#Rinpoche

[dreamingkatie]

The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking.

[jareckiworld]

Ewa Ciepielewska — Tenga Rinpoche (oil on canvas, 1989)

[saragreenlittleflowers]

I have recently read a book, The Joy of Living by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. This book was so beautiful and enlightening. By the end of it, Rinpoche in a short summary says that learning about our mind in depth, meditating, observing the flow of our thoughts as they come and go, teaches us that there are no differences between you and the others as, in the end, we all are connected. We all want to be happy and we all know what fear, anger and aversion are. The more we dive into ourselves and understand the universal nature of the mind, as if minds were trees linked by roots all of the universe, the more we become accustomed and symbiotic with the ancient prayer of the Four Immeasurables, that goes like this:

May all sentient beings have happiness and the causes of happiness.

May all sentient beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.

May all sentient beings have joy and the causes of joy.

May all sentient beings remain in great equanimity, free from attachment and aversion.

[ngawangloday]

How Coming to Brazil Led Me to Encounter Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche

Arriving in Brazil in 2015 was a life-altering experience, not only due to the cultural richness of this vast country but also because it set the stage for one of the most significant spiritual encounters of my life. It was here, in São Paulo, that my family and I became deeply involved with the Dzogchen teachings and were ultimately blessed to meet our Guru, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche…

[storyvoice]

devotion

Sogyal Rinpoche, “Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.”  

[dorothypickens]

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

每一步似乎都需要很長時間，可是無論你覺得多麼乏味，都要繼續準確地、始終如一地遵循你的練習時間表。這就是我們如何利用我們最大的敵人——習慣來對付它自己。

Each step may seem to take forever, but no matter how uninspired you feel, continue to follow your practice schedule precisely and consistently. This is how we can use our greatest enemy, habit, against itself.

- Dzongsar Jamyang Khientse - 🙏

📌Dzongsar Jamyang Khientse 宗薩 蔣揚 欽哲 卻吉 嘉措 仁波切，他是藏傳佛教薩迦派系喇嘛，現代利美運動的主要推動者之一。出生於不丹，被公認為三世宗薩蔣揚欽哲的，通常被稱為宗薩蔣揚欽哲仁波切。他也是一位佛教題材電影導演，所拍攝的電影包括《高山上的世界盃》、《旅行者與魔術師》。

在傳統上一如既往，宗薩蔣揚欽哲仁波切負有在西藏弘法的責任，主持宗薩佛學院及其閉關中心，此外也在印度及不丹創立宗薩佛學院及卻吉嘉措佛學院，在澳洲、北美洲及台灣等地區成立佛學中心，如悉達多本願會，其目標是為個人成就證悟提供必要的協助，並在佛法的教示中，激發不分教派的覺醒正念。

宗薩蔣揚欽哲仁波切是國際武打巨星李連杰(Jet Li~Chinese film actor, film producer, martial artist, and retired Wushu champion, Dzongsar Jamyang Khientse is his guru who converted to Tibetan Buddhism)的皈依上師。李連杰曾為宗薩蔣揚欽哲仁波切的書《正見》中文版作序。

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (Tibetan: རྫོང་གསར་འཇམ་དབྱངས་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།, born June 18, 1961), also known as Khyentse Norbu, is a Tibetan/Bhutanese lama, filmmaker, and writer. His four major films are The Cup (1999), Travellers and Magicians (2003), Vara: A Blessing (2013), and Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait (2017). He is the author of What Makes You Not a Buddhist (2007) and many other non-fiction works about Tibetan Buddhism.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

'Foxes Meeting at Oji' by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857 :: [Red Pine :: Bill Porter]

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“As Buddha said, “What you are is what you have been, what you will be is what you do now.” Padmasambhava went further: “If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.” ― Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

[nousrose]

Perhaps the deepest reason why we are afraid of death is because we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our biography, our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit cards. It is on their fragile and transient support that we rely for our security. So when they are all taken away, will we have any idea of who we really are? Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn't that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?

The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying

Sogyal Rinpoche

[mahayanapilgrim]

Kindness is a transformative force that heals both others and yourself. As the Buddha said,

"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world." When you act with kindness through your body, speech, and mind, you not only uplift others but also cultivate inner peace and fulfillment within yourself. Let your actions be guided by compassion and empathy, creating a positive impact on those around you and fostering harmony in the world. - GCDR

[terracemuse]

[khaantengri]

Happy Guru Rinpoche's Day!

[kamala-laxman]

Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves. Tsoknyi Rinpoche

[system-of-a-feather]

For all yall interested in Buddhism and one of my favorite western missunderstandings about Buddhism which is the INSANELY incorrect assumptions about what meditation is, I really suggest listening to Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche talk about meditation. He's a lot of fun and just a cool guy who (obviously, not a surprise) really gets it and I like how he talks about it. Like I could hear him talk about meditation for hours, just a fun guy who gets it.

TLDR - and I could go on this for hours - Meditation is really something you can do every day in basically every action you do in life with practice and one of the large goals in a lot of Mahayana branches of Buddhism is just to obtain that near constant state of meditation through all actions of life, but I DIGRESS I will prevent myself from going off when yall can just listen to this guy

[caostalgia]

A veces pienso que el mayor logro de la cultura moderna es su brillante manera de vender las bondades del samsara y sus distracciones estériles. La sociedad moderna me parece una celebración de todas aquellas cosas que nos alejan de la verdad, que hacen difícil vivir para la verdad y que inducen a la gente a dudar incluso de su existencia. Y pensar que todo esto surge de una civilización que dice adorar la vida, pero que en realidad la priva de todo sentido real; que habla sin cesar de «hacer feliz» a la gente, pero que de hecho le cierra el paso a la fuente de la auténtica alegría.

El libro tibetano de la vida y de la muerte – Sogyal Rinpoche.

[mountain-sage]

Sooner or later, you will have to part from even your dearest friends. But one friend will never leave you, even though you may never be aware of its existence. It is the Buddha-nature, pure awareness. You begin to discover it by listening to the teachings of a spiritual master. The ties will deepen as you cultivate sustained mental calm and profound insight into reality. In the end, you will discover that it has always been near you and will always be with you.

This is the truest friendship you can ever cultivate.

-H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche