Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Whether we love others a little or love others alot.. there are compassion practices suitable for each stage of our development If we wait until everything is perfect and finished before retreat, that is not possible. We need to find temporary closure so that we can lay our responsibilities aside for a short while When we think coolly about end of life, we might arrive at some quite reasonable and logical conclusions, such as understanding that the death rate is still 100%! We might reverse our fear of death and other attitudes, thinking instead that the problem is not that we are going to die, because each of us will die. The problem becomes how shall we live? ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~~ "Wenn wir gelassen über das Lebensende nachdenken, gewinnen wir vielleicht die vernünftige und logische Einsicht, dass die Todesrate nach wie vor 100% beträgt! Wir könnten unsere Furcht vor dem Tod und andere Einstellungen umkehren und st...attdessen denken, dass das Problem nicht ...

The fear of death is far worse than death itself! Whoever is afraid to die, continuously lives with fear in manifest or subtle suffering. Living with that frantic fear for their mortal safety, makes her or him tentative in life and unable to grasp the great benefits of human life! It overwhelms a correct understanding of safety built into the human inner programming, thereby making life unlivable. Relax into the Buddhist training to help you overcome fear of death by understanding the certainty that you will die, and it is uncertain when that will be. It is not courage we need to steel ourselves for the inevitable facing of death, but the anticipation of joy that we will experience when we are released from fear... our actual enemy! ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ "Die Angst vor dem Tod ist viel schlimmer als der Tod selbst! Wer auch immer Angst vor dem Sterben hat lebt in ständiger Furcht, die sich in konkretem oder subtilem Leiden ausdrückt. Die verzweifelte Angst um ihre sterbliche Si...