Monday, January 28, 2008

Insight from the Dalai Lama

Things have been crazy and I've forgotten to update these the last couple of days so I'm catching up now:

With the human population increasing and the gap between rich and poor increasing, the situation of the desperate will increase and there's every danger of more violence.

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In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes times.

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Broadly speaking, our experiences fall into two categories. One type of experience is more connected with our bodies, and occurs mainly through our sense organs, while the other type is more related to what can be called "the mental consciousness" or "the mind".

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Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity.

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State of my sink: Shiny!

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