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Comment by Luna Arjuna on August 20, 2019 at 5:49pm

We do not have to create emptiness, as it has always been the nature of reality. We just have to get rid of our ignorance that is preventing us from directly experiencing it.

~ Chamtrul Rinpoche

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on August 1, 2019 at 7:41pm

Indeed, dear Eva, they are very good, this last one, even more so...

Comment by Eva Libre on August 1, 2019 at 4:38pm

Listen up, old bad-karma Patrul,
You dweller-in-distraction.

For ages now you’ve been
Beguiled, entranced, and fooled by appearances.
Are you aware of that? Are you?
Right this very instant, when you’re
Under the spell of mistaken perception
You’ve got to watch out.
Don’t let yourself get carried away by this fake and empty life.

Your mind is spinning around
About carrying out a lot of useless projects:
It’s a waste! Give it up!
Thinking about the hundred plans you want to accomplish,
With never enough time to finish them,
Just weighs down your mind.
You’re completely distracted
By all these projects, which never come to an end,
But keep spreading out more, like ripples in water.
Don’t be a fool: for once, just sit tight.

~ Patrul Rinpoche

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on July 31, 2019 at 11:08pm

Love this one, also. 

Thanks, Eva. 

Comment by Eva Libre on July 29, 2019 at 11:11pm

“FIVE WAYS OF RESTING”

Rest in a natural way like a small child.
Rest like an ocean without waves.
Rest within clarity like a candle flame.
Rest without self-co...ncerns like a human corpse.
Rest unmoving like a mountain.

– Milarepa

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on July 21, 2019 at 6:10pm

Great quotes, dear Eva!

Comment by Eva Libre on July 21, 2019 at 12:59pm

Don’t burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share.

 ~ Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

Comment by Eva Libre on July 21, 2019 at 10:37am

We can never understand the nature of the mind through intense effort but only by relaxing, just as breaking a wild horse requires that one approach it gently and treat it kindly rather than running after it and trying to use force. So do not try to catch hold the nature of the nature of the mind, just leave it like it is.

 ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Comment by Luna Arjuna on July 14, 2019 at 3:46pm

Veracity requires tenacity.... but also felicity

- Domo Geshe Rinpoche - - -

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on July 12, 2019 at 2:31am

Marianne Williamson

The 21st-Century mindset is different than 20th, as the 20th-Century was different than the 19th. 21st-C thinking is far more holistic, integrative and whole person, but our politics is stuck in a 20th-Century model of primarily externally oriented thinking and problem-solving. This is why we need a more holistic thinker in the White House. If we only treat the symptoms of a problem but not its cause, symptoms will always reappear. President Franklin Roosevelt wrote, “We must do more than end war. We must end of the beginnings of all war.” War is the absence of peace: peace is not the absence of war.That is why I want a Dept. of Peace: to boost the societal immune system through peace building, decreasing the statistical probability of conflict. We don’t just need war games: we need peace games. Right now our military budget is $750 billion a year, while the peace building agencies within the State Department get less than $1 billion. Yet peace-building factors such as expanding economic opportunities for women and educational opportunities for children, and reducing unnecessary human suffering wherever possible, are statistically proven to increase peace and reduce conflict. Our national security agenda should represent a far more holistic understanding of how to create peace in the world within the next 50 to 100 years, and that will begin with an American president who sets that as our national goal. When I am president, the peacebuilders among us - people who represent very sophisticated skill sets, by the way, and often display them with extraordinary courage in places around the world - will be supported in the ways they deserve to be supported. Theirs will be work no longer peripheral to our national security agenda; they will have a full seat at the table. We should see large groups of desperate people as a national security risk, and when I am president that risk will be diminished. It is time to turn away from the perilous course of endless preparation for war as the sole essence of our security agenda, and harness our national attention and imagination in the direction of waging peace in the 21st Century.

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