meditation retreat is a serious undertaking which requires great effort and selfdiscipline. A retreat is not merely a chance to escape the pressures of daily life, nor a means of overcoming a psychological crisis, nor time out in which to do your own practice. Rather, it is a unique opportunity to ...
... A meditation retreat is a serious undertaking which requires great effort and selfdiscipline. A retreat is not merely a chance to escape the pressures of daily life, nor a means of overcoming a psychological crisis, nor time out in which to do your own practice. Rather, it is a unique opportunity to ...
Vajrasattva Puja (Dorje Sempa)
... It is said in the scriptures that our delusions cannot be washed away by the Buddhas. Buddhas cannot shower us with divine waters and cleanse us. Nor can the Buddhas through all their divine knowledge cleanse us of all our delusions. These delusions have been committed and heaped upon by our own sel ...
... It is said in the scriptures that our delusions cannot be washed away by the Buddhas. Buddhas cannot shower us with divine waters and cleanse us. Nor can the Buddhas through all their divine knowledge cleanse us of all our delusions. These delusions have been committed and heaped upon by our own sel ...
BP2 M01 L35 (upload). - Amitabha Buddhist Centre
... apprehends the self. When this ignorance that conceives all things and events to be truly existent is weakened, perhaps we can also say that the imprints of the actions that are left on the mind will also become weaker. Perhaps this is how we can explain that having an interest in emptiness can puri ...
... apprehends the self. When this ignorance that conceives all things and events to be truly existent is weakened, perhaps we can also say that the imprints of the actions that are left on the mind will also become weaker. Perhaps this is how we can explain that having an interest in emptiness can puri ...