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 Karma, zz Sogyal Rinpoche on Mar 8th, 2010
Reflecting on karma over the last few days I came across three old friends, to be precise, actually enemies that are disguising as friends. I am sure you are already guessing who they are. Here is how they popped up again: In The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Sogyal Rinpoche explains the meaning of [...]
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 [...]
We had a Tsunami warning today because of the disastrous earth quake in Chile. I heard some sirens go off briefly around 5 am but didn’t find out about the warning till about 7 am when our land lady called and told us we needed to evacuate by 10:30 am. Hearing of the possibility of [...]
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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