Reflections on Silver River

For the suffering of others — this is the practice of a

When you develop the ability to rest and look in that quiet you see that there is absolutely nothing there.

will listen even when you are completely crazy.

Such experiences often arise when a friend or family member is faced with a great loss — the death of a child, the end of a relationship, a natural disaster that destroys a home or a life. In such moments we are right there with our friend. We may sit in silence with her, but it is the silence of connection. When we speak, we do not know where the

The lam-rim genre in Tibetan Buddhism, on which Thirty-Seven Practices is based, presents the canonical material of Tibetan Buddhism in a well-defined sequence.

To look at it from another perspective, refuge is about how you relate to the experience of life itself.

If he listens carefully to you, you learn how to listen, whether or not you wanted to learn how to listen. If she gives traditional answers to your questions, you learn how to give traditional answers, whether that was her intention or not. If she challenges you and pushes you beyond what you think you can do, you learn to challenge others and push

When you do study with someone, pay attention not only to what you intend to learn, but to what you are learning.

Your body does everything it can to stay alive. When your life is threatened, it reacts — strongly. Fear and panic seize you. Fight, flee or freeze — the basic survival tactics take over. Even when you face other kinds of death — the end of a relationship or the loss of your job — the same mechanisms run. You are conditioned to live, biologically a