USE THE TIME IN YOUR LIFE
By Dza Patrul Rinpoche
Use the time of your life.
Develop your inner happiness.
Recognize the impermanence of all outer pleasure.
Live as a Yogi.
Do your spiritual practices.
Work as a Bodhisattva for a happy world.
Become an Amitabha, a Buddha of love and light.
Turn your world into the paradise Sukhavati, by unfolding the enlightenment energy within you.
Search for a spiritual master, who knows the goal of enlightenment.
Change your world into a place of grace, by understanding all the phenomena as spiritual exercises.
Dedicate your actions to the benefit of all beings.
Send all beings light.
Live for the happiness of all beings.
So you get the energy of the clear
light.
~ Dza Patrul Rinpoche
The Difference Between Compassion and Bodhicitta
Bodhichitta is peace. Sometimes I feel people misunderstand, or do not understand clearly, the difference between basic compassion and Bodhichitta.
If you are able to spend a few hours doing something for somebody you don't even know people might call you a Bodhisattva. They may say, "Oh, he or she is so kind, they are a Bodhisattva." This is not necessarily so. A kind person is not necessarily a Bodhisattva. Being kind is very good, being a compassionate person is very good, but it does not necessarily make us a Bodhisattva.
A Bodhisattva has to be kind and compassionate for a reason.
A Bodhisattva is kind and compassionate in that they are working to establish all beings as Buddhas. In this way Bodhichitta is very specific.
Guru Vajradhara Chamgon Kentin Tai Situ Rinpoche
WHAT MAKES A BODHISATTVA?
DRUPON KHEN RINPOCHE
Many people think that one becomes a bodhisattva by helping others, but that is not necessarily the case. Giving a little help here and there is too simple; the act of helping alone is not enough to make a person a bodhisattva.
The main thing that makes one a bodhisattva is being willing to endure hardship and suffering oneself in the act of helping others - however great the suffering may be, they take it on fearlessly and with no regrets. So it is only when one is thinking something along the lines of, 'As long as it will be helpful for another, I am willing to forsake myself. I will forebear whatever suffering helping might entail, one has the attitude of a bodhisattva and is practicing the Greater Vehicle (Mahayana) dharma.
If we look at the stories of the Buddha, we see that in many lives when he was a bodhisattva, he gave up his life for sentient beings. In one life, the Buddha gave his body to a tigress. It is not because he helped the tigress that he was considered a bodhisattva, it is the fact that he sacrificed his own life in order to do so.
We do help others in various ways, but usually with our own welfare in mind. Basically we don't give of ourselves fully, we are not able to put ourselves aside in the help that we give to others.
For it to be bodhichitta, we have to be able to give ourselves up, forsake ourselves, even if it is dangerous and there will be difficult consequences that are hard to face.
A bodhisattva has the view that, 'Whatever happens to me is irrelevant; it makes no difference! They forsake themselves, and that's the foundation through which they help others.
We should not be thinking that in order to be a bodhisattva, we have to sacrifice our life. Whether we give up our life or not is not the point. It's whether we are willing and able to do that. A bodhisattva would not necessarily lose their life - they might, they might not. But whatever the case, they are not afraid of suffering and are able to forsake themselves. That's what makes one a bodhisattva and it's the bodhisattva mindset that causes one to become a buddha.
~ Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu
THOUGHTS ARE NOTHING BUT THE NATURE OF REALITY
On a bright ocean, bubbles emerge then dissolve back into the water.
Likewise, thoughts are nothing but the Nature of Reality:
Don't regard them as faults - Relax.
When you have no clinging to what appears and what arises, It frees itself within its own ground.
Appearances, sound, and phenomena
- are your own Mind.
There are no phenomena apart from Mind.
Mind is free
- from birth, - cessation and formulation.
Those who know Mind's Nature Enjoy the five senses' pleasures
But do not stray from the Nature of Reality.
On an island of gold,
You search in vain for earth and stones.
In the equanimity
of the great absolute expanse,
There is no acceptance or rejection,
No states of meditation or post-meditation.
When you actualize that state, It is spontaneously present,
Fulfilling beings' hopes Like a wish-fulfilling jewel.
~ Niguma
The Divine Feminine: The Essence of All
In our tradition, we accept that all things come from this beautiful place of sacred vacancy - the pure potential of awareness, symbolically immortalized in Tantric texts as the Mother's womb - the birthplace of unlimited possibility.
Just like a Mother giving birth - all appearances are expressions of the never-ending luminous and creative display of mind.
In Sanskrit, the term is "gotra," it means the essential nature or seed from which all appearances of the world derive. The womb gives rise to all form, and this form is derived from an empty space - seeded with love and compassion (Sanskrit: bodhicitta).
Hence, the ultimate nature of all appearances in this world are the beautiful reflections of love and limitless potential which are represented as male and female energy (Sanskrit: Shiva and Shakti). When these two forces are brought together and realized in ecstatic non-dual union this is referred to as awakening and at its highest level - enlightenment.
Consequently, in Tantra nothing but the highest respect is given for the energetic potential of the divine feminine and the softness of compassion.
Happiness and Suffering by Mipham Rinpoche
Happiness and suffering are equal by their very nature;
Dharma and non-Dharma are empty of essential identity.
As long as the movement of thoughts is not activated,
Everything is just like space, beyond benefit and harm.
Our Sacred Blood
At menstruation exists the possibility for the alchemical Wedding, a woman meets her red King, who psychologically is her inner husband or Animus raising at her period.
If a Woman is able to use the energy of her period for healing and vision the Animus is honoured and marriage occurs with her womanly Animus nature.
Menstrual Blood was former used as sacrificial blood on earliest altars, when her psychic abilities were the greatest for rituals of healing magic and prophecy. Patriarchy then claimed it was dirty and started using animal blood instead in religious sacrifices.
Alchemical substances like semen and menstruation blood can create illumination in sacred Lovemaking, red and white elixirs are mixing liquids called BODHICHITTA.
The word Sabhat originally meant day of rest, when the goddess was menstruating. There was held a celebration of Shabat, when all Women went into a tent to bleed together, this was the beginning of rituals.
When patriarchy took over in many cultures Women were suddenly not allowed to leave the house, cook, called impure, unclean, where regarded as a thread to the men and their gods. A host of taboos was established to deprive a woman from her fierce, assertive, autoerotic sexual nature because the power of the evolutionary female blood was seen as a thread to male domination.
Patriarchal culture has succeeded in obliterating women's memories of the magic of their moon times. Women now feel ashamed, resentful and depressed with the pain and humiliation of their blood, originally known as the source of all life.
Advertising shows Women clothed all in white, totally denying the red energy and instead evoking the safe, pure, ideal of the white virgin. Deodorants cover up smell of iron, tampons cover up the sight of blood as nobody should notice the Woman is bleeding and leads to our denial of the natural body functions. Sexually rejected at this time, her selfacceptance and underlying denial and rejection of menstruation leads to pms and pain. The supressed rage over the rejection and debasement becomes redirected inwards.
If a Woman does not know how to honor and creatively channel her menstrual energy, the rejected shadow side of her nature takes over, protesting as a raging force.
PMS is the outcome of that our society does not provide any rituals for menstruation anymore, in a society where women's menstruation has no positive value or meaning.
The instinctual pull of the dark moon for Women to retreat is denied by modern society.
We can pay attention to identifying our habitual negative attitude towards menstruation and start to honor our monthly cycle again, create rituals around it and stop hiding it- We can feel gratitude for it as men and as women as we return to unstanding it's meaning.
~ Text TaoTantric Seed,
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