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Do You Really Know What You Believe?

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It requires effort to become capable of discovering what you really believe in your current worldview both intellectually and energetically. This is part of the work that classic Indian, and later Tibetan Buddhism, calls uncovering your view. In deeper levels of meditation, new inner methods open to uncover your personal view, then trains the mind to perceive reality so that reality can change your view. This is the actual change. However, there are many transitional stages before reality can even be presented. There will be many valid transitional stages needed to achieve and experience before that event to remain balanced and in the correct trajectory. That is why correct meditation is a process rather than just a beginning point and a goal. That is why it is called a path ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ "Se requiere un esfuerzo para ser capaces de descubrir lo que realmente crees en tu visión del mundo actual tanto intelectual como energía. Esto es parte de la labor que la India clás...

The Path of Meditation (part two)

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The great methods of the Middle Way of Buddhism do not refer to a path "out there" somewhere, nor is the path "in here" somewhere, belonging to me if I could just figure it out. In fact, for many, particularly those who have followed the Buddhist path toward the enlightened state for many lives can develop confusion by their modern world and become misaligned. Therefore, the path does not exist in them. I saw a video of a poor fellow trapped in an elevator for forty-one hours; he could have died in there, but he did survive the ordeal. It was a holiday weekend, the building had security video cameras on, but nobody came to rescue him because, obviously, no one looked at their cameras. Every once in a while, he would force open the elevator doors, but there was only a concrete wall. This is like the suffering misalignment of a meditator who knows a lot but not enough to get them out of a meditational difficulty. If you were stuck in your body and your min...