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[…] opens a door to direct awareness practices Deity — a realm of magic and mystery that radically shifts your understanding of life and self Protector — the power of the protectors and how it can guide you through the traps and pitfalls of spiritual practice This intimate portrait of Vajrayana practice is in effect […]
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[…] Buddhism you discover: How to live life with equanimity, loving-kindness, compassion, and joy How to cut through obsessions with the external world, relationships, harmful emotions, pleasure and power, and self Tried-and-true methods for cultivating active attention with your body and mind. Bookshop.org Amazon Despierta a Tu Vida La clave para estar plenamente vivos y […]
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[…] the course of your life. The therapist provides a healing environment, a place where old hurts can be touched, without your being re-wounded. Change comes through the power of the emotional connection you experience with the therapist. He or she supports you, through presence, attention, and caring, in revisiting old hurts so they can […]
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[…] is a “Buddhist” way of responding. This election, with all its hyperbole and vitriol, combined with the high degree of polarization in this country, has brought out powerful emotional reactions in many of us. Those emotional reactions are reactions, and the path of Buddhism is about developing the skill and capacity — through emptiness, […]
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[…] repress feelings, it’s as if I’m cutting out a part of my own being. At best it’s a short-term solution. The feelings usually come back with a power and seeming vengeance all their own, and they tend to cause rather more havoc second time around. On the other hand, when I’m consumed by a […]
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[…] that I take form and teach the six kinds of beings.May all beings wake upTo the totality of experience. Ah hoFrom now on, whenever a contemplativeForms this powerful intentionFrom the natural clarity of unconfused awareness,All beings who hear itWill be fully awake within three lives. When the sun or moon is seized by Rahu,2 […]
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[…] mahasattva, was looking right at the experience of the profound perfection of wisdom and he saw the five groups to be empty of nature. Then, through the power of the Buddha, venerable Shariputra said to noble Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva mahasattva, “How does a son or daughter of the noble family, who wishes to practice […]
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By the power of the truth of compassion of all the supreme refuges, these seeds of virtue and this pure noble motivationMay all the suffering of sentient beings who are as extensive as space be cleared away through my own efforts.By excellent virtue, both ordinary and transcendent, may the hopes and wants of beings […]
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[…] As water is poured into water,May the body, speech and mind of Mother Labkyi Drönma,Join with mine and become oneAnd through this connection bring great peace. The power of my prayer makesThe Great Mother dissolve into light: she is absorbed into me.My mind drops into naked simplicity. Now, look inwards, look at your mind.When […]
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[…] lot of training in study and reflection,Just keeping to mind nature as in the Instruction Tradition,With little difficulty, a city practitioner becomes a knowledge holder.Such is the power of this profound path. Cracking the Shell of Ignorance Place your mind in the natural flow of experience, don’t think about anything at all, and keep […]
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[…] sea.Know that there is nothing here at all,And then, my child, everything is gold. “Experience arises like magic.If you practice like magicYou will awaken like magicThrough the power of faith. “Don’t think about your teacher or your practice.Don’t think about what is real or not real.Don’t think about anything at all.Don’t control what you […]
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[…] great clouds;The abilities of yidams pour down like rain;The activities of dakinis and protectors ripen like fruit.Good fortune: may the two aims come about naturally. Through the power of truth of aspirations made with a totally pure mind,Through the inevitability of dependence and conditions totally formed,And through the force of what is, profound and […]
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[…] relationship is the education of the student. If the teacher or attorney has another agenda and is more concerned with money or other forms of profit (fame, power, etc.), then the basis of the shared aim relationship is violated. Control is a key issue in shared aim relationships: non-profit and political organizations regularly experience […]
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[…] differently intentionally in given situations so that we know experientially that those possibilities are available to us. Internally, we will find the teachings on impermanence and suffering powerful aids to letting go of ideas about how the future should be for us. Finally, we make efforts, again internally and externally, to be able to […]
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[…] relate to that. And the whole thrust of Buddhism is about what you experience. In some formulations of Christianity, there is belief in an all loving, all powerful God. And not just in Christianity, this crops up in a number of other religious traditions, but it’s the one I’m more familiar with. As soon […]
