How To Make Merit In The Daily Life
Even if we listen to the teachings diligently, there is still every chance that we will not fully grasp the meaning. This occurs because of lack of merit.
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37 Practices of the Bodhisattva in the Daily Life
The 37 practices are an invitation to explore our mind. They are not indictments to abandon our responsibilities, but instead offer advise on how to deal with our world in a healthy and beneficial way.
Tags: Practice, Tibetan Buddhism
Buddhism, Texts | Leo Golan | 
April 8, 2009 10:21 am | 
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Tibetan Buddhist Art
The first traditions of Tibetan Buddhist art followed the practices of aniconic artwork, meaning that the use of Buddhist symbols and emblems to represent the Buddha and his travels and teachings without actually using a human form to represent the Buddha himself.
Tags: Buddhism, Buddhist Art, Buddhist Symbols, History, Tibetan Buddhism
Buddhism, Texts | Leo Golan | March 7, 2009 5:43 pm | Comments (1)
H.H. the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa about Kagyu Monlam
Milarepa said: “The great meditator who practices in a cave and the benefactor who provides for his living will – due to dependant occurrences – attain buddhahood together, and the heart of dependant occurrences is dedication.”
Buddha-Nature by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Emptiness, the ultimate nature of Dharmakaya, the Absolute Body, is not a simple nothingness. It possesses intrinsically the faculty of knowing all phenomena. This faculty is the luminous or cognitive aspect of the Dharmakaya, whose expression is spontaneous. The Dharmakaya is not the product of causes and conditions; it is the original nature of mind.
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