Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Aspiring Bodhichitta is not Bodhichitta! It is a personally monitored, mental health training program designed to cause increasingly awareness of the defects of self cherishing, the root of our suffering. Falling into our usual self absorption as the primary tool to work with ourselves, others, and the world around us, we will be regularly startled by how far we are from the bodhi mind, the altruistic awakened mind. Without this noticing causing us depression, we must remember that we are on the path to awakening. Then we again review the benefits of altruistic mind and the suffering consequences of remaining self absorbed. That way, we neither exalt nor punish ourselves, (both are aspects of self cherishing), by wasting precious time and energy for real change! ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~~ "Anstrebendes Bodhichitta ist nicht Bodhichitta! Es ist ein persönlich überwachtes, geistiges Programm, ein Gesundheitstraining, dass dafür gedacht ist, zuneh...

"There are many different kinds of compassion. When we examine compassion in order to grow stronger to help others, first of all, we remember how good it feels when someone else is compassionate toward us, true? Remembering that, we again appreciate the feeling touch of compassion. Then it becomes easy to generate spontaneously the idea that I also want to produce this compassion for others because I myself enjoy receiving compassion so much. This produces the enthusiastic energy to learn more. In the same way, we can be inspired to break through to the deep wisdom energy of great compassion, now called engaging bodhichitta. No one can give us its precursor, arising bodhicitta, working tirelessly toward transformation to arise the altruistic wish to benefit all living beings without regard for our present relationship to them. Bodhicitta cannot be given to you; only you can develop it yourself. For every living being that possesses a form, it is possible for them to arise bodhicit...