Reflections on how to live a meaningful life inspired by "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" by Sogyal Rinpoche and teachings from other Buddhist masters
Posted in Meditation, Shunyata, zz Tsoknyi Rinpoche, zz Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche on Jul 23rd, 2010
I am trying to understand better how ego works. The Tibetan word for ego is Dak Dzin. Dak means “self” and Dzin “to grasp”, and put together it means grasping at a self. In particular, the teachings say that it refers to grasping at or identifying with a false sense of self. In the Buddhist [...]
Posted in Meditation, Shunyata, zz Mingyur Rinpoche on May 30th, 2010
Today, I would like to share more advice by Mingyur Rinpoche on how to deal with thoughts and emotions, that he gave in the context of the exercise from his book The Joy of Living, which I described in my last post. He wrote: Sea lace by Katarina 2353 “The point of the exercise is [...]
Posted in Meditation, Shunyata, zz Buddha, zz Mingyur Rinpoche, zz Nagarjuna on May 25th, 2010
I am immensely enjoying helping with the online course in meditation that I mentioned previously, however it hasn’t left me with a lot of time of writing in my blog. I have kept my routine of practicing and reflecting, but just haven’t found time to write it down. So today I sat down and decided [...]
Posted in Shunyata, zz Nagarjuna on Jan 22nd, 2010
My teacher describes the process of coming to a deeper understanding of the teachings in terms of “the three wisdom tools.” They are: the wisdom of listening and hearing, the wisdom of reflection and contemplation and the wisdom of application and meditation. This means that first we need to study and understand what the teachings [...]
Posted in Shunyata, zz Mingyur Rinpoche on Jan 21st, 2010
I like to reflect on the nature of this world and what is really true about it. In the Buddhist teachings, the nature of everything is described as emptiness. I have a lot of difficulty to fully understand this view. For example, in the Heart Sutra we find the famous statement, “form is emptiness, emptiness [...]
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