Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

If we possess a naturally happy mind, we should greet it with joy as if discovering gold. If we do not have a happy mind, we are even more fortunate! We then have the opportunity to be an anarchist, an alchemist and a magician. Through the processes of Buddhist destruction, Tantric transformation and Bodhisattva manipulation of illusory forms, craft a happy mind with the nature of tested and clarified gold from the base elements of the delusions. ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~~ "Wenn unser Geist von Natur aus glücklich ist, sollten wir dies freudig begrüßen, so als ob wir Gold fänden. Wenn wir keinen gücklichen Geist besitzen haben wir sogar noch mehr Glück! Dann haben wir die Gelegenheit ein Anarchist, ein Alc...hemist und ein Zauberer zu sein. Erschaffe einen glücklichen Geist, der die Natur bewährten und gereinigten Goldes hat, aus den Grundelementen der Täuschungen, mit HIlfe des Prozesses buddhistischer Zerstörung, tantrischer Transformation und der Bodhisattvamanipulation der illu...

Ninth in a series. I feel a strong sense of sharing in this series about the analysis of reality in order for many to benefit in the future by this teaching. The statements by the ancient Indian Buddhist sage Chandrakirti and my commentary are a step-by-step method to bring the meditator correctly and easily to a place where the mind has no place to settle in dysfunctional view. We now go on to ideas that are common at this point in the method. The mind is seeking solidity and comfort and that could be expressed as a wish to say, "Well, if I do not exist, then I take a sense of safety that the cosmos and the great constellations exist. I guess I do not care if I do not exist as long as that exists and I am okay just being an illusory speck within that cosmos. If that is the way it is, then that is the way it is." Chandrakirti says and I echo him. No! The cosmos and all of the stars, even the Hubble telescope do not exist in reality from their own side by having permanenc...