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Thoughts on Emptiness and The End of Shaming

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Emptiness is just how things exist in their undiscoverable nature by human perceptions, therefore they appear empty or without foundation. This is not complicated or meant to be complicated; this is the easy way to release the innate view. It has been done an uncountable number of times by those in the preparation for real awakening. The hard part is bonding compassion to emptiness.... ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~~~~ ""Leerheit ist nur wie die Dinge in der menschlichen Wahrnehmung in ihrer unauffindbaren Natur existieren und deshalb erscheinen sie leer oder ohne Grundlage. Dies ist nicht kompliziert und soll auch nicht kompliziert erscheinen; dies ist die einfache Methode, um die angeborene Sichtweise loszulassen. Dies ist schon unendlich viele Male geschehen. Die Schwierigkeit liegt darin, Mitgefühl mit Leerheit zu verbinden.... " - Domo Geshe Rinpoche ---" No blaming, no shaming .... only changing! This is the real work of purification! ~DGR ~~~~~ "Kein Tadel, k...

Search for Truth (part six)

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From the previous column it was said that angst can become a generalized frustration or anger about life and specifically stressful because of not being able to do what we want. That is why this energy needs to be directed or channeled carefully so that we do not move into the dysfunctional next step of blaming others. We so often hold others responsible for our lack of time or life situation, or complain that others are preventing us from being a spiritual seeker or truth seeker. We might view people at work that seem to be thwarting us or we become sorry that we have no time because we have to earn a living. It becomes all the fault of others. This can accumulate and we can forget exactly what it was that we were trying to do, namely, break free. This can lead to the uncomfortable situation and its accompanying feelings self replicating into habitual bad moods. Caught up in our feelings of blaming and the objects of that blame, we can lose sight of our actual inner process int...