The weekend of god realm outreach work in Zürich, Tibetans at the end of their tether were being shot and beaten in Lhasa. I specially dedicated the empowerment to those who perished, with the feeling that they were actually present in the room. May I die for you, some time.
The Buddha chose to be born in the human [...]
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May I die for you, some time.
Posted in Buddhism, Dharma, Travel, tagged Buddhism, Dharma, Switzerland, Travel on March 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
‘Buddhism as religion, philosophy and way of life.’
Posted in Buddhism, Courses, Dharma, tagged Austria, Buddhism, Courses, Dharma, Travel on March 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
‘Buddhists put equal value on having a human mind, a human body and a human heart. Any of them can be a point of entry into practical Buddhism. Buddhist practice begins wherever we are, and unifies the three great facts of our existence. We start by looking for our ordinary selves, and what we find [...]
Vignettes della Vita ein Gelegenheitslamas #31 I Woke Up This Morning
Posted in Buddhism, Dharma, Travel, Vignettes, tagged Buddhism, Dharma, Switzerland, Travel on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Barocksaal of the Carl der Große centre is named after a series of 18th.C canvases which cover the four walls from floor to ceiling, showing European aristocracy at play.
Delicate ceiling-mouldings and paneling, and an elegant Delft-tiled stove, no two tiles the same, complete the sense of a heritage of effortless refinement. The segue into the modern [...]
Vignettes della Vita ein Gelegenheitslamas #29 Springtime for Zürich and Zwingli
Posted in Buddhism, Dharma, Travel, Vignettes, tagged Buddhism, Dharma, Switzerland, Travel on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Springtime for Zürich. A charming reach of broad cobbled alleyways: antiques, restaurants, jewellers, galleries, rare books, bespoke furniture. The spring sun extracts a smiling confession of beige from the rainy grisaille which normally crosses the face of the city’s stones. Tourists from even more stratospherically costly locations saunter towards a late breakfast or their second cappuccino.
Across a steep slope two foundations face off: [...]
Where does the dust go?
Posted in Buddhism, Dharma, tagged Buddhism, Dharma, philosophy, psychology on March 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“I believe when we die, we cease to exist completely, no heavenly paradise, no promise of virgins, no nirvana, no hell. We just die and everything goes black.”
‘…everything goes black…’
How might that happen, I wonder?
If this is what happens, it means we go out of existence as if we had never existed at all. So [...]
“Where to begin?” is a kind of denial.
Posted in Buddhism, Dharma, tagged Buddhism, Dharma, philosophy, psychology on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You can only begin where you are, but wherever you begin becomes the place where you are. So you can always begin, and this is rebirth.
A method actor tries to be, on screen, the living accumulation of everything his character was doing, all those decades, before being ‘reborn’, in the opening scene of the movie. Every story [...]
bLogs (Tib.): clear mind, lend an ear
Posted in Buddhism, Dharma, tagged Buddhism, Dharma, philosophy, psychology on March 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
blag pa
to incline one’s ear to, to lend one’s ear, to listen to; ft. of {blag pa}; {blag pa, blags pa, blag pa, bLogs} trans. v.;
bLogs
imp. of {blag pa};
bLogs la
clear mind
— Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist Teaching & Practice,
© 1996 Rangjung Yeshe Translations & Publications in cooperation with the Diamond Way Buddhism Network.
