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You don't have to believe everything you think..............What is appearing is a manifestation of imprints in my mind, this is my karma. ............................................................ ........................................ Do not have blind faith, but also no blind criticism." His Holiness the Dalai Lama .................................."Self-confidence is not a feeling of superiority, but of independence." Lama Yeshe............................................Courage in an untrained mind leads to cruely, and in a trained mind it leads to hope and compassion.................The wisdom which realizes the true nature of all phenomena is like a diamond, which cuts through our wrong conceptions and brings liberation. Lama Yeshe on The Diamond/Vajra Cutter Sutra~ http://www.lamayeshe.com/otherteachers/buddha/diamond/vajra_ cutter.shtml................................................ ..............................
Go to ImageShack® to Create your own Slideshow .. .. .. ..Depressed and forlorn, when we feel mental anguish,........This is the wheel of sharp weapons returning.....................Full circle upon us from wrongs we have done..................Till now we have deeply disturbed minds of others; ............... Hereafter let’s take on this suffering ourselves...........Support the Gere foundation here : .........http://www.gerefoundation.org/main.html....
Heart of Wisdom Sutra------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------Thus I have heard: at one time, the Blessed One was dwelling in Rajagriha on Massed Vultures Mountain together in one method with a great assembly of monastics and a great assembly of bodhisattvas. At that time, the Blessed One was absorbed in the concentration of the countless aspects of phenomena called Profound Illumination.At that time also Superior Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva, the great being, was looking perfectly at the practice of the profound perfection of wisdom, perfectly looking at the emptiness of inherent existence of the five aggregates also.Then, through the power of Buddha, Venerable Shariputra said to Superior Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva, the great being, "How should a child of the lineage train who wishes to engage in the practice of the profound perfection of wisdom?"Thus he spoke, and Superior Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva, the great being, replied to Venerable Shariputra as follows:"Shariputra, whatever son or daughter of the lineage wishes to engage in the practice of the profound perfection of wisdom should look perfectly like this: subsequently looking perfectly and correctly at the emptiness of inherent existence of the five aggregates also.""Form is empty; emptiness is form. Emptiness is not other than form; form also is not other than emptiness. Likewise, feeling, discrimination, compositional factors and consciousness are empty.""Shariputra, like this all phenomena are merely empty, having no characteristics. They are not produced and do not cease. They have no defilement and no separation from defilement. They have no decrease and no increase.""Therefore, Shariputra, in emptiness there is no form, no feeling, no discrimination, no compositional factors, no consciousness. There is no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind; no form, no sound, no smell, no taste, no tactile object, no phenomenon. There is no eye element and so forth up to no mind element and also up to no element of mental consciousness. There is no ignorance and no exhaustion of ignorance, and so forth up to no ageing and death and no exhaustion of ageing and death. Likewise, there is no suffering, origin, cessation or path; no exalted wisdom, no attainment and also no non-attainment.""Therefore Shariputra, because there is no attainment, bodhisattvas rely on and abide in the perfection of wisdom; their minds have no obstructions and no fear. Passing utterly beyond perversity, they attain the final state beyond sorrow. Also, all the Buddhas who perfectly reside in the three times, relying upon the perfection of wisdom, become manifest and complete Buddhas in the state of unsurpassed, perfect and complete enlightenment.""Therefore, the mantra of the perfection of wisdom, the mantra of great knowledge, the unsurpassed mantra, the equal-to-the-unequalled mantra, the mantra that thoroughly pacifies all suffering, since it is not false, should be known as the truth. The mantra of the perfection of wisdom is proclaimed:tayata gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi soha (Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone completely beyond, awakened, so be it!)"Shariputra, a bodhisattva, a great being, should train in the profound perfection of wisdom like this."Then the Blessed One arose from that concentration and said to Superior Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva, the great being, that he had spoken well. "Good, good, O child of the lineage. It is like that. Since it is like that, just as you have revealed, the profound perfection of wisdom should be practiced in that way, and the tathagatas will also rejoice."When the Blessed One had said this, Venerable Shariputra, Superior Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva, the great being, and that entire assembly of disciples as well as the worldly beings -- gods, humans, demi-gods and spirits -- were delighted and highly praised what had been spoken by the Blessed One.

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To know the facts of the manner in which things exist is to understand the nonexistance of the object as it is grasped through ignorance. ........Robert Thurman: Some people say that you have to follow the religions of your own culture. Is it really a good idea to adopt a religion or spiritual practice foreign to one's culture? ............................................................ .....Dalai Lama: I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion. Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me. All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment. So merely changing formal religious affiliations will often not help much. On the other hand, in pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose! [Laughs] ....................................... FAQ: Prayer, Ritual, and Dedicating Positive Potential - Part 4 - with Venerable Thubten Chodron now available here: http://www.thubtenchodron.org/FAQ/index.html...............d ont forget............................ - Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive online book of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's advice on a wide range of topics in the form of short talks and letters available here..................................................... http://www.lamayeshe.com/lamazopa/advicebook/index.shtml.... ............................................................ ............................................................ ...............Contentment and Happiness????~What is appearing is merely a manifestation of imprints in my mind. This is my karma.....nothing happens by accident, everything is dependent, so plant the right seeds ------ try here : - http://www.thubtenchodron.org/DealingWithEmotions/contentmen t_and_happiness.html........................................ ..........................................................-- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ Check out The Institue of Tibetan Classics at this link :-----
"Welcome to the Institute of Tibetan Classics website. The Institute is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of classical Tibetan thought, culture and literary heritage. Our goal is to make the insights of classical Tibetan culture a truly shared global intellectual and spiritual resource open to all".........link: - http://www.tibetanclassics.org/index.html................... ..........................................................Du e to this merit may we soon Attain the enlightened state of Guru-Buddha, That we may be able to liberate All sentient beings from their sufferings.May the precious bodhi mind Not yet born arise and grow. May that born have no decline, But increase forever more.In all my rebirths may I never be separated from perfect spiritual masters and enjoy the magnificent Dharma. Completing all qualities of the stages and paths, may I quickly achieve the state of Vajradhara.May anyone who merely sees, hears, remembers, touches or talks to me be freed in that very instant from all sufferings and abide in happiness forever. It is only from the kindness of my spiritual masters that I have met the peerless teachings of the Buddha. Thus, I dedicate all positive potential so that all migrating beings may be guided in the future by kind and holy spiritual masters.Until cyclic existence ends, may the beneficial teachings not be blown away by the wind of superstitions. May the entire world be filled with people who have understood and found firm faith in the true teachings.Day and night, may I pass the time thinking and examining by what means these teachings can spread in the minds of myself and others.May sentient beings, who have all been my mother and father, be completely happy, and may the lower realms be forever empty. May all the prayers of bodhisattvas, in whatever places they live, be immediately fulfilled.May I experience whatever sufferings sentient beings have, and they experience whatever happiness and virtue I have.May the glorious spiritual masters live long, and may all beings throughout limitless space have happiness. By purifying our defilements and accumulating positive potential, may I and all others be inspired to attain Buddhahood quickly.May I never develop for even a moment wrong views towards the deeds of my glorious spiritual masters. By seeing whatever actions they do as pure with respect and devotion, may the spiritual masters' inspiration flow into my mind.In whatever way you appear, O glorious guru, whatever your retinue, lifespan and pureland, whatever your name most noble and holy, may I and all others attain only these.In order to train just like the hero Manjushri who knows reality as it is and just like Samantabhadra as well, I completely dedicate all this goodness, just as they did.With that dedication which is praised as greatest by all the Buddhas gone to freedom in the three times, I, too, dedicate all my roots of goodness for the attainments of the bodhisattva practice.In all our lives, through the Victorious One, Lama Tsongkhapa acting as the actual Mahayana spritual master, may I never turn aside for even an instant from the excellent path praised by the victorious ones.May I and others be able to live in pure moral conduct, train our minds in bodhicitta, and develop pure view and conduct. In this way, may we complete our lives without corrupting the pure wisdom of Lama Tsongkhapa, (who is like) the second Buddha...................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ .....................................more beautiful prayers and teachings, [including audio]..by Bikshuni Thubten Chodron available here : - http://www.thubtenchodron.org/.............................. ............................................

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"Why are we bored, lonely and lazy? Because we don't have the will to totally open our hearts to others. If you have the strength of will to totally open your heart to others, you will eliminate laziness, selfishness and loneliness. Actually, the reason you get lonely is that you are not doing anything. If you were busy, you wouldn't have time to get lonely. Loneliness can only enter an inactive mind. If your mind is dull and your body inactive, then you get lonely. Basically, this comes from a selfish attitude, concern for yourself alone. That is the cause of loneliness, laziness and a closed heart."Lama Thubten Yeshe....................................................... .................................... .............We practitioners of Tibetan Dharma are refugees from Tibet who transmigrated from one existence to the next...............................................Our struggle is to find the yearning of our spiritual heritage from a previous existence in an environment where social values are rooted in materialism.......................................The truly miraculous thing is that the migrators, through their own yearning, are able to bring the Dharma to people who haven't met the Dharma before. The ineffable joy of this is that we're able to see how true the teachings are. ~Ngawang Chotok...................................................... ..............................— Even if someone has only one day left to live, even only one hour left, they still have an incredible opportunity to make the human body-which they have received just this one time-most beneficial. —Lama Zopa Rinpoche.............. see here this link for the Liberation Prison Project page . http://www.liberationprisonproject.org/index2.html.........h ow can you help ? please check it out and see ............ ............................................................ ............................................................ .................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ .............................................. who would I like to meet?All the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, HH Dalai Lama--------------------------------- As a blind man feels when he finds a pearl in a dustbin, so am I amazed by the miracles of awakening rising in my consciousness. It is the nectar of immortality that delivers us from death, the treasure that lifts us from death, the treasure that lifts us above poverty into the wealth of giving to life, the tree that gives shade to us when we roam about scorched by life, the bridge that takes us across the stormy river of life, the cool moon of compassion that calms our mind when it is agitated, the fun that dispels darkness, the butter made from the milk of kindness by churning it with the dharma. It is a feast of joy to which all are invited. ~ adapted from the Bodhicharyavatara by Shantideva- what is buddhism?????It is the response of awakened beings to unawakened beings' wish to become enlightened. ~Robert Thurman *The Jewel Tree of Tibet*********** The greatest achievement is selflessness**The greatest worth is self-mastery**The greatest quality is seeking to serve others**The greatest precept is continual awareness**The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything**The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways**The greatest magic is transmuting the passions**The greatest generosity is non-attachment**The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind**The greatest patience is humility**The greatest effort is not concerned with results**The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go**The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances****And what is the ultimate goal of the teaching ? The ultimate goal of the teaching is that emptiness whose essence is compassion ~ Atisha.....................................................2 7 Verses of Training the Mind........By Je Tsongkhapa...............With body, speech and mind fully aligned.... I prostrate fervently before those rare beings....... who are victorious over all notions of limitation........ and before their spiritual daughters and sons........ May a cosmic celebration of pure poetry....... perfectly expressing the most subtle teaching of these victorious sages and the inheritors of their wisdom........... now burst forth like an infinite garden in perpetual spring.............................................Gaze calmly with the clear eye of Prajnaparamita upon universal manifestation, this beginningless tapestry woven from vibrant karmic threads of conscious beings, and listen to the harmonious symphony of interdependence....... Purify entirely from the slightest shadow of negativity this boundless expanse of apparent struggle and conflict......... With diamond-clear intention, instil faith everywhere..... With mirrorlike wisdom, stabilize chaotic minds...........If shadows of negativity are not dispelled immediately, these strange, insubstantial absences of light gain immense power with every action, until even those who understand the dangers of negation will not have enough power to choose the way of Clear Light................. Even those who study philosophy and speak eloquently are unable to release themselves from illusory darkness.................................................... ............................................................ ...........go to http://www.namgyal.org/ to find out more about..............
............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ .............................. The seeds of action are positive and negative intentions. Any intention consciously rooted in selfless motivation, desiring only sheer goodness for all conscious life, will establish the stable ground of goodness and will universally generate rich results of goodness. Any intention even slightly weakened by selfish motivation undermines both the ground of our life and its fruits...... Intention is the sole creative force of existence...............To cling to the intention of triumphing over another, the desire to prosper at the expense of any living being or to indulge in the slightest bias against any being because of personal feelings of attraction or repulsion, these alone are the causes for whatever suffering exists in personal lives and in the universe as a whole.......... We should meditate ceaselessly on this revolutionary truth, remaining conscious of it during every moment of existence................................................... ...................http://www.lamrim.com/hhdl/atishaslamp.ht ml ...................................................LONG DISTANCE -COMPREHENSIVE HOME STUDY WITH ACCESS TO QUALIFIED LAMAS AND ELDERS /TEACHERS AVAILABLE HERE : - http://www.fpmt.org...............Check out the first set of teachings called Mind and its Potential on mp3 audio for free - here : - http://www.kunkyab.org/ ........see what you think ............................................................ ..................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ............... ........................................... OM AH GURU VAJRADHARA VAGINDRA SUMATI SHASANA DHARA SAMUDRA SHRI BHADRA SARVA SIDDHI HUM HUM
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.....................:- Brilliant audio teaching by Venerable Robina Courtin, Developing the Good Heart ( covers a wide range of teachings including karma) available here :-http://www.archive.org/details/Tse_Chen_Ling_Portland_Robi na_Courtin_Good_Heart_20050611.............................. ............................................................ ............................................................ ..................................................more free audio teachings................................................... .....................................FPMT RadioFPMT Radio broadcasts an ongoing series of Tibetan Buddhist teachings presented by FPMT teachers throughout the world, 24 hours a day. The teachings are streamed over the Internet in MP3 format and accessible to most computers with a 56k modem connection or better.Audio Teachings You Can Download http://www.kunkyab.org/http://www.lamrim.com~What is appearing is merely a manifestation of imprints in my mind. This is my karma. Where does bias come from? -- The human mind, specifically from attachment and anger, from holding some people dear and others distant. The object is never the source of your problems. We blame and criticize others because we don't like suffering. But if we don't like suffering, we should not harm others and create disharmony; this is what interferes with our happiness. What we want and what we are doing are opposite.Lama Zopa Let us seek not to pinpoint blame, but to pinpoint cause The time is now~ Practice is not for another time or another place or another person~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~It is not differences that divide us; it's our judgments that do The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth. HH Dalai Lama ......................................................Ultima te bodhicitta refers to the wisdom realizing emptiness. Emptiness is regarded as the "ultimate" object, not because it is some sort of absolute truth that is independent of everything else. Rather, emptiness of inherent existence is the ultimate or deepest way in which all phenomena exist. Developing the wisdom realizing emptiness involves looking beyond superficial and deceptive conventional appearances................................................. ....Whatever appears is your own mind; Your mind from the start was free from fabricated extremes. Understanding this, do not take to mind (Inherent) signs of subject and object This is the practice of Bodhisattvas. ... In exploring the emptiness of inherent existence of phenomena, we are focusing on the ultimate truth, the deepest mode of existence of persons and phenomena. The persons and phenomena themselves are conventional truths, dependently existing things that appear with their own characteristics and perform various functions in the world. These two truths are related in that conventional truths are what appear to our mind on a day-to-day basis, while ultimate truths are their deeper mode of existence............................Nothing can ever be found that is self-existent or that exists by itself independently of other phenomena. Whatever appears to the mind, both inner objects related to sentient beings' minds and outer objects in the environment, is merely labeled by mind. If we analyze the final mode of existence of the subject the mind which labels we find it too is free from elaborations of the two extremes of true existence and total non-existence. Thus the final way of existing of both object and subject is that they do not exist from their own side. They are like space, which in this context is defined as a mere lack of tangibility and obstruction. Wherever we look in space, we never find anything tangible or any impediment. Similarly, if we look for existence from its own side in any phenomenon, we never find it. We simply find freedom from the elaborations of the two extremes.........................How meditating on emptiness destroys our suffering:.........................When we understand the evolution of our unsatisfactory experiences in cyclic existence, we will see that meditating on emptiness is their antidote. All knowable things people and phenomena appear to our minds to be inherently existent. We then grasp at them as existing inherently. Our inappropriate attention focuses on them, and that gives rise to the various disturbing attitudes of anger, attachment, and so on. These disturbing attitudes motivate our actions, which in turn leave karmic imprints on our mind-streams. When these imprints ripen, we meet with suffering. Let's look at this process in more depth and see how meditating on emptiness stops this process.................................................... ... Whether an object appears attractive or ugly to us, ignorance, a mind which conceives of it as existing from its own side, will arise in us. After that, but before either attachment or aversion arise towards the object, there will be a conceptual consciousness called "inappropriate attention." If a pleasing object is slightly beautiful, inappropriate attention exaggerates, makes it much more beautiful, and thinks, "This is really good!" This inappropriate attention induces attachment, a mind of desire that thinks, "If only I could have that." If anger is going to be produced, first there is inappropriate attention, which exaggerates the unpleasant aspect of the object, making it more negative. As a result, we then get angry and want to destroy or run away from what we think is harming us.........................................Attachment, anger, and other disturbing attitudes motivate us to say and do various things, and thus we accumulate negative karma or actions. As a result we experience their results, feelings of suffering. Ignorance is also behind our experiences of happiness in cyclic existence. For example, ignorance grasping at a truly existent I arises, and we think, "I want to create good karma so I'll be happy in the future!" This thought is a form of attachment, which clings to just our own happiness within cyclic existence, and is also a disturbing attitude. With such a motivation, we create positive karma, which leaves the imprints in our mind-streams that will ripen into our future experiences of happiness. Although this is a good motivation compared to the previous ones, it nevertheless does not free us from cyclic existence because it still thinks all phenomena exist inherently---Geshe Jampa Tegchok..................................................... .............................. .. .. ..
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everything by His Holiness Dalai Lama, to mention a few:..............................everything by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, everything by Lama Thubten Yeshe, I love Jeffrey Hopkins teachings, and those by Robert Thurman.................

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.................Heroes.......Lord Buddha, All the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas - HH Dalai Lama, Lama Thubten Yeshe, Lama Zopa Rinpoche , Robert Thurman, Nelson Mandela - I just so love Bikshuni Thubten Chodron, Venerable Robina Courtin too.....

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Why The Dalai Lama Matters

 Why the Dalai Lama Matters   The link above is a short video by Robert Thurman   ...
Posted by Snowdakini on Sat, 17 May 2008 09:36:00 PST

Emptiness Yoga

Emptiness and dependent-arising come to have the same import for one who has understood them fully.We are always thinking, " What causes such and such?" But has this ever induced us to see things as w...
Posted by Snowdakini on Wed, 14 May 2008 08:05:00 PST

Mothers Day

For all the Mothers     "I tell you, monks, there are two people who are not easy to repay. Which two? Your mother & father. " ~  Buddha...
Posted by Snowdakini on Sun, 11 May 2008 01:31:00 PST

Words of Truth

  A Prayer Composed by: His Holines Tenzin Gyatso The Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet   Honoring and Invoking the Great Compassion of the Three Jewels; the Buddha, the Teachings, and the Spi...
Posted by Snowdakini on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:58:00 PST

Cinema for Peace

Richard Gere's touching Speech on Tibet & Nangpala Pass Incidence at "Cinema for Peace" Award Ceremony, Berlin-07   http://www.tcv.org.in/movie.shtml    ...
Posted by Snowdakini on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:43:00 PST

richard gere speaks on tibet

.." target="_self">richard gere Twelve Suggestions for Dealing with the Tibetan Situation by Some Chinese Intellectuals1. At present the one-sided propaganda of the official Chinese media...
Posted by Snowdakini on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:23:00 PST

Richard Gere, on Tibet, His Holiness and watching the mind

Richard Gere Is ’Always Watching the Mind’The Buddhist actor talks to Beliefnet about Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and how his life is infused with mindfulness. Interview by Valerie Reiss At thi...
Posted by Snowdakini on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:01:00 PST

The Sangha of Pagoda Phat Hue, Frankfurt , praying for Tibet

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Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Support His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibet "The purpose of doing demonstrations is to fulfill the Guru His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Holy wishes, this Guru Yoga practice is the path to enlig...
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Tibet History

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