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Of course our rational mind-the gross mind that is caught up in society’s values-believes in the importance of everything we do. But we should not be fooled into believing that all this complicated thinking is the truth. There may be a lot of things we have to go along with in order to live our daily lives, but we don’t have to believe in them. And when we are being complicated we shouldn’t even believe in ourselves!
— Mar 04, 2025 10:48PM
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...Like a nuclear reactor without any fuel, such a person will have no resource to utilize for the necessary transformations.
...just as we are the creator of all our own problems we are also the creator of our own liberation, and everything that is necessary for attaining this blissful liberation is contained in the body and mind we have right at this very moment.
— Mar 22, 2025 10:56PM
...just as we are the creator of all our own problems we are also the creator of our own liberation, and everything that is necessary for attaining this blissful liberation is contained in the body and mind we have right at this very moment.
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The essence of tantra is dealing skillfully with pleasure. The person who qualifies for tantra is someone who can cope with pleasure, someone for whom dealing with pleasure becomes a conducive situation for achieving liberation. This is the tantric personality. If a person only knows how to be miserable then tantra will not work for him or her. Like a nuclear reactor without any fuel, such a person will have no...
— Mar 22, 2025 10:56PM
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...who get something really clear in their mind and then, the minute they understand it, put it directly into their heart- these are the people who are truly practicing. They are the ones who are getting the chocolate.
— Mar 17, 2025 01:22PM
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The most important thing about tantric practice is to get a taste, an actual experience, of something that has meaning for you. It doesn’t matter how small the piece of chocolate you get is; you taste it and you are satisfied. That is all. So those people...
— Mar 17, 2025 01:22PM
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As we have discussed, renunciation, bodhicitta, and the correct view of emptiness are three of the prerequisites for the practice of tantra. This does not mean, however, that our realization of these three has to be complete and perfect before we can start following the tantric path. An approximate understanding is sufficient for us to begin.
— Mar 03, 2025 11:36AM
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...We cease to be tossed this way and that by the changing fortunes of our life and gain the space to begin tapping our inner potential.
— Feb 28, 2025 10:27PM
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When Buddhism speaks of taking refuge it is emphasizing the importance of breaking out of this desperate, unfulfilling search for satisfaction. Taking true refuge involves a changing of our attitude; it comes from seeing the ultimate worthlessness of the transitory phenomena we are ordinarily attracted to...
— Feb 28, 2025 10:27PM
