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I have learned it is necessary to develop a wisdom mind along with a kind heart together. Why is this?

Dear Michael,

when nurturing a kind heart, one might wish to help other beings (get rid of suffering)...withouth wisdom it is hard to make that wish come true...unwise acts might cause more harm than good, even if motivated by a kind heart...

I don't know about wisdom alone, without a kind heart...how wise would it be to keep all the wisdom and its friuts to oneself alone?

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Dear Michael,

when nurturing a kind heart, one might wish to help other beings (get rid of suffering)...withouth wisdom it is hard to make that wish come true...unwise acts might cause more harm than good, even if motivated by a kind heart...

I don't know about wisdom alone, without a kind heart...how wise would it be to keep all the wisdom and its friuts to oneself alone?

 

 

Dear Dani! :) :)

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In order to develop the wisdom mind it is necessary to find inner peace. Is it possible to find inner peace without feeling the pain of others? Put another way, does feeling the pain in others lead to inner peace and thus the wisdom mind?

 

(added the next day)

 

I have spent the past few days meditating on a joke directed at Buddhists, as I think it is highly relevant to my practice.

 

The “joke†states: “Don’t just do something, sit there!†coming from the old advice we have all heard - don’t just sit there, do something!

 

Well, joking aside I have a big problem in my practice with making the right effort. This is not just due to laziness or lack of perseverance. It is a problem of correct motivation and view.

 

Thich Nhat Hanh, the highly accomplished Vietnamese Buddhist monk found he was unable to practice sitting meditation in his monastery with bombs going off all around during the Vietnam war. He had to find a different form of meditation, a meditation based on action and set about doing all he could to alleviate the suffering of civilians in dire straits. A similar thing we have seen happen in Burma - the monks leaving their monasteries. Well it is no exaggeration to say I see and hear bombs going off all around me - I acutely feel the pain in the world. Indeed the great Shantideva was almost thrown out of his monastery because of his unorthodox approach to generating Bodhichitta.

 

How does one find the motivation to sit and meditate properly on voidness and to attend teachings and generally practice well when one is so generally unsettled?

 

I have been taught by Rinpoche to deal with highly charged emotions of joy by applying the Tonglen practice. I am doing so and it works. Indeed this practice is also giving me certain strength in concentration and even some benefits of awareness. I have been advised by Rinpoche to practice the six perfections and to an extent my meditation on these and attempts to actual practice them are working. But I am not satisfied with my effort, as it appears to me I am still lacking in the great Mahayana motivation - Bodhichitta, am I right?

 

Please give me encouragement and advice on this wonderful forum so that I may join you hearing and applying the teachings in the proper step-by-step way under proper guidance.

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When one define bodhicitta and who is bodisatva, I've remembered about the past deed.

Andre Gide in his novel Le Prométhée mal enchaà®né describes the topic if it is possible to make a did which will brake the chain of causality; to put it out of chain.

You need wisdom mind and a kind heart together in one person to suceed with such deed; to help the beloved or person in need and to protect the life.

Then you can just sit there, vis-a-vis.

I have learned it is necessary to develop a wisdom mind along with a kind heart together. Why is this?

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