When we are at last freed from the body that has defined and dominated our understanding of ourselves for so long, the karmic vision of one life is completely exhausted, but any karma that might be cr...
Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can layabout it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this unc...
What is a great spiritual practitioner? A person who lives always in the presence of his or her own true self, someone who has found and who uses continually the springs and sources of profound inspir...
–Rimpoché, mira qué pulcro y qué limpio lo tienen todo en Occidente. Hasta los lugares donde depositan los cadáveres están inmaculados. En Oriente, ni siquiera las casas donde vive la gente están tan...
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The act of meditation is being spacious.
We are acting as if we were the last generation on the planet. Without
Tibetan thangka paintings and derive strength from their beauty.
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
People will die as they have lived, as themselves.
Action is being truly observant of your own thoughts, good or bad,looking into the true nature of whatever thoughts may arise, neithertracing the past nor inviting the future, neither allowing anyclin...
Let's try an experiment. Pick up a coin. Imagine that it representsthe object at which you are grasping. Hold it tightlyclutched in your fist and extend your arm, with the palm ofyour hand facing the...
Nothing could be further from the truth. But in a world dedicated to distraction, silence and stillness terrify us; we protect ourselves from them with noise and frantic busyness. Looking into the nat...
when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each bei...
Sometimes even when the cell door is flung open, the prisoner chooses not to escape.
And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion. More
Wrong views and wrong convictions can be the most devastating of all our delusions. Surely both Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot must have been convinced that they were right? And yet each and every one of us...
Responsabilité. Parfois, lorsque la porte de la cellule s’ouvre, le prisonnier choisit de ne pas s’évader.
Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and...
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