Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Let us suppose that on the day you were born, you were presented with a bucket of perfect and rare diamonds. Even on that first day of your life, you extracted one of these perfect diamonds, but you did not know what it was. Not only did you not know its purpose, you were completely uninterested. All you wanted was mommy, milk, comfort, and care, and with no idea what this diamond meant, you fo rgot quickly where it went. The next day, you extracted another perfect diamond, and again, you did not know what it was for; perhaps it fell through your fingers. Each day, you were compelled to extract another diamond from your bucket of diamonds. In your youth, you extracted a diamond, and looking at it, you thought, 'this is boring and ordinary, and does not matter. There is an endless supply of diamonds,' and so you did not give it much importance because there were so many left in your bucket, and so you dropped it in the dust. Like this, your life went on. One day, you reached...

“In order to obtain perfect enlightenment, I vow from now on to go for refuge to the guru and three precious gems and not abandon sentient beings. I will practice the six perfections.” Buddhists memorize the lines of refuge to make the vow firm and ingrained into the mind to remember what is most important. Most practitioners take refuge, hands folded, standing before their altar before sitting for meditation. The mind is happy, ready to sit and do holy work; refuge comes very easy then. It is even more important during a difficulty to make yourself take refuge while you are angry. At that time, it might even be hard to remember the words of refuge. The other you, about to sit for meditation, can remember the refuge vow very well. However, for the mindset of an anger being, it is almost impossible to remember. Which one needs to take refuge more? ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ "" Ich gelobe von nun an bis zur Erleuchtung Zuflucht zum Guru und den drei Juwelen zu nehmen und fühlend...