#Phakchok Rinpoche

[kamala-laxman]

"I laugh at myself for creating emotions that make me upset." Phakchok Rinpoche

[radical-revolution]

“Samsara is often misunderstood as the outside world. Please understand that when we use this word, samsara, we are referring to the confused inner world of our emotions, judgements, expectations, and the actions that we create through being influenced by these confusions.

This is why we practice dharma, in order to see this. All of our problems are actually self created, therefore they have the potential to be self liberated.” 🙏

~ Phakchok Rinpoche

[mahayanapilgrim]

STRONG EMOTIONS

Strong emotions only come in when 'I' comes in.

So my advice is this, say to yourself

'Please a million doubts and emotions come on in!

I'm ready for you. A hundred million! I'm ready for you!'

When you welcome doubt, anxiety, and emotions,

then your ego will say 'Shit! What's the point'

and then they will leave you alone.

The real practitioner doesn't care at all if bad or good comes,

the real practitioner just continues

to maintain their meditation practice very naturally."

~ Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche

[ani-tsultrim-wangmo]

May I enlighten in this lifetime, despite what I feel. No matter what. Despite my various experiences and emotions, may I tirelessly work for the benefit of all beings.

~ Phakchok Rinpoche

無論有何感受，願我在此生取證覺悟。無論如何，儘管我有各種各樣的經歷和情緒，願我孜孜不倦地為眾生的利益而努力。

~ 帕秋仁波切

[meditation-practices]

Words of Wisdom for September 04, 2024

Dear Friends: Creating Space These days we have so many things to think about: our health, our family, our work, our dharma practice. When we don’t know how to deal with them, these worries can make our minds start to slowly shrink, becoming more and more narrow, and as a consequence more and more negative. – Kyabgon Phakchok Rinpoche, “Creating Space “ Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click…

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Bill Day

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“We are also taught to guard our body, speech, and mind against the influence of unwholesome companions. We do not judge people who are unruly or negative, but we are advised to protect the mind from swinging, which naturally happens when we continuously associate with such companions. On the flip side, the tradition offers us a beautiful metaphor about associating with virtuous people. It is said that if you place a normal piece of wood in a sandalwood forest, in time that normal piece of wood will begin to take on the sweet smell of sandalwood. In the same way, even if we are a normal person, if we associate with noble companions, we will naturally begin to give rise to the qualities of virtue and wisdom.”

― Phakchok Rinpoche, In the Footsteps of Bodhisattvas: Buddhist Teachings on the Essence of Meditation

[cloakedmonk]

Mindful Monday Simply imagine that everything is just like the vast, open sky, like empty space, and let your mind blend into the space so that it becomes just as vast and open. —Phakchok Rinpoche, “Creating Space” Photo credit: "Blue Skies of Scottsdale," Dru Bloomfield, 2009.

[dani-kokama]

“Karma é realmente muito simples Significa ação. Significa que as coisas que você faz - pensar, falar ou agir tem resultados no dia-a-dia. Se você pensa em algo prejudicial, é claro que você vai sofrer. Se você fizer coisas boas e úteis, o resultado será positivo.”

Phakchok Rinpoche

[g1vent0fly]

"Lembre-se que o julgamento, de si mesmo e dos outros, é o rabo do ego. Quanto mais julgamento você tiver, mais ego você tem. Quanto menos julgamento, menos ego. Use isso para se lembrar. A todo momento." - PHAKCHOK RINPOCHE O julgamento não é só da boca pra fora, é uma ocorrência na mente. Se estamos pensando-julgando, aí está o ego. O fato de estar "apenas na mente" não diminui o rabo dele. Às vezes até aumenta, pois fica sempre secreto, sempre protegido. Agora, a coisa mais curiosa de um ensinamento poderosíssimo desses é que a gente lê, aparentemente "entende", acha bonito até, "nossa, que metáfora interessante" e tal, e aí segue a vida com a mentalidade de julgamento intacta. Talvez a gente ache que não julgue, ou não julgue tanto, para precisar desse ensinamento? Talvez a gente ache que é só uma frase de monge, que não serve pra vida cotidiana? Talvez o que mais? Se a gente ao menos experimentasse isso por um dia inteiro, seria revolucionário. * * * * * PS: O que tem a ver o rabo do ego com a busca da verdade? Tudo. O ego é o principal bloqueio à verdade. Quanto mais tivermos, pior fica a visão. * * * * * #julgamento #crítica #acusação #ego #egoísmo #verdade #phakchokrinpoche #frasedodia #ensinamento #ensinamentos #ensinamentosbudistas #psicologia #psicologiabudista #menteaberta #não-julgamento #mindfulness #cadamomento #presente #momentopresente #equanimidade #espiritualidade #buscaespiritual #dharma Reposted from @_dharmalog https://www.instagram.com/p/CfrB5KfLVpF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[garywonghc]

Remember that judgement, of yourself or others, is the tail of ego. The more judgement you have, the more ego you have. The less judgement you have, the less ego you have. Use this to remind yourself. Over and over again. -- Kyabgon Phakchok Rinpoche

[vajranam]

Less Rituals More Practice

KYABGON PHAKCHOK RINPOCHE NO RITUAL!!???? “I do not like prostrations and rituals. Can you teach me dharma without rituals?” I told him, go out on a date with no ritual behavior. You just sit there, you don’t talk, you don’t make eye contact, you don’t giggle, you don’t touch. Nothing. Do you think this will be a successful date? No. I went out on my first date with my wife in New York City. You dress nicely, you smile, you talk, you gaze, you touch. This is the ritual of dating. And at the end of the night,,, you get a kiss. I met a Zen monk once. He explained to me that unlike Tibetan Buddhists, Zen didn’t use all that ritual. They went straight to emptiness. Then I had a meal at a Zen temple. Every single movement was a ritual. How you sat down, how you unfold your napkin, how you hold your bowls, how you put them down, where you place your chopsticks. Every single gesture. There was no room for choice. This was a ritual for gathering the mind. But the rituals and methods of devotion need to be explained; otherwise, they seem to come from Mars.

Rituals are the spine of Tibetan Buddhism, but when we keep doing it we enter an enlightenment cocoon that sometimes put us away from enlightenment itself.

In my personal path I was very ritualitic till in my life had something that been like storm in my life and I had to do less rituals and more the path.

In that process I was able to receive the teaching from Garchen Rinpoche and notice that instead of doing at this time that Chenrezig in this time that Tara.

He was practising the six yoga of Naropa all time, he taught me first Om Ah Hung meditation what is the base of Tummo.

Later on I had all the set of tantric empowerment from the drikung Kagyu and strangely following advise rituals became everyday dharma.

Now, practitioners also make the mistake of separating their practice from the rest of their lives . This is a great error. If we learn to integrate our practice in our lives, then we can make true progress no matter what type of activities we are engaged in. We have to bring all of our into the path. Lord Jigten Sumgön taught that meditation takes place not only in an isolated meditation hut, seated cross-legged in front of an altar, but must take place in the course of all four types of activity. The four types of activity are sitting, standing, lying down, and walking. In other words, one engages in meditative practice at all times. " In meditation " means that one is working with mind itself. Mind itself is always handy, it's always there. If we go somewhere, we don't leave it begins. So, mind is always available to work with in our practice. Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche.

Practicing the dharma that not just going to puja or sitting in meditation, because yes we may got some merit but if we want to realise our true nature we must pass beyond concept.

First advice well work your practice according to your vows : I am honest to be very hungry of enlightenment because I took Ngakpa vow and follow Milarepa path, but we are all different in we are all plus myself still in learning process. Work according to our vows mean some of us took refuge some took refuge bodhisattva or monk or prademosksha or simply lay vows all this are all different because that tell us what level we can work on.

Whatever level we work on we must remember our true nature is naked. What does at mean more concept we bring like Chod like Vajrayogini or more, more we try to find a nail in the middle of a field? We must keep as simple as possible.

Third not the least our true nature reveal itself with bodhicitta, more unconditional love and compassion, more the ice melt and become a river of enlightenment.

[radical-revolution]

Please enjoy your life! Laugh, and make jokes so you can let go of being uptight and too serious! Don't run from your problems, see them directly, have guts, have dignity that know that you can change. Transform all the energy and thoughts of judgement and feeling guilty into motivation for your practice. Practice everyday, however much you can!

— Kyabgon Phakchok Rinpoche

[mahayanapilgrim]

"Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me.

Everyday we chant this like a mantra from morning to night.

Think carefully. Really. Look inside.

In the morning "oh I have such a headache." ME!

"Oh I don't want to go to work today" ME!

"Oh today's weather is so bad, I'm so unhappy"

ME!

"Oh today I'm very happy" ME!

Every time you look, every emotion, every action... (Laughs)

Doesn't that make you feel tired?

That strong belief or faith in "me" and "mine" is

WHY we suffer.

Sentient beings all have a very strong faith, whether they see it or not.

They all have a very devoted faith in the all mighty

"I"

And so I want to ask you a question...

Do you ever search for that "'", that ego?

No, and that's why things suck!

So, through meditation,

when you calmly observe this "I" this "me", you don't find any root, - then you are getting closer

to realizing the wisdom the Buddha realized."

~ KYABGÖN PHAKCHOK RINPOCHE

[ani-tsultrim-wangmo]

May I enlighten in this lifetime, despite what I feel. No matter what. Despite my various experiences and emotions, may I tirelessly work for the benefit of all beings.

~ Phakchok Rinpoche

願我在此生開悟，不管我有何感受。無論如何。儘管我有各種各樣的經歷和情緒，願我不知疲倦地爲一切衆生的利益而工作。

~ 帕秋仁波切

[manjushriwisdom]

Less Rituals More Practice

KYABGON PHAKCHOK RINPOCHE NO RITUAL!!???? “I do not like prostrations and rituals. Can you teach me dharma without rituals?” I told him, go out on a date with no ritual behavior. You just sit there, you don’t talk, you don’t make eye contact, you don’t giggle, you don’t touch. Nothing. Do you think this will be a successful date? No. I went out on my first date with my wife in New York City. You dress nicely, you smile, you talk, you gaze, you touch. This is the ritual of dating. And at the end of the night,,, you get a kiss. I met a Zen monk once. He explained to me that unlike Tibetan Buddhists, Zen didn’t use all that ritual. They went straight to emptiness. Then I had a meal at a Zen temple. Every single movement was a ritual. How you sat down, how you unfold your napkin, how you hold your bowls, how you put them down, where you place your chopsticks. Every single gesture. There was no room for choice. This was a ritual for gathering the mind. But the rituals and methods of devotion need to be explained; otherwise, they seem to come from Mars.

Rituals are the spine of Tibetan Buddhism, but when we keep doing it we enter an enlightenment cocoon that sometimes put us away from enlightenment itself.

In my personal path I was very ritualitic till in my life had something that been like storm in my life and I had to do less rituals and more the path.

In that process I was able to receive the teaching from Garchen Rinpoche and notice that instead of doing at this time that Chenrezig in this time that Tara.

He was practising the six yoga of Naropa all time, he taught me first Om Ah Hung meditation what is the base of Tummo.

Later on I had all the set of tantric empowerment from the drikung Kagyu and strangely following advise rituals became everyday dharma.

Now, practitioners also make the mistake of separating their practice from the rest of their lives . This is a great error. If we learn to integrate our practice in our lives, then we can make true progress no matter what type of activities we are engaged in. We have to bring all of our into the path. Lord Jigten Sumgön taught that meditation takes place not only in an isolated meditation hut, seated cross-legged in front of an altar, but must take place in the course of all four types of activity. The four types of activity are sitting, standing, lying down, and walking. In other words, one engages in meditative practice at all times. " In meditation " means that one is working with mind itself. Mind itself is always handy, it's always there. If we go somewhere, we don't leave it begins. So, mind is always available to work with in our practice. Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche.

Practicing the dharma that not just going to puja or sitting in meditation, because yes we may got some merit but if we want to realise our true nature we must pass beyond concept.

First advice well work your practice according to your vows : I am honest to be very hungry of enlightenment because I took Ngakpa vow and follow Milarepa path, but we are all different in we are all plus myself still in learning process. Work according to our vows mean some of us took refuge some took refuge bodhisattva or monk or prademosksha or simply lay vows all this are all different because that tell us what level we can work on.

Whatever level we work on we must remember our true nature is naked. What does at mean more concept we bring like Chod like Vajrayogini or more, more we try to find a nail in the middle of a field? We must keep as simple as possible.

Third not the least our true nature reveal itself with bodhicitta, more unconditional love and compassion, more the ice melt and become a river of enlightenment.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Red Pine:: Bill Porter

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“We are also taught to guard our body, speech, and mind against the influence of unwholesome companions. We do not judge people who are unruly or negative, but we are advised to protect the mind from swinging, which naturally happens when we continuously associate with such companions. On the flip side, the tradition offers us a beautiful metaphor about associating with virtuous people. It is said that if you place a normal piece of wood in a sandalwood forest, in time that normal piece of wood will begin to take on the sweet smell of sandalwood. In the same way, even if we are a normal person, if we associate with noble companions, we will naturally begin to give rise to the qualities of virtue and wisdom.”

― Phakchok Rinpoche, In the Footsteps of Bodhisattvas: Buddhist Teachings on the Essence of Meditation