Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

How sad for people who, although they identify themselves as practicing Buddhists, continue to live with damaged trust systems without availing themselves of the healing possible. Actively distrusting others or using a passive lack of trust by avoiding contact with other people are poor protective devices! These damaging perceptions toward others act as a harmful filter, having many far-reaching effects. The everyday lives of people with acknowledged “trust issues” live in a world that is gradually shrunken; the sphere of their influence in the world becomes smaller and smaller. By holding onto wounds that cause mistrust without making effort to heal, an ability to trust in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha is weakened or perhaps even nonexistent. These sad and suffering people, with much to offer others, cannot truly be Buddhist, as the Buddhist path requires both an open heart and trust. ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ ¡Qué triste para las personas que, a pesar de que se identifican como pract...

The great Madhayamika Prasangika view is so marvelous that even rough and common folks cannot refute how it regards ordinary appearances. Concisely, things are as they appear to be in conventional reality without confusion or mental gymnastics, whereas other views achieve consonance by the incongruity of believing that things are not here at all! Another incongruity of another view is that things appear by my mind alone when in fact, things will continue to appear even when I am away from them! Madhayamika Prasangika views existence with a cultivated common sense, all things function coming from causes and conditions. The view affirms that yes, things are here but not in the way we think they are; their deep appearance and nature is not that. Everything remains in place, we do not need to leave to go to a transcendent place such as a heaven realm, but we emerge from the perceptual suffering state. In addition, we do not damage the delicate process by confusing others or ourselves whi...

Dragons bring comfort to the sky on a rainy day. Their rumbles of thunder are to the sky as the rumbles of elephants bring comfort to the dry open African savanna. DGR "Drachen trösten den Himmel an einem verregneten Tag. Ihr Donnergrollen ist für den Himmel so tröstlich wie das Grollen der Elefanten für die trockene offene Savanne Afrikas." DGR

It is a real journey from depression to delight. The "press" of depression describes that state that so many suffer from, feeling pressed into a darkened corner of their own mind. When the "light" of delight throws open the door, light goes everywhere; oppression is helpless to stay and disappears. One of the most difficult things for the depressed person to do is laugh. That is why laughter yoga is so very wonderful! It works especially well when there is nothing to laugh about! Please? ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche "Es ist eine weite Reise von der Depression zur Wonne. Das 'pressen' in Depression beschreibt den Zustand unter dem viele leiden, die sich in dunkle Ecken ihres eigenen Geists 'gepresst' fühlen. Wenn die Sonne der Wonne die Tür aufreißt, scheint das Licht überallhin; die Bedrücktheit wird hilflos und verschwindet. Für einen depressiven Menschen ist das Lachen eins der schwierigsten Dinge. Deshalb ist Lachyoga so wundervoll! Sie funktioniert ...

What does it mean to be "gifted"? It is easy to say, but hard to understand in a deep way. We can also say, that we have received a bestowal, which brings the event into a more sacred space to correctly respect it. Bestowals are given and can be removed by higher being if they are abused. They are alive and need to be treated with great care. They are there to act as superior functioning models so the receiver can improve and change. The gift is not the person until or if it is fully integrated into the essence, unless it is a temporary bestowal, such as a blessing. That is why there is such strong compulsion to practice the gift or bestowal of abilities. The bestowal process is at the core of higher development toward the enlightened state. That is why Tibetan Buddhism is a living tradition; the bestowals are kept alive through inner lineages for the benefit of all sentient beings. It make the meditator capable of opening to higher being until they are able to connect...

While we are not experiencing a manifest state of suffering, we need time to think quietly and deeply about the logical dilemmas and incongruities of suffering. In that way, we do not arouse the aspect of our personality that is definitely more mind as the needy student rather than mind as  teacher. We can strengthen our own “mind as teacher” by rehearsing quality remedies that we can use when our unruly student aspect wishes to gain control of the entire mental continuum, causing havoc. This is how mind training is done in the Tibetan system. When the mind is not pressured and more cool and calm, discussions of delusions will not become an emotional subject. However, once the delusions are aroused, the only good remedy that mind as potential teacher has is a metaphorical bucket of cold water administered to the student. The real healing of dysfunction comes when the mind becomes strong and determined by using a reasonable, logical process to slowly discover the existential dilemm...