His holiness Karmapa Ogyen Trinley dorje

"As you increase your awareness of your own noble heart in your everyday activities, it will become a central force in your life.....You can take all experiences as a means of growing spiritually."                   ❦ Karmapa ❦ The Heart is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

When a fisher puts a worm on a hook, it is not dead. Seeing the moving worm, the fish sees something to eat. It sees only pleasure; it cannot see all the suffering it will get by taking the worm, so it goes to the worm without hesitation. Then what happens? The hook gets caught in its mouth, and there is incredible pain and no way to escape. Then, before death, before the consciousness even leaves the body, its body is cut into pieces, causing it to experience unbelievable suffering. This is similar to the mouse and the mousetrap. The mouse, seeing food in a mousetrap, goes in, thinking of the food as pleasure, as something worthwhile. Blinded by the desire for the food, it cannot see it will be caught and killed. It doesn’t see the suffering involved in the pleasure. Samsaric pleasure is like this. Our attachment labels the object as good and we desire it, not understanding that suffering will result from our attachment. 

We must see that all cyclic existence is suffering. What we think of as pleasure, what we crave, such as praise and reputation, is suffering. It will not bring us any happiness, and it will cause us terrible suffering in our next life. We crave being praised and yet the praise is just a collection of words; it cannot bring us any physical advantage. We might seek pleasure in drinking alcohol or gambling, but these are at best transitory pleasurable sensations that cannot be sustained and will definitely end, turning into the suffering of pain. And, of course, we all know how a little drinking can lead to more and then to alcoholism. The habit of drinking becomes an addiction that destroys a person’s whole life, consuming all their money and harming their family terribly. When they die, they usually have a horrible death and are reborn in the lower realms.

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Patience

Book by Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

his holiness Karmapa

"However much fighting there is in the world, however much darkness there is,  we must be able to serve as small lamps in that darkness." — His Holiness Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje

HH the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley dorje

What I really like to do is to get into action....When I am meditating on compassion, I don't want to keep it inside myown mind. I want to be able to show this power to others."                           

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       HH the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley dorje

His holiness Karmapa

The role of emotional awareness is a second major theme running through the book. For the Karmapa, emotions serve as a force that is essential for translating intellectual understanding into positive action.

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His holiness Ogyen Trinley Dorje Karmapa, Interconnected: Embracing Life in Our Global Society

17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje

Love and compassion are like seeds within us. Like the seed of a tree, these seeds require nurturing so that they can develop. We develop the seeds of love and compassion through patience, through diligence, and through compassionate action.

— 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje

OSHO

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BELOVED MASTER OSHO 

Never Born

Never Died

Only Visited this

Planet Earth between

Dec 11, 1931 – Jan 19, 1990

His holiness Karmapa

His holiness Dalai Lama XIV

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

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His holiness Dalai Lama XIV

17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje

True peace cannot be achieved by force or by merely invoking the word "peace." It can only be attained by training the mind and learning to cultivate inner peace. Peace is a calm and gentle state of mind. - 17th Karmapa

Ogyen Trinley Dorje, The Future Is Now: Timely Advice for Creating a Better World

His holiness Karmapa

When you feel authentic love toward others, you will be deeply moved to act. You will not rest until you have found ways to secure the happiness of all those you are able to include in your feelings of love. As you learn to love more and more widely, your love will motivate you to act to benefit not just the few people in your inner circle, but your whole society, and eventually, the whole world. This makes love an immensely powerful basis for social action of any sort.

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Ogyen Trinley Dorje, The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out

His Eminence Lama zopa rinpoche

Day 246

Holding any deluded view is a mistaken mind that leads to suffering.

-Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Of the six root delusions, the final one is divided into the five extreme, or deluded, views. The first of these, the view of the changeable aggregates, is the foundation of the others. It is the view that although our five aggregates are changing all the time we don't see them as such. We superimpose a solid, permanent sense of I onto the aggregates.

The second deluded view, the view of extremes, is also very subtle and pervasive. It is our view of things and events as being either permanent and independent, which is called eternalism, or not existing at all, which is called nihilism. Thirdly there is the view of holding deluded views as supreme through believing that any of the other four deluded views are the correct viewpoint. Fourthly, we can have the view of holding our own misguided moral and religious discipline as supreme. This deluded view is the cause of enormous conflict in the world. Our culture or religion might encourage actions that don't accord with moral conduct but we still think it to be acceptable.

The final deluded view is simply called wrong views. This is any mistaken view but in particular the belief that there is no such thing as karma, that all the universes, worlds, environments and sentient beings are not products of karma but of a divine creator. It also includes seeing things as existing from their own side. This deluded view is the very root of cyclic existence and when we live with this hallucination it gives rise to all the other delusions.

His Eminence Lama zopa rinpoche

Day 245

Doubt robs us of our energy and determination and causes great confusion.

-Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Doubt is the attitude that is uncertain whether things such as the four noble truths, karma or the Three Rare Sublime Ones actually exist. Doubt is a very disturbing mind because it blocks any progress on the path. Through not being sure of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha and the efficacy of relying on them, we don't take refuge and therefore never become an "inner being," which would allow us to eliminate obscurations and attain realizations. Not knowing whether there is such a thing as cause and effect, we don't have the energy to turn away from nonvirtue.

Doubt grows from ignorance. It is a two-pointed mind-thinking maybe something is true, maybe it's not that cannot reach a conclusion. Even if we have studied the Dharma and have an intellectual knowledge of all its subjects, unless our doubts are overcome we will be unable to achieve any results. It's like possessing a medicine but never taking it because we have no faith in the cure.

When we embark on the spiritual path it is extremely healthy to have doubts, but this is not what we are talking about here. Those kinds of doubt involve checking whether something really exists as the texts describe and analyzing whether the teachings work for us, rather than just accepting everything without question. The Buddha said we should not accept his words just because of his authority but should test everything just as a goldsmith assays gold to determine its purity

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Lamrim Year: Making Life Meaningful Day by Day

Book by Thubten Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

His Eminence Lama zopa rinpoche

The essence of collecting the most extensive merit in your daily life is through the attitude of always keeping your motivation in bodhicitta, the thought to benefit all sentient beings. The more sentient beings you think about, the more merit you collect.

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His Eminence Lama zopa rinpoche

Guru Kyabje Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.

༄། །ཞྭ་སེར་བསྟན་པའི་མཛེས་རྒྱན་རང་ཅག་རྣམས་ལ་བཀའ་དྲིན་ལྷག་པར་དུ་ཆེ་བའི་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་བླ་མ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་བཟོད་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དགུང་གྲངས་ ༧༧ ལ་ཕེབས་པའི་སྐུལི་འཁྲུངས་སྐར་ལ་མཚམ་འདྲི་བཀྲིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ། 

Wish you very happy 77th birthday to our precious Guru Kyabje Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.

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When you recognize your problem comes from your concept or your concept is the problem, you don't blame others

HH 16th Karmapa

Some prophecies foretell serious changes, disasters, and even the end of the world within a few years. What do you think about this?

Karmapa: I do not think speculating about the future is helpful. Instead, we should use our time to practice the Dharma so we can become clearer in our minds and can recognize the nature of timeless, primordial awareness. In the same way that pouring cold water into boiling water lessens its agitation, through practice the mind becomes more and more still.

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HH 16th Karmapa

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