Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

There are only two important lessons, just two reasons that you and I came to this funny world: First, to deeply learn the true nature of compassion without the confusion of sentimentality or distress, and secondly to learn how to get along with others. If we’re not involved in either of these two important lessons, then we have actually failed to gain the benefit of having arrived into this worl d. However, when we make special effort to develop sincere thankfulness for the kindness of others, we genuinely interact with others even within a realm considered to be illusory. ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ "Es gibt nur zwei wichtige Lektionen, nur zwei Gründe, warum du und ich auf diese komische Welt gekommen sind: Erstens, um die wahre Natur des Mitgefühls zutiefst zu verinnerlichen, ohne durch Sentimentalität oder Bestürzung verwirrt zu werden und zweitens, um zu lernen, uns mit anderen zu verstehen. Wenn wir nicht mit einer dieser beiden wichtigen Lektionen beschäftigt sind, haben w...

Let us open a subject that might be either intensely interesting or intensely boring to you: developing discernment on the spiritual path. You already are using a lively mixed bag of discernments in your ordinary life as well as being a product of your well practiced discernments and discriminations. Your decisions that were based on these choices has substantially created you. You have, like everybody else, also changed or recreated your perceptions to accomplish your special day-to-day self- image and the direction of your life by both intellectual or energetic discernment. Let us focus here on discernment although I usually teach how to arise careful discrimination. In the Tibetan education system, we only use an important word after understanding its various Buddhist meanings and sub meanings. So, there must be some differences between those two words. The dictionary defines discrimination as "the ability or power to see or make fine distinctions”. In Buddhism, this would be...