If your path teaches you to act and exert yourself correctly and leads to spiritual realizations such as love, compassion and wisdom then obviously it’s worthwhile. ~ Lama Thubten Yeshe
Month: September 2012
A String of Beads…
English: Sogyal Rinpoche teaching in Lerab Ling,
A string of beads has a thread running through all the beads, keeping them together. What we need is a thread too—of sanity and stability. Because when you have a thread, even though each bead is separate, they hang together. When we have the teachings in us, stabilizing us, there’s a thread to keep our life together that prevents us from falling apart. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche, “The Stability of Ease”
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Nature of your mind
If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true. ~ Lama Thubten Yeshe
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Letting the mind to become peaceful and…
Letting the mind to become peaceful and staying in meditation state of stillness free from many thoughts is called Shamata or sustained calm. Recognizing the empty nature of the mind within that state of calm is called vipashyana or profound insight. Uniting shamata and vipashyana is the essence of meditation practice.
It is said: Look at the mind, There is nothing to see. Seeing nothing, we see the Dharma, The source of all Buddhas. ~ Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Suffering
Suffering also has its worth.
Through sorrow, pride is driven out
And pity felt for those who wander in samsara;
Evil is avoided, goodness seems delightful. ~ Shantideva
A Buddhist's Journey 