Coming to Know the Mind
When we are really able to rest our mind in meditation, an incredibly spacious, sky-like nature begins to dawn. And from within that sky-like nature of our mind, the sun of our buddha nature shines forth with the tremendous radiance and warmth of love and compassion. Read More
May I finally understand
Nadine's sister on the beach
Nadine Aernouts, originally from Belgium, writes: “My sister died two years ago of cancer when she was sixty years old. I lost my brother years ago when he was just 47 years old. When he died I was totally confused because people always tell you that you have to be strong and go on living. I couldn’t forget the faces of my parents or the faces of my brother’s children who were 4, 9 and 12 years old at the time. His wife was heart-broken because it happened all of the sudden…it was a medical failure. Read More
Marcia Binder Schmidt on The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
This summer in an interview with renowned Buddhist translator, editor, and writer Marcia Binder Schmidt, we asked her for her thoughts on the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying and its impact. Read More
Getting in Touch with the Soft Spot of Your Good Heart
The Buddha said:
If you look all over the world for someone more worthy of your love than yourself, you will not find another.
In this recent teaching from Barcelona, Sogyal Rinpoche explains that when we practise compassion, we begin by getting in touch with ourselves through meditation, arriving at the soft spot of our good heart.
It is when we come into touch our capacity for kindness and compassion, and come to love ourselves, that we engage in the practice of loving kindness by extending this love to others.
You can find more on compassion and instructions on how to practice loving kindness on page 199 of Chapter 12, ‘Compassion: The Wish-fulfilling Jewel’, in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.
For more video teachings on the practice of Compassion, please visit SogyalRinpoche.org
The Book which Loves Us all so Much
Fernando Garcia, from Madrid writes: “I met my friend María by chance, as we were coming out of the cinema, and she told me that she was in the final phase of her illness, and that she was receiving a lot of help from an amazing group of students of Tibetan Buddhism. Read More
