Animals that Mourn, Quick Wisdom, Seductive Love and Rowboats
We want to believe that we are aligned with the fully enlightened Buddhas during our meditation and in a high-minded state. What compels us to forget the transcendent is attraction to seductive love that is unexamined. We might be further influenced away from higher states of mind by by our confidence in suffering forms of love as the excellent support of our happiness. The deep methods of Tibetan Buddhism help us examine the desire for or allure of love, as well as correcting blatant errors that hold us in suffering. Maybe we avoid examining what we think because we might be shocked at our beliefs. These may be embedded ideals rooted in confused perceptions from previous lives, something half-heard we thought was important, or something we learned in childhood that no longer has value. This discovery is three quarters of the process of our mental dharma work: honestly uncovering how we actually believe, then working to mold that to the enlightened model arising from ...