Hello, my name is Jeff Brooks. I live in the USA and I have been a lay follower of the Buddha for 30 years. In the duration of these three decades I have ...
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Hi, Tickets went on sale today for the event. They can be purchased online at www.ticketmaster.ca (search under "Dalai Lama" and choose the "Power of...
His Holiness Celebrates Guru Rinpoche's Birthday with 50,000 Buddhist Pilgrims TibetNet Rewalsar, March 1 - About 50, 000 Buddhists pilgrims from all around...
Peace Ride for Tibet will Span Washington, D.C., to Toronto (ICT) By Savetibet.org Mar 2, 2004 The Peace Ride for Tibet's Independence, which will span more...
Tashi Delek everyone, Below is a copy of an e-mail that I received from Students for a Free Tibet. Remember Tibetan National Uprising Day on March 10. Metta, ...
March 2004 Edition >> Issue 49 >> Published by: Panna Youth Centre, Singapore -[Harvest.Content] harvesting.spiritual.seeds.of.growth ..::1.0 editor's desk -...
From Longchenpa "Further, the essence of outer appearances is shown to be the essence of awakened mind in terms of nature-less emptiness and shown to be the...
On your subject line, "samsara and nirvana are the same". This is not how I understand these states. I understood samsara as the never ending reappearance on...
Hi Janet Your understanding is not incorrect from a Sutrayana pov. Longchenpa writes from a non-dual Dzogchen pov. Sutrayana, which includes all the schools ...
Long-Life Puja for His Holiness (TN) TibetNet March 08, 2004 Dharamsala, March 6 - Celebrating His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 50th year as a fully ordained...
Dalai Lama delivers annual sermon (ANI) ANI March 08, 2004 Dharamsala, March 8 - Thousands of Buddhist devotees assembled in Dharamshala on Sunday to take part...
"When we attain Buddhahood...we realise that nothing in samsara has changed because we are enlightened. All remains as it ever was. Empty of self." So what...
Do you really mean that everyday mind is "separate" from Buddha mind? How can there be separation if all mind is Buddha mind? Metta, Janet ... From: "Bob...
Hi Shira Here is a quote from Sogyal Rinpoche. "There is a danger, called in the tradition "losing the Action in the View." A teaching as high and powerful as...
Hi Janet In your original post you described "samsara as the never ending reappearance on this earth until we become enlightened" & nirvana as something which...
Hello all, I had a very interesting dream about HH the Dalai Lama the other night that has stuck with me for about a week now and was wondering if anyone had...
Hi Dawn, That is quite a dream, I must say! I can empathize with how you must feel because I have had (although not the same) amazing dreams about him myself. ...
Hi Bob, "Deluding yourself that you are liberating your thoughts and emotions, when in fact you are nowhere near able to do so" Ouch! How many times have I...
Wow, thank you very much for the insights! I don't know if it was a shared dream or not, that's an idea I hadn't considered. The idea of perhaps worrying less...
Hi Dawn, Nice to hear from you again. Wow, what an amazing dream! Walking through the hallways of a large school sounds as if you are on a search for...
Hi Shira, Wow, thank you! You have shed a great deal of insight -- one of my initial reactions was to explore the chakra aspect...turns out that is actually a ...
Hi Shira I have just been looking through Elias Capriles' e-book from http://eliascapriles.dzogchen.ru/ It has a section on the Dzogchen samaya. What I said...
Statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the Forty-Fifth Anniversary of Tibetan National Uprising Day March 9, 2004 Today we commemorate the 45th...
Hi Bob, Thanks for that link. It seemed that the only way I could read any of that e-book was to download all 310 pages. So when things get a little slow at...
Do to popular outrage, the Tibetan nun was released from jail pending a hearing, Friday night January 30th. She has been staying with her friend from Tibetan...
Dalai Lama to receive honorary degree March 11, 2004 TORONTO (CP) - The Dalai Lama will come to Canada in April to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree...
Alanis gets new chance to present Dalai Lama (OC) BY BOB HARVEY Ottawa Citizen March 13, 2004 Alanis Morissette will get a second chance next month to...