Altruism
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Re: Altruism
So simple to benefit others
So why doesn't everybody do it?
Ice blocks melt
Surely Samsara is coming to an end
So why doesn't everybody do it?
Ice blocks melt
Surely Samsara is coming to an end
Re: Altruism
I tried to tell you before, without wisdom there is no end to samsara. Good actions without wisdom will be the cause for birth in the three higher realms but not a cause for liberation from samsara.Konchog Thogme Jampa wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 6:43 pm So simple to benefit others
So why doesn't everybody do it?
Ice blocks melt
Surely Samsara is coming to an end
"We are all here to help each other go through this thing, whatever it is."
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
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I knowheart wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 6:46 pmI tried to tell you before, without wisdom there is no end to samsara. Good actions without wisdom will be the cause for birth in the three higher realms but not a cause for liberation from samsara.Konchog Thogme Jampa wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 6:43 pm So simple to benefit others
So why doesn't everybody do it?
Ice blocks melt
Surely Samsara is coming to an end
Thank you
My sole practice isn't just altruism I'm just emphasising it with one practice I do
Anyway to practice Altruism/Bodhicitta requires Wisdom to know it is the right thing to do
Also Absolute Bodhicittta
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Khunu Lama52 If one has bodhicitta as one’s motivation, whatever one does also becomes a great vastness of good. From the medicinal root that cures diseases, the medicinal shoots are born.
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Khunu Lama54 Even an ordinary person gets called “bodhisattva” when bodhicitta is produced, and becomes an object of homage and devotion for gods and humans.
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Aye. A very uncommon one.Konchog Thogme Jampa wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 7:08 pmKhunu Lama54 Even an ordinary person gets called “bodhisattva” when bodhicitta is produced, and becomes an object of homage and devotion for gods and humans.
true dharma is inexpressible.
The bodhisattva nourishes from bodhicitta, through whatever method the Buddha has given him. Oh joy.
The bodhisattva nourishes from bodhicitta, through whatever method the Buddha has given him. Oh joy.
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Khunu Lama56 If one does not have bodhicitta, one will not obtain non-abiding nirvāṇa; if one does not obtain non-abiding nirvāṇa, one will be impeded by the two chains
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"...right on the beginning... you must make up your mind... doesn't matter -this development- may take millions, of billions, of billions of eons. it doesn't matter. after all, what's the purpose of our life, the meaning of existence...
...as long as suffering remains, i will remain."
HHDL.
it really doesn't matter, time doesn't matter, quantity doesn't matter, arguments doesn't matter... if this is what your really want to do, you do it.
...as long as suffering remains, i will remain."
HHDL.
it really doesn't matter, time doesn't matter, quantity doesn't matter, arguments doesn't matter... if this is what your really want to do, you do it.
true dharma is inexpressible.
The bodhisattva nourishes from bodhicitta, through whatever method the Buddha has given him. Oh joy.
The bodhisattva nourishes from bodhicitta, through whatever method the Buddha has given him. Oh joy.
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Khunu Lama59 Bodhicitta gets rid of malice. Through bodhicitta one obtains concentration. Bodhicitta produces wisdom. Things go well if you hold on to supreme bodhicitta.
Re: Altruism
The root of the bodhimind is great compassion
Great compassion is the essence of wisdom, which has grown out of great equanimity
~Gelek RinpocheIn Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland80 it says that intelligent bodhisattvas understand emptiness before they grow the bodhimind. They would not be bodhisattvas at that time, even though they have the understanding of emptiness before the bodhimind, while normally the bodhimind comes first. Right?
Normally after developing bodhimind you enter the path of accumulation, then the path of action and on the third path, the path of seeing, you will probably see emptiness face to face. That’s why they call it the path of seeing. Intelligent disciples do pick up emptiness before, but that emptiness is not an emptiness which is influenced by compassion.
Life is like a game, either you win or lose!
Life is like a fight, either you live or die!
Life is like a show, either you laugh or cry!
Life is like a dream, either you know or not!!!
Life is like a fight, either you live or die!
Life is like a show, either you laugh or cry!
Life is like a dream, either you know or not!!!
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Khunu Lama68 Though they try, skilled poets cannot find an example for bodhicitta. It seems that bodhicitta defies description even when a simile is employed.
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Love and compassion brings forth strength and the capability of protecting others and oneself, thus cowardice then never again is there among the noble son choices.
true dharma is inexpressible.
The bodhisattva nourishes from bodhicitta, through whatever method the Buddha has given him. Oh joy.
The bodhisattva nourishes from bodhicitta, through whatever method the Buddha has given him. Oh joy.
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I was taught Bodhicitta years ago by a great master
But had obstacles
Now it's easier
Who doesn't want to heal
Or stave off the lower realms
???
But had obstacles
Now it's easier
Who doesn't want to heal
Or stave off the lower realms
???
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Khunu Lama66 The sun high up in the sky is the eye for every wandering being down below. Bodhicitta on high shows lowly wandering beings what is to be done and what is to be avoided.
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Bam!!Kai lord wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:43 am~Gelek RinpocheIn Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland80 it says that intelligent bodhisattvas understand emptiness before they grow the bodhimind. They would not be bodhisattvas at that time, even though they have the understanding of emptiness before the bodhimind, while normally the bodhimind comes first. Right?
Normally after developing bodhimind you enter the path of accumulation, then the path of action and on the third path, the path of seeing, you will probably see emptiness face to face. That’s why they call it the path of seeing. Intelligent disciples do pick up emptiness before, but that emptiness is not an emptiness which is influenced by compassion.
true dharma is inexpressible.
The bodhisattva nourishes from bodhicitta, through whatever method the Buddha has given him. Oh joy.
The bodhisattva nourishes from bodhicitta, through whatever method the Buddha has given him. Oh joy.
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64 With bodhicitta, one does not do things for gain, devotion, or praise; and even if one gets [those things], like gold one does not change.
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Entertain in good actions, meditate on them, perform them, otherwise look! you'll degenerate into apathy, indifference, pseudo-contemplation, so and so forth. Even if you consider you have the highest view, do not underestimate the teachings of the doctrines.
true dharma is inexpressible.
The bodhisattva nourishes from bodhicitta, through whatever method the Buddha has given him. Oh joy.
The bodhisattva nourishes from bodhicitta, through whatever method the Buddha has given him. Oh joy.
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Source of happiness, infallible source of happiness, minds turns cristal clear when bodhicitta principle is grasped. The mere good intentions wipes out mind afflictions, and there, in the holes and ditches of life, while in miserable condition, bodhicitta can take you out to safety
true dharma is inexpressible.
The bodhisattva nourishes from bodhicitta, through whatever method the Buddha has given him. Oh joy.
The bodhisattva nourishes from bodhicitta, through whatever method the Buddha has given him. Oh joy.
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Khunu Lama71 Although antidotes such as ugliness and so on do not utterly eradicate attachment and so on, supreme bodhicitta, the antidote for all of them, is victorious over all that is to be abandoned.
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Khunu Lama74 The elixir called the philosopher’s stone turns the element iron into gold. Bodhicitta turns this unclean body into the body of a buddha.