Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

In the story, "Lord of the Rings", this is a character called Gollum. His most important possession was a ring of power to make others do his wishes. We observe how distorted he was; how the ring changed him from a normal human being to something like an animal. In Buddhism, we would call him a preta. This might seem overly fantast ic, but there are real people who, by craving or gaining power inappropriately, have turned themselves into gollums inside and are eventually reborn as external gollums. It happens! They even talk to themselves like the character in the book. Gollum was not supposed to own the ring of power, he stole the ring of power. He was not ready for any level of power until he has power over himself! These are part of the important changes in discrimination that Buddhism helps us to attain. What to accept and what to reject! ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ In der Geschichte 'Der Herr der Ringe' gibt es eine Figur namens Gollum. Sein we...

No amount of money, fame or power will refresh your inner being, it is often quite the opposite! ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~~ "Weder Geld, Ruhm noch Macht sind in der Lage Dein Inneres Wesen zu erfrischen. Oft ist das Gegenteil der Fall!" - Domo Geshe Rinpoche ---

“No human being has ever attained enlightenment! That is because it can only happen inside, in the real person, it cannot happen on the outside. However, there is a kind of dangerous, pseudo enlightenment available to human beings, a kind of hyper-inflated satisfaction of ego that makes them obsessed with power seeking, even under the guise of spirituality. This is also encouraged and facilitated by so much training in how to acquire power. In nearly any bookstore, we can see shelves filled with self-help books about personal power. It is not about personal power. It is about facilitating and helping prepare the real or actual being inside to transform to another way of being to enter perfection, their actual home all along. There does exist, however, a natural and organic evolutionary process of transcendence of ordinary human existence that has gradually become subverted to worship of power practices over a very long time. This human realm has changed from a place where people cou...

Our actual needs and true talents are often inappropriately tied to a mythical process by which we are going to gloriously turn out to be the unknown person we are attempting to become. It is a quest, like Lord of the Rings for a mystical attainment of transformation that we can only hope has good motivation. On the other hand, we could be harboring destructive or counter productive demands of exactly how we are going to achieve a state that may not be the most healthy strategies, isn't that so? For some people, the only way to become the person they envision must also be done with extreme creativity. It had to have a fluid changing quality so that each time a decision solidified of who they were, it had to be something brand new. Not only was the artistic model of personal development important, but also it could not be repeated. Since they could not do anything twice, or risk violating their principles, soon they might be doing things like running up and down the street in ...

What is the ideal human life that supports a spiritual awakening? We need time or leisure to practice and ability or endowments to prepare for enlightenment. Leisure and endowment come from luck or fate you made by karma previously. In the airport one day, I was attracted by some bright sparkling lights and found a machine where you get these little cards for a dollar or two dollars, sometimes five dollars. You put your money in, whatever you are willing to spend, and out pops a card that you scratch. Are you a winner? You do not know if you have the good luck you are depending on, and that is part of your karma. Even you put a lot of money in, thinking it will bring a better chance of getting a good card, you still don’t know. However, you do possess some luck and perhaps not realize that you can manipulate it by making effort. That is the purpose of this discussion. You are capable of manipulating luck by understanding that it is possible, also being serious and realistic about what ...