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Relaxation, Compassion and other Buddhist musings...

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Compassion reflects deeper levels of calm **** "Das Mitgefühl spiegelt tiefere Ebenen der Ruhe wider" - DGR -- May the precious great mind of altruism, the source of all happiness and success for myself and limitless sentient beings, be quickly generated within my mind and within the minds of all others ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche **** "Möge der kostbare große Geist der Nächstenliebe, die Quelle allen Glücks und Erfolgs für mich und zahllose fühlende Wesen, schnell in meinem Geist und im Geist aller Anderen erzeugt werden." - Domo Geshe Rinpoche --- Try to be relaxed and agreeable while disciplining your own behavior. Try to be open and trusting while disciplining your own mind. ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche **** "Versuche entspannt und liebenswürdig zu sein während du dein eigenes Verhalten disziplinierst. Versuche offen und vertrauensvoll zu sein während due deinen eigenen Geist disziplinierst." - Domo Geshe Rinpoche --- Feelings of thankfulness expres...

Chemistry of Change part five

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Meditators love the feeling of change and the challenge of stabilizing the energies in a new configuration. This stabilizing and balancing of the whole being after events of change is as important as the event of minor or major breakthroughs. However, as soon as that is accomplished there arises a sense of peace that signals that you are ready for another change. Transformative energies do push and pull on your entire system. Anything that creates change could create stress. So, we work with it – not by complaining, “stress, stress, this is something I can’t take”,but calmly and with reliance and refuge in The Three Jewels of the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. While we are meditating in order to induce change and the changes are actually happening, if we apply negative perceptions we literally stop changing. No meditator would want that- that would be like death to stop changing. Your mass of perceptions is organized into a pattern that literally is you in the human realm. During ...