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Buddhist Ideals and Equanimity

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How skillful the Buddha was to not overwhelm sincere seekers with too much unrelated information. The actual problem is the innate view of perceiving what is not real to be real and inhibits the capacity to understand higher teachings that come after awakening. We must quickly evolve to become capable of receiving those teachings in the future because the Buddha has already done everything in his  power to entice us to evolve! ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ "Wie kunstfertig der Buddha doch war, indem er aufrichtig Suchende nicht mit zu vielen nicht zum Thema gehörenden Infomationen belastete. Das eigentliche Problem ist die angeborene Sichtweise, welche das Unwirkliche als wirklich wahrnimmt und die Fähigkeit einschränkt höhere Lehren zu verstehen, die nach dem Erwachen zum Tragen kommen. Wir müssen uns schnell weiterentwickeln, um fähig zu werden, diese Lehren in der Zukunft zu erhalten, da der Buddha bereits alles in seiner Macht stehende getan hat, um uns zur Weiterentwicklung zu ...

Judging Others, and other Buddhist musings

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  Many feel that judging others is wrong and should be avoided at all cost. However, judgement (a cultivated discrimination that knows right from wrong), is a practice of virtue that brings us closer to peace and transformation. Sharing a judgment that is helpful would be teaching, but using it to harm or control others would be abusive....... however not using it to right a wrong would be negligen ce. Knowing the nuances and using them properly is a function of correct discrimination. ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~ "Viele Leute glauben, dass es falsch sei andere zu beurteilen und dass man dies um jeden Preis vermeiden sollte. Beurteilung (die kultivierte Unterscheidungskraft, die richtig von falsch trennen kann) ist jedoch eine heilsame Handlung, die uns dem Frieden und der Transformation näher bringt. Es wäre etwas Lehrreiches, eine hilfreiche Beurteilung mit anderen zu teilen, aber wenn man sie benutzt, um andere zu schädigen oder zu kontrollieren, dann wäre dies ei...

Discriminaso-phizing!

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Let us open a subject that might be either intensely interesting or intensely boring to you: developing discernment on the spiritual path. You already are using a lively mixed bag of discernments in your ordinary life as well as being a product of your well practiced discernments and discriminations. Your decisions that were based on these choices has substantially created you. You have, like everybody else, also changed or recreated your perceptions to accomplish your special day-to-day self- image and the direction of your life by both intellectual or energetic discernment. Let us focus here on discernment although I usually teach how to arise careful discrimination. In the Tibetan education system, we only use an important word after understanding its various Buddhist meanings and sub meanings. So, there must be some differences between those two words. The dictionary defines discrimination as "the ability or power to see or make fine distinctions”. In Buddhism, this would be...