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 08 Samsara, Freedom, zz Shantideva on Feb 8th, 2010
The Buddhist teachings explain that we are not free because we are controlled by our negative emotions. For example, in the reflection on the suffering nature of samsara, which is part of brief version of the Four Thoughts from the Ngöndro practice, it says: “Driven by anger, desire, and ignorance, gods, men, animals, hungry ghosts [...]
Posted in 06 Death and Impermanence, 07 Karma, Four thoughts on Jan 5th, 2010
Life seems like a busy marketplace to me. There is a lot going on, we get bombarded with all sorts of things right and left. On one side there are our responsibilities. There is always something that needs to be done. Coming out of a longer period retreat a few weeks ago, it strikes me [...]
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