Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

 Enlightenment is the only method of closure to dissatisfaction that is based in reality. The end of unhappy states will not happen by getting revenge toward enemies, winning happiness, by getting what you want or even by getting what you feel that you need! ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~~~~ "Erleuchtung ist die einzige Methode die auf der Realität beruht, mit der man die Unzufriedenheit beenden kann. Unglückliche Zustände werden kein Ende nehmen, wenn man sich an Feinden rächt, das Glück erlangt, indem man bekommt was man will, und selbst dann nicht, wenn man das bekommt, von dem man das Gefühl hat es zu brauchen." - Domo Geshe Rinpoche ---   From a segregated world, isolated by culture, distance, and language, came unique development such as the Japanese tea ceremony, Buddhism as practiced in Tibet and textile weaving in Peru. The greatest, most intelligent and skillful people competitively and passionately raised their own standards of excellence, uncontaminate...

Todays blog is a direct transcript from 2002 with only minor transcribers editing. I have learned so much since arriving here in June 2000. Even the past two months I have learned so many new words, grammar using and communication through writing. I thank you all for giving me opportunity and I thank the everlasting Buddha that blesses and encourage me to do more. Please forgive my poor English in the following and note how much cultural education I was accumulating then. This is the Mahayana text which has to do with awakening a very special mind in your world-system, which wishes to be free. It is like the animal activist group PETA – they go to laboratories and open cages to free the animals, and many of the animals just sit in their cages. They don’t know what freedom is. In the same way, ordinary human beings don’t even know the name of freedom yet. You could say, “It’s possible to be free,” and they would say, “That’s nice. What’s on TV tonight?” Those of you who are irrepressibl...