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State of mind, not being exclusive to the critical thinking, sensory perceiving, conscious, memory accumulating mind - Tib 'nams' (I think?); but to Mind / ground luminosity / alaya vijnana - Tib 'yeshe'. All experience is a continuum. This human body, with the ordinary mind will pass away as...

"Karma, O monks, is what I call intention, which manifests through body, speech and mind" - Shakyamuni Buddha :)

The only refuge is in the triple gem. One cannot place one's faith in conditioned phenomena, like football teams. But you know this, so why isn't that enough? People have such low self esteem that they feel they can't amount to anything. They believe the only way to succeed is through chance...

It is a lonely path. I'm sure any realised being will tell you this. Difficult, lonely, simple. However, Buddha failed to qualifier how painful/enjoyable the path is. That is up to you.

Wow. The blessed one indeed speaks with a single tongue. Kesi sutta in my mind. Thanks Vaj. A sutta a day keeps the kleshas away!

or this, also the Dhammapada: If you find an intelligent companion who will walk with you, who lives wisely, soberly, overcoming all dangers, walk with that person in joy and thoughtfulness. If you find no intelligent companion who will walk with you, who lives wisely and soberly...

Sheesh...I'll be sure to choose a generic animal next time!:p

Here's a thought. Suppose the cow is a Bodhisattva who would sacrifice it's own life for the benefit of other sentient beings. Who then am I to deny this sentient being the opportunity of generating good karma by sustaining me? Bearing in mind that this cow has been my mother and father who...

Change is inevitable and is occuring all the time. I think meditation is more about being aware of this change than trying to enact it. What's different is likely that we actually go somewhere instead of just going round in circles. So we follow a path which leads out of samsara, the endless...

You had to go and talk about hot sex on the most depressing day of the year, didn't ya! ;)

You are not separate from the world - the world is a projection of your own mind. Observer and observed, completely interdependent. Maybe do both?

Nice way of explaining it :)

Bliss! Just tonight I was sitting in a restaurant by myself thinking how ignorant everybody appears to be. How sentient beings incarnate, stumble through the trials of life losing faith, hardening, eventually dying. "But what's the point" self thought. And I took another look at the...

Intention is everything, after all.

We often mistake attachment for love :)

Howdy :) No self, no other, yet everything manifests. If you are suffering, thus unenlightened and ignorant, it is taken that you are focused on your own happiness anyway. This IS why you're suffering - since you see a distinction. Distinction being the play of the mind, the clouds in the...

I'm not sure about this, but I have a suspicion stolen Tibetan malas are being sold by Chinese on eBay for fiddlesticks. Totally unsupported of course, just wouldn't want to support a crime.

In Tibet, the Sukhavati practice is common for the dead. Sukhavati is the pure land of Amitabha, so we pray that the dead are reborn in a pure land. (Pure lands are said to be places where it's easy to become enlightened.) According to the Bardo Thodol - Liberation through hearing in the...

Alan Watts is Zen. Zen is the Japanese for the Chinese Ch'an Buddhism which itself is a union of Taoist and Buddhist thought. :)

In Tibet however, the top of the food chain if you will, is not necessary someone who has taken monastic vows. Lamas could be married and have children living as normal people would, they could be monks and nuns, or they could even be anchorites, living in solitude. But there are still two...