Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

To abandon the mind as useless is to seek cessation, the path of the arhat. To overpower the mind with happy and pleasant thoughts is worldly religions aim, reducing manifest suffering by distraction, which acts like a drug, making their adherents mindless. To train the mind into a pliable compassionate tool is to enter the path of aw akening of the Mahayana. Beyond the veils of the limited human perceptual realm is the beginning of another portion of the vast journey to perfection, our real home. ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ "Den Geist aufzugeben, weil er nutzlos ist, bedeutet, dass man das Verlöschen anstrebt; dies ist der Pfad des Arhats. Das Ziel der weltlichen Religion ist es, den Geist mit glücklichen und angenehmen Gedanken zu überwältigen; durch diese Art von Ablenkung wird das manifestierte Leiden vermindert. Dieses Vorgehen wirkt wie eine Droge und macht ihre Anhänger geistlos. Wenn man den Geist trainiert, um ihn zu einem anpassungsfähigen, mitfühlenden Werkzeug...

Fifteenth in a series. Number Sixteen of Chandrakirits exposition Twenty Emptinesses: Emptiness That is the Absence of Entities: “ Since an entity arises from causes and conditions, it lacks the nature of being a composite. This emptiness of there being anything that is a composite is the emptiness that is the absence of entities ”. Entity is the self, the person or the object that arises due to causes and conditions that transcends the gathering of elements by giving it a name. What manifests as a single object does so in dependence on causes and conditions. For example, what is called a chariot is a single object that is different from the parts of the chariot even though it arises from the assembly of the parts. It did not exist as a chariot until all the parts were assembled, and the chariot disappears when the parts are disassembled, isn't that so? Therefore, it is not a true composite such as an assembly of parts that remain unnamed even though it may look like a char...

Fourteenth in a series. Even though systems such as science, eighteen dharmas, sacred geometry, chakras, and more describe in detail the minute distinctions between abstruse points while defining phenomena, the results of that specialized study and scientific inquiry will not cause what is transitory to be intrinsically real. There are often implied affirmations that the methods are wisdom truth devices that reveal the knowledge of true reality. Even sophisticated techniques considered secret or esoteric are empty of existence from their own side and are products of arising depending upon other elements, causes, and conditions. So, even if you created a machine that could tap dance on a star while we watched here from earth by magical means, and no one else knows how to do it but you, still it is empty of inherent existence from its own side. It is a product depending upon other elements, causes, and conditions. Great Sage Chandrakirti states in his analysis to ascertain reality poi...