February 2011
“The reason our mind is known as UNBORN awareness is that we have no idea of its...”
– Chogyam Trungpa on the Lojong notion of unborn awareness
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“But tonglen should not be used as any kind of antidote. You do not do it and...”
– Chogyam Trungpa on the Lojong practice of tonglen
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One Intention
Lojong mind-training tells us that we should do everything with a single intention. This intention has been called many things: bodhicitta, loving-kindness, awareness, heart, compassion. etc.
It all has to do with love. A kind of love most people live their lives, passionate or not, without ever experiencing.
I can only speak for myself but sometimes I prefer feeling nothing over feeling...
Lojong Mind-training...don't be so predictable! →
cosmoasis asked: where is the Lazy Yogi??!?!!! i am exploring this opposite breathing in and out (giving and getting, respectively) you sent the link to me about the Lojongs. In company with the concept of clockwise/counterclockwise associated with the singing bowl i.e. summoning/banishing I am finding quite an interesting albeit exotic sadhana! Much of it was/is inspired by the Lazi Yogi himself... so I think...
“Devotion does not mean that you have to be emotional always. Devotion is meant...”
– Babaji
January 2011
Why is it impossible to find a portrait of the...
I’ve never considered myself buddhist but things lately have convinced me otherwise. While the practice of buddhism has morphed over time like a spiritual game of telephone, the more I’ve prodded into the Dharma, the more that has fallen away.
First it was about understanding buddhism as a reaction to hinduism but still set in the hindu worldview. Then it followed that buddhists are...
Fucking Jackets
Me: Why does everything have to be turned into a lesson? I had my winter jacket for 8 years and then some drunk wench swiped it from the bar. Joke's on her though; it's riddled with fleas and heroin.
Mom: Whose heroin?
Me: It's not a big deal. I'm just holding onto it for this homeless guy who chills outside my apartment building.
Me: This is turning into a three excedrin morning.
“Banish the word ‘struggle’ from your attitude and your vocabulary....”
– Hopi Elders
FTS: follow the sound