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  1. Actually when the causes are there I believe one meets the guide who then directs the student towards practices that are most beneficial for student's progression. Or towards a right person for student's progression. So here I believe openness towards traditions is already present. Yet before not finding a guide, instead of looking for right tradition I would choose to practice and create the causes for meeting the precious guide. Meeting a guide I am also not equaling with specific tradition. The right guide, the one I have connection with and the one I have created the causes to meet will progressively direct the practitioner towards what is of most benefit. I hope I did not complicate too much Also regarding wasting time I believe we can waste time by rushing also.
  2. Hi, Thank you for latest reviews. I actually gave up on Ami due to not knowing the adaptation period and was giving it to cats sporadically. Will do it again With best wishes, B.
  3. Dear All, I am more than happy for this topic. I have funnily thought about it without knowing that it was discussed on the forum. I think that we need to understand that there are several ways to help and there are also different types of sufferings. I am in Samsara and I suffer.. I admit. But what is wrong is that someone would out of a sudden take me as their experiment and try their best to help me. If I am on the street, really poor, no food, no clothing...nothing...I would deeply appreciate every penny. If I feel hurt deeply I would appreciate someone understanding the experience I go through, yet in this case trust needs to be established first. So I agree. Friendship should not be forced. Yet there is also suffering that comes from not understanding the way things are. And in this case there can be compassion which is not directly connected with action. with action I mean - I help you by offering you a chocolate, talk and so on. Firstly I perceive myself wrongly, then wrong perception of chocolate follows, then wrong perception of the friendship also. How can we help in this case? How can an ignorant person help another ignorant? How can I have trust into an ignorant person? Why does my friend try to be more than what he or she is? Maybe to understand that we are all on the path, still ignorant and that to heal oneself from this is not short like i talk. It takes a bit more time. It requires patience. So if someone tries to push help on me, one does not understand that there are levels of friendship and devotion. One wants to become a different type of a friend. Like a more profound friend. The next thing is that the person might not understand that I as a suffering person have chosen my own guide. Lastly I believe there is a lot of bitterness in this world already, so I might benefit more from a honest and relaxed Dharma practitioner who has the flexibility. Flexibility to help when I ask for it and also the relaxness as a continuing nature of this friendship. So the best Dharma friend from my point of view is the one that understands that there is a big need for help. Yet in order to really help one needs to become free from the sickness of Igorance himself or herself. So such friend searches from truth in his/her own private practices...being a great example of a practitioner he or she rises inspiration and so is very beneficial. Such friend then is of support to my own practice (without really offering help to me). In addition when I ask for advice also a great source of further understandings. I agree completely with you Khyenrab. Sometimes help can become like addiction. We can get addicted to help the others (in a wrong way). We do not look inside who we are, where we are. Are we equipped to help? Is our help abusive? We take help into something that help is not. Help should be helpful and should not be our mental satisfaction. Of course I think better to have motivation to help then anything else. Yet sometimes I think it would be good to direct help to ourselves too. Since in such way we will help the others more. with many best wishes,B.
  4. Dear all, maybe it is so due to Rime not being anything else but just openness towards what is the most beneficial for one practitioner. For me being a beginner it is important to stick to mostly one tradition. And actually it feels more settling to follow one tradition. There is too much confusion already, why would i want to mix myself more. So to establish more peace it helps me to follow one tradition. Then from the point of view of taking time before choosing the right tradition...it reminds me a bit about supermarket...I would rather take my time to find the appropriate guide, who would later on direct me on the path that fits my mind. with best wishes, B.
  5. Hi, I found a very nice short experiment about cigarettes and what they consist of. More on: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/914475/still...ing_watch_this/ Best regards, Mirjana
  6. Just to let you know. Also short biography: http://www.lamayeshe.com/otherteachers/khapa/ltk_bio.shtml Best regards, B.
  7. When we decide to clean the room...at the beginning we notice how dirty it is. If we proceed with cleaning and not like sit on the floor and start crying because it is so dirty (and then never finish the cleaning)...we will slowly make the room shiny and nice In terms of mind there can be different difficulties, things from past, our negative inclination that we notice and other rubbish ...yet if we proceed with practice and if we do not give too much attention to the 'dust', I believe we will eventually clean it and be much more happier and much more healthy for the others.
  8. Hi, I don't know much about different traditions, but I know one thing. My mind has already a lot of work following just one tradition or at list one core philosophy and one base for practices. To master just one practice is a lot...a lot of work on calming the mind, letting go of expectations, being satisfied with the result it gives, yet enthusiastically going on and further. With calm mind and only if advised by a qualified teacher I would touch other subjects. We are still talking about mind and we should be responsible for how far we wish to mix it. As when too mixed, it wont take us anywhere. Best regards, Billytiss
  9. Tashi Delek, I have found a translator that does a quite ok work (you need to know precise writing of word): link: http://www.nitartha.org/dictionary_search04.html Another one. You also need to input words like: Nyi ma (not all together) and you can choose if you would like to write in in Tibetan alphabet or roman link: http://www.thdl.org/tibetan/servlet/org.th...r?thdlBanner=on This one is a Dharma dictionary. You insert the word where it is written search and press GO. Same it needs to be correctly written. http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Main_Page
  10. I think we should be honest with where we are. If one is stingy, one should look at stinginess, if one is angry one should look at anger, if one is loving, then one looks at lovingness. We can not be something that we are not, but we can slowly become less stingy, less angry,...so less negative, more positive. Step after a step, with peace about our progression, patience also.
  11. Hallo , It is a very complex topic I believe. Believing that what one experiences is completely true can form this wish to care for what is so wrong with us. Ignorantly selfish we try to help ourself by falling into another deeper hole . We rely on selfcherishing and instead of progressing we regress, fall. I find it temptingly hard to not take experiences as firm and true, yet the less firm I see, the more my problems are not so true, the more space is there for others. So I wish for more diligence, courage to see through Samsaric experiences & to put into action the wish to benefit others in all needed ways
  12. http://www.sunnataram.org/Buddha_relics.html
  13. Story is available in the online video: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/p...am=1&nbwm=1
  14. Online teaching from Chichago http://www.lamrim.net/archive/hhdl/mp3/32k...e_Teachings.mp3 http://www.lamrim.net/archive/hhdl/mp3/32k...ings-Part_1.mp3 http://www.lamrim.net/archive/hhdl/mp3/32k...ings-Part_2.mp3 http://www.lamrim.net/archive/hhdl/mp3/32k...e_Teachings.mp3 On this link you may find his teaching that is happening right now, started at 20.30: http://www.iclips.net/
  15. Its nice to see such enthusiastic effort and courage
  16. I found such nice picture of Shakyamuni Buddha that I decided to share it with you: http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp...muni_Buddha.jpg
  17. This is written before, it was written under topic Deity practice. If one imagines in deep meditation that one is a perfect, loving being, free from the delusions of attachment, anger and ignorance, one can notice a slight difference in attitude after the meditation. For untrained minds, the time that one notices some positive difference is brief. However, as with most things, regular practice enhances the positive feeling and gradually one's mind becomes habituated to a more positive state.
  18. Hi, I am very surprised with what I found as a definition of mediation: meditation stands for habituating the mind to positive states Hmmmm...that's nice
  19. Hi Csillag, I also had a lot of fears and I was working really hard to make my relationships work. So hard that my practice was dedicated for being a better partner, more calm person and so on. I have come to the conclusion that any Samsaric creation, in this case relationship, is impermanent. I can not make things happen the way I wish them to be, but I do have this freedom to react in a more peaceful way. To bring less stress to already always changing life situation. Unfortunately in Samsara you really can not find true happiness, when you accept that it is so, then you are peaceful with whatever arises, nice or not so nice. What can I do, I created what I experience and the best way is to have a right view over Samsara. Kind regards, B.
  20. Hi, I would just like to add that when one is open to others it also gives others an opportunity to learn. Learn honesty and learn much more about the topic being spoken. To have a facade of perfection looks nice, but can also look less approachable. So I liked the openness Kind regards, B.
  21. Hi, my cats love Ami food, but one of the cats gets diarrhea. I decided to mix them Ami every day. So one of the cats gets more Ami (the one that does not have digestion problems), the other one less. I like that their feeding is balanced every day, so this is why I mix, rather then give them one day one sort and another the second. Actually because of Ami food I managed to put some weight on one cat, which was too skinny after eating just meat food. Kind regards, B.
  22. I like the presentation very much. We are/big companies are investing money into China. The motivation is to get more money, more possessions, more influence. Looking at this we can see that they are working for them selfs. Motivation seems very selfish, so definitely it wont bring good results - if selfishly motivated. After some years all the money invested in China will give results. Europeans and Americans will become labor slaves...or I think they will just sell what will be produced by Chinese. Leaders of European countries will already die by that time, but the strengths will switch from the West to the East. I personally wish I will create enough positive karma/causes to not be misused by those forces. It is sad that our mind is turned so much to selfishness, that instead of creating quality life and happiness, we keep on creating causes for poverty and unhappiness
  23. http://www.archive.org/index.php type in: Ven. Geshe Ngawang Dakpa and you will find detailed and extensive source of teachings. There are also several other audio teachings, but under this name I found a huge collection of teachings covering several topics. Other authors whose teachings can be found: Khensur Jampa Tegchog Ven. Choden Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche Dagri Rinpoche Arjia Rinpoche Kind regards
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