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You may possess the power and force of a world ruler, but unless you gain mastery over your mind, when the time of death arrives, you still haven’t attained the power of freedom.

~ Guru Rinpoche

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As we have already seen, reversing the attitude of not wanting to suffer is the whole basis for transforming suffering into our spiritual path. This is because we simply won’t be able to turn suffering into the path as long as anxiety and irritation continue to eat away at our confidence and disturb our mind.

The more we arrive at actually transforming suffering into the path, the more we will enhance and reinforce all our previous practice. This is because our courage and good humour will grow all the more, once we can see from our own experience how suffering causes our spiritual practice and qualities to blossom.

It is said that by training gradually with smaller sufferings, ‘step by step, in easy stages’, then in the end we’ll be able to handle big suffering and difficulties too. We must go about it like this, because it is extremely difficult to have an experience of something which is beyond our level or capacity.

~ Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima

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Comment by Luna Arjuna on August 22, 2019 at 3:17pm: Welcome Rosmarie, and thank you for joining...

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 Eva Libre on August 1, 2019 at 4:31pm: Thank you, Carmen, for your all-round attention!

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