Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices
you can discipline yourself to think of bodhichitta every time you walk through a door, or hear a phone ring.
Jamyang Khyentse • Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices
We take great pains to gather the causes and conditions that will bring us the longed-for result of “success” or “fun,” but forget that those very causes and conditions function in a similar way to antibiotics. When we take antibiotics, on the one hand we feel better because one set of symptoms has been relieved, but on the other we feel worse beca
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when a bodhisattvayana practitioner notices her aggressive emotions, she should think, “Aggression is really bad! But I am not the only one who suffers from it—all sentient beings do! So,
Jamyang Khyentse • Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices
one day our meditation is inspiring and encouraging because we can concentrate easily and visualise clearly, and the next a dull, frustrating disaster.
Jamyang Khyentse • Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices
barely problems at all.
Jamyang Khyentse • Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices
to continue their activities.
Jamyang Khyentse • Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices
Ironically, to be successful in worldly life requires that we gather specific causes and conditions, such as a good education, honest business partners, reliable legal advice,
Jamyang Khyentse • Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices
we promote the concept of democracy as a method for achieving freedom. Yet in reality it is just another chain that shackles us to the disastrous decisions those we vote into power