Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Like a song that is forever singing beginning to end and end to beginning simultaneously, the Great Path that stimulates awakening exists simultaneously but in time and space becomes linear.~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~ ***** "Wie ein Lied, das auf ewig von Anfang bis Ende und gleichzeitig von Ende bis Anfang erklingt, existiert der Große Pfad, welcher zum Erwachen anregt, auf simultane Weise; jedoch wird er linear durch Zeit und Raum.! - Domo Geshe Rinpoche --- We experience weather in a purely perceptual way as well as knowing that our body senses are influenced by the changing outer environment. However, the physical senses expect that temperature, barometric pressure, sunlight etc will remain fairly constant or they will send alerting signals. "Hot, hot, hot" means, take action now to cool off. This signal is not activated by temperature, only the cha nge in temperature; 60 degrees in June feels cold but 60 degrees in January might feel hot! For many folks, when th...

How can we prevent changing? Change will happen whether we are prepared for it or not. What we do in deliberate inner spiritual work is push for positive, beneficial change that will effortlessly recreate us into the one that we always knew that we could be! Therefore, deliberate change is what we seek, within parameters of cultivated new and healthy influences, rather than going with the flow of our presently held influences, most of which we might unhappily discover, are not of our own choosing. Without making effort, we could be leading a life that is based on factors that are not who we are, not of our own decisions, and often, not very happy because we really wanted to be doing something else with our life! As we continue thinking about this extremely important subject of influences, we will discover inner and outer obstacles one after the other. Another obstacle preventing you from being who want to be might wish to be is poor health. Actually, this is a very Tibetan answer...

Part 2 In truth, being happy does not depend upon having successes or having our needs met in the way we want them to be met. Sometimes people do get the thing they want, but not done in the manner they wanted it to be done, so then it becomes unhappiness. Getting a raise happiness, getting a new car happiness, or getting the final tin soldier in your antique collection set happiness, are not the criteria of happiness. It is so interesting that this is still such an integral part of everyday philosophy because these ideas do not exist in the scriptures or even in the teachings of Christianity as happiness. However, it is like a teeter-totter. Over here, you have reasonable values regarding happiness and suffering by the great minds and philosophers from the Buddha to Socrates to Wittgenstein. Over here, you have a five hundred pound gorilla demanding that you obey society norms by seeking happiness through accepted common values. Our perceptions of what is and what is not happi...