Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Gentling our nature can be done mechanically by trying harder to be nice to others. However, it will come organically and effortlessly by a radical discovery during meditation of the deep root of the Golden Rule. ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~ ~~~~~ Wir können unsere Natur auf mechanische Weise sanfter machen, indem wir uns mehr Mühe geben, netter zu anderen zu sein. Dasselbe wird jedoch während der Meditation durch die radikale Entdeckung der tiefliegenden Wurzel der Goldenen Regel auf organische und mühelose Weise geschehen." - Domo Geshe Rinpoche --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bondadosamente nuestra naturaleza puede hacerse mecanicamente por tratar duramente de ser agradable a otros. Sin embargo, viene organicamente y sin esfuerzo por un descubrimiento radical durante la meditacion de la profunda raiz de la Regla de Oro DGR There are spiritual people who repeatedly make effort in practice and daily meditation and then just let go because they can’t try anymore; they become spi...

The analogy of prison to describe the human condition is accurate; to live in freedom as a prisoner. Not only that, but humans are able to observe other prisoners in far worse condition than themselves. We call one situation free and demo cracy, and another situation we call oppression, dictatorship, or slavery. Of course, that is true from one point of view, but from a place of higher truth, even the free are still imprisoned! Humans are imprisoned in a perceptual prison just as real (or more real) than iron bars. During the time when many Tibetans were jailed by the Chinese, those that were trained in the higher bodhisattva path and achieved enlightenment felt that a certain part never became imprisoned. Because of that, we were able to survive the experience of physical prison. Iron bars could not hold us, because we were already free! In spite of that, helper beings, such as incarnations of Buddhas, still required a great deal of conscious effort to prevent manifestations of ext...