Warning from Sogyal Rinpoche

I have come to realize that the disastrous effects of the denial of death go far beyond individual they affect the whole planet believing fundamentally that this life is only one modern people have developed no long-term vision so there is nothing to restrain them from plundering the planet for their own immediate ends and from living in a selfish way that can prove fatal for the future. How many more warnings do we need like this one from the former Brazilian minister for the environment responsible for the Amazon rainforest

Modern industrial society is a fanatical religion we are demolishing poisoning destroying all life systems on the planet. We are signing IOUs are children will not be able to pay… We are acting as if we were the last generation on the planet. Without a radical change in heart, in mind, InVision, the earth will end up like Venus, charred and dead.

Guru

You need to feel free to leave at anytime.

A guru cannot hold you against your will. at least not a true one.

Death and Dying

The Ego

The ego is necessary no matter what. If you want to be a monk or a doctor you need an ego. Where does the desire come from to feed your hunger if not from your ego? Who says one is better than the other?

So maybe meditation is learning to work with the ego rather than trying to diminish it. And maybe self reflection is the process of watching the ego to see that it plays nicely with other egos.

Not Enlightened Yet???

The meditation bell just sounded. I feel ... better ... ? maybe ...
But I don't feel enlightened. Permanently wise. Infinitely calm. Blissfully relaxed. And all that jumbo. I don't even know what it means really - enlightenment. But I sit and try to meditate daily. But fir what? I often feel sadness that I don't seem to be enlightened - even though I don't know what it is. But then, almost as often as I feel sadness, I feel deeply relaxed, calm, content, and maybe even wise at the end of the fifteen or twenty minutes meditation. Why do I have to keep doing it over and over? Why can't it just stick? I guess it's just like cleaning, sleeping, exercising, working, friending, loving, explaining, thinking, speaking... We have to repeat the process over and over. That's the life we have chosen.

Jinpa L~

Sitting in the Great Beyond