In one context, when we look at our body, our body is just a bunch of filth. It is a factory producing filth because everything that comes out of our body we will always want to cleanse away. Even the inside of our body looks rather disgusting. It is only the skin... read more
The innate sense of self is that very raw feeling of “I”, not just the conventional self, but the innate self-grasping of an independent “I”. The acquired self-grasping, a person’s basis, refers to all the identities we build about ourselves on that basis. For... read more
We want peace in our environment, with the people we work with, the place we live, and the community we live in. Our responsibility for that is to take care of our ethical behaviour. That is kind of the bottom line. Of course, to do that, one must take care of one’s... read more
When you are doing the thought training practice sincerely, you pray to have problems, and you pray to have difficulties because all those situations act as fuel to increase your bodhicitta. This is so because when we have problems, we look at them and see that they... read more
