Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Love relationships with family, friends and intimates are clues to help us wake up to notice the presence and needs of other. Seeking love is a low level spiritual practice that arouses feelings taking us out of ourselves. Improving and healing broken relationships also help awaken to a broader new world view where we are happy not to be the center of attention.  Unfortunately, the practice of l ove doesn't have very clear cut instructions and can soon become, ‘I expected him to give me something that I needed.’ The fact that it is a low level and interactive practice probably also means that others were not capable of giving that much. However, because we operate from our own expectations and not their expectations, projections of what they were ready to give us might far outweigh their actual capacity. When things get messy, maybe we get out our vacuum cleaner of love, and try to suck from them what that they likely do not possess. And that is okay for now, because this love thi...

Once existence is established in one form realm or another, it tends to remain fairly stable with predictable changes. At the end of that form existence there is a grand transition before arising in another form. We need to make effort now, before the end of life takes us away to an unknown and predictably worse situation due to unresolved errors created in this life. ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~~~ Wenn sich die Existenz erst in diesem oder jenem Formbereich etabliert hat, bleibt sie normalerweise recht stabil und Veränderungen sind vorhersehbar. Am Ende jener Existenz innerhalb einer Form geschieht der große Übergang, bevor man in anderer Form wieder erscheint. Wir müssen und jetzt anstrengen, bevor uns das Lebensende, aufgrund von ungelösten Fehlern aus diesem Leben. in eine unbekannte und voraussichtlich schlimmere Situation entführt." - Domo Geshe Rinpoche --- White Conch Summer Retreat 2012 July 6-July 29  Three Sessions to Choose From In This Issue Come to...