Since everything is but an apparition, Perfect in being what it is, Having nothing to do with good or bad, Acceptance or rejectionYou might as well burst out...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 3, 2010 2:18 am
Just as a writer learns the spontaneous freedom of expression only after years of often grueling study, and just as the simple grace of a dancer is achieved...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 5, 2010 2:08 am
On that momentous night when Buddha attained enlightenment, it is said that he went through several different stages of awakening. In the first, with his mind...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 6, 2010 3:46 am
The most important thing is not to get trapped in what I see everywhere in the West, a ¡°shopping mentality¡±: shopping around from master to master,...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 7, 2010 2:45 am
In the ordinary mind, we perceive the stream of thoughts as continuous, but in reality this is not the case. You will discover for yourself that there is a gap...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 8, 2010 3:51 am
Lifetimes of ignorance have brought us to identify the whole of our being with ego. Its greatest triumph is to inveigle us into believing its best interests...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 9, 2010 4:33 am
Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be...
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Kristy
gabriel6159
Apr 9, 2010 4:48 am
Sis, try to memorize this one. This is one of the Buddha's most profound,
famous and beautiful teachings. I want to cry good tears whenever I see it,
hear it...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 10, 2010 4:48 am
There are rough as well as gentle waves in the ocean; strong emotions come, like anger, desire, jealousy. The real practitioner recognizes them not as a...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 11, 2010 2:31 am
There is no swifter, more moving, or more powerful practice for invoking the help of the enlightened beings, for arousing devotion and realizing the nature of...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 12, 2010 2:13 am
We have been taught to spend our lives chasing our thoughts and projections. Even when the ¡°mind¡± is talked about, it is only thoughts and emotions that...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 13, 2010 2:40 am
Wrong views and wrong convictions can be the most devastating of all our delusions. Surely Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot must have been convinced that they were...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 14, 2010 7:10 am
The master is like a great ship for beings to cross the perilous ocean of existence, an unerring captain who guides them to the dry land of liberation, a rain...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 15, 2010 6:38 am
There are those who look on death with a naive, thoughtless cheerfulness, thinking that for some unknown reason death will work out all right for them, and...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 16, 2010 5:22 am
rom a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent on karmic...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 17, 2010 9:27 pm
Even within the human realm, all of us have our own individual karma. Human beings look much the same, but we perceive things utterly differently, and we each...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 19, 2010 2:37 pm
Above all else, we need to nourish our true self¡ªwhat we can call our buddha nature¡ªfor so often we make the fatal mistake of identifying with our...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 20, 2010 2:21 pm
If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of what continues, no knowledge of the new dimension of...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 22, 2010 3:40 am
To contemplate impermanence on its own is not enough: You have to work with it in your life. Let¡¯s try an experiment. Pick up a coin. Imagine that it...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 23, 2010 2:15 pm
It is the supreme elixirThat overcomes the sovereignty of death. It is the inexhaustible treasure That eliminates poverty in the world. It is the supreme...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 24, 2010 10:11 am
After meditation, it¡¯s important not to give in to our tendency to solidify the way we perceive things. When you do re-enter everyday life, let the wisdom,...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 27, 2010 8:44 am
There is a danger, called in the tradition ¡°losing the Action in the View.¡± A teaching as high and powerful as Dzogchen entails an extreme risk. Deluding...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 28, 2010 3:47 am
Rest in natural great peace This exhausted mind Beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, Like the relentless fury of the pounding waves In the infinite...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 29, 2010 7:31 am
Don¡¯t be in too much of a hurry to solve all your doubts and problems. As the masters say: ¡°Make haste slowly.¡± I always tell my students not to have...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Apr 30, 2010 1:59 am
Visualize someone to whom you feel very close, particularly someone who is suffering and in pain. As you breathe in, imagine you take in all their suffering...
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GEOFFREY RODLEY
geoffreyrodl...
Apr 30, 2010 9:44 pm
Hi, my dear fellow Buddhist, For this old man your logical questioning reminds me of my own first tentative steps into the teachings of the holy Buddha. ...
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chandar shirsat
chandar0123
Apr 30, 2010 9:46 pm
 Very Nice.. Pls Keep Sending Such beatutiful mails. Regards, Chandrakant ________________________________ From: Namdrol Tsepal <tenzin111@...> To:...
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Kellie Snider
the_kellie
Apr 30, 2010 9:47 pm
It was a great series of losses that made me finally seek out a Buddhist community. My husband and I lost both of his parents, and my father and a favorite...
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Thio Bee Yong
thiobeeyong
Apr 30, 2010 9:48 pm
THE MAHABODHI MONASTERY  The Community of the Holy Ones will lead the chanting of THE MAHAMAYURA PEACOCK MANTRA æ诵åéæçå    Maha Mayuri...
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Paul
vajrakid
Apr 30, 2010 9:48 pm
Hi, I'm paul. I've been practicing Tibetan Buddhism for most of my life, and I was a monk for a few years as well. I have a few close teachers in Nyingma and...
