Material environment

All these material objects, you can utilize them, use them, but do not be attached to them. The material environment and the people around you, they are not there to create all kinds of afflictions for you. All of these afflictions, all of this unhappiness arise because of your own afflictive emotions. You think about … Continued

Sunlight

As soon as you go outside, there is sunlight. When, within your mind, within your heart there is no light, then, the sunlight cannot find you. All that sunlight does, is find your body. If you have sunlight within your heart, within your mind, wherever you are there is sunlight. This is important to practice, … Continued

The path of the Bodhisattva

And then, within our daily lives, we must realize this ‘dream’. All the compassion, all the wisdom, all the pith instructions, we must apply in daily life to oppose our negative habits and transform our afflictions. Satisfy sentient beings! Maintain your pure vows, the right mindfulness and awareness!  And through renunciation and bodhicitta, we attain … Continued

Placing others higher than ourselves

Liberation comes from placing others higher than ourselves, it does not come from requesting for the realisation of Buddhahood. Why does attaining Buddhahood or benefiting others come from placing other higher than ourselves?  Why do we naturally attain Buddhahood? In Mahayana Buddhism they say ‘As long as you have self-grasping you will not attain Buddhahood; … Continued

Bodhicitta in daily life

Of course, bodhicitta is very difficult to practice in daily life, but, if you can enable yourself to realize this practice, then it becomes easier and easier.  Then you can be in the smallest little rooms, but your mind will still be very vast. Then, your truth and aspiration will be vast and benefiting other … Continued

The two levels of our mind

So, our mind is two levelled: one is the mind of radiance, the other is the mind of trouble. The level where we have a lot of trouble is this level where we are existing in this very selfish attitude. And the radiant portion, this we find and we experience in practicing meditation. GN Rinpoche

Precious life

If we learn to release our selfishness then peace comes, more peace and equanimity come into our minds. And when we do this we realize that actually our life is very precious. Life is very rare, very precious. But if we do not cherish it, then all this happiness that we experience is only there … Continued

A happy activity

Practice really should be a very happy activity. And why? We are reducing and eliminating our negative karma and afflictive emotions. If every day you have positive kind thoughts and you have the right mindfulness and awareness, is this not something that one will have a happy mind with? GN Rinpoche

How perfect everything is

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky Gautama Buddha