2014

I like first to thanks all of you to carry following my adventure in that blog, also I like send my wish for those who are in suffering and may 2014 give them something new.


This blog idea have been coming to when I was thinking to make the Dharma more accessible, this year was both blessing and curse, blessing because I have been getting more closer of my dharma masters than ever, curse because sadly I discover that you never know someone.


But now this a new year and new start, I believe in opportunities and we have to jump on it when one come to you.


Tonight I have a quite new year and I feel that new year will bring good challenge and good things back in return.


For the new year I will emphasis more in dharma in daily life. Garchen Rinpoche say dharma is love when you lose love you lose dharma.


I send a wish also for those who have no access to dharma or worst get tyrannise because they practice dharma.


Dharma mean a lot to me, I have to be honest in some deep moment only the dharma was there. Now year will come in couple of hours on my part I have put to the grave all what was the past 2013 and all that go with it.


Now this blog got also a public page on facebook so don't forget to like !!!



I wish you to all of you to always have a great love and carry on dharma.

Kindness real lion roar

In this Christmas time I feel a good time to write about that, in the 37 Bodhisattva practice “Overcome anger and hatred by the army of love and kindness”


We have that tendency to confuse kindness and sentimental or feeling, kindness is not that we have no choice to become kindness itself to understand kindness and same for unconditional love.


We can read billion of page from books, we not be kind at all, we like to sentimentalise kindness, like we like crying of this saying that lost touch me, but that not kindness that just our loss and the sentiment for that person we had.


Kindness is in everything, when we act of kindness we are kind, when we multiply that by unconditional love we are like a mother for her child .


That kindness and unconditional love this is the real lion roar, we think by acting hard or acting by vengeance whatever, after saying to everybody don't kill this poor animal we are kind !
Sorry we are far from that, kindness is work of everyday it's really easy to lose the kindness to become sentimental.


At kindness is powerful not a weakness.

Ashes to rebirth

Today on that 23^th December I can say that my total rebirth, the multiplication of Dharma and Nlp, and all the helps from my spiritual guides have make my old self die for real and new self is born.


But today I won't speak to much about me, tomorrow that the birthday of mother, sadly this Christmas I won't be able to see her.
So I have decide to meditate and visit wood and walk around holyrood tomorrow, tonight I like speak of real faith.


When you face the heavier breakdown in your life and friends, family just disappear that this moment you can see if your faith is real or not, because on that moment that here just now if you are faithful to your path you will succeed no matter what's happened to you.


On first stage I have to say that Christian band with great music and message have lift me up and also the great Vajra songs of Milarepa sing by Garchen rinpoche that both together was turning non stop on my MP3 and in my head when I was feeling deep down to hell.


In that faith you can find everything you need whatever you call that : Buddhas, God, Allah, Guru, Krishna yeah if you like all they always be there for you, love I truly feel is more power than all other selfish love, now I will be able to give to my future partner a powerful love without measure it. Unconditional love was the first advice gave me Dorzin Rinpoche and later on Lama Tubten Nima have also explain me how to feel it and to give it and Garchen Rinpoche was the pure example to follow on that.


Yeah this lesson proof me also that from ground zero you can become someone, today I have start loads of project and “don't look how I gonna to succeed I carry on day after day putting a stone everyday with faith without think I need this or that” you want to succeed in life ? Stop to ask yourself and just do it.


Society slam us by the idea be like this or be like that do this do that, find this to pay that OK wait a minute when do we live here ?


Succeed and fulfilled life is important, for that reason we must never give up our dream for nothing and no one.

Garchen Rinpoche was true only unconditional love save you, it's easy to fall into the 8 dharma mondain but to have real faith, the real dharma practitioners are rare like start into the light .

Die Hard

Another bomb I drop before Christmas time, time to speak about this !


Few month ago I was dyeing for love for someone who only was thinking to see other mens and who were pointing fault at me, preaching the dharma to me as I was always wrong.


Sadly for her my faith on the buddhas was so strong that each time she was in town hanging around with someone that have make that I have always, cross her road by one way, the buddha have help me to take off that mask off her face and was wake in the middle of storm.


In November I was so happy to meet HE Garchen rinpoche see my lama and spend long time with him all this storm was in my head, I was so sensible and still a bit on that, that I was enable to follow the dharma properly but in the interview he cleared all of that in a second I was asking him for my relationship and what direction I should take, at first he say “you are with that person who was my ex” then he pause I have say to him I was not any-more sadly, in between tear and faith, then he told me don't worry that all the sexual misconduct is the result of that but as you have faith in the tree jewel you will find someone who is like Tara .
He was true on that day Garchen Rinpoche was in Scotland my ex was hanging around with someone in Depeche mode concert with her new boyfriend.


So after that I saw that I was destroy mentally, emotionally and everything until I apply the first advice of Garchen rinpoche love your ex like the first time, when I see that image of her the first time she was not that monster any more but someone totally different.
Second advice was pray the deity they will never leave you what was true, as Psychic Medium I have to say for couple years I have give up that, until that night I was totally crash dying of sadness, that night I have take refuge in the tree jewel and retake again my Nakgpa vows and call in 10 direction not just the buddhas and bodhisattvas but all my spiritual guides.
That night I have make a strange dream of someone coming at me, saying to me “don't worry we will help you” in that morning only one taught was in my head find oracles, as I use to be professional medium clairvoyant and tarot reader, so that was coming back at me, but to be sure I was not making the right choice I have see a colleague of mine who do reading for Christmas and she told me to retake the music, yes couple of weeks one advisor told me that will be my best asset and she told me also to keep carry on practice my clairvoyance.

A week after just before that experience yesterday with Karmapa, I have make that dream with Trinley Tulku Rinpoche, that mean a lot for me more that just a great kind lama is always have been there to advices me, in that dream he was helping to clear the black box, in the day I make reconnection with my heart sister who stay in France and first things she told me, that “you are better without her she a poison, I have told you that the first time have talk to her” sadly she was right.


Since that day, things start to change, slowly I don't have see the happy end yet but I'm working on everyday, I have promises to myself to never drop nothing from my personality for no one, today I have start to right new songs and using my medium gift to help others in everyday life, my hell is in way of finish because I have take the commitment to clear that, for my ex I just pray that she realise, she had create all of this, I can only drop a prayer for her since she have drop all dharma and radically change to get accept by her new boyfriend may her see what is the real truth and find the way to dharma.



And Garchen rinpoche was right now I meet everyday new person, full of kindness and beautiful in same time, I can see Tara in her easily and at that time I know that I cannot fail .

Karmapa Kyenno

Today I was working on my charity shop for British heart foundation and at one point I was doing a repetitive task, my mind was not focus at all until a flash light have been going strait to my head.


One word It was like Trinley Tulku Rinpoche was saying at me Karmapa Kyenno is important for you to be connect to your master.


Strangely I start to repeat the mantra and say it more in my head, strangely I have feel this super devotion and one question was in the light right now “Why Karmapa himself have give the name of victorious for the future temple in Scotland”


I have been also remind that dream I say to Dorzin Rinpoche when Karmapa himself have been appear in my dream saying to “ carry on “ when was really difficult to carry on the Drikung Kagyu group .


I feel full devotion for my both Lamas Dorzin Rinpoche, Garchen Rinpoche and I feel also full devotion for my roots Lama, Lama Teunsang and Karmapa I have been lucky to took refuge with great master like them and today I have been remembering that for lives I have been following Karmapa.


Today on my shop reciting all the day the mantra “Karmapa Kyenno” all the day for ones I have feel this great presence during my work the presence when I took refuge with him in France for Chenrezig empowerment.


Also today I have decide to follow my dream no matter what, I will apply to Uni even if some of my tutor want me to take time but in same told me I'm able, I will apply to HNC and I will do my music just watching a movie and one thing they say “ what if you know nothing is impossible” I have been living six years in scar city and negativity but will Les Brown say “yes it's easy to see faith when life is good but when life hit you in bad way big time that the real faith you see “



Karmapa Kyenno

Light of the guru in pure darkness

When you are in that time in life when everything get fuck up and hard to live you have two choices.
Play hard and you will get hard or turn yourself to the pure faith and devotion, that what I have choose, I have been looking my ex partner playing the Russian roulette of karma but the gun is full loaded.


As I'm psychic medium since my childhood I have always be closer of the spiritual for years my life was not in balance with that for many reasons but strangely in the middle of that hardship like boomerang the music and my gift just came back to me, I have always have been use my gift to help people. In France and UK I have help countless peoples with reading and also inside but for years I have been trying to fit with the system when finally I was a pure maverick.


So yeah since almost 5 month I was hunted by a song “Hero, the chorus is I need a hero” all this years he was closer to since day one, Tsem Tulku rinpoche say Lama Tsonkapa is enlightened being and help you to get it right, Garchen Rinpoche say about Lama Milarepa he will help not just for 7 lives but all the time until you reach enlightenment.


One day I was working in field with my father, my father run away to do some work and an asthma crisis hit me badly I was lying on field alone with one mantra in my head the mantra of Milarepa, I have pray him so hard, that I saw himself appear to me and he put his hand on my chest and my asthma was gone.


That story came back to me today and I have decide to forgive my ex but not her act and pray lama Milarepa because I know that he have been always with me, that because of him I have meet Garchen rinpoche and also because of him I have never make the wrong choice, I have always pray him to guide me.


Today I know loads of Lamas are worry for me, some I have write to them some other I have just pray but all have show me compassion and send me influences I rejoice on that and dedicate to all beings.



I'm not yet sort it but by the power of the lama I know I will soon get out of this hell flat and carry on my way.

When bad meet evil

Sometimes in life  we have hardship coming strait like bullets, I was off  blogging for long time, was not because I was not able to write that because at the moment the hardship I live is kind of fighting an army of devils who rib your life off.


In that good karma have been with me, I turn myself to the dharma and slowly see the situation change but I will told you that story later.


One day you meet a party girl and think that one will be the one you will get married with six years later, you find that woman saying she single and send you sleep on couch.


Sadly you are in that kind of situation when you cannot change the situation and that person hypocritically don't tell you any truth, sadly my job situation don't have change and I fight everyday to quite that hell.


But the truth of the buddha never fail, I still have  my heart broken, but I know one things the buddhas never fail me, first time I ask the buddha to show the truth about her and if I was in the wrong way because she had always point the fault on me even in-front of the lama, I saw her with another guy in restaurant, the second time I ask the buddhas I heard she sleep over with another one and yesterday I will still live in the same flat and she was with that guy walking like a lovely couple, she put her head down thinking I was not seeing her but buddha never fail to show you the truth.


After everything have make sense, why Garchen Rinpoche was so kind to me and why he pause when I have start to talk about my relationship and he gave me, really precious advices.


Sincerely I feel betrayed inside like someone have robe me and just drop me into the bin, what she do to me she was using the dharma pointing fault on me to find the way to sleep out with others guy and don't feel guilty just in minute she was so kind with her look like I'm kind and poison you in same time, when she want keep that flat we rent when both me and my family have pay and she never put a cents on it and have clearly decide to push me out of that flat.


In this my faith for the buddha just blow up to the stratosphere, I live in this hard situation just friday someone robe all my Ids and all my bank cards with all my driving licence and also car papers, Sunday see her with that guy have just proof me that I was true since day one she have never been faithful and erase 6 years like you scrap paper, now I know I deserve someone better than a person like that .




Garchen Rinpoche told me that deities will never fail you I'm really thankful to him and give him and Karmapa my full devotion.
That the first part of  that long story more will come out, thanks to my friends to have push me to go public, the photo you will see that where I sleep, eat, meditate at the moment when my ex partner have the luxury life and just don't give a shit.


Djemilarepa solwa depso

Renegade

An outlaw; a rebel.

By and large, human beings tend to prefer to fit in to society by following accepted rules of etiquette and being gentle, polite and respectful. The irony is that this is also how most people imagine a spiritual person should behave. When a so-called dharma practitioner is seen to behave badly, we shake our heads over her audacity at presenting herself as a follower of the Buddha. Yet such judgements are better avoided, because to "fit in" is not what a genuine dharma practitioner strives for. Think of Tilopa, for example. He looked so outlandish that if he turned up on your doorstep today, odds are you would refuse to let him in. And you would have a point. He would most probably be almost completely naked; if you were lucky, he might be sporting some kind of G-string; his hair would never have been introduced to shampoo; and protruding from his mouth would quiver the tail of a live fish. What would your moral judgement be of such a being? "Him! A Buddhist? But he's tormenting that poor creature by eating it alive!" This is how our theistic, moralistic and judgemental minds work. In fact, they work in a very similar way to those of the world's more puritanical and destructive religions. Of course, there is nothing necessarily wrong with morality, but the point of spiritual practice, according to the vajrayana teachings, is to go beyond all our concepts, including those of morality. (Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, Not for Happiness)

this blog today after long time is a good reminder for us to do not wanted to fit to much in our society.

When we look to our society, to be honest the honest people work like hell to get a job or even a pay when the dishonest people get full furnish flat by our joyous government, so yes east or west or system is totally screw up not just for that, but most of the time to be good with our society, we have to follow so much the social norm that we loose or identity.

Rebel in our time are fashion and show picture on Facebook what kind of rebel is that, Madona ?

Even worst Dharma become fashion, the Buddha himself have predict that time and this time is here and now.

Last week Garchen Rinpoche have told us how much is important to build Dharma centre and to practice in our country where there's no Dharma, when we look to past master as Tilopa we can see how he was totally out of tune compare to the society .

On that we should think, ho yes we have to sustain ourself with food and so on but there's many community in the worlds who sustain themselves by themselves so our attachment to society become viral, like this permanent need to speak on facebook or drop news .

But ones again we can work also to transform that into dharma, or society is good and bad in same time and we cannot change it but we can change the way we act on it, in our time we have to remind ourself that a dharma practitioner don't strive to fit in the society but strive to fit enlightenment, Garchen Rinpoche was a great example no sleeping only meditation and we still think that impossible ?

So manual of the little urban yogi, don't look on what think other carry on your practice 24 /7

All about me

Garchen Rinpoche reply on Bodhisattva teaching, “ there's no time we don't think of other we think only to ourself that the reason we are unhappy “


Sadly on facebook is one big phenomena look by yourself how many people take photo of themselves saying I'm doing this or I'm doing, in psychology today that phenomena have been describe as self absorb.


Yes we living in pure selfish world as always be but, in our time we got this particularity to be super selfish, that don't mean we have or have not quality but the first things we like to do is think for self in stead of think on others.


That true also we have to find the right balance, Tony Robbins say that if we work to much on self them we become depress and if we work to much on others them we become lost and he finish by saying a good balance is important.


So in our time we miss the balance we are focus by social conditioning to become that kind of fake god or goddess we see in the media, but in reality loud of us have a low self esteem, make them act even more selfishly.



What is make us act bad making wrong decision and also the bad karma that go with it, so advice of the Garchen Rinpoche on that is pretty simple, one side we have to work on self on the other side we have to help others we will be never happy by not helping others, even a little everyday is huge.

What is and what's not Tantric

When we touch on that subject generally we have two ways the proper way and the way people think is .


In the west we see the sexuality like a how to get an orgasm in the east that a bit a different for those call Tantrica the goal is to touch the ultimate enlightenment .

Origins of Buddhist Tantra

As with many other aspects of Buddhism, myth and history don't always find their way to the same ball park.

Vajrayana Buddhists say tantric practices were expounded by the historical Buddha. A king approached the Buddha and explained that his responsibilities did not allow him to abandon his people and become a monk. Yet in his privileged position he was surrounded by temptations and pleasures. How could he realize enlightenment? The Buddha responded by teaching the king tantric practices that would transform pleasures into transcendent realization.

Historians speculate that tantra was developed by Mahayana teachers in India very early in the first millennia CE, possibly as a way to reach those who weren't responding to teachings from the sutras.

Wherever it came from, by the 7th century CE tantric Buddhism was fully systematized in northern India. This was significant to the development of Tibetan Buddhism. The first Buddhist teachers in Tibet, beginning in the 8th century with the arrival of Guru rinpoche were tantric teachers from northern India.

By contrast, Buddhism reached China about the year 1. Mahayana Buddhist sects that emerged in China, such as Pure Land and Zen, also incorporate tantric practices, but these are not nearly as elaborate as in Tibetan tantra.

What is not Tantric if someone tell you, you will have much pleasure we will do tantric, that clear this person don't know what is tantric is.


Of course there's many visualisation able to make your body react in some way or other but when we touch to the pure Tantric that totally different.




So Tantric in our era of everything “yes” but as Shamarpa “first remind the bodhisattvas practice and as say Garchen Rinpoche remind always Bodhicitta.


So what is tantric is part of visualisation and also work with your energies after there's many tantras so each is usually different.


So next time you see someone tell you that produce or that stuff is tantric, that maybe a good meditation to put you in the right place you want to be but that not Tantric.

Tantric at the end is to realise enlightenment not ultimate pleasure !!!

Samurai philosophy in modern time

This post is a new bread post I have decide to put true, come from different way to practice the path and also this reflection come from the modern way of Bushido as most of us not just practice the Tibetan Buddhism I have decide to all the way to the path by this introduction post.




In modern time we live hardship and sometime great time, can be compare to the past over the war time and peaceful time, in our life we face all kind of crisis and on that some of us are really prepare and some other are really not prepare.


When we look on warriors philosophy the Samurai philosophy for us Buddhist sound quite good because there's both dedication and also compassion on it.


Also the bushido have bring us some great values and when we look to our modern society sometimes we have to think “yes” we need values to keep going.



So the bushido bring nine virtues to cultivate and this virtues are link to the bodhisattva virtues, in Japan buddhism and samurai was really close to each others and even if the society was not far they have also bring sense of peace and of virtue.





In our chaotic time when everything move like storm around us we have to be able to stand like a warrior in next post I will develop the Bushido for modern time.

Mahamudra and Dzongchen

The Drukpa talk about Mahamudra and Dzongchen as the same thing just different word for the name enlightenment, when we go deeper in this two tradition we can see that they are pretty similar.


So what's really difference between this two tradition ?


Mahamudra come from Dorje Chang / Vajradara and Dzongchen come from Garab Dorje, the both tradition have there way to be transmit.


For the mahamudra the approach is different with the lineage with the emphasis on the view and also work with the contemplation and recollection and mantra recitation.


The Dzongchen is like a strait instruction to the nature of mind see as the great perfection, not renaming in doubt and remain in the state.


What is the great difference between the two as say the Drukpa there's no difference, the both tradition talking both about the same thing, also the way to transmit is more graduate into the mahamudra when the dzongchen will go strait to the point.



In our time the both tradition working hands together there's lot mahamudra practitioner who are also dzongchen practitioner, at the end we love put label to what is enlightenment but in all there's the same view of love, compassion and wisdom.

911

*Please like and share* - a special message from His Holiness Karmapa Thaye Dorje about nonviolence and compassion on September 11th. Dear dharma friends, September 11th marks the anniversary of the tragic events in New York and Washington in 2001. Nearly 3000 people were killed in the attacks, causing huge suffering and loss, still felt to this day. In the face of violence, where is there hope? When we look into the events on that day, behind the smoke and destruction, we see numerous acts of compassion. Emergency services, volunteers, people of all backgrounds stretching out their hands and hearts to help each other. The human heart, Bodhicitta, is the most precious of all. While Buddhas are helpful in life, the compassionate heart is even more precious than a Buddha. In the human heart, we see limitless hope. September 11th also marks the anniversary of when Mohandas Gandhi started the modern nonviolent movement. On this day in 1906, Satyagraha, the force of love or truth which flows from nonviolence, was born. This compassionate movement inspired Martin Luther King Jr, and countless others, to follow a nonviolent path. This compassionate movement lifted up the preciousness of the human heart, and the hope that flows from kindness. As Gandhi said 'Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.' On this day, I appeal to your hearts, remember those who suffer. On this day, I appeal to your hearts, let compassion flow.  Gautama Buddha said 'Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.' On this day, I appeal to your precious human hearts, may you share words that bring peace to all sentient beings.

Listen your true nature

Let's talk a bit of myself yeah I will use this story of my life as example because in some point that a good parabola to show how to listen your true nature.


So my mother got what we call the sick child syndrome and badly that things have been falling in myself for years, so that have make me drop my notes in school when I was kid and so on and so on, recently I have break with my partner and for that time I have been lucky to have really important teaching from my Lamas and until day one I have been stick on it and as I'm retaking the college to go to the psychology I have also follow coaching and course on analyse the partner and both Dharma and Nlp and Psychology have help me to analyse that to finally come to the conclusion on first I was not enough listening myself because in the six years I have been to my partner my intuition my view was always write, second was the finally answer what the meaning of what have say Lama Teunsang on moving somewhere else don't solve the problem, yeah both me and my partner have both this heavy back ground and I realise that dharma have change my life a to z and I have even push to what make me chose this partner more than another and in the end was the bad pattern of the sick child from my mother the way that make you suffer.


On this since this things happening with my partner I have start to really listening my true nature, aware on everything coming in our society we usually don't believe in that but if we were more closer to our true nature just listen a bit of our intuition in steed to listen our ego we will get a better life, so what is about listening to our true nature ?




If we take that example of taking a decision, before ask any advice with someone, first listen to what is inside you, make silence to yourself and just see what come out of the shadow, must of the time is the true answer .


As our true nature is on some point our buddha nature so link to others buddha and connect to everything that make for sure google have less performance than you have, in this point the most we listen to ourself in part not of let the ego drive the game, more in the meditation point of let go of everything and aware on what is coming but the clarity of mind



Listening to our true nature that also make our mind at peace without that we cannot do that and be a bit more sensible in a good way open to that if we truly are aware of our true nature all kind of trouble can be avoid also if we got heavy background on some way we can understand one that karma and two our real nature isn't what other judge by the frame of ego or suffering.
To open our mind to our true nature we have also to stop labelling this and that, in our time we like labelling and doing that cut our true nature clearly because our true nature don't got label.



At the end our true nature is infinite and we are those who put the wall if we open our doors then we will find our true happiness at the end.

The hard choice

In our time it's really hard to follow the buddha path and all kind of spiritual path in general, why because soon we take the blue pill we start the world as is really and not like the Disney land we think the world is.


Be honest with you that blog was suppose to talk on karma but after reflection that have make more sense for me to talk about that.


So when we take the blue pill we think find the spiritual fix will help us to transform and do nothing but sadly take a spiritual path give pain a lot and lot of work on ourself and with others is constant work on body, speech and mind.


Nothing is easy in life and specially take a spiritual path and some of us quite in the way the think, yeah now I'm awake I start to know what is I can face Disney land, but one again is delusion it's like saying I was in coma and I like to come back to that.



That the reason in some way when we take a spiritual path we should take seriously and old habit will clearly not fit with the path and for that we should always think of the why we start this path and what was the motivation knowing that we start analyse what's wrong in our life and change destructive habit for positive one.

Rainstorm

There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to all things.

Hagakure

We all live rainstorms in life and most of this rainstorms we cannot escape due our karma, due our past actions.

So as we can change what's coming to us we can change our attitude, decide firmly to do not react like we react to do not fall in anger or negativity, as we are the creator of our own life, things good and bad are also part of us, past action will affect us but in the way when this arrive they can became our best training in the bodhisattva way.

Knowing the most we study ourself, the most the transformation work to re discover our true nature totally pure of stain, yes we need to struggle in life to discover real compassion if we will not struggle in life we will act with even more ego.

As our existence is condition all of this struggles make us understand on one part what we do wrong and also what we do write, on that we transform ourself in the good way.

So yes we can transform by this struggle as the light doesn’t exist if there's no darkness life is long tunnel with at the end light of enlightenment that up to us to go more faster or not.

Self control

Self-control

One day there was an earthquake that shook the entire Zen temple. Parts of it even collapsed. Many of the monks were terrified. When the earthquake stopped the teacher said, "Now you have had the opportunity to see how a Zen man behaves in a crisis situation. You may have noticed that I did not panic. I was quite aware of what was happening and what to do. I led you all to the kitchen, the strongest part of the temple. It was a good decision, because you see we have all survived without any injuries. However, despite my self-control and composure, I did feel a little bit tense - which you may have deduced from the fact that I drank a large glass of water, something I never do under ordinary circumstances."
One of the monks smiled, but didn't say anything.
"What are you laughing at?" asked the teacher.

"That wasn't water," the monk replied, "it was a large glass of soy sauce."

More self-control

During the civil wars in feudal Japan, an invading army would quickly sweep into a town and take control. In one particular village, everyone fled just before the army arrived - everyone except the Zen master.
Curious about this old fellow, the general went to the temple to see for himself what kind of man this master was. When he wasn't treated with the deference and submissiveness to which he was accustomed, the general burst into anger.
"You fool," he shouted as he reached for his sword, "don't you realize you are standing before a man who could run you through without blinking an eye!"

But despite the threat, the master seemed unmoved.
"And do you realize," the master replied calmly, "that you are standing before a man who can be run through without blinking an eye?"

Give yourself to the dark side !!!

So we are in this world who look for perfect purity, but in our world we can look nice the day have a corporate suite during the day and at night becoming someone else.


We are all judgemental in our society we will say, yeah he/she like this or like aah that not a good person, we have to be clear with ourself in all kind of way we surly not perfect, we can say ah he/she lie or he/she do this or do that but look to again we are not saint we are far from that and even great yogis of the past have being understand what there dark side and they don't have reject it, they have transform in pure compassion.


We all talk about the Buddha teaching or Jesus teaching or Krishna looking deep into the light but how can we see the light without darkness ?




Sometimes we got hardship and first things we do, we just give up say that it end, one against yogis in past have use hardship to realise greater compassion, even Drukpa Kunley have show us on what we call purity is just an idea.


Our dark side is here in the balance and we have to accept it and when we have this big ego pride coming up saying “he / she stupid or whatever” come back on what is the real truth what appear to you is only the pure reflection of yourself .


We look for the perfect person sometimes we so narcissist that we forgot sometimes, yeah Mike Shinoda show us well in that song “hands held high” “it's ironic at time like this you pray but a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday” yeah human we destroy all kind of light we can have to help us to understand what is wrong in us and accept not just in war time but all time in every conflict we got we our partner or work colleges or whatever we forget to turn the light on when we need so we blew our temple or mosque our church in all kind of conflicts.


Yeah at the end is better to accept yourself in all kind of way and be the happy yogi who do not care about who think what of him/her .

Our dark side is part of us so why reject it, why think we are so perfect when we not at all, yeah we talk about give confidence I deal my confidence with you when we don't have in ourself when don't even take the roots of all of this because our real purity that our mind have no stain that our wrong view who think there's something wrong but finally at the end we are all pure by nature. 

Who cannot see your real nature will never understand you

Be honest we work this society of biography on what do you have do in your past, what are you doing now and so on, we also living in this society of fake when friends can become foes in day in minute in second.


Now we are in 21^st and like the buddha say into the past samsara doesn't change, maybe we get more modern but that not really we can call our advantage.


In our time love is business, you give me this and I give you that, lot of things don't go the write way for sure we are not perfect and also for sure we won't be perfect, because the pure perfection is the imperfection.




We have forget our nature our what call Trumgpa Rinpoche our basic goodness, we become that nasty person who in second will forget many years and put it to trash and make full of anger choice that can even hurt more.


Yeah we also forget forgiveness so easily forgiveness have been becoming business, like hmm you want my friendship don't forget to give me your CV and biography, we forget those we judge have also wounds and like us, those we point our finger have suffer like we suffer so are we so perfect or so good to act like we act ?



Life still a battlefield and the less kindness we put in that life the less we will be happy and that not going dance on Friday night will change that our distractions will never bring back our kindness .

The right balance

If you look in internet or facebook or whatever, you will have many religious person told to be like this or like that, when we are practitioner we try to encourage others to be better but sometimes when situation show on we forget ourself to be like we preach.


As buddhist we should act compassionate and love to each other, I have a resent story from someone form what I can call my dharma family in India was telling me I love everybody but I hate this kind of people and I just say to him, so you lie to yourself you don't love everybody as this kind are beings and advice him to think that all beings have our mother no matter what we are now and we should take care of them with kindness.


In some others situation we will be kind in our work with all customers and colleague, kind to all kind of beings and come back home and totally be unkind with the partner we live in, that the same things of preaching good and practising bad.


We are not perfect and nobody is, we like to build barrier as nation, as race or religion but all of this just disappear when we finally realise we are all humans and when we drink water that water still come from the same earth, that us put the label of the region that come from where that come from but at the end this water still come from the earth.


In spiritual path soon we hit the tern anger and hate it's the time to ask ourself, do I have practice in the good way or do that is real or do that person isn't a living beings like me or are we really separate ?
After that is good to remind ourself that the good and bad come and go into our life that all karma, but we find karma excuse to be cruel to someone or to forget that we practice the way, in every situation there's a way to came out, unconditional love is ones again the part of this, recognise that the person we judge is same of us, have feeling like we have, have sensibility like we have.




Buddha say that when we have grief with someone or something the better way to heal, is dig a big hole to earth, drop the grief in it, put the earth on top and let the grass cover it and forgive, in our time we want always seek revenge of sometimes there's some miss understanding make this people think you are like this and because this people have another view he/she think like that and there's a conflict.


They was a psychologist have made a experience with his child one day for 6 month he try this experience, he pain a cube one face red one face green and every morning he show the red face to the child and say what you can see and the child say red and what I see and the child say red when the father was in front of the green face.


This story to explain since day one we train ourself to one view but sometimes hold this view can damage others, that the reason when we practice the spiritual path we change our view to have a kind view whatever is our path.


In our time sometimes we have to ask ourself do I apply what I preach, if not maybe we should follow our own advices and progress in our way, that good to help others but in same time we don't have to forget to help ourself.


We have to be always in the right balance

Offering

In a past life of the Great Dharma Patron, King Ashoka, he was just a small boy playing in the sand with other children. Pretending to be a king with the other children as his ministers, they built a sand castle which included a treasury. At this time, Buddha Shakyamuni passed the children playing in the sand on his alms round. Upon seeing the Buddha, the small child was very inspired. Immediately he bent over the sand castle and picked up the imaginary treasury room of the castle in his hands. He quickly walked over to the Buddha to place these imaginary riches within his begging bowl. At first Ananda moved to stop the boy, thinking with a loving heart that this sand would ruin the food within the Buddha's begging bowl. Yet the Buddha stopped Ananda from preventing this offering. The Buddha was so tall, so one of this disciples bent down in front of him and requested the small boy to stand on top of his back. Doing so, the boy joyfully placed the imaginary treasury within the Buddha's begging bowl. Following this event, Ananda asked the Buddha why he had allowed the boy to put sand in his begging bowl. Smiling, the Buddha said that two hundred years after his mahaparinirvana a universal king (Skt. Chakravartin) would arise in India, and that he would perform extensive activities in support of establishing and spreading the Buddhadharma throughout the region. The Buddha said that his name would be King Ashoka, and that this very boy would become that king due to the incredibly vast merits he developed by offering the Buddha a handful of sand with a genuinely loving heart.

As told by Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche

1 in 100

OK today this reflection come to me by walking in supermarket and look to everybody, so let's be honest are not each second living in survival mode, soon we are in school first things we hear it's forget your dream life is like this !


Later on pear around us always discourage us to be what we want to be at the end we finish like we are not happy sick and hateful for all kind of beings because we want keep the little we have been able to keep.


Even worst when we meet someone thinking differently and who him/her succeed in what he/she want to do first things we are suspicious looking for everything bad in that, we think that not “normal” to succeed .


When we look to the path in buddhism, whatever you do in life if we take all kind of examples like Marpa or Milarepa they have make the difference by the one in the one hundreds, in the 21^st century isn't just enough to be a practitioner you have to slam the norm and the life in some kind of way, we always say as buddhist yeah live your life how do you want live we are 24/7 in survival mode, we are told to do this or that living in pure shit brain drop by media of all kinds.


21^st bodhisattva have to be strong taking the stress but he have also to give both kindness and unconditional love be successful in his/her own well fare as well in the well fare of all beings a real bodhisattva will never be in survival mode and he will show his greatness to the world to inspire the world is the one in the one hundreds .



Yes or life is hard but, we accept to live the way we live because it's simple to live in dark isn't simple to live in light, we are powerful beyond measure that our light in frighting us not or darkness.

TWELVE LINKS OF DEPENDENT ORIGINATION

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Cyclic existence continues to evolve through the power of the unbroken relationship of the twelve links of dependent origination. What are these twelve? They are (1)ignorance, which afflicts wandering beings by keeping them from seeing true reality. In obscuring the perception of true reality, ignorance also functions as the source for the subsequent links, such as karmic formation, by grasping as if there were an “I” and “mine.” (2)Formation afflicts wandering beings by implanting the seeds of subsequent existence in the consciousness. In this way, when the root text states: “Wandering beings are afflicted due to…,” it should be understood to apply to all the remaining links as well, from consciousness on. Accordingly, (3) consciousness becomes infused with habitual tendencies and leads sentient beings to the place of their birth. (4) Name and form take hold of the body of one’s coming existence. (5) The six sense sourcesbring the state of name and form to completion. (6)Contact determines the experience of an object based on the coming together of three factors: object, faculty, and cognition. (7) Sensation experiences the various types of enjoyable and painful karmic ripening. (8) Cravingcreates the cohesion necessary for a future existence. (9)Grasping totally binds one to such an existence. (10)Becoming brings about the actual acquisition of this birth. (11) Birth serves as the support for the suffering of old age and so on. (12) Aging and death is the essence of suffering. 

Middle Beyond Extremes: Maitreya’s Madhyantavibhaga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham, pages 34-35.

Love is wisdom itself !!!

"I'm not the one to say that kind of stuff like that because the many mistakes I made in past and even today made me everything except a saint but I know one things that the light of love and compassion is more strong that all the anger and violence, I know that the wisdom is beyond walls and actions because the real wisdom is love itself, who talk about love and trust should think about the real love the one without attachment as we are all Buddha by nature, love isn't what we think, love isn't punishment to do this or that love forgive, love as no value of time love keep forever, we made the big mistakes to confuse love and envy, we want be satisfy but forget love is always satisfy us anyway, who are looking for satisfaction in way want satisfy is ego not the love, love have many tastes but cannot be catch by hands, love is powerful beyond measure but not able to grab by anything, love have no body and form is love yeah love made no sins because there's no mistakes, love is real when we make it real love isn't a money we exchange for good behaviour who think that have never know what is real love, yeah love is faith even in deep hell burning love will be always there"

I'm no one to saying that kind of things but I know one thing that real love isn't what we think and is always on your side !!!!

Addiction to samsara

Lama Jigme Rinpoche have told recently if you want become buddha in one life you have to renounce everything and if enlightenment is not the principal goal in your life you can have a family and progress life after life if you practice the virtue .


Lama Milarepa say : you have to be disgust by the samsara to really want realise enlightenment and go for it.


Chatral Rinpoche say in the compassion in action we have to have the lifestyle for that and renounce of the samsara to carry on real dharma practice.


So we all looking for fun, relationship and money everyday east or west are the same in modern world we live in pure addiction of samsara, we live in comfort or struggle to get comfort and we thinking to only that.


Tsem Tulku Rinpoche say : the samsara promise a lot but give nothing


We think everything we have see enjoy will make us better but each time we get more angry when something don't go the way we expect and that build an heavy karma to us as we are not practising the way in pure renunciation that even more hard to put our mind in daily meditation, the Buddha say the mistakes is think you time, and time is running really fast and if we not practising or path everyday we losing our time in samsara at the end they're nothing more harmful than that.


Because in our quest of comfort we hurt beings around us, sometimes we make suffer relatives and don't feel any guilt to fix it, we hurt animals and many more and no we are not karma free, karma never stop and as you can see if we really meditate on cause and effect mistakes we make we get us by one way or another except if we purify and go forward in path even take refuge everyday is really powerful and we should remind our self for what was the reason we took refuge in the first place.


We wonder why we suffer so much but as say Shandideva all the suffering in the world come from wanted happiness for oneself and all happiness in the world come from wanting happiness from others, we should remind ourself everyday and when anger come cut it and act with kindness, when the pride and ego is here cut it and act with renunciation, when hatred come we should remind ourself all beings have buddha nature and we should love them not love some kind and reject others that pure duality and that not the path of the buddha.

The light of the guru in the darkness of samsara

In this time when only 6 % of buddhist practice really the pure way relate on past master like Lama Milarepa is become even more important than anything else .

We are everyday making choice or not making choice what's a choice on itself to float in pure samsara, distraction of all kind everywhere for those who have sense of ethic and pure faith and devotion in the way to liberate him/her self and others from the watching machine of the samsara is like fighting a MMA fighter with no skill to survive the fight.

In that we have to relate on our precious past present masters to help us to come true all our disturbance make us useless to help others, we live in pure ego trip society and we have to remind ourself this is not real in the way we think, this will disappear so fast in time of death.

We complain about our condition, we complain about politician, we complain about this or that we fall deep in depression because we acting like spoil kids.

Yes the precious lama is always here to remind us, all you got is because of you no one else, you are the master of your fate and there's even more important quest in life than just self sharing.

We take like granted the small pieces we got and forget that will also disappear in time of death as the guru yoga with the lama is the higher tantra ever we should remember Milarepa story and practice the path everyday by all the way we can.

Build up an ego don't take many time but leave it take even more time and let go of bad habit is work of everyday, when we wake up 10 / 20 years later and see “ha my lama is no more here I wasted my time doing this, doing that now what I can do “

I have personal story to share with you one of my friend is student of Trungpa rinpoche and during life he meet him long time and practice with him and also live is life when Trungpa pass away he start to go a bit to much in samsara and one day I was sitting with him in his home and he told me how it was so hard to get back to practice, it was a fight of everyday to do not spend that time busting around internet and see things not useful, yes is closer to 78 years old now and he give me that big advice “practice the dharma no matter what because if you waste your time, time we take over you and you will lost everything and be afraid to die”

Yes in our time when 6 % of buddhist practice really we need to think again and maybe push to next step remind the bodhisattvas vows we took, remind the promises we made to our lama and go for it, time is now, the past is past and we will never live that again, future is not here yet so why spend our time in non meaningful life and practice no virtues at all.

Kandro Rinpoche say if you look everyday how many virtue you really practice isn't much so for that we should be really diligent and don't forget our life is precious.

To finish this post I like to say in this time we look for proof of everything we should remind that movie Start war : Luke: I don't believe it. Yoda: That is why you fail.

Take a leap of faith and carry on look for what is real truth !!!

Human with good qualities

When I first read Shambhala the path of the warrior that have make inside revolution to me, strangely when we look to our modern society media and surrounding are good to reflect bad human qualities but clearly forget one things we all got buddha nature vast and aware.

When we read the both books of Trungpa rinpoche and the Sakyong we are bit chock to see as humanity have quality of basic goodness, sound strange to hear that when since we are kids the Christian view build us in our mind that we are sinner.

Also Shambhala learn us we are brave and we don't look a situation as desperate, we change our mind to open our heart to bodhicitta when the situation is hard.

In our time today when we look to the news or just go to our shop by a book and look that the top reading in our time is the serial killer series we can ask ourself “ Where's the love ? “

Our society have totally drop what make us human and shambhala remind us how we should develop everyday the goodness to others, as Shambhala come from the kalashakra tantra this principal are higher but keep in mind this principal that also remind ourself yes human beings can care for each others, human being can protect environment, yes human being can be good .

The Sakyong have ask those who follow the shambhala way to help to build a enlightenment society but what's enlightenment society, in some way is be aware of sufferance of others and help them to deal with that also help each others to get rib of negativity and the list is long.

Yes we can build a better society, if we build better understanding of ourself .

Love hate ignorance attachment

From the 37 practice of Bodhisattva it's say

[The mind of] attachment to loved ones wavers like water. [The mind of]

hatred of enemies burns like fire. [The mind of] ignorance that forgets what to

adopt and what to discard is greatly obscured. Abandoning one’s fatherland is

the bodhisattvas’ practice.

Garchen Rinpoche explain in our daily life we should not be to attach to loves one for sure we have to take off but we should not be attach to the love one, Rinpoche say also we should avoid hatred for enemy because that hell state of mind and the first feet in hell realms, the both are lead by ignorance what is the main cause of all the suffering in this world.

Garchen rinpoche say also that in all kind of relationship in hard time we should learn to develop the 6 paramitas and not just stay in hatred, knowing that if we look on our daily life as we got all kind of relationship good and bad how do we work ?

The key to cut attachment is unconditional love and lost of expectations sound hard to do but that the only way to find to free ourself from troubles, we have work on that everyday in our life and not delay for x and y reasons we fall again into the samsaric states but like the bodhisattvas practice say we should not stop the examination our mind.

So what's cure for hatred, the cure of hatred is compassion if for x and y reason we will get kill by an enemy we can go under the mountain in deep river but the karma will always follow us so as Garchen rinpoche say if that extreme situation arrive we should not have anger because anger lead us strait a head to the lower realms, in everyday that also mean when someone get angry with you in some way that our karma so let go of our anger and build up the compassion both victim and aggressor have to had compassion .

All our pain come from the deep roots of ignorance and we should be aware of that knowing that and as our precious human life is really important we should lead a meaningful life, because we are delude and think that OK I'm young we try to forget we will are not sure to have another human rebirth so we should work hard and change our view to transform our mind. 

Calm like a bomb

I open the news and see this morning some extremist have attack Bothgaya what is the Meca for buddhism, in Buddhism there's many prophesy like the prophesy of Guru Rinpoche, Padmasambava who talk about the Tibetan spread in the world and the dharma growing up to the west.

But this morning this have made me think of that, since ages buddhism in Tibet in India have suffer but in the west buddhist have also take a new face on protection.

The Drukpa himself have made his nun practice kung fu, another question is also is do the same that extremist do like buddhist extremist in Burma is not playing exactly the same game so also create the same karma .

So in bushido it's say Hatsumi sense say awareness in important in all way, yes walk in peace but never forget that we are in an hostile world we have to work with all of that be at peace the maximum we can but when we are under attack we have also to protect ourself .

All community need peace extremist buddhist are same as Taliban there's no difference they both suffer of the same disease “ Ignorance “ and we all suffer from this disease I send this pray to my Muslim brothers and say to them we need peace and also send this pray to my Buddhist brothers we really need peace .

The price of peace is more important than we destroy each others, in both way that kind of violence when you are in spiritual path whatever is your path is non sense “Tsem Tulku Rinpoche say take a minute look to mother Theresa and all the great saint of history have make good deed all time for sure this people are in paradise, now look to those people who kill in a name of saying that good deed sorry but that pure madness because this people think doing that they will go to paradise but do you imagine this people close of mother Theresa who made her life full of good deed do you think really this people will go to paradise is logic “

Only good deed bring peace .

Relationship, Attachment

If You Love, Love Openly

Twenty monks and one nun, who was named Eshun, were practicing meditation with a certain Zen master.

Eshun was very pretty even though her head was shaved and her dress plain. Several monks secretly fell in love with her. One of them wrote her a love letter, insisting upon a private meeting.

Eshun did not reply. The following day the master gave a lecture to the group, and when it was over, Eshun arose. Addressing the one who had written her, she said: "If you really love me so much, come and embrace me now."

OK this subject is a heavy buddhist subject because we all got different views on that, but I think in that the most important that where's the love in all of that ?

As I say in previous post unconditional love is something will bring the best in the relationship, but in that also sometimes come the attachment and when the grasping coming the unconditional love decrease so how to keep balance ?

We all get attach that normal we are not enlighten and we try to deal with that, everyday but in the teaching what is come out is everything come from our mind everything we expect from the person we love and what heal that expectation, the answers is simple letting go Dzonchar rinpoche say we are two stranger meeting in an hotel we stay for a life together or for couple of time but keep that when we start we were without any expectation so why bring all of this right now !

When the relationship start to have long time we start to build more and more expectation we want our partner to be like this like that without thinking maybe I should release myself from this and be more happy with my partner.

Love is very strong energy can move mountain with love, when you love someone and start to contemplate that unconditional make us even more happy than just love with full attachment that the ultimate release even sex and all go with the relationship became more happy because we start to wake up the Daka and Dakini we are and without attachment we start to have clear vision, what we share with our partner is something pure and is useless to spoil it with expectation .

Buddha advice to Husband and Wife :

In advising women about their role in married life, the Buddha appreciated that the peace and harmony of a home rested largely on a woman. His advice was realistic and practical when he explained a good number of day to day characteristics which a woman should or should not cultivate. On diverse occasions, the Buddha counselled that a wife should:

1. not harbour evil thoughts against her husband;
2. not be cruel, harsh or domineering;
3. not be spendthrift but should be economical and live within her means;
4. guard and save her husbands hard earned earnings and property;
5. always be attentive and chaste in mind and action;
6. be faithful and harbour no thought of any adulterous acts;
7. be refined in speech and polite in action;
8. be kind, industrious and hard-working;
9. be thoughtful and compassionate towards her husband, and her attitude should equate that of a mothers love and concern for the protection of her only son;
10. be modest and respectful;
11. be cool, calm and understanding — serving not only as a wife but also as a friend and advisor when the need arises.

In the days of the Buddha, other religious teachers also spoke on the duties and obligations of a wife towards her husband — stressing particularly on the duty of a wife bearing an off spring for the husband, rendering faithful service and providing conjugal happiness.

Some communities are very particular about having a son in the family. They believe that a son is necessary to perform their funeral rites so that their after life will be a good one. The failure to get a son from the first wife, gives a man the liberty to have another wife in order to get a son. Buddhism does not support this belief.

According to what the Buddha taught about the law of Karma, one is responsible for ones own action and its consequences. Whether a son or a daughter is born is determined not by a father or mother but the karma of the child. And the well being of a father or grandfather does not depend upon the action of the son or grandson. Each is responsible for his own actions. So, it is wrong for men to blame their wives or for a man to feel inadequate when a son is not born. Such Enlightened Teachings help to correct the views of many people and naturally reduce the anxiety of women who are unable to produce sons to perform the "rites of the ancestors."

Although the duties of a wife towards the husband were laid down in the Confucian code of discipline, it did not stress the duties and obligations of the husband towards the wife. In the Sigalovada Sutta, however, the Buddha clearly mentioned the duties of a husband towards the wife and vice versa.

The Buddha, in reply to a householder as to how a husband should minister to his wife declared that the husband should always honour and respect his wife, by being faithful to her, by giving her the requisite authority to manage domestic affairs and by giving her befitting ornaments. This advice, given over twenty five centuries ago, still stands good for today.

Knowing the psychology of the man who tends to consider himself superior, the Buddha made a remarkable change and uplifted the status of a woman by a simple suggestion that a husband should honour and respect his wife. A husband should be faithful to his wife, which means that a husband should fulfil and maintain his marital obligations to his wife thus sustaining the confidence in the marital relationship in every sense of the word. The husband, being a bread winner, would invariably stay away from home, hence he should entrust the domestic or household duties to the wife who should be considered as the keeper and the distributor of the property and the home economic administrator. The provision of befitting ornaments to the wife should be symbolic of the husbands love, care and attention showered on the wife. This symbolic practice has been carried out from time immemorial in Buddhist communities. Unfortunately it is in danger of dying out because of the influence of modern civilization.

On that the buddha was quite clear on we have to respect each other and when expect to much we became a pure time bomb for our relationship for this reason we have to work on everyday on unconditional love and get rib of attachment and expectation.