Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

I discovered recycling a number of years ago when I lived in California. One of my students taught me all about it. I really liked the whole concept of recycling and so I put everything in the recyclables bin. Later, my student would come to me with a can or a bottle and explain…” See this Rinpoche, this has a number on the bottom but these other ones are the numbers that we can recycle.  He wa s so pleasantly doing it…”Did you notice this has a 6 on it? We can only do 1 through 4. This has a 6. Why did you do that, Rinpoche?” I said, “I know it had a 6 on it, but I like to recycle.” ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ ******** „Ich entdeckte das Recycling vor einigen Jahren, als ich noch in Kalifornien lebte. Einer meiner Schüler hat mir alles darüber beigebracht. Mir gefiel das Konzept des Recycling wirklich sehr, also tat ich alles in die Recycling Tonne. Später kam mein Schüler mit einer Dose oder Flasche zu mir und erklärte: ‚Sieh hier Rinpoche, diese hier hat unten eine Nummer, aber...

As soon as your mind becomes disturbed while sitting in meditation, it means that the mind is seeking an object. If it does not find an object, it will generate one. Thoughts such as, ‘So-and-so isn’t doing this, this isn’t going right, that has to happen, a mosquito bit me, I’m hungry, I’m not hungry, I want this, I want that.’ The mind begins to send energetic probes, looking for a sense of s tability for its habitual pattern. To be successful in meditation, the mind needs to be secured to the inner process at this point, otherwise the mind flails around looking for a familiar pattern of ordinary thinking. Meanwhile, the inner process is abandoned and the whole situation feels unstable. An analogy for the loss of the inner connection is like a cordless telephone that was left out there under the clothesline, somehow separated and disconnected from its base. Maybe some sound is coming out to say it is disconnected. So, you would need to very carefully put it back on its base in orde...