Shambala,Somati and Origination Of Mankind
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My beliefs
Tora,
I reviewed 4 articles on the lady you mentioned and have no idea whether she’s genuine or not. I’m not sure what the object of your spiritual search maybe. Mine is to live a life as close to the teachings of Buddha, Christ, my Guru Mentor, now dead)/ He was a truly wise man who never made any claim to mysticism and paid dearly for his beliefs as a prisoner of the Chinese.
My library is filled with the writings of His Holiness and other Buddhists teachers. So I have more to read and study than I can fully comprehend in one life time. My personal heroines are Ani Pachen a nun who lives quite frugally in Dharamsala. She was born into a wealthy Tibetan family but whose life became very hard when she inherited her father’s position of chieftain during the Chinese invasion. Worse, she was captured and tortured by the Chinese as a resistence leader. Her English is limited but better than my Tibetan. She is one of my role models for living. I watched her in the streets greeted by the children who know she can not afford any treats. They just love her for herself. She never had any children of her own. I think reading her life story “Sorrow Mountain” is a good guide for basin one’s beliefs. My poor service is what I do as my prayer.
My second heroine is dead. She was Ama Adhe who I met before her death in San Francisco. I start to cry when I remember her hobbling on her poor tortured feet while she fingered her beads with crippled hands. They tore off this tiny woman’s nails ans beat her relentlessly yet she asked me to pray for their souls with her. She walked a 1000 miles in California asking people for help for Tibet.
So my beliefs and my readings focus on non-mystics who are real people. Buddhism is for the most part very concrete/. It teaches that our suffering is for the most part self made and what to do about it. In Alaska where I have a private practice I find 90% of my patients suffer physical illnesses of their own creation through eating, abuse of alcohol, smoking, or physical lack of exercise. Their emotional problems are often the result of yearnings for thing that are not good for them.
Maybe I sound to nutty or simplistic. But now you know where I come from. To me it’s crazy that our country went to war when Iraq first invaded her little neighbor but won’t lift a finger for Tibet. Sounds racist and money oriented to me.
H
Tora,
I reviewed 4 articles on the lady you mentioned and have no idea whether she’s genuine or not. I’m not sure what the object of your spiritual search maybe. Mine is to live a life as close to the teachings of Buddha, Christ, my Guru Mentor, now dead)/ He was a truly wise man who never made any claim to mysticism and paid dearly for his beliefs as a prisoner of the Chinese.
My library is filled with the writings of His Holiness and other Buddhists teachers. So I have more to read and study than I can fully comprehend in one life time. My personal heroines are Ani Pachen a nun who lives quite frugally in Dharamsala. She was born into a wealthy Tibetan family but whose life became very hard when she inherited her father’s position of chieftain during the Chinese invasion. Worse, she was captured and tortured by the Chinese as a resistence leader. Her English is limited but better than my Tibetan. She is one of my role models for living. I watched her in the streets greeted by the children who know she can not afford any treats. They just love her for herself. She never had any children of her own. I think reading her life story “Sorrow Mountain” is a good guide for basin one’s beliefs. My poor service is what I do as my prayer.
My second heroine is dead. She was Ama Adhe who I met before her death in San Francisco. I start to cry when I remember her hobbling on her poor tortured feet while she fingered her beads with crippled hands. They tore off this tiny woman’s nails ans beat her relentlessly yet she asked me to pray for their souls with her. She walked a 1000 miles in California asking people for help for Tibet.
So my beliefs and my readings focus on non-mystics who are real people. Buddhism is for the most part very concrete/. It teaches that our suffering is for the most part self made and what to do about it. In Alaska where I have a private practice I find 90% of my patients suffer physical illnesses of their own creation through eating, abuse of alcohol, smoking, or physical lack of exercise. Their emotional problems are often the result of yearnings for thing that are not good for them.
Maybe I sound to nutty or simplistic. But now you know where I come from. To me it’s crazy that our country went to war when Iraq first invaded her little neighbor but won’t lift a finger for Tibet. Sounds racist and money oriented to me.
H
Lotussan
I Belong To Steven
Thanks, Tora, and Hallarian, wonderful stuff to contemplate, Hallarian, your story was a bit sad though, but thanks for sharing...suzi, the 3rd pair of eyes are fantastic, they haunt me, but in such a wonderful way...I truly am blessed to have been so touched by this beautiful man, you know the one...
yudansha
TheGreatOne
The sad truth of reality:
It's always about politics, and if it's not then it certainly is about power! And how do you get power? Money! In today's world, government are almost always useless, because the capitalism allows for trans-corporations to rule the market and hence drive the economy of the nation ... thus, it's the major empires consisting of multiple multi-million ... scratch that ... multi-billion companies that have the power and influence the government. You don't really think that CIA is solely a goverment owned organization now do you? Come to reality! It's sad, but it's true, and after the wall came down and the 'communism' tore apart USSR (which is actually not the reason, but let's say for now), the capitalists took over the world. Fact, the top 200 major corporations have more wealth than all of the countries in the world combined ... and talking about power, Trump is not in that league at all.
It's always about politics, and if it's not then it certainly is about power! And how do you get power? Money! In today's world, government are almost always useless, because the capitalism allows for trans-corporations to rule the market and hence drive the economy of the nation ... thus, it's the major empires consisting of multiple multi-million ... scratch that ... multi-billion companies that have the power and influence the government. You don't really think that CIA is solely a goverment owned organization now do you? Come to reality! It's sad, but it's true, and after the wall came down and the 'communism' tore apart USSR (which is actually not the reason, but let's say for now), the capitalists took over the world. Fact, the top 200 major corporations have more wealth than all of the countries in the world combined ... and talking about power, Trump is not in that league at all.
tora
Funmaker
Living in this rotten society where everybody's telling stories of their own I'm stuck in my own shoes which I've outgrown but don't take them off coz I haven't found the ones that fit me well.That is to say either I believe everything or don't believe anything.And I'm not sure yet where I am.
tora
Funmaker
Just like that?Then what the heck am I bending over backwards to figure it out?It's all so simple.Really.I've been studying Buddhism for quite a while and always thought it was a little complicated for me but it's very simple indeed.No irony.
A man came to a Buddhist master Tilopa to ask him to help him reach the nature of Buddha.The man said "I'd like to stop my thoughts."All Tilopa said to him was "It's very simple.I'll show you the way and the technique.Follow this:just sit and don't think about the monkeys,and this will be enough."
A man came to a Buddhist master Tilopa to ask him to help him reach the nature of Buddha.The man said "I'd like to stop my thoughts."All Tilopa said to him was "It's very simple.I'll show you the way and the technique.Follow this:just sit and don't think about the monkeys,and this will be enough."
Meditation is hard
But I don't think we should get upset when our mind wanders. Healthy minds do that. Just refocus every time you catch yourself off track and if meditaion doesn't work for you skip it.. Personally I just see how much help I can give. After all I am as selfish as anyone. I try to avoid hurting though sometimes I don't catch my offence til after I've done it. I have to remember to engage brain before inserting foot in my mouth.
My ego gets me in trouble like now by feeling hurt when Asians compare Americans to The Chinese here for caring so little about prisoners' human rights.
Chinese Border guards laugh as they pass out copies of the pictures. What idiot thought to publish their own crime?
Great planning like putting one Iraqi general in charge and replacing him the next day.
But I don't think we should get upset when our mind wanders. Healthy minds do that. Just refocus every time you catch yourself off track and if meditaion doesn't work for you skip it.. Personally I just see how much help I can give. After all I am as selfish as anyone. I try to avoid hurting though sometimes I don't catch my offence til after I've done it. I have to remember to engage brain before inserting foot in my mouth.
My ego gets me in trouble like now by feeling hurt when Asians compare Americans to The Chinese here for caring so little about prisoners' human rights.
Chinese Border guards laugh as they pass out copies of the pictures. What idiot thought to publish their own crime?
Great planning like putting one Iraqi general in charge and replacing him the next day.