International Conference on Tibetan Buddhism
looking forward to see the White Conch students in California later today... leaving the International Conference on Tibetan Buddhism in Atlanta. Interesting and leaves me with many questions about the direction Buddhism is taking. Many secular applications arising from Buddhist principals. I hope that we still believe that the inner awakening is the goal. After listening to many discussions at the conference on Tibetan Buddhism, there are a few high notes reminding us that the Buddhism is really only about awakening. Secular humanism/secular Buddhism will only make a better person... kinder.. a more comfortable human...and a good candidate for rebirth as a human unless they have forgotten any other karmic obstacles. Self compassion is a newly invented form of Buddhism that was unknown in India, Tibet, China or any other place where the Buddhist sages taught. In my opinion, the capacity to see oneself as "other" to co...