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Buddhism at the Albuquerque Balloon Festival

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Middle Way, Ethics, Video, Mahasiddha Dharma and other musings....

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Edges always define the center. Radical social and philosophical concepts serve the middle ground of culture by showing where we might choose not to participate. However, the Middle Way of Buddhism is different; rather than finding a safe p osition in the center, it is defined by an active and cultivated rejection of the extremes of nhilism and permanentism. Its logical system is organized to discover what is real is based on what is rejected rather than what is accepted. ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~~~~~ "Die Mitte wird immer durch die Ränder definiert. Radikale soziale und philosophische Konzepte helfen der Mitte einer Kultur, indem sie das aufzeigen, woran wir vielleicht nicht teilnehmen wollen. Der mittlere Weg im Buddhismus ist jedoch etwas anderes: anstatt einen sicheren Ort in der Mitte zu finden ist er durch eine aktive und kultivierte Ablehnung der Extreme des Nihilismus und Permanentisums gekennzeichnet. Sein logisches System ist derart organisiert, dass man anhand des

Worldview, Buddhist Retreat Center, Lucky Life and other musings...

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The worldview of an individual must be seamless. A damaged worldview is a sign of mental illness... when things don't make sense anymore and the individual doesn't have the inner resources to fix it to make it make sense.  The worldview of  an enlightened being is not broken... it has become transformed due to closure of subtle stress in the deep vital mind. The process must be done slowly and skillfully so that one does not damage the worldview without another better one cultivated and nearly in place. This is the long term value of steady daily meditation; a gradual healing of confusion that has wrongly cemented a false worldview in place instead of an aligned worldview with reality. This is dharma! ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~~~~~~~ „Die Weltsicht eines Individuums muss nahtlos zusammenhängen. Eine beschädigte Weltsicht ist ein Anzeichen für eine psychische Krankheit... wenn die Dinge keinen Sinn mehr ergeben und das Individuum keine inneren Ressourcen besitzt, um dies zu