Self Liberation of Thought by Lama Rinchen When we have gained experience at watching the mind, we will soon develop the skill of seeing thoughts arise. When we have developed the skill of seeing thoughts arise, then it is an effective time to apply some more medicine. This medicine is to learn about the practice […]
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Emotional Involvement
This is the cause of all pain and suffering in the world. The basis or root of this is the false belief in an “I” or “self” existing separately from every one and everything else. This sticky relationship with the self is made worse by lack of unconditional love, altruistic compassion, and direct insight into […]
Buddhahood = Perfect Health
Only humans can be trained to recognize their intrinsic states of awareness and practice to become what they and this universe already are; Buddha – shamata – dharmakaya – dhi – light or pure energy, in a state of non-separation or unity. This state (of mind) can be experienced by ordinary humans many ways: sexual […]
Three Light Meditation
Om Ma Hung or Three Light Chakra Meditation from the Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Lama Tashi Dundrup is a qualified Lama of the Shengpa Karma Kagyu Tradition. […]
Conflict
The root of all conflict, war, fighting, quarrelling etc. is in one’s mind. It’s basis is – emotionally identifying one’s perceptions, thoughts and body as who one really is. This misinterpretation of self causes one to believe they exist separately from everyone else, nature and even from their god and goddess concepts. The resulting conflicts […]
Wisdom
The development of wisdom or insight into one’s absolute true nature of the mind is called enlightenment. This state of intrinsic awareness has five qualities or flavors; unity positive activity mental and spiritual clarity equanimity and discriminating awareness This is accomplished through five bodhisattva disciplines: Generosity Morality (which includes ethics and good manners) Patience Perseverance […]
Mercy
Mercy is having concern or compassion for self, others, and our natural environment. In spiritual practice, it comes in two forms. The first is based on extending loving kindness and assistance to alleviate pain, suffering and disharmony in the world. In our tradition, this practice of compassion includes all the humans, animals, and spirits in […]
Rebirth
Rebirth is the process by which we move in time from one life to the next. It is controlled by our emotional involvement with our forms and thoughts. We call this karma. Regardless of our faith or belief, future rebirths are caused by the negative or positive results of our body speech and mind’s activity. […]
War
This in the human condition is caused by the idea of a “self” or “ego” separated from others. Most of the human race suffers from this delusion, which of course is not true. Every thing and every one is inter-connected and all of this is one’s life support system. The antidote to war, fighting, and […]
Spirituality
This word arises from the two worlds or states of being 1. carnate – animals and humans 2. discarnate or spirits. In the spirit world there are four levels: 1. Demonic spirits of the 18 kinds of hells 2. Deprived spirits of 260 different categories 3. Spartans or jealous power-mongering gods and goddesses of 18 […]