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 07 Karma on Mar 25th, 2010
I am still quite busy getting settled into our new home and haven’t had a lot of time for study and practice. But every by and then I manged to remember to reflect on the topic I had set for myself: How to best change my attitude. As I wrote in my last post it [...]
Posted in Karma, zz Patrul Rinpoche on Mar 19th, 2010
Over the last week and a half we have moved to a new house. It was a busy and stressful time and I didn’t manage to practice much or post on my blog. We are settling into our new home now and I am trying to get back to my previous routine which included a [...]
Posted in Karma on Mar 11th, 2010
The first step in working with mind is to develop mindfulness and awareness so I can become more aware of what is going on in my mind. This makes sense to me, because if I am not able to see how my mind is operating, how could there be any hope of changing how it [...]
Posted in Freedom, zz Geshe Langri Thangpa, zz Shantideva on Mar 1st, 2010
Now that I decided to move on to a new topic, karma, my mind seems to not want to let go of reflecting on destructive emotions. I decided I better give my mind some space and let it do what it wants, … at least for a little while. Yesterday I reflected on anger and [...]
Posted in Freedom, zz Mingyur Rinpoche on Feb 24th, 2010
Here are some more quotes on the relating to the topic of freedom, happiness and destructive emotions from another one of my favorite books, The Joy of Living by Mingyur Rinpoche: “When the mind is realized, that is the buddha. — The Wisdom of the Passing Moment Sutra (translated by Elizabeth M. Callahan) You are [...]
Posted in Freedom, zz Shantideva, zz Sogyal Rinpoche on Feb 16th, 2010
In the last few days I have been continuing to reflect on negative emotions. What does it really mean that negative emotions take my freedom? How do they manage to do this? I have been asking these same questions for a while now, but I find it helpful to reflect on them again and again [...]
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