Today’s ‘Advice from the heart’ deals with the wisdom of being mindful of one’s surroundings: Avoid places that disturb your mind, and always remain where your virtues increase. It seems a simple enough thing, until I take a moment and think about the places I go and things I do in a given year. The […]
Today’s ‘Advice from the heart’ is pretty straightforward: Since you cannot become a Buddha merely by understanding Dharma, practice earnestly with understanding. Ever notice how the simple things can become very complex? Or how we tend to try and make them that way? This piece of advice has caused both here, and neither were needed.
A very wise one (a teacher, actually) by name of Atisha, shared a series of advice with another, as a spiritual friend. The advice, given with sincerity and care, ‘from the heart’, has kept its title ever since. The interesting thing about the helpful teachers in the world is the manner in which they never […]
I’m a little torn on deciding what to next pursue in the way of articles for this place. The ‘basics’ as it were include Ngöndo, the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, and the various empowerments and practices that support these things. There are a host of mantras and studies that might be explicated here, […]
One of the things I like best of buddhism is that it requires nothing but that you practice. Mind you, there are practitioners who will cheerfully (and sometimes rudely) tell you otherwise, but that’s their issue and perspective to deal with, not yours. The practice is about teaching yourself to be here, now, in this […]
This item, posted to a virtual Sangha, resonates very deeply. Reposting here for my own remembrance and learning as well as for the friends in the Dharma that I know visit here. May it bring the same to you as it does me. The speaker whose words you are about to read is H.H. N’Gak […]