There was once a tadpole that hatched in the bottom of an old well. His name was Doubt, and all he knew was the well and the circle of sky overhead. When Doubt was old enough, he changed from a tadpole into a frog. Even though he was now able to hop out of the
How to develop a happy heart You build up stress and get “psycho” because of a bad habit: you don’t balance your stress every day. It’s like a snowball rolling down a hill. In the beginning, it’s small and you can stop it. As it rolls, it becomes bigger; eventually, it is big enough to
https://soundcloud.com/tim-fairweather-1/3-types-of-bodhisattva-kindness This book from Pure Name Buddha teaches thirty different types of kindness without ego. Another book teaches a thousand, and they are just examples. If you want to make your kindness power a hundred per cent pure, you can spend your whole life learning about kindness. We won’t try to learn thirty types
Energy is not energy. Energy is what we call energy. Energy is a mystery. It’s a mystery that we can aware of. Energy exists but truly is empty. Energy is the creative force, but is without observable reality. Your idea of energy is wrong. Light is not bright; light is dark: it reflects off things.
No Beginning, No End Great Sun Buddha – Vairocana Full spiritual name for bowing: No Beginning, No End Great Sun Buddha Sanskrit Name: Vairocana. See wikipedia here. Mantra: Lyrics: Om Namo Bhagavate Sarvate Gate, Varsuddhani Rajaya, Ta Tha Ga Ta Ya Arahate Sam Yak Sam Buddhaya, Ta Dya Tha Om Sodhani Sodhani
What helps you most? Which do you feel the most? (Everyone shares their favourite philosophy.) Arse-kicking: people don’t do it to themselves enough. Not making negative comments is one example I can work on. Hold nothing, in relation to the first Eternal Dharma Truth that all the appearing form is constantly changing. When I’m experiencing
The Five Developments are a sequence of ideas that describe how you create your experiences or awareness boundary. (Your awareness boundary is the limitation of your consciousness, e.g. how far you can see, the level of your education, or your emotional maturity.) The ideas consist of two different concepts: Illusion Being and consciousness. Illusion Being
Worry is a strong feeling of concern that you might experience about a temporary situation in the present or future. Because you are focused on your worry, you blind yourself to many of the variables involved in that situation. Eventually, your worry will cause depression, obsession, and anxiety. Although worry is a psychological phenomenon, it
Emotions are feelings: negative emotions like sadness and fear cause suffering; positive emotions like happiness and gratitude cause joy. They appear when you are aware of yourself in relation to your surroundings. They change according to changes in that relationship and your intention. Everyone has their own way of using emotions as a tool for
Desire is the power of wanting. The power itself is neither good nor bad. It can be the cause of unlimited joy, but also the cause of a black hole of suffering. Blindly following your desire will cause your life to swing between joy and depression, pleasure and pain, without any control. Desire is a
Let’s first compare martial art training to driving a racing car, before explaining the top secrets of self-defence. A well-trained martial art body (strong bone density, well-developed muscles, and flexibility) is the high-tech design of a racing car’s shape. The force of martial art (energy and speed) is the engine. The fighting technique (ability to
Many people believe that consciousness (thinking power is called brain consciousness) is uniquely human. The French philosopher René Descartes proposed the philosophy of “I think, therefore I am”, but if that is the case then you don’t exist because when you were a baby, you couldn’t think. So that idea is wrong. Animals also don’t
When I was young, just a teenager, I read many things from philosophy; many of these books I read were just ideas and beautiful words for me. They didn’t go into my head or heart. They sounded just too far away from normal life; it was like reading a fantasy book: they have nothing to
This is currently the main Chinese philosophy and religion. It has existed for about 5,000 years. Originally, the principle of Taoism was a pure philosophy of helping people to understand the unlimited strength of life, but ordinary Chinese people were not able to understand it in the right way, so they made a religion of
