Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

We want to believe that we are in alignment with the fully enlightened Buddhas during meditation practice while we are in a very high-thinking place. However, we continue to believe in the value of desiring the suffering form of love as the excellent support of our happiness. What compels us to forget the transcendent is our attraction to seductive love that has different unexamined connotations. The deep methods of Tibetan Buddhism train us to examine how feel about the desire for or allure of love, as well as correcting blatant errors that hold us in suffering states. Part of the reason we do not examine what we think is that we might be shocked at our innate beliefs. These may be embedded ideals from confused perceptions gained in previous lives, something half-heard we thought was important, or something we learned in childhood that no longer has value. This discovery is three quarters of the process of our mental dharma work, honestly uncovering how we actually believe; then worki...

There are many “ baby Buddhism ” explanations of deep principles of Tibetan Buddhism available. The “ accessible ” information stream is very easy and smooth with practically no effort needed on the part of the curious. “ Do good things, and do not do bad things. ” However, I do have confidence in your intelligence. The explanations of karma commensurate with the shift to inner quantum physics realities logically would be more complex than perhaps a small sign on a store shelf telling us, “stealing is bad karma.” You might even think, ‘ Why am I being fed simplistic beginner concepts when I am completely capable of understanding more complex strategies?' However, in the real world, a relationship with a teacher or mentor evolves on both sides. The more you interact with the teacher, and the lama begins to trust and appreciate your ability to understand, the more he or she will, with a professional ease, touch points of perceptual errors that need to change. In that way, we ...

Using practical efforts to help others transform to the enlightened state, Buddhism sometimes changes into a system that attempts to erode the superstructure of the ego. This does not work as well as it should because the punishment of the ego will usually cause it to submerge, change or to adapt to the harsh methods to destroy it. You actually cannot crush the ego. The mind is very tricky and changeable, and so it remains, in spite of efforts to destroy it. However, it can very easily morph into a disgusting display of impoverished self-degradation that is totally fake. It is scary to watch a person attempt to control their ego by hiding self-cherishing in humility. They can even be hiding it from themselves. The ego is suffering and needs to be separated from the overactive, over stimulated, and unaligned energetic state of confusion. The self-cherishing that is a feature of unenlightened existence as well as inappropriate pride need to be destroyed in order to be rescued fro...