A Summary of How an Awakening Being Behaves by Tokmé Zong-po (Thogs.med bzang.po, 1245-1369) Namo Lokesvaraya You who see that experience has no coming or going,Yet pour your energy solely into helping beings,My excellent teachers and Lord All Seeing,I humbly and constantly honor with my body, speech, and mind. The fully awake, the buddhas, source … [Read more...] about 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva
Training
Facing Fear
This article first appeared in Tricycle Magazine, Spring 2002. On Sept. 11, 2001, I watched in shock as the great cathedrals of globalism, the World Trade Center towers, crumbled into dust. The tallest and grandest buildings of any culture represent beliefs in invincibility, entitlement, and power. When these illusions are shattered, fear arises. … [Read more...] about Facing Fear
Four Immeasurables – practice
You can download a PDF of this practice in English and German. Equanimity May I be free from preference and prejudice.May I know things just as they are.May I experience the world knowing me just as I am.May I see into whatever arises. Loving kindness May I be happy, well, and at peace.May I open to things just as they are.May I … [Read more...] about Four Immeasurables – practice
You Can't Always Get What You Want
This article first appeared in Tricycle Magazine, Summer 2004. With renunciation life begins.- Amelia Barr, All the Days of My Life Where compassion is the wish that others not suffer, renunciation is the wish that I not suffer. What causes me to suffer? Wanting. Renunciation, then, means not so much giving up things, desires, or a way of life, … [Read more...] about You Can't Always Get What You Want
When Energy Runs Wild
< ?php include 'article.html'; ?> A few years ago, a psychologist came to see me with concerns after attending a one-day retreat. The practice instruction she had received was to put attention on just the physical sensations in her body, moment by moment. Whatever emotions or feelings arose, she was to focus only on the associated physical … [Read more...] about When Energy Runs Wild
Three Questions
“You may have recognized your nature,But unless you are thoroughly familiar with it,You will be like an infant on a battlefield:The enemy ‘thinking’ will run all over you.” — Longchenpa, Buddhist master (1308-1363) Last year I took a short course in rock climbing — hanging from strangely shaped colored knobs bolted to a canted wall while … [Read more...] about Three Questions