Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

One warm summer evening I chanced upon a tiny old carnival in the parking lot of our nearby grocery store. You know the kind? They have attractions such as a twenty-foot Ferris wheel with banged up creaky cars, little kiddy cars filled with excited children going round and round on a little track accompanied by the latest Latino music. Everything is in miniature; there’s a small inflatable slide  and little booths where you can throw baseballs to try to win a dusty stuffed bunny rabbit. Right at the center of the carnival is their main feature, the open sided trailer selling cotton candy and hot dogs. It reminds me of a meditator thinking about bodhichitta. Just imagine that you’re at the carnival… happy and just want to just squeeze the pink cotton candy because it’s also so sweet and fun. You have no responsibilities or worries. Just gathering energy and practically hugging yourself in this marvelous little carnival of your own making for arising the precious mind of enlight...

  Clarity, an important goal of meditation practice, is the condition of consciousness without obscuration of the dysfunctions. Perfection is of another order completely, the ultimate inner state of highest Buddhahood. Because clarity is wi thout agenda, it is an openness that allows receptivity to higher functioning. ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~~ Klarheit, ein wichtiges Ziel der Meditationspraxis, ist der Zustand des Bewusstseins, bei dem keine Trübungen aufgrund von Störungen bestehen. Die Vollkommenheit gehört einer ganz anderen Kategorie an, sie ist der letztendliche innere Zustand der höchsten Buddhaschaft. Da Klarheit keine Zielsetzung hat, ist sie die Offenheit, welche die Empfänglichkeit für höheres Funktionieren ermöglicht." - Domo Geshe Rinpoche --- Inappropriate expectations are like spring flowers blooming in late winter; they won't last long. ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ "Unangemessene Erwartungen sind wie Frühlingsblumen, die im späten Winter blü...

Are you providing clarity for your inner being today? Let's step aside from personal attachment to what might be inappropriate demands causing pressure and stress for our precious inner being. Relax ....Release... Remember... ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ "Versorgst Du Dein inneres Wesen heute mit Klarheit? Lasst uns von persönlicher Anhaftung Abstand nehmen, durch die vielleicht unangemessene Ansprüche gestellt werden, die Druck und Stress auf unser kostbares inneres Wesen ausüben. Entspannen.... Loslassen... Erinnern..."

We crave closure! Desire for pleasure is the result of a lack of closure... so we want more of it. Suffering is also a lack of closure... so we want less of it. Clarity arises when we have closure and are no longer compelled toward the fascination that traps our precious life force in its hypnotic grip. Energy is freed to actually accomplish new learning, unencumbered by the heaviness of both desire and suffering. Real closure is awakening, when the pull of the dreamlike states of suffering and pleasure cannot hold us. ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ "Wir sehnen uns nach Abschluss! Das Verlangen nach Vergnügen resultiert aus einem Mangel an Abschluss... also wollen wir mehr davon. Auch das Leiden ist ein Mangel an Abschluss... also wollen wir weniger davon. Wenn wir einen Abschluss erfahren entsteht Klarheit und wir fühlen uns nicht länger zu der Faszination veranlasst, die unsere kostbare Lebenskraft in ihrer hypnotischen Umklammerung hält. Energie wird frei, um wirklich neues ...

I saw a story in Newsweek about nudist colonies. Now, I do not advocate a special Buddhist nudist colony. However, the article in the magazine said this is the natural way of being and it is much better, very open and healthy . This article made me think of being a mental nudist, a Buddhist mental nudist. In the privacy of our own thoughts, we would be healthier if we did not have pretensions with our self. A mental nudist would feel constricted with ideas of, “This is what I am like, this is what I am not like, I have to always act this way, I have to be this,” We could drop pretensions and enter inside to where our more real identity is waiting. In the privacy of our own space, we have choices that are not available in daily life. The pressures of office and the judgments that need to be made are like a teacher standing among seven-year-olds screaming and vying for attention. If the teacher could slow down and watch the children jumping slowly, to see what is actually happeni...