It is important to reflect calmly, again and again, that death is real and comes without warning. Don’t be like the pigeon in the Tibetan proverb: He spends...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 4, 2005 4:01 am
Realizing the View subtly but completely transforms your vision of everything. More and more, I have come to realize how thoughts and concepts are all that...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 6, 2005 1:32 am
Sit quietly. From the depths of your heart, invoke in the sky in front of you the embodiment of the truth in the person of your master, a saint, or an ...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 6, 2005 1:34 am
Life, as Buddha told us, is as brief as a lightning flash; yet, as Wordsworth said: “The world is too much with us: Getting and spending, we lay waste our...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 7, 2005 6:03 am
We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice. And if we choose to do so, we can put an end to suffering and...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 12, 2005 4:29 am
I often think of the great masters and imagine beings who have their depth of realization as magnificent mountain eagles, who soar above both life and death...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 14, 2005 1:52 am
When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of ...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 14, 2005 1:53 am
One great master in the nineteenth century had a disciple who was very thick-headed. The master had taught him again and again, trying to introduce him to the...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 18, 2005 6:54 am
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 18, 2005 6:55 am
The practice of mindfulness, of bringing the scattered mind home, and so of bringing the different aspects of our being into focus, is called Peacefully ...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 18, 2005 6:56 am
Remaining in the clarity and confidence of Rigpa allows all your thoughts and emotions to liberate naturally and effortlessly within its vast expanse, like...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 19, 2005 12:30 am
To learn how to die is to learn how to live; to learn how to live is to learn how to act not only in this life but in the lives to come. To transform yourself...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 19, 2005 12:44 am
How can the wisdom mind of the buddhas be introduced? Imagine the nature of mind as your face; it is always with you, but you cannot see it without help. Now...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 20, 2005 3:49 am
How can the wisdom mind of the buddhas be introduced? Imagine the nature of mind as your face; it is always with you, but you cannot see it without help. Now...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 24, 2005 9:37 am
Compassion is a far greater and nobler thing than pity. Pity has its roots in fear and carries a sense of arrogance and condescension, sometimes even a smug...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 24, 2005 9:43 am
Just as the ocean has waves, and the sun has rays, so the mind’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. The ocean has waves, yet the ocean is not...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 25, 2005 4:16 am
It is crucial now that an enlightened vision of death and dying should be introduced throughout the world at all levels of education. Children should not be...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 25, 2005 4:17 am
Where exactly is our buddha nature? It is in the skylike nature of our mind. Utterly open, free and limitless, it is fundamentally so simple and so natural...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 28, 2005 2:35 am
“Once you have the View, although the delusory perceptions of samsara may arise in your mind, you will be like the sky; when a rainbow appears in front of...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Jan 28, 2005 3:14 am
According to the wisdom of Buddha, we can actually use our lives to prepare for death. We do not have to wait for the painful death of someone close to us or...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Feb 2, 2005 2:02 am
Learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Feb 2, 2005 2:06 am
When I teach meditation, I often begin by saying: “Bring your mind home. And release. And relax.” To bring your mind home means to bring the mind into the...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Feb 4, 2005 3:54 am
How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an “active laziness”? Naturally there are different species of laziness: Eastern and Western. The...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Feb 4, 2005 3:56 am
Loss and bereavement can remind you sharply of what can happen when in life you do not show your love and appreciation, or ask for forgiveness, and so make you...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Feb 14, 2005 1:38 am
Despite all our chatter about being practical, to be practical in the West means to be ignorantly, and often selfishly, short-sighted. Our myopic focus on this...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Feb 14, 2005 1:40 am
From the Tibetan Buddhist point of view, we can divide our entire existence into four continuously interlinked realities: 1. life; 2. dying and death; 3. after...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Feb 15, 2005 12:27 am
Nothing has any inherent existence of its own when you really look at it, and this absence of independent existence is what we call “emptiness.” Think of a...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Feb 15, 2005 12:32 am
When a much larger number of people know the nature of their minds, they’ll know also the glorious nature of the world they are in, and will struggle ...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Feb 16, 2005 12:43 am
The Buddhist meditation masters know how flexible and workable the mind is. If we train it, anything is possible. In fact, we are already perfectly trained by...
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Namdrol Tsepal
tenzin111
Feb 16, 2005 12:45 am
One of the chief reasons we have so much anguish and difficulty in facing death is that we ignore the truth of impermanence. In our minds, changes always equal...
