Sublime

He may be seen in difficult straits, “pressed to the wall,” so to speak. Then one can assess whether he is really kind, whether he is genuinely patient, insightful, and selfless

using the joy and pleasure of our lives not as problems but as tools for benefiting others.

Atisha passed on his lineage to his close disciples, and a few generations later, Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (1102–76) wrote down these teachings, which were later organized as the The Mahayana Instructions on the Seven Points of Mind Training, fifty-nine slogans divided into seven categories. This presentation of lojong, which makes up the framework of t

It is a question of what is sane for you, the really solid, sound, stable approach to life. The Buddha, for example, was not a religious fanatic, attempting to act in accordance with some high ideal. He just dealt with people simply, openly, and very wisely.

genuinely do something that is beneficial for others.

The new teachers of wisdom in the idiom of the people will not be recognizable by their robes but by their hearts. This

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.

One of the lessons repeated again and again by my teacher Saljay Rinpoche was that if I wanted to be happy, I had to learn to recognize and work with the conditioning factors that produce compulsive or trait-bound reactions.

by dak che dzin, self-importance.