Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

It is possible to overcome allergies by perceptual healing.. but most people would be offended to hear that and would think you are disrespecting them and saying it is only in their head! In Oberhausen, Germany 6/9.11 speaking to Hospice workers and volunteers about end of life and special meditations for hospice           false superiority really takes a beating when among gifted and kind people.... hahahaha   http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/domo-geshe-rinpoche-teachings/id387058479 This week's FREE podcast is about self-love. Modern psychology tells us that we cannot love others unless we love our self. What does Buddhism tell us about stable love?         I had a student in my before who, when asked "where do you live?" would point to his heart center saying, "I live here, and when I move, don't bother to write!"     Dr Stefan Buff reads from his new translation of Mystery of Emptiness & Love in German lang...

"The great opportunity to learn in this wonderful, simple world that we live in has become contaminated in many different ways regarding relationships. There are so many who feel they have been hurt by others. Perhaps even you have given your love, and now lost confidence in yourself, even your own ability to love yourself. Now you have to watch yourself because you made a mistake. This love, which was shared so specially as an extension of your own self love, given in order to have it returned in an amplified form, was used to hurt. Well, watch out everybody because now someone has been hurt, true?! This is very sad. I do not think that Tibetan lamas teaching about the destruction of self cherishing really understand how this dynamic works in western society, or how people can be so generous, open and so loving and then turn around and flip into mean-spirited people. This is not in our system in Tibet! I cannot say that everything Tibetan is holy, careful and wonderful, but in th...

"Infected with a strategy of self love, one could become a narcissist by degrees or in leaps and bounds. However, if someone gives us any trouble, self love goes wrong. With disrespect,  we can no longer love them, and in addition, we can no longer trust ourself because we have included them in our inner circle of love, and so we think, 'What is wrong with me that I could have allowed this? What is wrong with me that I could have allowed them to penetrate my wonderful feelings of skillful interaction with myself? How could I have been so foolish?!!' This is so interesting because it is exactly the opposite of how we train in bodhicitta and compassion in the Tibetan Buddhist system, exactly the opposite! What is the other option? The other option is that it is not about me! It is about the needs of others. Why do we love them? Because they are dear. Not because I am dear, but because they are dear. It is exactly the opposite." ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ "Mit eine...

"If you cannot love yourself, how are you going to find someone who loves you? This is outstanding in theory; however, your own self esteem and ability to love yourself becomes the basis of being capable of loving others. Because you are loving yourself, you can open up and invite one other person to that dynamic. Now, if you are interested in adding more to that special club, you can invite in more people, and more and more until you are capable of loving many others based upon your capacity to love yourself. Now, here is where it goes wrong. What happens if you fall out of love with yourself again? What happens if there is a little kink in your self love because you have made a mistake or failed at something important? What happens to your relationship with others? It is gone, because it was built upon the shifting sands of how you feel about yourself on any given day. If you do not feel good about yourself, there is no way that you can maintain that dynamic, which is filtered t...