Although the results of our actions may not have matured yet, they will inevitably ripen, given the right conditions. Usually we forget what we do, and it is...
The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, Those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, Like they who lick the honey from a...
Lifetimes of ignorance have brought us to identify the whole of our being with ego. Its greatest triumph is to inveigle us into believing its best interests...
As you continue to meditate on compassion, when you see someone suffer, your first response becomes not mere pity but deep compassion. You feel for that person...
At the moment of death, our state of mind is all-important. If we die in a positive frame of mind, we can improve our next birth, despite our negative karma....
The most important thing is not to get trapped in what I see everywhere in the West, a “shopping mentality”: shopping around from master to master, ...
The master is like a great ship for beings to cross the perilous ocean of existence, an unerring captain who guides them to the dry land of liberation, a rain...
Enlightenment for Gautama [the Buddha] felt as though a prison which had confined him for thousands of lifetimes had broken open. Ignorance had been the...
There is no swifter, more moving, or more powerful practice for invoking the help of the enlightened beings, for arousing devotion and realizing the nature of...
Just as a writer learns the spontaneous freedom of expression only after years of often grueling study, and just as the simple grace of a dancer is achieved...
Sometime, somewhere you need to take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on...
In the ordinary mind, we perceive the stream of thoughts as continuous, but in reality this is not the case. You will discover for yourself that there is a gap...
Because life is nothing but a perpetual fluctuation of birth, death, and transition, so bardo experiences are happening to us all the time, and are a basic...
Tashi Deleg! Leona, The message was to meditate about death not to meditate and communicate with the death. If we are not ready and we start to communicate...
We have been taught to spend our lives chasing our thoughts and projections. Even when the “mind” is talked about, it is only thoughts and emotions that ...
What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing at all. Just leave it, simply, as it is. One master described meditation as “mind, suspended in...
Every subatomic interaction consists of the annihilation of the original particles and the creation of new subatomic particles. The subatomic world is a...
Even within the human realm, all of us have our own individual karma. Human beings look much the same, but we perceive things utterly differently, and we each...
To contemplate impermanence on its own is not enough: You have to work with it in your life. Let’s try an experiment. Pick up a coin. Imagine that it ...
If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of what continues, no knowledge of the new dimension of...
If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of what continues, no knowledge of the new dimension of...
Don’t be in too much of a hurry to solve all your doubts and problems. As the masters say: “Make haste slowly.” I always tell my students not to have ...
Leona-I feel similarly, that the Masters would have us practice "wakefullness" to as great a degree as we can, and especially at the death of the body. Fear,...
After meditation, it’s important not to give in to our tendency to solidify the way we perceive things. When you do re-enter everyday life, let the wisdom,...
... 3principals- ... This link does not work, so here is a bit of the teaching. Three Principals of the Path Part 4 by Venerable Ribur Rinpoche The following...
In Tibetan tradition there are highly developed teachings on intermediate state, one of the intermediate states is state after death. Tibetan word "Bardo"...
... Here is a good webpage with several quotes made available: http://www.khandro.net/doctrine_rebirth.htm Read whole thing several times, should also look...
Dudjom Rinpoche used to say that a beginner should practice meditation in short sessions. Practice for four or five minutes, then take a short break of just...
