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The Blue Pancake
Maha ati teachings talk of enormous space. In this case, it is not space as opposed to a boundary, but a sense of total openness. Such openness can never be questioned.
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The Kingdom, The Cocoon, The Great Eastern Sun
The Shambhala training is based on developing gentleness and genuineness so that we can help ourselves and develop tenderness in our hearts. We no longer wrap ourselves in the sleeping bag of our cocoon. We feel responsible for ourselves, and we feel good taking responsibility. We also feel grateful that, as human beings, we can actually work for others. It is about time that we did something to help the world. It is the right time, the right moment, for this training to be introduced.
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Selected Poems II
Naropa Institute, 1974
Supplication to the Emperor - For His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa
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Art of Simplicity—Discovering Elegance
Dharma art is the principal way we are trying to create enlightened society, which is a society where there is no aggression, and where people could discover their innate basic goodness and enlightened existence, whether it is in a domestic or political or social situation.
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Helping Others
The purpose of Shambhala Training is to help others, to save others, and to cure others' pain. That is the key point.
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Nowness
We need to find the link between our traditions and our present experience of life. Nowness, or the magic of the present moment, is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present.
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Perception and the Appreciation of Reality
Generally speaking, we believe that everyone who possesses the appreciation of sight, smell, sound, feelings, is capable of communicating with the rest of the world. In Buddhism we talk about the sense perceptions, the sense organs, and the sense objects, which actually work together.
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The Five Buddha Families
The tantric discipline of relating to life is based on what are known as the five buddha principles, or the five buddha families.
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Meditation: The Only Way
The topic we will be dealing with in this seminar is mindfulness and awareness, which is the basic heart of the Buddhist approach. According to the Buddha, no one can attain basic sanity and basic enlightenment without practicing meditation.
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Selected Poems III
Victory Chatter
The Alden (and Thomas Frederick)
For the Vajra Regent Osel Tendzin
Afterthought
Memorial in Verse
Trooping the Color
To My Son
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Dathün Letter
The attitude towards breathing in meditation is that once you are set properly in your posture, there is breath coming out of you. The shamatha approach to relating with that is: breath is coming out, become the breathing. Try to identify completely rather than watching it. It's just: you are the breath; the breath is you. Breath is coming out of your nostrils, going out and dissolving into the atmosphere, into the space. You put a certain energy and effort towards that.
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Artists & Unemployed Samurai
What a work of art is all about is a sense of delight. Touch here, touch there, delight. It is an appreciation of things as they are and of what one is—which produces an enormous spark.
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Art in Everyday Life
The art that we are talking about in this case, in terms of meditative experience, is, one might call it, a genuine art. Art that is not designed for exhibition or broadcast; art that is perpetual, a perpetually growing process. We begin to appreciate our surroundings in life, whatever it may be—it doesn't have to be good and beautiful and pleasurable, necessarily at all.
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Crazy Wisdom
The vajrayana approach to reality demands complete sanity. It demands not being afraid of sanity, it demands highways and highways and highways of it, skies and skies and skies of it, fold after fold of it. The vajrayana demands not being afraid of that.
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The Mother Principle
It seems that this fundamental mother principle, feminine principle, if you could call it that, or it if you like— it has become feminine principle, and it has become mother because it became expressive. It could manifest itself into various attributes: it became angry, seductive, yielding, unaccepting, shy, and beautiful. It became feminine principle, and then it became mother principle. And it made love to its own expressions. Therefore it produced a buddha—as well as samsara, of course, and all the rest of it.
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Natural Hierarchy
We need to understand the meaning of hierarchy in relation to this principle of leadership. Hierarchy, popularly speaking, is regarded as a negative principle. Often it is connected with dictatorship. But in our case, as a Shambhala principle, hierarchy is regarded as a working base, a very positive one. Hierarchy is similar to the four seasons: spring gives birth to summer, summer gives birth to autumn, autumn gives birth to winter, and winter gives birth to spring. For that matter, hierarchy is also a very natural process of how to create our world.
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Ground Madhyamaka One
I think that one of the ideas of Nagarjuna and the idea of shunyata is to realize that there is nothing we can hang onto which is actually a common idea. Everybody believes blue is blue, yellow is yellow, and red is red, but nobody really knows because we never have any way of talking with each other. We always talk in terms of our own conceptual language. And we could actually tune ourselves into that make-believe.
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Identifying With The Teachings
Identification with the teachings also means developing a sense of friendship with the doctrine. The teachings are regarded as a friendly message rather than reading a menu. When you read a menu, you develop a business-like mentality. How much does it cost? Which is the most delicious food to order? You are rejecting one dish and ordering another dish. With a sense of friendliness towards the doctrine, or the dharma, you cannot pick and choose. It is a complete process.
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