Heart to heart to all my dear friends here and everywhere. Namaste, Miguel
Changing Perspectives
As the Buddhist view has consistently demonstrated, it is the perspective of the sufferer that determines whether a given experience perpetuates suffering or is a vehicle for awakening. To work something through means to change one’s view; if we try instead to change the emotion, we may achieve some short-term success, but we remain bound by forces of attachment and an aversion to the very feelings from which we are struggling to be free.
- Mark Epstein, from “Shattering the Ridgepole,”
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The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
~The Buddha
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Therefore we should be natural and spontaneous, accepting and learning from everything.
This enables us to see the ironic and amusing side of events that usually
irritate us. In meditation we can see through the illusion of past, present and
future - our experience becomes the continuity of nowness. The past is only
an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of
our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to
grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid
ground? We should free ourselves from our present memories and
preconceptions of meditation. Each moment of meditation is completely
unique and full of potentiality. In such moments, we will be incapable of
judging our meditation in terms of past experience, dry theory of hollow
rhetoric. Simply plunging directly into meditation in the moment now, with our
whole being, free from hesitation, boredom or excitement, is - Enlightenment
-Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche
Namaste, Miguel
As the Buddhist view has consistently demonstrated, it is the perspective of the sufferer that determines whether a given experience perpetuates suffering or is a vehicle for awakening. To work something through means to change one’s view; if we try instead to change the emotion, we may achieve some short-term success, but we remain bound by forces of attachment and an aversion to the very feelings from which we are struggling to be free.
- Mark Epstein, from “Shattering the Ridgepole,”
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The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
~The Buddha
-----------------------------------------
Therefore we should be natural and spontaneous, accepting and learning from everything.
This enables us to see the ironic and amusing side of events that usually
irritate us. In meditation we can see through the illusion of past, present and
future - our experience becomes the continuity of nowness. The past is only
an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of
our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to
grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid
ground? We should free ourselves from our present memories and
preconceptions of meditation. Each moment of meditation is completely
unique and full of potentiality. In such moments, we will be incapable of
judging our meditation in terms of past experience, dry theory of hollow
rhetoric. Simply plunging directly into meditation in the moment now, with our
whole being, free from hesitation, boredom or excitement, is - Enlightenment
-Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche
Namaste, Miguel
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