Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

We are all looking together at one small but important facet of the path to transformation, the cascading effects on body and mind of change. During the time of the actual change, you are not even there. Did you know that? This is why accomplished meditators practice various kinds of trance states such as samadhi, so that they can deliberately hold their awareness into an artificial configuration while the change is occurring from the interior. No one remains in these artificial conditions longer than absolutely needed. This is actually very secret. I do not want you to think that I do not know what I am talking about because I am relating it to you in such a casual manner. These samadhi states are special technical processes facilitated through the interior process to hold you while something you do not need anymore is being taken away. Fascinating, huh? After the change event, your awareness moves back into normal processing through the perceptual matrix from the samadhi state...

Meditators love the feeling of change and the challenge of stabilizing the energies in a new configuration. This stabilizing and balancing of the whole being after events of change is as important as the event of minor or major breakthroughs. However, as soon as that is accomplished there arises a sense of peace that signals that you are ready for another change. Transformative energies do push and pull on your entire system. Anything that creates change could create stress. So, we work with it – not by complaining, “stress, stress, this is something I can’t take”,but calmly and with reliance and refuge in The Three Jewels of the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. While we are meditating in order to induce change and the changes are actually happening, if we apply negative perceptions we literally stop changing. No meditator would want that- that would be like death to stop changing. Your mass of perceptions is organized into a pattern that literally is you in the human realm. During ...

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A huge truck, like a concrete mixer, pull up outside your house filled with blueberry pancake batter. The valve opens and pancake batter begins to pour out onto your front lawn (you love pancakes). As it continues to pump pancake batter, there is so much that it creeps across the lawn and eventually floods the front lawn. When it reaches the front door, and if the door is open, blueberry pancake batter enters and begins to flow into the front hall and if the truck is not empty and still pumping it out, it begin to creep down the hall toward the kitchen. Now containing grass, sticks, and dirt it arrives to the floor in front of stove. Now is the exciting time because we are really getting hungry and love pancakes! However, it is still on the floor, how will we get it into the frying pan so we can enjoy! It is like that; the outer practices such as reciting mantras, visiting holy places and doing ritual are trying to go inside for transformation. However, the actual practice come...

Buddhist sages and other early inner scientists discovered that we possess more than one subconscious or subtle conscious mind, which they have identified as inner, subtle minds. These inner minds have various kinds of veils or barriers that separate them from each other as well as from the outer conscious mind. There are very specific energetic pathways toward higher development. Unlike walking into a lobby with many doors, there are not multiple doors opening from one main inner location for the purpose of our discussion of inner mind development toward the enlightened state. The structure of barriers and veils and how they work to hold space for higher development is a more secret topic. The important point here is that they do exist. However, please note here that the increasingly subtle minds are only seen as subtle from a human realm perspective, not from the perspective of higher reality. you can order this book from http://www.white-conch.org