Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

In the old days, enemies were not anonymous. Without telephones, they had to come in front of your face to hurt you. Now, people with aggressive tendencies are free to do harm as if it were a sport, with no consequences and no feelings of being caught. With that freedom to anonymously do damage… it’s surprising how many will rise to that opportunity.  It is valuable to become more skillful in p atient endurance while dealing with people who create harm and problems. It would also be irresponsible to simply endure when there is something that you can do to help people stop doing that. We should be careful however to understand that a chaotic situation does not require praying to the Buddha to inflict harm to the enemy. In any case, it is our responsibility to deal with our own set of problems in life as they arise without damaging our own mind; this is the Buddhist practice. ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ “In alten Zeiten blieben Feinde nicht anonym. Ohne Telefon mussten sie direkt ...

Victorious are the Buddhas already! They have conquered the delusions and held the door open for us to enter the enlightened state! The Buddha has dedicated his huge merits for our awakening. ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche~~~

Logically, we must experience karma individually to have any effect. Even group karma, as discussed in part five, influences and perpetuates individual karma unless that person is quite strong minded and skillful. For example, Tibetans who left behind all their possessions and fled to India for safety, and lived as strangers in a new land, often had shorter lives, illnesses and stress caused by their unplanned emigration from their homeland. They were cautioned by HH the Dalai Lama and others to avoid anger and distress so that new karma did not harm them in this life and in the future. Many people worldwide are amazed when they hear that His Holiness deliberately does not hold anger against the Chinese. This is part of the reason, he cannot afford to hate when he has the responsibility to hold all living beings as equal worth. You possess an unknown karmic lifespan but there is a certain amount of flexibility in that time you will have here on earth. In other words, lifespan can...