Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

A distinctive feature between the path of power and the path of compassionate awakening is that those on the path of power cannot afford to be kind. The practice of accumulating power is to hold, increase power and destroy what gets in your way, therefore, to one degree or another, everyone is your enemy. That could be a friend, someone on your team, your clan, or even part of your inner circle.  Those people you have promises not to harm, but for those who are not, if the situation calls for it, you might even kill them. This is how it is in power. As an extreme example, tyrants such as Saddam Hussein have many signs of the practice of the path of power. It appears that his alliances were based on power and if he perceived someone as an enemy or an obstruction they would be destroyed. He had killed a number of his own people even his own sons. The destruction of others, by reputation or other diminishing methods is a necessity in the path of power. And so, they cannot afford to be...

Scenes from Lotus Lake Buddhist Center Central Wisconsin, USA the new grape arbor for our old Concord grapes and new table grapes 50 feet long and space for seating in the shade of the vines Calendula healing plant in the herb garden  

Come for personal retreat at Lotus Lake in Central Wisconsin, USA. Very reasonable rates for 2-30 day stay. Includes excellent meals and monastery lifestyle. Contact  Ngawang Khandro  for details or call 715-743-6743. Today is Lama Chopa commentary with tsok ceremony instructions for those here in retreat. Tonight is tsok ceremony at the full moon. Then, those who have received the instructions and permission can do full moon Lama Chopa tsok. Some will be using Tantric bell and damaru this evening for the first time. We are not concerned that everyone be expert with bell and drum in order to participate.  For those who have received this permission in the past, it is important to do ceremony this evening if possible but it is not a rigid commitment. The ordained must do as an additional vow. Regarding abandonment issues: A trend in modern psychiatry is acknowledging many more issues as variations of genuine mental disorders. Perhaps, as it becomes labeled ...

There is no struggle for objects and phenomena such as inner events, ideas, feelings, as well as sky, clouds, mountains, and other persons, and yourself, to exist in reality. Your struggle is to lose the hypnotic trance that holds you to a way of being in your body, mind, world, and cosmos, which is antithetical to how it actually exists. This distorted view is suffering itself. This intense remainder that is the essence of a noncomposite assembly is also empty of inherent existence. ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ ******* excerpt Mystery of Emptiness and Love. Available on Amazon  http://www.amazon.com/ Mystery-Emptiness-Love-Gesh e-Rinpoche/dp/0692003940  (also on Kindle) I have sensed fear of reprisal from their god by believers of one permanent thing to be worshiped, who are capable and ready to skillfully dissolve the innate view that takes the transitory to be permanent. The purpose here is not to damage a careful illusory relationship with God. We will be better Bud...

Hanging clouds for the long life ceremony at the end  of 14th annual White Conch Summer retreat at Lotus Lake Buddhist Center. The front of the Hermitage with new porch. Staining it in the fall or spring to let it cure for a while. So pleasant for retreat lunches and resting. Chung Chung at ease on the front porch rocker Come for personal retreat at Lotus Lake in Central Wisconsin, USA. Very reasonable rates for 2-30 day stay. Includes excellent meals and monastery lifestyle. Contact  Ngawang Khandro  for details or call 715-743-6743. I do not fear death because I have a plan ~ DGR *********** "Ich fürchte den Tod nicht, denn ich habe einen Plan" - DGR -- The unobstructed core of ego is the organizing principle of the self while the self arises due to the conditioning of the innate view. More subtle individual quantum reality focuses consciousness into the human realm in a cascade method creating a human being and human experience. When that ...