Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

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 ~~...

Surely, every living being has at least one good quality! We must be careful of cutting off others in our deep respect for their potential for enlightenment because they have acted badly. Even a single person that we eliminate destroys the very basis of all sentient beings for our practice, profound equanimity. Practice today by acknowledging that some one you despise.. the president of BP, an ex-husband or wife, someone that has hurt you, etc... has a minimum of a single good quality that deserves your respect.... Later, we can respect those without even a single good quality at the present, but still possess the potential for enlightenment! This is how the Great Dharma is put into daily meaningful practice. ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ „Sicherlich hat jedes lebende Wesen mindestens eine gute Eigenschaft! Wir müssen vorsichtig sein, dass wir andere nicht von unserem tiefen Respekt für ihr Potenzial zur Erleuchtung abschneiden, nur weil sie sich sc...

Sometimes we forget to care for our compassion practices because we feel disappointed or too tired to be bothered. Begin fresh; the manure of everyday life is the rich soil in which we can nurture the full flowering of our compassionate nature. The flower blossom is amazingly different than the smell of the manure, the hard and seemingly lifeless seed that needs to be cracked open to grow and change, the water and sun; it is a new invention that is a product of these dissonant elements. Like that, true compassion is difficult to understand because it is amazingly different than the efforts we make to produce it by purification, meditation, reliance on higher being, kindness, and even our ordinary struggle to love others. However, without these efforts, there will never arise true compassion, the life force of higher development. On the other hand, if we attach our life force and mental satisfaction to ordinary results of living a happy life for ourselves alone, we agai...