Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

"It is not necessary to study everything in Buddhism to become enlightened. It is actually only necessary to study and meditate upon what you need to know to make your very next breakthrough. There are things that you know very well. However, you don’t know what you don’t know. You might be the kind of person who reads everything you can find on reincarnation because it is interesting and develop quite a good understanding about reincarnation. Another person might choose to pursue studies and practices to understand the nature of compassionate activity in the world" ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ "Es ist nicht nötig, den ganzen Buddhismus zu studieren, um die Erleuchtung zu erlangen. Es ist sogar nur nötig, darüber zu meditieren und das zu studieren, was man braucht, um die nächste Stufe zu erklimmen. Manche Sachen weisst Du sehr gut. Aber Du weisst nicht, was Du nicht weisst. Vielleicht bist Du die Art Person, die alles über Wiedergeburt liest, was sie finden kann, weil es in...

It is not necessary to study everything in Buddhism to become enlightened. It is actually only necessary to study what you need to know to make your very next breakthrough. There are things that you know very well. However, you don’t know what you don’t know, You might be the kind of person who reads everything you can find on reincarnation because it is interesting to you and develop quite a good understanding about reincarnation. Another person might choose to pursue studies and practices to understand the nature of compassionate activity in the world. So, there are things that you know very well and things that you have never even heard about yet. In a way, most western practitioners are like Swiss cheese. There are many gaps in understanding and many things they know well. In another way, it is necessary to study everything. However, there seem like there is not enough time learn everything. When I first came to America in the early 1970’s I brought a few few books from India writ...