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Chapter 4 of “Meditating on the Four Immeasurables”
[…] p. 59 He’s referring to the duck who sits on it’s eggs and turns them over when it’s too hot. What often prevents us from seeing and taking care of our life in its widest dimensions and covers our passion for life is fanaticism—political, philosophical, as well as the following of a blind devotion […]
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[…] teachings and their time-tested methods of practice that include: The development of stable attention, insight, and the uncovering of direct awareness; Mahayana mind-training including loving kindness, compassion, taking and sending (tonglen), the six perfections including the perfection of wisdom, and the Great Middle Way; Vajrayana practice, including teacher union, deity creation and completion, energy transformation, and […]
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[…] complexities of modern life. His approach is non-sectarian — drawing on various Buddhist traditions while focusing on the core practices of stable attention, Mahayana mind training ( taking and sending), the methods and rituals of Vajrayana, and the direct awareness practices of mahamudra and dzogchen. Author and Translator In addition to his teaching and translation work, […]
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[…] dispel them unequivocally.When I see someone bad or evil,His wicked life weighing him down,Being so rare, may I treasure himAs if a priceless gem I’d found.When scorn and insult become my lot,Expressions of some jealousy,May I alone accept defeatAnd award the other victory.Whenever people I have helped,For whom I had great hopes and plans,Betray […]
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Lineage is not the passing on of “The Truth” from one generation to another. It is the passing on of the methods, the tools, with which you uncover and live this natural knowing.
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[…] heritage (buddha nature), and all the various spiritual practices, meditation, contemplation on such themes as impermanence, suffering, non-self, compassion, emptiness, koan practice (in Zen), the four immeasurables, taking and sending, etc., are concerned, at least in part, with removing the blocks that prevent that direct knowing or with cultivating that direct knowing explicitly (as in mahamudra, […]
