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, zz Longchenpa, zz Sogyal Rinpoche on May 14th, 2010
A few of the students in the online class I am helping to instruct are finding it quite difficult to get down onto the cushion. I sometimes have the same problem and this made me reflect on what I do when this happens. The first question that came to my mind was why I find [...]
Posted in Meditation on Apr 28th, 2010
Wow! I just realized it has been more than a week since I made my last post here. I think that’s the longest gap I have had since I started. Gaps are good in meditation. The instructions say to rest in the gap when the out-breath is complete and before the next in-breath naturally rises. [...]
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 Samsara, zz Longchenpa on Jan 9th, 2010
I am very goal oriented and like to be busy doing things. I get a lot of satisfaction from getting things accomplished. Whenever something is wrong, I want to fix it! In a way that’s good, but the problem is that there is always something wrong. As soon as I fix one problem or finish [...]
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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