Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

It is a very different experience on a "soul" or interior life level when we behave altruistically without being concerned whether we benefit or not. ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~ "Auf der 'Seelen-' oder inneren Lebensebene erleben wir etwas ganz anderes, wenn wir uns altruistisch verhalten, ohne uns darum zu sorgen, ob wir von Nutzen sind oder nicht." Domo Geshe Rinpoche --- "C’est une expérience très différente au niveau de «l’âme» ou de la vie intérieure lorsque nous agissons avec altruisme sans nous soucier de savoir si nous avons contribué ou pas." Domo Geshe Rinpoche -- When we are young, the deaths of others rarely are noticed. However, as we grow older, the deaths of people that we know personally or those who were like eternal gods of music and art during our youth becomes a common occurrence. Of course, the passing of those to whom we had an intimate connection will require more healing and time to adjust to their loss in our lives. In a...

Most Buddhists practitioners, after considered but still superficial analysis, choose refuge based on compassion rather than refuge as safety or refuge as faith. Because going for refuge out of a personal sense of compassion for others is said to be the highest form of refuge, they want their refuge to be rooted in t he compassion that they wish to demonstrate toward others. The wish to go for refuge to the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha is deliberately chosen so that compassion will be the highest quality compassion, commensurate with their own values. Good thinking? Not really. This is like a fat Santa trying to get down the chimney to steal something. A fake, fat Santa trying to jump down the chimney, but is stuck! We cannot take refuge like it was a prize sitting under the tree; these are qualities we wish to possess, not the basis of refuge. Refuge out of compassion cannot work until we have overcome our main issues. ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~...

These are ways to make valuable changes and win your natural potential. Even those who are well advanced, with a clear purpose and without a difficult life, still need to understand the changes they are already experiencing. Spiritual Change: Keys to Make it Last and Stop Santa Claus Thinking www.articlesbase.com

There are methods to help us make important perceptual changes so that we can achieve our natural potential without unwanted influences harming or impeding our progress. Even those who are clear already, without harmful obstacles, still need to make effort to understand the changes they are already experiencing. · One valuable perception we can cultivate right now is giving ourselves permission to change. A friend said recently they felt doomed to failure because their lack of confidence is combined with not feeling as if they deserved the positive changes. Perhaps someone suffering from confidence paralysis could jump away from that position by using positive affirmations that have worked for others such as: "I am good enough to be the best me possible, in fact, I was born to be me! I hereby give myself authorization to change.” “Change is happening already. I know that because I have changed my mind a dozen times just today! By giving myself formal permission to c...

Many human perceptions are related to and give rise to feelings of solidity and permanence of the human experience. This is good! Before I said it was bad. Now I say this feeling of solidity is good. This is because it helps the actual beings emanated form, which is you, to take more seriously the work of preparation needed for transformation. By your experiences created through your senses and consciousness, you become capable of deeper understanding that you need to change and learn. The heaviness and sense of suffering, both subtle and manifest, should alert you to the dilemma and cause you to seek methods to become free. If you had no suffering, you would not want to leave, but leave you must. Therefore, we must overcome the innate view programming and awaken to another way of being; the next stage of the journey to perfection, our actual home. Now we understand more clearly that we do not want to damage the innate view prematurely on our way to the transformed state. If th...

We want to emulate bodhisattvas beings. These heroes of Buddhism have achieved powerful levels of penetrating and clarifying their own nature. They break through and realign their understanding in the model of reality. Their sense of fantasy has been completely destroyed. In a way, it’s like…when you were young, I am pretty sure you believed in Santa Claus. Nearly every American child believes in Santa Claus, even Jewish children. It comes as an important belief for children. You don’t have to be Christian to believe in Santa Claus. When you were in grade school, I think you probably had strong faith in Santa Claus. You knew that through the efforts of Santa, all good things would flow if you just behaved yourself during November and especially December. Isn’t that so? Then some companion in the schoolyard or an older brother or sister whispered to you, “There is no Santa Claus.” This would have arisen some kind of anger in your mind toward that person. They are blaspheming the one wh...