'When the rain comes in the way of another, to seek real help is to first enjoy the rain. whilst this is the real scenery,just as it is..The fact one has already dismissed the cold drops that run on …

I was drawn into Buddhism primarily from science - I saw the many scientific findings and Buddhist teachings parallel. I was never satisfied with the Christian reliance on faith alone. I understand…

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Here are three examples of real life situations. I’m sure many of you are familiar with at least two of them.

Popular teachers such as pema chodron use the language, thoughts are not real. The reason is that there are other views of emptiness than the shravaka view. The meaning is that thoughts are shifty …

what i've been realizing more and more is that i am happy when i am least self cherishing.

I would say that suffering is caused when sankhara is seen as real. It is caused by ignorance. When the sankhara is seen as real we grasp at them and cannot get anything for it. Its like you are t…

its hard to know what is meant by real and not real.. If somebody is psychologically a demon does that mean they are not real because they cannot fly and breath fire (Image)

My teachers in real life and some lama's on the internet suggest that we should aim for the big goal always whether we can achieve it or not! So my goal is enlightenment in this body, in this life ti…

@ tmottes "That was a great excerpt, thanks for sharing. Does this imply that each "object" being perceived is a different projection than what another perceiver would perceive? If you…