Monday Meditation
‘Destructive emotions in the mind are like dirt on a cloth. The dirt is not of the nature of the cloth and can be cleaned off. Similarly with destructive emotions. They temporarily […]
‘Destructive emotions in the mind are like dirt on a cloth. The dirt is not of the nature of the cloth and can be cleaned off. Similarly with destructive emotions. They temporarily […]
‘We experience the relative or conventional truth through the six senses. On top of these we have different projections. For example, we think “I like this colour, I don’t like that colour”, and […]
‘Time is always passing by very fast. It never rests. It’s non-stop. That’s why it’s important to start practising now and not put it off until tomorrow. We don’t know what tomorrow […]
‘In the beginning when trying to train our minds we should first look at emotions like anger, jealousy, or resentment and see how they affect our minds when they arise. Do they […]
‘Just like adding fuel to a fire makes it grow larger, similarly when negative emotions and thoughts arise, reinforcing them makes them increase and become stronger. The longer we keep doing this, […]
‘One Tibetan Master who used to be a robber, wanted to transform his mind. He had a pile of black stones and a pile of white stones. Whenever he did negative actions […]
‘When beginning to transform our minds it is important to firstly identify our behaviours – which ones are positive and which ones are negative.
Intellectually understanding this is important but not sufficient. We […]
‘The Tibetan word for enlightenment is chang-chub. Chang means all negative actions and emotions, such as hatred and ignorance, are purified. Chub means all positive qualities, like love, compassion and wisdom, are accumulated. […]
‘Our actions plant “seeds” in our minds. For seeds to germinate, they need the necessary conditions.
If we’ve planted lots of negative seeds, such as hatred, then when certain conditions arise, our response […]
‘Just as dirt and dust build up in rooms everyday, similarly destructive emotions and thoughts build up in our minds. Constantly watch our minds.’
The Venerable Panchen Ötrul Rinpoche.
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Jampa Ling Tibetan Buddhist Meditation […]