You know the real obstacle to resting meditation? It's too simple. There's no "wow" experience, there's nothing added, and there's no work to do. It's as close as the tip of your nose, meaning it's too close to see.

Sometimes teachers tell us: "Stop meditating." This does not mean to give up awareness, but rather: "Don't use a flashlight in the sunshine." Assuming that we're inherently insufficient, we use the mind's equivalent of a flashlight to improve on the sun.

Abandoned Church de Saturno Butto :: [h/t Guillaume Gris]

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You should amass virtuous thoughts, even those that seem insignificant, and pass your time doing only what is wholesome and virtuous. Some claim that they are unable to study and contemplate because they have limited intelligence. Others claim that they cannot make offerings or gifts of material wealth because they are not rich enough. Still others claim that they are simply too old for Dharma practice to be effective. Although people make all kinds of excuses, it is mainly their own mind that is holding them back. 

The teachings say that even an animal can attain liberation if it can arouse diligence and confidence, so why even mention that this is true for humans?

Excerpted from: “Steps to the Great Perfection: The Mind-Training Tradition of the Dzogchen Masters”, by Jigme Lingpa

Dharma is the best in my opinion. #praying #pray

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”

— Buddha, Dhammapada

Lojong : Mind Training (podcast series)

Lojong : Mind Training (podcast series)

I did this series of talks on the subject of Training the mind. I hope listening to these will be helpful. Introduction to the Heart Preliminaries See Everything as a Dream Examine the Nature of Awareness Don’t Get Stuck on Peace Rest in Openness Be a Child of Illusion Sending and Receiving Seeds of Virtue It’s All Sacred Transform Disasters Drive All Blames Into One Be Grateful to…

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HAPPY LHABAB DUCHEN

- The Day Buddha Descended from Trayastrimsa Heaven of 33 gods.

According to legend, the Buddha ascended the Trayastrimsa heaven temporarily at the age of 41, in order to give teachings to benefit the gods in that desire realm and to repay the kindness of his mother by liberating her from Samsara.

The Buddha was exhorted by his disciple and representative Maudgalyayana to return, and after a long debate and under a full moon agreed to return. He returned to earth a week later by a special triple ladder prepared by Viswakarma, the god of machines. This event is considered to be one of the eight great deeds of the Buddha

On Lhabab Duchen, the effects of positive or negative actions are multiplied ten million times. It is part of Tibetan Buddhist tradition to engage in virtuous activities and prayer on this day.

Therefore let us all come together to make aspiration prayers and dedications for the benefits of all sentient beings and for universal peace and harmony.

Mind improvement ways encompass a variety of strategies and practices leveled at perfecting our capability to flash back and retain information. These ways work the authority of our brain's neuroplasticity and its capacity to acclimatize and form new connections.

One extensively honored fashion is mnemonic bias, which involve creating cooperations or internal images that aid in recalling information. By relating new information to familiar generalities or pictorial internal imagery, mnemonic bias make the substance more memorable. Another operative path is spaced reiteration, which involves reviewing information at gradationally adding intervals. This fashion takes advantage of the distance sequel, which suggests that regular and zonked- eschewal exposure to information strengthens long- tenure mind. also, regular physical exercise has been shown off to enhance mind and cognitive function by adding race inflow and promoting the excrescency of new neurons in the hippocampus, a brain region pivotal for mind conformation. Sleep plays a vital part in mind connection, and espousing good sleep fashions can significantly ameliorate mind. Research also suggests that ways like awareness and contemplation can enhance mind by reducing pressure situations and perfecting seat and concentration. Incipiently, engaging in mentally stimulating conditioning, similar as mystifications, reading, or mastering a new art, keeps the brain active and enhances mind capacity. By combining these ways and incorporating them into diurnal routines, individualities can witness significant advancements in their mind and cognitive capacities.

Bliss Mind Training

Lojong, or mind training, is a core practice in all the lineages of the Tibetan tradition. They can perhaps best be characterized as a method for transforming our mind by turning away from self-centeredness and cultivating instead the mental habits that generate bodhicitta, the awakened mind that puts the benefit of others above all else. The teachings on it are more diverse than many people realize. Lojong involves on meditating on the following ideas, affirmations and slogans, I discuss these and what they mean: 1. First train in the preliminaries 2. Regard all dharmas as dreams 3. Examine the nature of unborn awareness 4. Self-liberate even the antidote 5. Rest in the nature of alaya, the essence 6. In post-meditation, be a child of illusion 6.1. Absolute and Relative Bodhichitta 7. Sending and taking should be practiced alternately. These two should ride the breath 8. Three objects, three poisons, and three seeds of virtue 9. In all activities train with slogans 10. Begin the sequence of sending and taking with yourself 11. When the world is filled with evil, transform all mishaps into the path of bodhi 12. Drive all blames into one 13. Be grateful to everyone 14. Seeing confusion as the four kayas is unsurpassable shunyata protection 15. Four practices are the best of methods 16. Whatever you meet unexpectedly, join it with meditation 17. Practice the five strengths, the condensed heart instructions 18. The ejection of consciousness 19. All dharma agrees at one point 20. Of the two witnesses, hold the principal one 21. Always maintain only a joyful mind 22. If you can practice even when distracted, you are well trained 23. Always abide by the three basic principles 24. Change your attitude, but remain natural 25. Don’t talk about injured limbs 26. Don’t ponder others 27. Work with the greatest defilements first 28. Abandon any hope of fruition 29. Abandon poisonous food 30. Don’t be so predictable 31. Don’t malign others 32. Don’t wait in ambush 33. Don’t bring things to a painful point 34. Don’t transfer the ox’s load to the cow 35. Don’t try and be the fastest 36. Don’t act with a twist 37. Don’t make gods into demons 38. Don’t seek others’ pain as the limbs of your own happiness 39. All activities should be done with one intention 40. Correct all wrongs with one intention 41. Two activities: one at the beginning, one at the end 42. Whichever of the two occurs, be patient 43. Observe these two, even at the risk of your life 44. Train in the three difficulties 45. Take on the three principal causes 46. Pay heed that the three never wane 47. Keep the three inseparable 48. Train without bias in all areas. It is crucial always to do this pervasively and wholeheartedly 49. Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment 50. Don’t be swayed by external circumstances 51. This time, practice the main points 52. Don’t misinterpret 53. Don’t vacillate 54. Train wholeheartedly 55. Liberate yourself by examining and analyzing 56. Don’t wallow in self-pity 57. Don’t be jealous 58. Don’t be frivolous 59. Don’t expect applause

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