Empowering people to reach their full potential
Here I have collected a couple of translations of Geshe Langri Tangpa‘s Eight Verses of Training the Mind, which is considered a succinct summary of Lojong teachings of Mahayana Buddhism. First, a little history of Lojong, courtesy of Wikipedia: Lojong mind training practice was developed over a 300-year period between 900 and 1200 CE, as part of the Mahāyāna school …
I’ve joined the Million Mani Club. Well, technically not yet. I haven’t recited a million Manis yet. But I’m in process of doing so. Just what exactly is this club? I’m so glad you asked. From the Kagyu Thubten Chöling website: The KTC Million Mani Club was first launched in December 2012, with the aspiration …
We live in illusion And the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, You see that you are nothing. And being nothing, You are everything. That is all. —Kalu Rinpoche
The Bodhisattva learns that to be angry at the imperfections of others is, in the words of Shantideva, like resenting fire for its heat or resenting the sky for having clouds. S/he understands that the actions of other people are like forces of nature that arise from causes and conditions that are enormously complex. Rebecca …
Watch this clip from Melvin McLeod’s feature interview with the Dalai Lama, in which His Holiness addresses the question, “How do we convince people that human beings are actually good?”
When someone with an itchy skin condition scratches it, he feels some temporary relief and thinks his scratching has made it better. In fact, his scratching has made it worse.
These are the books I’ve bought in the last two weeks or so. Looks like I’ll be busy reading for quite some time (completely ignoring the large number of books I already have on hand that I’ve yet to read).
All of us are apprenticed to the same teacher that the religious institutions originally worked with: reality. Reality-insight says . . . master the twenty-four hours. Do it well, without self-pity. It is as hard to get the children herded into the car pool and down the road to the bus as it is to …
Essence of Buddhism writes: In the Shurangama Sutra, the Buddha starts off by saying that people who undertake spiritual cultivation but fail to realize ultimate enlightenment all fail because they don’t understand 2 fundamentals roots – the 2 different types of mind. They only think that there is 1 type of mind – their thoughts …
The Tibetan teacher Mingyur Rinpoche explains that meditation is the best way to train our ‘crazy monkey mind’.