Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

At some point in spiritual practice, there arrives a gripping, heartfelt pain associated with seeing how much suffering there is for others. Many spiritual practitioners who are healers cannot endure that feeling; it is so powerful that it seems to be deeply rooted in, perhaps even a past life. This need to be a healer, to acknowledge that suffering is far-reaching, is like a toothache; touching it causes the pain to intensify, but she or he cannot stop touching it. One kind of healer that I love so much, is rich in qualities of compassion, skillful, but not proud. That highly motivated healer is capable and spiritually alert. Those called to being a healer have idealism to doing good in this world. It is an emotional response from one’s own spiritual development affirming that it is possible to end suffering. ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~~ ""An einem gewissen Punkt kommt es bei der spirituellen Praxis zu einem ergreifenden, tiefempfundenen Schmerz, der damit zu tun hat, dass man ...

"From Healing the Healer series..Everyone experiences the drop of energy, or small disappointments that make us feel unwilling to do more until we take a break. In other words, we feel burned out. This is true whether you work as a healer, work for a bank, school, or work for yourself. If you experience stress and burnout because you work for a bad boss and then remember that you're self-employed, there might be issues even stronger than the need for healing from burnout. Joking aside, first we need to identify whether that feeling of being burned out is superficial and temporary or a serious manifestation of a deeper frustration. Especially in busy office culture, there is a kind of fashionable and competitive burnout that is really only expressing everyday stress. You can often overhear conversations in cafes and bars; “I’m really burned out today. I have just had it!” Their friend objects, “I’m more burned out than you are.” “No, that’s not possible,” and on to the descript...

At some point in spiritual practice, there is a gripping, heartfelt pain associated with seeing how much suffering there is. Many practitioners who are healers cannot endure that feeling; it is so powerful that it seems to be deeply rooted in perhaps a past life. This needing to be a healer, to acknowledge that suffering t is far-reaching. It is like having a bad toothache that you cannot stop touching. Every time you touch it, it causes the pain to intensify, but you cannot stop touching it. There are many different kinds of healers but there is a kind of healer that I love so much. A highly motivated healer who is trained and capable is someone who is also spiritually alert. Those who are called to being a healer have idealism to doing good in this world. It is an emotional response to one’s own spiritual development because it is possible to end suffering. The awakening of altruistic motivation needs to be cultivated so that we do not ride an emotional crest that can be disabli...

Do you have less love energy that you need flowing freely in your body and mind? What would it be like to feel love energy from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head, fingers, elbows, even behind the ears, a free flowing love that's everything that you need? This circulation of love energy is absolutely vital for your health. It's not just a nicety if we had enough love,we can't be healthy without it. From a Tibetan Buddhist point of view, writing about love energy makes me feel a bit weird.  However, I set aside my own personal views  because I know that this is something needed for good health although we addressed it in a different way. If we lived in a perfect society where, for example,  a family unit that had 20 or 30  members, you would  interact with others, and feel connected, loved and have a support system. In our Tibetan society, whether in a monastery or a family unit, we always felt that there was enough of this everywhere; we nev...