Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Courage is not the antidote to fear and will result in aggression rather than a desired quality of alert endurance. A therapy of experiencing deliberate comfort and simplifying is needed. If we seek comfort without simplifying, stress increases by the need to protect our position and possessions. If we seek simplifying ... without comfort, it will increase fear. We need long term healing of fear and other disturbing feelings in transformative Buddhist practice. ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ "Mut ist nicht das Gegenmittel für Angst und wird eher in Aggression enden, als die gewünschte Qualität der wachsamen Ausdauer hervorzurufen. Was als Therapie benötigt wird, ist das Erlebnis wohlbedachten Komforts und der Vereinfachung. Wenn wir nach Komfort ohne Vereinfachung streben, vergrößern wir unseren Stress durch das Bedürfnis unsere Position und unsere Besitztümer zu beschützen. Wenn wir Vereinfachung ohne Komfort anstreben wird unsere Angst zunehmen. In der transformativen ...

" Advice to the monastics... All I am saying is that I really do not want the White Conch monastics to work outside jobs. It does not mean this week or next week or next month. You think it could not possibly be so, but I promise you it can be so, but to make it work, we all have to pull together, mainly in food costs, fuel costs, electricity, etc. We do not have to live fancy. We should not live fancy. It is not good for us and makes us weak and incapable. Instead, this is how they did it when ordained monastics lived in caves or lived in monasteries; they were not expected to have comfort. They were expected to be there to learn how to be strong. Too elegant or too luxurious makes you weak. It also makes you feel that everything has to be perfect around you, otherwise you cannot function and be really you, and that is not true. This does not mean that you do not have any possessions at all. In India, at my before monastery, many monks' tiny rooms looked like some kind of a s...