Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Become the person capable of success. Being will always be more efficient than doing. Doing should be done only as a last ditch method. Perhaps leaping to do something could be moderated by first establishing a sense of being. Often there is nothing special to do. When it requires doing, then the action will be more ski llful ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ ""Werde jemand, der fähig zum Erfolg ist. 'Sein' wird immer wirkungsvoller sein als 'Tun'. 'Tun' sollte immer nur die letzte Notlösung sein. Vielleicht könnte man voreiliges Handeln zügeln, indem man zunächst einen Sinn für das Sein entwickelt. Es gibt oft garnichts besonderes zu tun. Wenn 'Tun' erforderlich ist wird die Handlung dann geschickter sein." - Domo Geshe Rinpoche ---"

For most people, life seems to go on in a haphazard way, just taking care of everyday problems and trying to find time for hobbies or taking a break from daily stress. Every once in a while a friend will be enthusiastic about meditation or going on a weekend retreat that will stimulate the heart to do something about meaningful change. Somehow, that never gets going. In a momentary rush, some will buy a meditation cushion or a Buddha statue, but now it is dusty or exactly where did it get stored away? If we stop to think about it, however, much of our daily life is simply walking through the results of earlier planning for the future. Upon reflection, we can review the steps that others and later we ourselves took to ensure our comfortable future, even though (like everyone else), not everything turned out as planned. In any case, let us examine the stages of planning that we used in our ordinary lives that prepared us for success. We might find that the strategies we used to acco...

There are things that you wanted to do with your life. Many of you are still young and there are important things that you want to do with your life. Things that you want to accomplish, places that you want to go, experiences to gather and integrate. Yet, often, as you move toward your objective you cannot obtain it. Something prevents you from getting the very things that you want to have and feel that you deserve! Isn’t that so? As Americans we say, “It is not fair”. Therefore, there must be some discrimination against the individual that you do not get what you want. In your constitution, it affirms the right to pursue happiness. However, they never told you that you were going to catch it! So, the pursuit of happiness and keeping away difficulties has been a full time occupation up to this point in your life, isn’t that so? There might be some special problems that are not be apparent on the surface preventing you from getting what you want. In that way, there must be somet...