How to be in your life is meditation practice; how to understand your life is scholarship. That combination comes up in ordinary life as well. For instance, eating food is...
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You Need Both Heart and Brain
February 21, 2013
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Train in the Three Difficulties
February 20, 2013
The three difficulties (or the three difficult practices) are:
1. to recognize your neurosis as neurosis,
2. then not to do the habitual thing, but to do something different to interrupt the...
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Inconceivable Learning
February 19, 2013
The Buddha’s learning is inconceivable. The Buddha knows the best way to boil an egg, as well as how to develop enlightenment on the spot. His mind encompasses everything. Such...
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Dodrupchen's Testment
February 19, 2013
On the very night of Dodrupchen’s death, his spiritual testament was received by his principal disciple, Do Khyentse. Dodrupchen appeared in the sky in a radiant light body and an...
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Wall-Gazing Daruma
February 19, 2013
While there are many “in-your-face, I have always got my eyes on you” Daruma Zenga in the gallery, there is also one wall-gazing Daruma painting by Nantembo. Prior to appearing...
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