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Our minds can be wonderful, but at the same time they can be our very worst enemy. They give us so much trouble. Sometimes I wish the mind were like a set of dentures, which we could take out and leave on our bedside table overnight. At least we would get a break from its tiring and tiresome escapades.
In Tibetan we call the essential nature of mind Rigpa - primordial, pure, pristine awareness that is at once intelligent, cognizant, radiant and always awake. This nature of mind, its innermost essence, is absolutely and always untouched by change or death. At present it it hidden within our own mind, our sem, enveloped and obscured by the mental...
Karma is not fatalistic of predetermined. Karma means our ability to create and to change. It is creative because we can determine how and why we act. We can change. The future is in our hands, and in the hands of our heart.
In Tibetan, the word for body is lü, which means "something you leave behind", like baggage. Each time we say lü, it reminds us that we are only travelers, taking temporary refuge in this life and this body. In Tibet, people did not distract themselves by spending all their time trying to make their external circumstances more comfortable. They...
How hard it can be to turn our attention within! How easily we allow our old habits and set patterns to dominate us! Even though they bring us suffering, we accept them with almost fatalistic resignation, for we are so used to giving in to them. We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved....