Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Thoughts are important to assess the quality of karma about to arise. Thoughts are important to work with during activities once karma has arisen. Thoughts are also important to use to review recent past actions that will have repercussions for future karma arising. Thoughts are the primary tools of the skillful. If you cannot control your mind to use thoughts as a tool, it would be better to no t pay any attention at all to thoughts... just let them pass by without reacting... Eventually, however... you will need to learn how to control your mind ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~~~~~~ "Gedanken sind wichtig, um die Qualität des Karmas einzuschätzen, welches dabei ist aufzusteigen. Gedanken sind wichtig, um mit ihnen im Laufe von Aktivitäten zu arbeiten, wenn das Karma bereits aufgestiegen ist. Gedanken sind auch wichtig, um gerade begangene Handlungen zu reflektieren, die Auswirkung auf das Aufsteigen zukünftigen Karmas haben werden. Gedanken sind die Hauptwerkzeuge der...

“Some esoteric philosophies state that there is no real difference between good and bad, or even pure and impure thoughts, because energy is just energy. However, if we reason, even a bit, we can conclude that pure and virtuous thoughts are more beneficial than impure thoughts for a number of reasons. Since the actual action is the one done by the mind, corresponding karmic consequences will arise and accrue. It is easy to see how we bring benefit or harm to others based on how we behave in bodily actions and speech under the influence of positive or negative states of mind. In addition, to others who have inner vision, even the appearance of our thoughts, and the energy produced by our thoughts, are colored by the agenda of either uncontaminated or polluted thought impulses. Since impure thought is, by nature, confusion in motivation and arises from previous impure thoughts and distorted states of mind, their product, the unaligned energies, are nearly useless for good nutrition for ...