September 1
When people begin to meditate, they often say that their thoughts are running riot and have become wilder than ever before. But I reassure them and say that this is a good sign. Far from meaning that your thoughts have become wilder, it shows that you have become quieter and are finally aware of just how noisy your thoughts have always been. Don’t be disheartened or give up. Whatever arises, just keep being present, keep returning to the breath, even in the midst of all the confusion.
September 2
In a cloudless night sky, the full moon,
“The Lord of Stars,” is about to rise . . .
The face of my compassionate lord, Padmasambhava,
Draws me on, radiating its tender welcome.
My delight in death is far, far greater than
The delight of traders at making vast fortunes at sea,
Or the lords of the gods who vaunt their victory in battle;
Or of those sages who have entered the rapture of perfect absorption.
So just as a traveler who sets out on the road when the time has come to go,
I will not remain in this world any longer,
But will go to dwell in the stronghold of the great bliss of deathlessness.
THE LAST TESTAMENT OF LONGCHENPA
September 3
There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master. He is the guide that will help you to cross the ocean of samsara.
The sun and the moon are reflected in clear, still water instantly. Similarly, the blessings of all the buddhas are always present for those who have complete confidence in them. The sun’s rays fall everywhere uniformly, but only where they are focused through a magnifying glass can they set dry grass on fire. When the all-pervading rays of the Buddha’s compassion are focused through the magnifying glass of your faith and devotion, the flame of blessings blazes up in your being.
DILGO KHYENTSE RINPOC
________________________________________
September 4
Dudjom Rinpoche used to tell the story of a powerful bandit in India, who, after countless successful raids, realized the terrible suffering he had been causing. He yearned for some way of atoning for what he had done, and visited a famous master. He asked him: “I am a sinner, I am in torment. What’s the way out? What can I do?”
The master looked the bandit up and down and then asked him what he was good at.
“Nothing,” replied the bandit.
“Nothing?” barked the master. “You must be good at something!”
The bandit was silent for a while, and eventually admitted: “Actually there is one thing I have a talent for, and that’s stealing.”
The master chuckled: “Good! That’s exactly the skill you’ll need now. Go to a quiet place and rob all your perceptions, and steal all the stars and planets in the sky, and dissolve them into the belly of emptiness, the all-encompassing space of the nature of mind.”
Within twenty-one days, the bandit had realized the nature of his mind, and eventually came to be regarded as one of the great saints of India.
________________________________________
September 5
When someone is suffering and you find yourself at a loss to know how to help, put yourself unflinchingly in his or her place. Imagine as vividly as possible what you would be going through if you were suffering the same pain. Ask yourself: “How would I feel? How would I want my friends to treat me? What would I most want from them?”
When you exchange yourself for others in this way, you are directly transferring your cherishing from its usual object, yourself, to other beings. So exchanging yourself for others is a very powerful way of loosening the hold on you of the self-cherishing and the self-grasping of ego, and so of releasing the heart of your compassion.
________________________________________
September 6
Whatever meditation method you use, drop it, or simply let it dissolve on its own, when you find that you have arrived naturally at a state of alert, expansive, and vibrant peace. Then remain there quietly, undistracted, without necessarily using any particular method. The method has already achieved its purpose. However, if you do stray or become distracted, then return to whatever technique is most appropriate to call you back.
________________________________________
September 7
We often wonder: “How will I be when I die?” The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever kind of person we are now, that’s what we will be like at the moment of death, if we do not change. This is why it is so absolutely important to use this lifetime to purify our mindstream, and so our basic being and character, while we can.
________________________________________
September 8
Enlightenment is real; and each of us, whoever we are, can in the right circumstances and with the right training realize the nature of mind and so know in us what is deathless and eternally pure. This is the promise of all the great mystical traditions of the world, and it has been fulfilled and is being fulfilled in countless thousands of human lives.
The wonder of this promise is that it is something not exotic, not fantastic, not for an elite, but for all of humanity; and when we realize it, the masters tell us, it is unexpectedly ordinary.
Spiritual truth is not something elaborate and esoteric, it is in fact profound common sense. When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don’t actually “become” a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.
________________________________________
September 9
Using the mantra, offer your heart and soul in fervent and one-pointed devotion, and merge and mix and blend your mind with that of Padmasambhava or your master.
Gradually you will feel yourself coming closer to Padmasambhava, and closing the gap between you and his wisdom mind. Slowly, through the blessing and power of this practice, you will find you actually experience your mind being transformed into the wisdom mind of Padmasambhava and the master: You begin to recognize their indivisibility. Just as if you put your finger into water it will get wet, and if you put it into fire it will burn, so if you invest your mind in the wisdom mind of the buddhas it will transform into their wisdom nature.
What happens is that gradually your mind begins to find itself in the state of Rigpa, as the innermost nature of mind is nothing other than the wisdom mind of all the buddhas. It is as if your ordinary mind gradually dies and dissolves, and your pure awareness, your buddha nature, your inner teacher, is revealed. This is the true meaning of “blessing”–a transformation in which your mind transcends into the state of the absolute.
September 10
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever. We know, in Milarepa’s words: “This thing called ‘corpse’ we dread so much is living with us here and now.”
September 11
The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the skylike nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness that underlies the whole of life and death.
In the stillness and silence of meditation, we glimpse and return to that deep inner nature that we so long ago lost sight of amid the busyness and distraction of our minds.
September 12
Often it is only when people suddenly feel they are losing their partner that they realize how much they love them. Then they cling on even tighter. But the more they grasp, the more the other person escapes them, and the more fragile the relationship becomes.
So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. We ask ourselves: “How can we possibly enjoy anything if we cannot own it?” How often attachment is mistaken for love!
Even when the relationship is a good one, love can be spoiled by attachment with its insecurity, possessiveness, and pride; and then when love is gone, all you have left to show for it are the “souvenirs” of love, the scars of attachment.
September 13
In Tibet we say: “Negative action has one good quality: it can be purified.” So there is always hope. Even murderers and the most hardened criminals can change and overcome the conditioning that led them to their crimes. Our present condition, if we use it skillfully and with wisdom, can be an inspiration to free ourselves from the bondage of suffering.
September 14
When you have explored the great mystical traditions, choose one master and follow him or her. It’s one thing to set out on the spiritual journey; it’s quite another to find the patience and endurance, the wisdom, courage, and humility to follow it to the end. You may have the karma to find a teacher, but you must then create the karma to follow your teacher. For very few of us know how truly to follow a master, which is an art in itself. So however great the teaching or master may be, what is essential is that you find in yourself the insight and skill to learn how to love and follow the master and the teaching.
September 15
What the world needs more than anything is bodhisattvas, active servants of peace, “clothed,” as Longchenpa said, “in the armor of perseverance,” dedicated to their bodhisattva vision and to the spreading of wisdom into all reaches of our experience. We need bodhisattva lawyers, bodhisattva artists and politicians, bodhisattva doctors and economists, bodhisattva teachers and scientists, bodhisattva technicians and engineers, bodhisattvas everywhere, working consciously as channels of compassion and wisdom at every level and in every situation of society; working to transform their minds and actions and those of others, working tirelessly in the certain knowledge of the support of the buddhas and enlightened beings for the preservation of our world and for a more merciful future.
September 16
If your mind is able to settle naturally of its own accord, and if you find you are inspired simply to rest in its pure awareness, then you do not need any method of meditation. However, the vast majority of us find it difficult to arrive at that state straight away. We simply do not know how to awaken it, and our minds are so wild and so distracted that we need a skillful means or method to evoke it.
By “skillful” I mean that you bring together your understanding of the essential nature of your mind, your knowledge of your various, shifting moods, and the insight you have developed through your practice into how to work with yourself, from moment to moment. By bringing these together, you learn the art of applying whatever method is appropriate to any particular situation or problem, to transform that environment of your mind.
September 17
The King Milinda once asked the Buddhist sage Nagasena: “When someone is reborn, is he the same as the one who just died, or is he different?”
Nagasena replied: “He is neither the same nor different. . . . Tell me, if a man were to light a lamp, could it provide light the whole night long?”
“Yes.”
“Is the flame then which burns in the first watch of the night the same as the one that burns in the second . . . or the last?”
“No.”
“Does that mean there is one lamp in the first watch of the night, another in the second, and another in the third?”
"No, it’s because of that one lamp that the light shines all night.”
“Rebirth is much the same: One phenomenon arises and another stops, simultaneously. So the first act of consciousness in the new existence is neither the same as the last act of consciousness in the previous existence, nor is it different.”
September 18
It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place but the Buddhists did away with it. On the contrary, it means there was never any ego at all to begin with. To realize this is called “egolessness.”
September 19
Buddha was a human being, like you or me. He never claimed divinity, he merely knew he had the buddha nature, the seed of enlightenment, and that everyone else did too. The buddha nature is simply the birthright of every sentient being, and I always say: “Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.”
September 20
One of the greatest masters of Tonglen in Tibet was Geshe Chekhawa, who lived in the eleventh century. He was extremely learned and accomplished in many forms of meditation. One day when he happened to be in his teacher’s room, he came across a book lying open at the following lines:
Give all profit and gain to others,
Take all loss and defeat on yourself.
The vast and almost unimaginable compassion of these lines astounded him and he set out to find the master who had written them. One day on his journey he met a leper who told him that this master had died. But Geshe Chekhawa persevered and his long efforts were rewarded when he found the dead master’s principal disciple. Geshe Chekhawa asked this disciple: “Just how important do you think the teachings contained in these two lines are?” The disciple replied: “Whether you like it or not, you will have to practice this teaching if you truly wish to attain buddhahood.”
September 21
The holy secret of the practice of Tonglen is one that the mystic masters and saints of every tradition know; and living it and embodying it, with the abandon and fervor of true wisdom and true compassion, is what fills their lives with joy. One modern figure who has dedicated her life to serving the sick and dying and who radiates this joy of giving and receiving is Mother Teresa. I know of no more inspiring statement of the spiritual essence of Tonglen than these words of hers:
We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with Him at this very moment. But being happy with Him now means:
Loving as He loves,
Helping as He helps,
Giving as He gives,
Serving as He serves,
Rescuing as He rescues,
Being with Him twenty-four hours,
Touching Him in his distressing disguise.
September 22
Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation. A smile, a face in the subway, the sight of a small flower growing in the crack of cement pavement, a fall of rich cloth in a shop window, the way the sun lights up flower pots on a windowsill. Be alert for any sign of beauty or grace. Offer up every joy, be awake at all moments, to “the news that is always arriving out of silence.”
slowly, you will become a master of your own bliss, a chemist of your own joy, with all sorts of remedies always at hand to elevate, cheer, illuminate, and inspire your every breath and movement.
September 23
All beings have lived and died and been reborn countless times. Over and over again they have experienced the indescribable Clear Light. But because they are obscured by the darkness of ignorance, they wander endlessly in a limitless samsara.
PADMASAMBHAVA
September 24
Six realms of existence are identified in Buddhism: gods, demigods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts, and hells. They are each the result of one of the six main negative emotions: pride, jealousy, desire, ignorance, greed, and anger.
Looking at the world around us, and into our own minds, we can see that the six realms definitely do exist. They exist in the way we unconsciously allow our negative emotions to project and crystallize entire realms around us, and to define the style, form, flavor, and context of our life in those realms. And they exist also inwardly as the different seeds and tendencies of the various negative emotions within our psychophysical system, always ready to germinate and grow, depending on what influences them and how we choose to live.
September 25
When we have really grasped the law of karma in all its stark power and complex reverberations over many, many lifetimes, and seen just how our self-grasping and self-cherishing, life after life, have woven us repeatedly into a net of ignorance that seems only to be ensnaring us more and more tightly; when we have really understood the dangerous and doomed nature of the self-grasping mind’s enterprise; when we have really pursued its operations into their most subtle hiding places; when we have really understood just how our whole ordinary mind and actions are defined, narrowed and darkened by it, how almost impossible it makes it for us to uncover the heart of unconditional love, and how it has blocked in us all sources of real love and real compassion, then there comes a moment when we understand, with extreme and poignant clarity, what Shantideva said:
If all the harms
Fears and sufferings in the world
Arise from self-grasping,
What need have I for such a great evil spirit?
And then a resolution is born in us to destroy that evil spirit, our greatest enemy. With that evil spirit dead, the cause of all our suffering will be removed, and our true nature, in all its spaciousness and dynamic generosity, will shine out.
________________________________________
September 26
To recognize the nature of your mind is to engender in the ground of your being an understanding that will change your entire worldview and help you discover and develop, naturally and spontaneously, a compassionate desire to serve all beings, as well as a direct knowledge of how best you can do so, with whatever skill or ability you have, in whatever circumstances you find yourself.
________________________________________
September 27
The masters stress that to stabilize the View in meditation, it is essential, first of all, to accomplish this practice in a special environment of retreat, where all the favorable conditions are present; amid the distractions and busyness of the world, however much you meditate, true experience will not be born in your mind.
Second, though there is no difference in Dzogchen between meditation and everyday life, until you have found true stability through doing the practice in proper sessions, you will not be able to integrate the wisdom of meditation into your experience of daily life.
Third, even when you practice, you might be able to abide by the continual flow of Rigpa with the confidence of the View, but if you are unable to continue that flow at all times and in all situations, mixing your practice with everyday life, it will not serve as a remedy when unfavorable circumstances arise, and you will be led astray into delusion by thoughts and emotions.
________________________________________
September 28
According to Dzogchen, the entire range of all possible appearances, and all possible phenomena in all the different realities, whether samsara or nirvana, all of these without exception have always been and will always be perfect and complete, within the vast and boundless expanse of the nature of mind. Yet, even though the essence of everything is empty and “pure from the very beginning,” its nature is rich in noble qualities, pregnant with every possibility, a limitless, incessantly and dynamically creative field that is always spontaneously perfect.
________________________________________
September 29
When you are strong and healthy,
You never think of sickness coming,
But it descends with sudden force
Like a stroke of lightning.
When involved in worldly things,
You never think of death’s approach;
Quick it comes like thunder
Crashing round your head.
September 30
There is a spark of hope, a playful humor about the posture we take in meditation, which lies in the secret understanding that we all have the buddha nature. So when you assume this posture, you are playfully imitating a buddha, acknowledging and giving real encouragement to the emergence of your own buddha nature. You begin to respect yourself as a potential buddha.
At the same time, you still recognize your relative condition. But because you have let yourself be inspired by a joyful trust in your own true buddha nature, you can accept your negative aspects more easily and deal with them more generously and with more humor.
When you meditate, invite yourself to feel the self-esteem, the dignity, and the strong humility of the buddha that you are. If you simply let yourself be inspired by this joyful trust, it is enough: Out of this understanding and confidence, meditation will naturally arise.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Rigpa October (full)
October 1
You can have no greater ally in the war against your greatest enemy, your own self-grasping and self-cherishing, than the practice of compassion. It is compassion, dedicating ourselves to others, taking on their suffering instead of cherishing ourselves, that, hand in hand with the wisdom of egolessness, destroys most effectively and most completely that ancient attachment to a false self that has been the cause of our endless wandering in samsara. That is why in our tradition we see compassion as the source and essence of enlightenment and the heart of enlightened activity.
October 2
In the ancient meditation instructions, it is said that at the beginning, thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as you perfect meditation, thoughts become like the water in a deep, narrow gorge, then a great river slowly winding its way down to the sea, and finally the mind becomes like a still and placid ocean, ruffled by only the occasional ripple or wave.
October 3
We need to shake ourselves sometimes and really ask: “What if I were to die tonight? What then?” We do not know whether we will wake up tomorrow, or where. If you breathe out and you cannot breathe in again, you are dead. It’s as simple as that.
As a Tibetan saying goes: “Tomorrow or the next life—which comes first, we never know.”
October 4
It is said that when Buddha attained enlightenment, all he wanted to do was to show the rest of us the nature of mind and share completely what he had realized. But he also saw, with the great sorrow of infinite compassion, how difficult it would be for us to understand.
For even though we have the same inner nature as Buddha, we have not recognized it because it is so enclosed and wrapped up in our individual ordinary minds.
Imagine an empty vase. The space inside is exactly the same as the space outside. Only the fragile walls of the vase separate one from the other. Our buddha mind is enclosed within the walls of our ordinary mind. But when we become enlightened, it is as if the vase shatters into pieces. The space “inside” merges instantly into the space “outside.” They become one: There and then we realize that they were never separate or different; they were always the same.
October 5
All the spiritual teachers of humanity have told us the same thing, that the purpose of life on earth is to achieve union with our fundamental, enlightened nature. It says in the Upanishads:
There is the path of wisdom and the path of ignorance. They are far apart and lead to different ends. . . . Abiding in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned, fools go aimlessly hither and thither like the blind led by the blind. What lies beyond life shines not to those who are childish, or careless, or deluded by wealth.
October 6
One technique for arousing compassion for a person who is suffering is to imagine one of your dearest friends, or someone you really love, in that person’s place.
Imagine your brother or daughter or parent or best friend in the same kind of painful situation. Quite naturally your heart will open, and compassion will awaken in you: What more would you want than to free your loved one from his or her torment? Now take this compassion released in your heart and transfer it to the person who needs your help: You will find that your help is inspired more naturally and that you can direct it more easily.
October 7
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and, most important of all, complete absence of grasping.
The diminishing of your grasping is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous “wisdom of egolessness.” When you live in that wisdom home, you’ll no longer find a barrier between “I” and “you,” “this” and “that,” “inside” and “outside”; you’ll have come, finally, to your true home, the state of nonduality.
October 8
I remember a middle-aged American woman who came to see Dudjom Rinpoche in New York in 1976. She came into the room, and sat in front of Dudjom Rinpoche, and blurted out: “My doctor has given me only a few months to live. Can you help me? I am dying.”
To her surprise, in a gentle yet compassionate way, Dudjom Rinpoche began to chuckle. Then he said quietly: “You see, we are all dying. It’s only a matter of time. Some of us just die sooner than others.”
With these few words, he helped her to see the universality of death, and that her impending death was not unique. This eased her anxiety. Then he talked to her about dying and the acceptance of death. And he spoke about the hope there is in death. At the end, he gave her a healing practice that she followed enthusiastically. Not only did she come to accept death, but, by following the practice with complete dedication, she recovered her health.
October 9
One of the greatest Buddhist traditions calls the nature of mind “the wisdom of ordinariness.” I cannot say it enough: Our true nature and the nature of all beings is not something extraordinary.
The irony is that it is our so-called ordinary world that is extraordinary, a fantastic, elaborate hallucination of the deluded vision of samsara. It is this “extraordinary” vision that blinds us to the “ordinary,” natural, inherent nature of mind. Imagine if the buddhas were looking down at us now: How they would marvel sadly at the lethal ingenuity and intricacy of our confusion!
October 10
Once there was a Dzogchen yogi who lived unostentatiously, surrounded, however, by a large following of disciples. A certain monk, who had an exaggerated opinion of his own learning and scholarship, was jealous of the yogi, whom he knew not to be very well read at all. He thought: “How does he, just an ordinary person, dare to teach? How dare he pretend to be a master? I will go and test his knowledge, show it up for the sham it is, and humiliate him in front of his disciples, so that they will leave him and follow me.”
One day he visited the yogi and said scornfully: “You Dzogchen bunch, is meditate all you ever do?”
The yogi’s reply took him completely by surprise: “What is there to meditate on?”
“You don’t even meditate then,” the scholar brayed triumphantly.
“But when am I ever distracted?” said the yogi.
October 11
Isn’t it extraordinary that our minds cannot stay still for longer than a few moments without grasping after distraction? They are so restless and preoccupied that sometimes I think that living in a city in the modern world, we are already like the tormented beings in the intermediate state after death, where the consciousness is said to be agonizingly restless.
We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don’t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home.
Meditation, then, is bringing the mind home.
October 12
As Buddha said: “What you are is what you have been, what you will be is what you do now.” Padmasambhava went further: “If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.”
October 13
When the teachings “click” for you somewhere deep in your heart and mind, then you really have the View. Whatever difficulties you face, you will find you have some kind of serenity, stability, and understanding, and an internal mechanism—you could call it an “inner transformer”—that works for you, to protect you from falling prey to wrong views. In that View, you will have discovered a “wisdom guide” of your own, always on hand to advise you, support you, and remind you of the truth. Confusion will still arise, that’s only normal, but with a crucial difference: No longer will you focus on it in a blinded and obsessive way, but you will look on it with humor, perspective, and compassion.
October 14
The fear that impermanence awakens in us, that nothing is real and nothing lasts, is, we come to discover, our greatest friend because it drives us to ask: If everything dies and changes, then what is really true? Is there something behind the appearances? Is there something in fact we can depend on, that does survive what we call death?
Allowing these questions to occupy us urgently, and reflecting on them, we slowly find ourselves making a profound shift in the way we view everything. We come to uncover in ourselves “something” that we begin to realize lies behind all the changes and deaths of the world.
As this happens, we catch repeated and glowing glimpses of the vast implications behind the truth of impermanence. We come to uncover a depth of peace, joy, and confidence in ourselves that fills us with wonder, and breeds in us gradually a certainty that there is in us “something” that nothing destroys, that nothing alters, and that cannot die.
October 15
Whatever is happening to us now mirrors our past karma. If we know that, and know it truly, whenever suffering and difficulties befall us, we do not view them particularly as failures or catastrophes, or see suffering as a punishment in any way. Nor do we blame ourselves or indulge in self-hatred.
We see the pain we are going through as the completion of the effects, the fruition, of a past karma. Tibetans say that suffering is “a broom that sweeps away all our negative karma.” We can even be grateful that one karma is coming to an end. We know that “good fortune,” a fruit of good karma, may soon pass if we do not use it well, and that “misfortune,” the result of negative karma, may in fact be giving us a marvelous opportunity to evolve.
October 16
Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, . . . we shall harness . . . the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
October 17
The belief in reincarnation shows us that there is some kind of ultimate justice or goodness in the universe. It is that goodness that we are all trying to uncover and to free. Whenever we act positively, we move toward it; whenever we act negatively, we obscure and inhibit it. And whenever we cannot express it in our lives and actions, we feel miserable and frustrated.
October 18
The way to discover the freedom of the wisdom of egolessness, the masters advise us, is through the process of listening and hearing, contemplation and reflection, and meditation. They advise us to begin by listening repeatedly to the spiritual teachings. As we listen, they will keep on and on reminding us of our hidden wisdom nature.
Gradually, as we listen to the teachings, certain passages and insights in them will strike a strange chord in us, memories of our true nature will start to trickle back to us, and a deep feeling of something homely and uncannily familiar will slowly awaken.
October 19
Remember: A method is only a means, not the meditation itself. It is through practicing the method skillfully that you reach the perfection of that pure state of total presence, which is the real meditation.
There is a revealing Tibetan saying: “Gompa ma yin, kompa yin,” which means literally: “ Meditation is not; getting used to is.”
It means that meditation is nothing other than getting used to the practice of meditation. As it is said: “Meditation is not striving, but naturally becoming assimilated into it.” As you continue to practice the method, then meditation slowly arises. Meditation is not something that you can “do”; it is something that has to happen spontaneously, only when you have perfected the practice.
October 20
If we were to put our minds to one powerful wisdom method and work with it directly, there is a real possibility we would become enlightened.
Our minds, however, are riddled with confusion and doubt. I sometimes think that doubt is an even greater block to human evolution than is desire or attachment. Our society promotes cleverness instead of wisdom, and celebrates the most superficial, harsh, and least useful aspects of our intelligence. We have become so falsely “sophisticated” and neurotic that we take doubt itself for truth, and the doubt that is nothing more than ego’s desperate attempt to defend itself from wisdom is deified as the goal and fruit of true knowledge.
This form of mean-spirited doubt is the shabby emperor of samsara, served by a flock of “experts” who teach us not the open-souled and generous doubt that Buddha assured us was necessary for testing and proving the worth of the teachings, but a destructive form of doubt that leaves us nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for, and nothing to live by.
October 21
So many veils and illusions separate us from the stark knowledge that we are dying. When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.
Sir Thomas More, I heard, wrote these words just before his beheading: “We are all in the same cart, going to execution; how can I hate anyone or wish anyone harm?” To feel the full force of your mortality, and to open your heart entirely to it, is to allow to grow in you that all-encompassing, fearless compassion that fuels the lives of all those who wish truly to be of help to others.
October 22
What is a great spiritual practitioner? A person who lives always in the presence of his or her own true self, someone who has found and who uses continually the springs and sources of profound inspiration. As the modem English writer Lewis Thompson wrote:
“Christ, supreme poet, lived truth so passionately that every gesture of his, at once pure Act and perfect Symbol, embodies the transcendent.”
To embody the transcendent is why we are here.
October 23
When little obstacles crop up on the spiritual path, a good practitioner does not lose faith and begin to doubt, but has the discernment to recognize difficulties, whatever they may be, for what they are—just obstacles, and nothing more. It is the nature of things that when you recognize an obstacle as such, it ceases to be an obstacle. Equally, it is by failing to recognize an obstacle for what it is, and therefore taking it seriously, that it is empowered and solidified and becomes a real blockage.
October 24
The quality of life in the realm of the gods may look superior to our own, yet the masters tell us that human life is infinitely more valuable. Why? Because of the very fact that we have the awareness and intelligence that are the raw materials for enlightenment, and because the very suffering that pervades this human realm is itself the spur to spiritual transformation.
Pain, grief, loss, and ceaseless frustration of every kind are there for a very real and dramatic purpose: to wake us up, to enable, almost to force us to break out of the cycle of samsara and so release our imprisoned splendor.
October 25
It has often intrigued me how some Buddhist masters I know ask one simple question of people who approach them for teaching: “Do you believe in a life after this one?” They are not being asked whether they believe in it as a philosophical proposition but whether they feel it deeply in their hearts. The master knows that if a man believes in a life after this one, his whole outlook on life will be different, and he will have a distinct sense of personal responsibility and morality. What the masters must suspect is that there is a danger that people who have no strong belief in a life after this one will create a society fixated on short-term results, without much thought for the consequences of their actions.
Could this be the major reason why we have created a world like the one we are now living in, a world with hardly any real compassion?
October 26
Feeling the living presence of Buddha, of Padmasambhava, of your master, and simply opening your heart and mind to the embodiment of truth, really does bless and transform your mind. As you invoke Buddha, your own buddha nature is inspired to awaken and blossom, as naturally as a flower in sunlight.
October 27
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche describes a yogi wandering through a garden. He is completely awake to the splendor and beauty of the flowers, and relishes their colors, shapes and scents. But there is no trace of clinging or any “after-thought” in his mind.
As Dudjom Rinpoche says:
“Whatever perceptions arise, you should be like a little child going into a beautifully decorated temple; he looks, but grasping does not enter into his perception at all. You leave everything fresh, natural, vivid and unspoiled. When you leave each thing in its own state, then its shape doesn’t change, its color doesn’t fade and its glow does not disappear. Whatever appears is unstained by any grasping, so then all that you perceive arises as the naked wisdom of Rigpa, which is the indivisibility of luminosity and emptiness.”
October 28
Things will never be perfect. How could they be? We are still in samsara. Even when you have chosen your master and are following the teachings as sincerely as you can, you will meet difficulties and frustrations, contradictions and imperfections. Don’t succumb to obstacles and tiny difficulties. These are often only ego’s childish emotions. Don’t let them blind you to the essential and enduring value of what you have chosen. Don’t let your impatience drag you away from your commitment to the truth.
I have been saddened, again and again, to see how many people take up a teaching or a master with enthusiasm and promise, only to lose heart when the smallest, unavoidable obstacles arise, then tumble back into samsara and old habits, and waste years or perhaps a lifetime.
October 29
Compassion is not true compassion unless it is active. Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion, is often represented in Tibetan iconography as having a thousand eyes that see the pain in all corners of the universe, and a thousand arms to reach out to all corners of the universe to extend his help.
October 30
When you meditate, breathe naturally, just as you always do.
Focus your awareness lightly on the outbreath. When you breathe out, just flow out with the outbreath. Each time you breathe out, you are letting go and releasing all your grasping. Imagine your breath dissolving into the all-pervading expanse of truth.
Each time you breathe out, and before you breathe in again, you will find that there is a natural gap, as your grasping dissolves.
Rest in that gap, in that open space. And when, naturally, you breathe in, don’t focus especially on the inbreath but go on resting your mind in the gap that has opened up.
October 31
The teachings show us precisely what will happen if we prepare for death and what will happen if we do not. The choice could not be clearer. If we refuse to accept death now, while we are still alive, we will pay dearly throughout our lives, at the moment of death, and thereafter. The effects of this refusal will ravage this life and all the lives to come.
We will not be able to live our lives fully; we will remain imprisoned in the very aspect of ourselves that has to die. This ignorance will rob us of the basis of the journey to enlightenment, and trap us endlessly in the realm of illusion, the uncontrolled cycle of birth and death, that ocean of suffering that Buddhists call “samsara.”
You can have no greater ally in the war against your greatest enemy, your own self-grasping and self-cherishing, than the practice of compassion. It is compassion, dedicating ourselves to others, taking on their suffering instead of cherishing ourselves, that, hand in hand with the wisdom of egolessness, destroys most effectively and most completely that ancient attachment to a false self that has been the cause of our endless wandering in samsara. That is why in our tradition we see compassion as the source and essence of enlightenment and the heart of enlightened activity.
October 2
In the ancient meditation instructions, it is said that at the beginning, thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as you perfect meditation, thoughts become like the water in a deep, narrow gorge, then a great river slowly winding its way down to the sea, and finally the mind becomes like a still and placid ocean, ruffled by only the occasional ripple or wave.
October 3
We need to shake ourselves sometimes and really ask: “What if I were to die tonight? What then?” We do not know whether we will wake up tomorrow, or where. If you breathe out and you cannot breathe in again, you are dead. It’s as simple as that.
As a Tibetan saying goes: “Tomorrow or the next life—which comes first, we never know.”
October 4
It is said that when Buddha attained enlightenment, all he wanted to do was to show the rest of us the nature of mind and share completely what he had realized. But he also saw, with the great sorrow of infinite compassion, how difficult it would be for us to understand.
For even though we have the same inner nature as Buddha, we have not recognized it because it is so enclosed and wrapped up in our individual ordinary minds.
Imagine an empty vase. The space inside is exactly the same as the space outside. Only the fragile walls of the vase separate one from the other. Our buddha mind is enclosed within the walls of our ordinary mind. But when we become enlightened, it is as if the vase shatters into pieces. The space “inside” merges instantly into the space “outside.” They become one: There and then we realize that they were never separate or different; they were always the same.
October 5
All the spiritual teachers of humanity have told us the same thing, that the purpose of life on earth is to achieve union with our fundamental, enlightened nature. It says in the Upanishads:
There is the path of wisdom and the path of ignorance. They are far apart and lead to different ends. . . . Abiding in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned, fools go aimlessly hither and thither like the blind led by the blind. What lies beyond life shines not to those who are childish, or careless, or deluded by wealth.
October 6
One technique for arousing compassion for a person who is suffering is to imagine one of your dearest friends, or someone you really love, in that person’s place.
Imagine your brother or daughter or parent or best friend in the same kind of painful situation. Quite naturally your heart will open, and compassion will awaken in you: What more would you want than to free your loved one from his or her torment? Now take this compassion released in your heart and transfer it to the person who needs your help: You will find that your help is inspired more naturally and that you can direct it more easily.
October 7
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and, most important of all, complete absence of grasping.
The diminishing of your grasping is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous “wisdom of egolessness.” When you live in that wisdom home, you’ll no longer find a barrier between “I” and “you,” “this” and “that,” “inside” and “outside”; you’ll have come, finally, to your true home, the state of nonduality.
October 8
I remember a middle-aged American woman who came to see Dudjom Rinpoche in New York in 1976. She came into the room, and sat in front of Dudjom Rinpoche, and blurted out: “My doctor has given me only a few months to live. Can you help me? I am dying.”
To her surprise, in a gentle yet compassionate way, Dudjom Rinpoche began to chuckle. Then he said quietly: “You see, we are all dying. It’s only a matter of time. Some of us just die sooner than others.”
With these few words, he helped her to see the universality of death, and that her impending death was not unique. This eased her anxiety. Then he talked to her about dying and the acceptance of death. And he spoke about the hope there is in death. At the end, he gave her a healing practice that she followed enthusiastically. Not only did she come to accept death, but, by following the practice with complete dedication, she recovered her health.
October 9
One of the greatest Buddhist traditions calls the nature of mind “the wisdom of ordinariness.” I cannot say it enough: Our true nature and the nature of all beings is not something extraordinary.
The irony is that it is our so-called ordinary world that is extraordinary, a fantastic, elaborate hallucination of the deluded vision of samsara. It is this “extraordinary” vision that blinds us to the “ordinary,” natural, inherent nature of mind. Imagine if the buddhas were looking down at us now: How they would marvel sadly at the lethal ingenuity and intricacy of our confusion!
October 10
Once there was a Dzogchen yogi who lived unostentatiously, surrounded, however, by a large following of disciples. A certain monk, who had an exaggerated opinion of his own learning and scholarship, was jealous of the yogi, whom he knew not to be very well read at all. He thought: “How does he, just an ordinary person, dare to teach? How dare he pretend to be a master? I will go and test his knowledge, show it up for the sham it is, and humiliate him in front of his disciples, so that they will leave him and follow me.”
One day he visited the yogi and said scornfully: “You Dzogchen bunch, is meditate all you ever do?”
The yogi’s reply took him completely by surprise: “What is there to meditate on?”
“You don’t even meditate then,” the scholar brayed triumphantly.
“But when am I ever distracted?” said the yogi.
October 11
Isn’t it extraordinary that our minds cannot stay still for longer than a few moments without grasping after distraction? They are so restless and preoccupied that sometimes I think that living in a city in the modern world, we are already like the tormented beings in the intermediate state after death, where the consciousness is said to be agonizingly restless.
We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don’t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home.
Meditation, then, is bringing the mind home.
October 12
As Buddha said: “What you are is what you have been, what you will be is what you do now.” Padmasambhava went further: “If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.”
October 13
When the teachings “click” for you somewhere deep in your heart and mind, then you really have the View. Whatever difficulties you face, you will find you have some kind of serenity, stability, and understanding, and an internal mechanism—you could call it an “inner transformer”—that works for you, to protect you from falling prey to wrong views. In that View, you will have discovered a “wisdom guide” of your own, always on hand to advise you, support you, and remind you of the truth. Confusion will still arise, that’s only normal, but with a crucial difference: No longer will you focus on it in a blinded and obsessive way, but you will look on it with humor, perspective, and compassion.
October 14
The fear that impermanence awakens in us, that nothing is real and nothing lasts, is, we come to discover, our greatest friend because it drives us to ask: If everything dies and changes, then what is really true? Is there something behind the appearances? Is there something in fact we can depend on, that does survive what we call death?
Allowing these questions to occupy us urgently, and reflecting on them, we slowly find ourselves making a profound shift in the way we view everything. We come to uncover in ourselves “something” that we begin to realize lies behind all the changes and deaths of the world.
As this happens, we catch repeated and glowing glimpses of the vast implications behind the truth of impermanence. We come to uncover a depth of peace, joy, and confidence in ourselves that fills us with wonder, and breeds in us gradually a certainty that there is in us “something” that nothing destroys, that nothing alters, and that cannot die.
October 15
Whatever is happening to us now mirrors our past karma. If we know that, and know it truly, whenever suffering and difficulties befall us, we do not view them particularly as failures or catastrophes, or see suffering as a punishment in any way. Nor do we blame ourselves or indulge in self-hatred.
We see the pain we are going through as the completion of the effects, the fruition, of a past karma. Tibetans say that suffering is “a broom that sweeps away all our negative karma.” We can even be grateful that one karma is coming to an end. We know that “good fortune,” a fruit of good karma, may soon pass if we do not use it well, and that “misfortune,” the result of negative karma, may in fact be giving us a marvelous opportunity to evolve.
October 16
Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, . . . we shall harness . . . the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
October 17
The belief in reincarnation shows us that there is some kind of ultimate justice or goodness in the universe. It is that goodness that we are all trying to uncover and to free. Whenever we act positively, we move toward it; whenever we act negatively, we obscure and inhibit it. And whenever we cannot express it in our lives and actions, we feel miserable and frustrated.
October 18
The way to discover the freedom of the wisdom of egolessness, the masters advise us, is through the process of listening and hearing, contemplation and reflection, and meditation. They advise us to begin by listening repeatedly to the spiritual teachings. As we listen, they will keep on and on reminding us of our hidden wisdom nature.
Gradually, as we listen to the teachings, certain passages and insights in them will strike a strange chord in us, memories of our true nature will start to trickle back to us, and a deep feeling of something homely and uncannily familiar will slowly awaken.
October 19
Remember: A method is only a means, not the meditation itself. It is through practicing the method skillfully that you reach the perfection of that pure state of total presence, which is the real meditation.
There is a revealing Tibetan saying: “Gompa ma yin, kompa yin,” which means literally: “ Meditation is not; getting used to is.”
It means that meditation is nothing other than getting used to the practice of meditation. As it is said: “Meditation is not striving, but naturally becoming assimilated into it.” As you continue to practice the method, then meditation slowly arises. Meditation is not something that you can “do”; it is something that has to happen spontaneously, only when you have perfected the practice.
October 20
If we were to put our minds to one powerful wisdom method and work with it directly, there is a real possibility we would become enlightened.
Our minds, however, are riddled with confusion and doubt. I sometimes think that doubt is an even greater block to human evolution than is desire or attachment. Our society promotes cleverness instead of wisdom, and celebrates the most superficial, harsh, and least useful aspects of our intelligence. We have become so falsely “sophisticated” and neurotic that we take doubt itself for truth, and the doubt that is nothing more than ego’s desperate attempt to defend itself from wisdom is deified as the goal and fruit of true knowledge.
This form of mean-spirited doubt is the shabby emperor of samsara, served by a flock of “experts” who teach us not the open-souled and generous doubt that Buddha assured us was necessary for testing and proving the worth of the teachings, but a destructive form of doubt that leaves us nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for, and nothing to live by.
October 21
So many veils and illusions separate us from the stark knowledge that we are dying. When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.
Sir Thomas More, I heard, wrote these words just before his beheading: “We are all in the same cart, going to execution; how can I hate anyone or wish anyone harm?” To feel the full force of your mortality, and to open your heart entirely to it, is to allow to grow in you that all-encompassing, fearless compassion that fuels the lives of all those who wish truly to be of help to others.
October 22
What is a great spiritual practitioner? A person who lives always in the presence of his or her own true self, someone who has found and who uses continually the springs and sources of profound inspiration. As the modem English writer Lewis Thompson wrote:
“Christ, supreme poet, lived truth so passionately that every gesture of his, at once pure Act and perfect Symbol, embodies the transcendent.”
To embody the transcendent is why we are here.
October 23
When little obstacles crop up on the spiritual path, a good practitioner does not lose faith and begin to doubt, but has the discernment to recognize difficulties, whatever they may be, for what they are—just obstacles, and nothing more. It is the nature of things that when you recognize an obstacle as such, it ceases to be an obstacle. Equally, it is by failing to recognize an obstacle for what it is, and therefore taking it seriously, that it is empowered and solidified and becomes a real blockage.
October 24
The quality of life in the realm of the gods may look superior to our own, yet the masters tell us that human life is infinitely more valuable. Why? Because of the very fact that we have the awareness and intelligence that are the raw materials for enlightenment, and because the very suffering that pervades this human realm is itself the spur to spiritual transformation.
Pain, grief, loss, and ceaseless frustration of every kind are there for a very real and dramatic purpose: to wake us up, to enable, almost to force us to break out of the cycle of samsara and so release our imprisoned splendor.
October 25
It has often intrigued me how some Buddhist masters I know ask one simple question of people who approach them for teaching: “Do you believe in a life after this one?” They are not being asked whether they believe in it as a philosophical proposition but whether they feel it deeply in their hearts. The master knows that if a man believes in a life after this one, his whole outlook on life will be different, and he will have a distinct sense of personal responsibility and morality. What the masters must suspect is that there is a danger that people who have no strong belief in a life after this one will create a society fixated on short-term results, without much thought for the consequences of their actions.
Could this be the major reason why we have created a world like the one we are now living in, a world with hardly any real compassion?
October 26
Feeling the living presence of Buddha, of Padmasambhava, of your master, and simply opening your heart and mind to the embodiment of truth, really does bless and transform your mind. As you invoke Buddha, your own buddha nature is inspired to awaken and blossom, as naturally as a flower in sunlight.
October 27
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche describes a yogi wandering through a garden. He is completely awake to the splendor and beauty of the flowers, and relishes their colors, shapes and scents. But there is no trace of clinging or any “after-thought” in his mind.
As Dudjom Rinpoche says:
“Whatever perceptions arise, you should be like a little child going into a beautifully decorated temple; he looks, but grasping does not enter into his perception at all. You leave everything fresh, natural, vivid and unspoiled. When you leave each thing in its own state, then its shape doesn’t change, its color doesn’t fade and its glow does not disappear. Whatever appears is unstained by any grasping, so then all that you perceive arises as the naked wisdom of Rigpa, which is the indivisibility of luminosity and emptiness.”
October 28
Things will never be perfect. How could they be? We are still in samsara. Even when you have chosen your master and are following the teachings as sincerely as you can, you will meet difficulties and frustrations, contradictions and imperfections. Don’t succumb to obstacles and tiny difficulties. These are often only ego’s childish emotions. Don’t let them blind you to the essential and enduring value of what you have chosen. Don’t let your impatience drag you away from your commitment to the truth.
I have been saddened, again and again, to see how many people take up a teaching or a master with enthusiasm and promise, only to lose heart when the smallest, unavoidable obstacles arise, then tumble back into samsara and old habits, and waste years or perhaps a lifetime.
October 29
Compassion is not true compassion unless it is active. Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion, is often represented in Tibetan iconography as having a thousand eyes that see the pain in all corners of the universe, and a thousand arms to reach out to all corners of the universe to extend his help.
October 30
When you meditate, breathe naturally, just as you always do.
Focus your awareness lightly on the outbreath. When you breathe out, just flow out with the outbreath. Each time you breathe out, you are letting go and releasing all your grasping. Imagine your breath dissolving into the all-pervading expanse of truth.
Each time you breathe out, and before you breathe in again, you will find that there is a natural gap, as your grasping dissolves.
Rest in that gap, in that open space. And when, naturally, you breathe in, don’t focus especially on the inbreath but go on resting your mind in the gap that has opened up.
October 31
The teachings show us precisely what will happen if we prepare for death and what will happen if we do not. The choice could not be clearer. If we refuse to accept death now, while we are still alive, we will pay dearly throughout our lives, at the moment of death, and thereafter. The effects of this refusal will ravage this life and all the lives to come.
We will not be able to live our lives fully; we will remain imprisoned in the very aspect of ourselves that has to die. This ignorance will rob us of the basis of the journey to enlightenment, and trap us endlessly in the realm of illusion, the uncontrolled cycle of birth and death, that ocean of suffering that Buddhists call “samsara.”
Rigpa November
2008
November 1
Taking life seriously does not mean spending our whole lives meditating as if we were living in the Himalaya Mountains or in the old days in Tibet. In the modern world, we have to work to earn our living, but we should not get entangled in a nine-to-five existence, where we live without any view of the deeper meaning of life.
Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.
November 2
What need is there to say more?
The childish work for their own benefit,
The buddhas work for the benefit of others.
Just look at the difference between them.
If I do not exchange my happiness
For the suffering of others,
I shall not attain the state of buddhahood
And even in samsara I shall have no real joy.
SHANTIDEVA
November 3
When you are practicing meditation, it’s important not to get involved in mental commentary, analysis, or internal gossip. Do not mistake the running commentary in your mind (“Now I’m breathing in, now I’m breathing out”) for mindfulness; what is important is pure presence.
Don’t concentrate too much on the breath; give it about 25 percent of your attention, with the other 75 percent quietly and spaciously relaxed. As you become more mindful of your breathing, you will find that you become more and more present, gather all your scattered aspects back into yourself, and become whole.
November 4
The fundamental message of the Buddhist teachings is that if we are prepared, there is tremendous hope, both in life and in death. The teachings reveal to us the possibility of an astounding and finally boundless freedom, which is ours to work for now, in life—the freedom that will also enable us to choose our death and so to choose our next birth.
For someone who has prepared and practiced, death comes not as a defeat but as a triumph, the crowning and most glorious moment of life.
November 5
GENERATION OF BODDHICITTA
Ho! Mesmerized by the sheer variety of perceptions, which
are like the illusory reflections of the moon in water,
Beings wander endlessly astray in samsara’s vicious cycle.
In order that they may find comfort and ease in the luminosity
and all-pervading space of the true nature of their minds,
I generate the immeasurable love, compassion, joy and equanimity
of the awakened mind, the heart of Bodhicitta.
JIKMÉ LINGPA
November 6
Our buddha nature has an active aspect, which is our “inner teacher.” From the very moment we became obscured, this “inner teacher” has worked tirelessly for us, tirelessly trying to bring us back to the radiance and spaciousness of our true being. Not for one second, my master Jamyang Khyentse said, has the inner teacher given up on us. In its infinite compassion, one with the infinite compassion of all the buddhas and all the enlightened beings, it has been ceaselessly working for our evolution—not only in this life but in all our past lives—using all kinds of skillful means and all types of situations to teach and awaken us and to guide us back to the truth.
November 7
Is karma really so hard to see in operation? Don’t we only have to look back at our own lives to see clearly the consequences of some of our actions? When we upset or hurt someone, didn’t it rebound on us? Were we not left with a bitter and dark memory, and the shadows of self-disgust? That memory and those shadows are karma. Our habits and our fears too are also due to karma, the results of our past actions, words, and thoughts. If we examine our actions, and become really mindful of them, we will see that there is a pattern that repeats itself. Whenever we act negatively, it leads to pain and suffering; whenever we act positively, it eventually results in happiness.
November 8
For us to survive on the spiritual path, there are many challenges to face, and there is much to learn. We have to discover how to deal with obstacles and difficulties; how to process doubts and see through wrong views; how to inspire ourselves when we least feel like it; how to understand ourselves and our moods; how really to work with and integrate the teachings and practices; how to evoke compassion and enact it in life; and how to transform our suffering and emotions.
On the spiritual path, all of us need the support and the good foundation that come from really knowing the teachings, and this cannot be stressed strongly enough. For the more we study and practice, the more we shall embody discernment, clarity, and insight. Then, when the truth comes knocking, we will know it, with certainty, for what it is, and gladly open the door, because we’ll have guessed that it may well be the truth of who we really are.
November 9
Meditation is bringing the mind back home, and this is first achieved through the practice of mindfulness.
Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands as she drew water from the well, knowing that if she did, she would soon find herself in that state of alert and spacious calm that is meditation.
November 10
Evoking the power of compassion in us is not always easy. I find myself that the simplest ways are the best and the most direct. Every day, life gives us innumerable chances to open our hearts, if we can only take them. An old woman passes you with a sad and lonely face and two heavy plastic bags full of shopping she can hardly carry. Switch on a television, and there on the news is a mother in Beirut kneeling above the body of her murdered son, or an old grandmother in Moscow pointing to the thin soup that is her only food. . . .
Any one of these sights could open the eyes of your heart to the fact of vast suffering in the world. Let it. Don’t waste the love and grief it arouses. In the moment you feel compassion welling up in you, don’t brush it aside, don’t shrug it off and try quickly to return to “normal,” don’t be afraid of your feeling or be embarrassed by it, and don’t allow yourself to be distracted from it. Be vulnerable: Use that quick, bright uprush of compassion—focus on it, go deep into your heart and meditate on it, develop it, enhance and deepen it. By doing this you will realize how blind you have been to suffering.
All beings, everywhere, suffer; let your heart go out to them all in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
November 11
Open people ask me: “How long should I meditate? And when? Should I practice twenty minutes in the morning and in the evening, or is it better to do several short practices during the day?” Yes, it is good to meditate for twenty minutes, though that is not to say that twenty minutes is the limit. I have not found in the scriptures any reference to twenty minutes; I think it is a notion that has been contrived in the West, and I call it Meditation Western Standard Time.
The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the practice actually brings you to a certain state of mindfulness and presence, where you are a little open and able to connect with your heart essence. And five minutes of wakeful sitting practice is of far greater value than twenty minutes of dozing!
November 12
As Buddha said in his first teaching, the root of all our suffering in samsara is ignorance. Ignorance, until we free ourselves from it, can seem endless, and even when we have embarked on the spiritual path our search is fogged by it. However, if you remember this, and keep the teachings in your heart, you will gradually develop the discernment to recognize the innumerable confusions of ignorance for what they are, and so never jeopardize your commitment or lose your perspective.
November 13
Every spiritual tradition has stressed that this human life is unique and has a potential that ordinarily we don’t even begin to imagine. If we miss the opportunity this life offers us for transforming ourselves, they say, it may well be an extremely long time before we have another.
Imagine a blind turtle roaming the depths of an ocean the size of the universe. Up above floats a wooden ring, tossed to and fro on the waves. Every hundred years, the turtle comes, once, to the surface. To be born a human being is said by Buddhists to be more difficult than for that turtle to surface accidentally with its head poking through the wooden ring.
And even among those who have a human birth, it is said, those who have the great good fortune to make a connection with the teachings are rare, and those who really take them to heart and embody them in their actions even rarer—as rare, in fact, “as stars in broad daylight.”
November 14
Because in our culture we overvalue the intellect, we imagine that to become enlightened demands extraordinary intelligence. In fact, many kinds of cleverness are just further obscurations. There is a Tibetan saying: “If you are too clever, you could miss the point entirely.”
Patrul Rinpoche said: “The logical mind seems interesting, but it is the seed of delusion.” People can become obsessed with their own theories and miss the point of everything. In Tibet we say: “Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.”
November 15
Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life itself reveals again and again the opposite: that letting go is the path to real freedom.
Just as when the waves lash at the shore, the rocks suffer no damage but are sculpted and eroded into beautiful shapes, so our characters can be molded and our rough edges worn smooth by changes. Through weathering changes, we can learn how to develop a gentle but unshakable composure. Our confidence in ourselves grows, and becomes so much greater that goodness and compassion begin naturally to radiate out from us and bring joy to others.
That goodness is what survives death, a fundamental goodness that is in each and every one of us. The whole of our life is a teaching of how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training toward realizing it.
November 16
Let’s not take doubts with exaggerated seriousness, or let them grow out of proportion, so that we become black-and-white or fanatical about them. What we need to learn is how slowly to change our culturally conditioned and passionate involvement with doubt into a free, humorous, and compassionate one. This means giving doubts time, and giving ourselves time to find answers to our questions that are not merely intellectual or “philosophical” but living and real and genuine and workable.
Doubts cannot resolve themselves immediately; but if we are patient, a space can be created within us in which doubts can be carefully and objectively examined, unraveled, dissolved, and healed. What we lack, especially in this culture, is the right, undistracted, and richly spacious environment of the mind, which can be created only through sustained meditation practice, and in which insights can be given the chance slowly to mature and ripen.
November 17
The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.
CHUANG TZU
November 18
Those who have been through the near-death experience have reported a startling range of aftereffects and changes. One woman said:
The things that I felt slowly were a very heightened sense of love, the ability to communicate love, the ability to find joy and pleasures in the smallest and most insignificant things about me. . . . I developed a great compassion for people that were ill and facing death and I wanted so much to let them know, to somehow make them aware that the dying process was nothing more than an extension of one’s life.
November 19
When we have prayed and aspired and hungered for the truth for a long time, for many, many lives, and when our karma has become sufficiently purified, a kind of miracle takes place. And this miracle, if we can understand and use it, can lead to the ending of ignorance forever: The inner teacher, who has been with us always, manifests in the form of the “outer teacher,” who, almost as if by magic, we actually encounter. This is the most important encounter of any lifetime.
November 20
Body lying flat on a last bed,
Voices whispering a few last words,
Mind watching a final memory glide past:
When will that drama come for you?
7th DALAI LAMA
November 21
Karma means that whatever we do, with our bodies, speech, or minds, will have a corresponding result. Each action, even the smallest, is pregnant with its consequences. It is said by the masters that even a little poison can cause death, and even a tiny seed can become a huge tree. And as Buddha said: “Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.”
Similarly he said: “Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel.”
Karma does not decay like external things, or ever become inoperative. It cannot be destroyed “by time, fire, or water.” Its power will never disappear, until it is ripened.
November 22
O love, O pure deep love, be here, be now
Be all; worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance,
Frail living leaves burn with you brighter than cold stars:
Make me your servant, your breath, your core.
RUMI
November 23
The Buddha summons us to a different kind of doubt, “like analyzing gold, scorching, cutting and rubbing it to test its purity.” For this form of doubt really exposes us to the truth if we follow it to the end, but we have neither the insight, the courage, nor the training. We have been schooled in a sterile addiction to contradiction that has robbed us repeatedly of all real openness to any more expansive and ennobling truth.
In the place of our contemporary nihilistic form of doubt I would ask you to put what I call a “noble doubt,” the kind that is an integral part of the path toward enlightenment. The vast truth of the mystical teachings handed down to us is not something that our endangered world can afford to dismiss. Instead of doubting them, why don’t we doubt ourselves: our ignorance, our assumption that we understand everything already, our grasping and evasion, our passion for so-called explanations of reality that have about them nothing of the awe-inspiring and all-encompassing wisdom of what the masters, the messengers of Reality, have told us?
November 24
We may say, and even half-believe, that compassion is marvelous, but in practice our actions are deeply uncompassionate and bring us and others mostly frustration and distress, and not the happiness we are all seeking.
Isn’t it absurd that we all long for happiness, yet nearly all our actions and feelings lead us directly away from that happiness?
What do we imagine will make us happy? A canny, self-seeking, resourceful selfishness, the selfish protection of ego, which can as we all know, make us at moments extremely brutal. But in fact the complete reverse is true: Self-grasping and self-cherishing are seen, when you really look at them, to be the root of all harm to others, and also of all harm to ourselves.
November 25
Sometimes people think that when they meditate there should be no thoughts and emotions at all; and when thoughts and emotions do arise, they become annoyed and exasperated with themselves and think they have failed. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is a Tibetan saying: “It’s a tall order to ask for meat without bones, and tea without leaves.” As long as you have a mind, you will have thoughts and emotions.
November 26
Confined in the dark, narrow cage of our own making that we take for the whole universe, very few of us can even begin to imagine another dimension of mind. Patrul Rinpoche tells the story of an old frog who had lived all his life in a dank well. One day a frog from the sea paid him a visit.
“Where do you come from?” asked the frog in the well.
“From the great ocean,” he replied.
“How big is your ocean?”
“It’s gigantic.”
“You mean about a quarter of the size of my well here?”
“Bigger.”
“Bigger? You mean half as big?”
“No, even bigger.”
“Is it . . . as big as this well?”
“There’s no comparison.” “That’s impossible! I’ve got to see this for myself.”
They set off together. When the frog from the well saw the ocean, it was such a shock that his head just exploded into pieces.
November 27
Whatever our lives are like, our buddha nature is always there. And it is always perfect. We say that not even the buddhas can improve it in their infinite wisdom, nor can sentient beings spoil it in their seemingly infinite confusion.
Our true nature could be compared to the sky, and the confusion of the ordinary mind to clouds. Some days the sky is completely obscured by clouds. When we are down on the ground, looking up, it is very difficult to believe that there is anything else there but clouds. Yet we have only to fly in a plane to discover above the clouds a limitless expanse of clear blue sky. From up there, the clouds we assumed were everything seem so small and so far away down below.
We should always try to remember: The clouds are not the sky and do not “belong” to it. They only hang there and pass by in their slightly ridiculous and nondependent fashion. And they can never stain or mark the sky in any way.
November 28
Action is being truly observant of your own thoughts, good or bad, looking into the true nature of whatever thoughts may arise, neither tracing the past nor inviting the future, neither allowing any clinging to experiences of joy, nor being overcome by sad situations. In so doing, you try to reach and remain in the state of great equilibrium, where all good and bad, peace and distress, are devoid of true identity.
DUDJOM RINPOCHE
November 29
You can think of the nature of mind like a mirror, with five different powers or “wisdoms.” Its openness and vastness is the “wisdom of all-encompassing space,” the womb of compassion. Its capacity to reflect in precise detail whatever comes before it is the “mirrorlike wisdom.” Its fundamental lack of any bias toward any impression is the “equalizing wisdom.” Its ability to distinguish clearly, without confusing in any way the various different phenomena that arise, is the “wisdom of discernment.” And its potential of having everything already accomplished, perfected, and spontaneously present is the “all-accomplishing wisdom.”
November 30
For meditation to happen, calm and auspicious conditions have to be created. Before we have mastery over our minds, we need first to calm their environment.
At the moment, our minds are like a candle flame: unstable, flickering, constantly changing, fanned by the violent winds of our thoughts and emotions. The flame will burn steadily only when we can calm the air around it; so we can only begin to glimpse and rest in the nature of mind when we have stilled the turbulence of our thoughts and emotions. On the other hand, once we have found a stability in our meditation, noises and disturbances of every kind will have far less impact.
November 1
Taking life seriously does not mean spending our whole lives meditating as if we were living in the Himalaya Mountains or in the old days in Tibet. In the modern world, we have to work to earn our living, but we should not get entangled in a nine-to-five existence, where we live without any view of the deeper meaning of life.
Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.
November 2
What need is there to say more?
The childish work for their own benefit,
The buddhas work for the benefit of others.
Just look at the difference between them.
If I do not exchange my happiness
For the suffering of others,
I shall not attain the state of buddhahood
And even in samsara I shall have no real joy.
SHANTIDEVA
November 3
When you are practicing meditation, it’s important not to get involved in mental commentary, analysis, or internal gossip. Do not mistake the running commentary in your mind (“Now I’m breathing in, now I’m breathing out”) for mindfulness; what is important is pure presence.
Don’t concentrate too much on the breath; give it about 25 percent of your attention, with the other 75 percent quietly and spaciously relaxed. As you become more mindful of your breathing, you will find that you become more and more present, gather all your scattered aspects back into yourself, and become whole.
November 4
The fundamental message of the Buddhist teachings is that if we are prepared, there is tremendous hope, both in life and in death. The teachings reveal to us the possibility of an astounding and finally boundless freedom, which is ours to work for now, in life—the freedom that will also enable us to choose our death and so to choose our next birth.
For someone who has prepared and practiced, death comes not as a defeat but as a triumph, the crowning and most glorious moment of life.
November 5
GENERATION OF BODDHICITTA
Ho! Mesmerized by the sheer variety of perceptions, which
are like the illusory reflections of the moon in water,
Beings wander endlessly astray in samsara’s vicious cycle.
In order that they may find comfort and ease in the luminosity
and all-pervading space of the true nature of their minds,
I generate the immeasurable love, compassion, joy and equanimity
of the awakened mind, the heart of Bodhicitta.
JIKMÉ LINGPA
November 6
Our buddha nature has an active aspect, which is our “inner teacher.” From the very moment we became obscured, this “inner teacher” has worked tirelessly for us, tirelessly trying to bring us back to the radiance and spaciousness of our true being. Not for one second, my master Jamyang Khyentse said, has the inner teacher given up on us. In its infinite compassion, one with the infinite compassion of all the buddhas and all the enlightened beings, it has been ceaselessly working for our evolution—not only in this life but in all our past lives—using all kinds of skillful means and all types of situations to teach and awaken us and to guide us back to the truth.
November 7
Is karma really so hard to see in operation? Don’t we only have to look back at our own lives to see clearly the consequences of some of our actions? When we upset or hurt someone, didn’t it rebound on us? Were we not left with a bitter and dark memory, and the shadows of self-disgust? That memory and those shadows are karma. Our habits and our fears too are also due to karma, the results of our past actions, words, and thoughts. If we examine our actions, and become really mindful of them, we will see that there is a pattern that repeats itself. Whenever we act negatively, it leads to pain and suffering; whenever we act positively, it eventually results in happiness.
November 8
For us to survive on the spiritual path, there are many challenges to face, and there is much to learn. We have to discover how to deal with obstacles and difficulties; how to process doubts and see through wrong views; how to inspire ourselves when we least feel like it; how to understand ourselves and our moods; how really to work with and integrate the teachings and practices; how to evoke compassion and enact it in life; and how to transform our suffering and emotions.
On the spiritual path, all of us need the support and the good foundation that come from really knowing the teachings, and this cannot be stressed strongly enough. For the more we study and practice, the more we shall embody discernment, clarity, and insight. Then, when the truth comes knocking, we will know it, with certainty, for what it is, and gladly open the door, because we’ll have guessed that it may well be the truth of who we really are.
November 9
Meditation is bringing the mind back home, and this is first achieved through the practice of mindfulness.
Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands as she drew water from the well, knowing that if she did, she would soon find herself in that state of alert and spacious calm that is meditation.
November 10
Evoking the power of compassion in us is not always easy. I find myself that the simplest ways are the best and the most direct. Every day, life gives us innumerable chances to open our hearts, if we can only take them. An old woman passes you with a sad and lonely face and two heavy plastic bags full of shopping she can hardly carry. Switch on a television, and there on the news is a mother in Beirut kneeling above the body of her murdered son, or an old grandmother in Moscow pointing to the thin soup that is her only food. . . .
Any one of these sights could open the eyes of your heart to the fact of vast suffering in the world. Let it. Don’t waste the love and grief it arouses. In the moment you feel compassion welling up in you, don’t brush it aside, don’t shrug it off and try quickly to return to “normal,” don’t be afraid of your feeling or be embarrassed by it, and don’t allow yourself to be distracted from it. Be vulnerable: Use that quick, bright uprush of compassion—focus on it, go deep into your heart and meditate on it, develop it, enhance and deepen it. By doing this you will realize how blind you have been to suffering.
All beings, everywhere, suffer; let your heart go out to them all in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
November 11
Open people ask me: “How long should I meditate? And when? Should I practice twenty minutes in the morning and in the evening, or is it better to do several short practices during the day?” Yes, it is good to meditate for twenty minutes, though that is not to say that twenty minutes is the limit. I have not found in the scriptures any reference to twenty minutes; I think it is a notion that has been contrived in the West, and I call it Meditation Western Standard Time.
The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the practice actually brings you to a certain state of mindfulness and presence, where you are a little open and able to connect with your heart essence. And five minutes of wakeful sitting practice is of far greater value than twenty minutes of dozing!
November 12
As Buddha said in his first teaching, the root of all our suffering in samsara is ignorance. Ignorance, until we free ourselves from it, can seem endless, and even when we have embarked on the spiritual path our search is fogged by it. However, if you remember this, and keep the teachings in your heart, you will gradually develop the discernment to recognize the innumerable confusions of ignorance for what they are, and so never jeopardize your commitment or lose your perspective.
November 13
Every spiritual tradition has stressed that this human life is unique and has a potential that ordinarily we don’t even begin to imagine. If we miss the opportunity this life offers us for transforming ourselves, they say, it may well be an extremely long time before we have another.
Imagine a blind turtle roaming the depths of an ocean the size of the universe. Up above floats a wooden ring, tossed to and fro on the waves. Every hundred years, the turtle comes, once, to the surface. To be born a human being is said by Buddhists to be more difficult than for that turtle to surface accidentally with its head poking through the wooden ring.
And even among those who have a human birth, it is said, those who have the great good fortune to make a connection with the teachings are rare, and those who really take them to heart and embody them in their actions even rarer—as rare, in fact, “as stars in broad daylight.”
November 14
Because in our culture we overvalue the intellect, we imagine that to become enlightened demands extraordinary intelligence. In fact, many kinds of cleverness are just further obscurations. There is a Tibetan saying: “If you are too clever, you could miss the point entirely.”
Patrul Rinpoche said: “The logical mind seems interesting, but it is the seed of delusion.” People can become obsessed with their own theories and miss the point of everything. In Tibet we say: “Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.”
November 15
Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life itself reveals again and again the opposite: that letting go is the path to real freedom.
Just as when the waves lash at the shore, the rocks suffer no damage but are sculpted and eroded into beautiful shapes, so our characters can be molded and our rough edges worn smooth by changes. Through weathering changes, we can learn how to develop a gentle but unshakable composure. Our confidence in ourselves grows, and becomes so much greater that goodness and compassion begin naturally to radiate out from us and bring joy to others.
That goodness is what survives death, a fundamental goodness that is in each and every one of us. The whole of our life is a teaching of how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training toward realizing it.
November 16
Let’s not take doubts with exaggerated seriousness, or let them grow out of proportion, so that we become black-and-white or fanatical about them. What we need to learn is how slowly to change our culturally conditioned and passionate involvement with doubt into a free, humorous, and compassionate one. This means giving doubts time, and giving ourselves time to find answers to our questions that are not merely intellectual or “philosophical” but living and real and genuine and workable.
Doubts cannot resolve themselves immediately; but if we are patient, a space can be created within us in which doubts can be carefully and objectively examined, unraveled, dissolved, and healed. What we lack, especially in this culture, is the right, undistracted, and richly spacious environment of the mind, which can be created only through sustained meditation practice, and in which insights can be given the chance slowly to mature and ripen.
November 17
The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.
CHUANG TZU
November 18
Those who have been through the near-death experience have reported a startling range of aftereffects and changes. One woman said:
The things that I felt slowly were a very heightened sense of love, the ability to communicate love, the ability to find joy and pleasures in the smallest and most insignificant things about me. . . . I developed a great compassion for people that were ill and facing death and I wanted so much to let them know, to somehow make them aware that the dying process was nothing more than an extension of one’s life.
November 19
When we have prayed and aspired and hungered for the truth for a long time, for many, many lives, and when our karma has become sufficiently purified, a kind of miracle takes place. And this miracle, if we can understand and use it, can lead to the ending of ignorance forever: The inner teacher, who has been with us always, manifests in the form of the “outer teacher,” who, almost as if by magic, we actually encounter. This is the most important encounter of any lifetime.
November 20
Body lying flat on a last bed,
Voices whispering a few last words,
Mind watching a final memory glide past:
When will that drama come for you?
7th DALAI LAMA
November 21
Karma means that whatever we do, with our bodies, speech, or minds, will have a corresponding result. Each action, even the smallest, is pregnant with its consequences. It is said by the masters that even a little poison can cause death, and even a tiny seed can become a huge tree. And as Buddha said: “Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.”
Similarly he said: “Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel.”
Karma does not decay like external things, or ever become inoperative. It cannot be destroyed “by time, fire, or water.” Its power will never disappear, until it is ripened.
November 22
O love, O pure deep love, be here, be now
Be all; worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance,
Frail living leaves burn with you brighter than cold stars:
Make me your servant, your breath, your core.
RUMI
November 23
The Buddha summons us to a different kind of doubt, “like analyzing gold, scorching, cutting and rubbing it to test its purity.” For this form of doubt really exposes us to the truth if we follow it to the end, but we have neither the insight, the courage, nor the training. We have been schooled in a sterile addiction to contradiction that has robbed us repeatedly of all real openness to any more expansive and ennobling truth.
In the place of our contemporary nihilistic form of doubt I would ask you to put what I call a “noble doubt,” the kind that is an integral part of the path toward enlightenment. The vast truth of the mystical teachings handed down to us is not something that our endangered world can afford to dismiss. Instead of doubting them, why don’t we doubt ourselves: our ignorance, our assumption that we understand everything already, our grasping and evasion, our passion for so-called explanations of reality that have about them nothing of the awe-inspiring and all-encompassing wisdom of what the masters, the messengers of Reality, have told us?
November 24
We may say, and even half-believe, that compassion is marvelous, but in practice our actions are deeply uncompassionate and bring us and others mostly frustration and distress, and not the happiness we are all seeking.
Isn’t it absurd that we all long for happiness, yet nearly all our actions and feelings lead us directly away from that happiness?
What do we imagine will make us happy? A canny, self-seeking, resourceful selfishness, the selfish protection of ego, which can as we all know, make us at moments extremely brutal. But in fact the complete reverse is true: Self-grasping and self-cherishing are seen, when you really look at them, to be the root of all harm to others, and also of all harm to ourselves.
November 25
Sometimes people think that when they meditate there should be no thoughts and emotions at all; and when thoughts and emotions do arise, they become annoyed and exasperated with themselves and think they have failed. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is a Tibetan saying: “It’s a tall order to ask for meat without bones, and tea without leaves.” As long as you have a mind, you will have thoughts and emotions.
November 26
Confined in the dark, narrow cage of our own making that we take for the whole universe, very few of us can even begin to imagine another dimension of mind. Patrul Rinpoche tells the story of an old frog who had lived all his life in a dank well. One day a frog from the sea paid him a visit.
“Where do you come from?” asked the frog in the well.
“From the great ocean,” he replied.
“How big is your ocean?”
“It’s gigantic.”
“You mean about a quarter of the size of my well here?”
“Bigger.”
“Bigger? You mean half as big?”
“No, even bigger.”
“Is it . . . as big as this well?”
“There’s no comparison.” “That’s impossible! I’ve got to see this for myself.”
They set off together. When the frog from the well saw the ocean, it was such a shock that his head just exploded into pieces.
November 27
Whatever our lives are like, our buddha nature is always there. And it is always perfect. We say that not even the buddhas can improve it in their infinite wisdom, nor can sentient beings spoil it in their seemingly infinite confusion.
Our true nature could be compared to the sky, and the confusion of the ordinary mind to clouds. Some days the sky is completely obscured by clouds. When we are down on the ground, looking up, it is very difficult to believe that there is anything else there but clouds. Yet we have only to fly in a plane to discover above the clouds a limitless expanse of clear blue sky. From up there, the clouds we assumed were everything seem so small and so far away down below.
We should always try to remember: The clouds are not the sky and do not “belong” to it. They only hang there and pass by in their slightly ridiculous and nondependent fashion. And they can never stain or mark the sky in any way.
November 28
Action is being truly observant of your own thoughts, good or bad, looking into the true nature of whatever thoughts may arise, neither tracing the past nor inviting the future, neither allowing any clinging to experiences of joy, nor being overcome by sad situations. In so doing, you try to reach and remain in the state of great equilibrium, where all good and bad, peace and distress, are devoid of true identity.
DUDJOM RINPOCHE
November 29
You can think of the nature of mind like a mirror, with five different powers or “wisdoms.” Its openness and vastness is the “wisdom of all-encompassing space,” the womb of compassion. Its capacity to reflect in precise detail whatever comes before it is the “mirrorlike wisdom.” Its fundamental lack of any bias toward any impression is the “equalizing wisdom.” Its ability to distinguish clearly, without confusing in any way the various different phenomena that arise, is the “wisdom of discernment.” And its potential of having everything already accomplished, perfected, and spontaneously present is the “all-accomplishing wisdom.”
November 30
For meditation to happen, calm and auspicious conditions have to be created. Before we have mastery over our minds, we need first to calm their environment.
At the moment, our minds are like a candle flame: unstable, flickering, constantly changing, fanned by the violent winds of our thoughts and emotions. The flame will burn steadily only when we can calm the air around it; so we can only begin to glimpse and rest in the nature of mind when we have stilled the turbulence of our thoughts and emotions. On the other hand, once we have found a stability in our meditation, noises and disturbances of every kind will have far less impact.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Rigpa December
December 3
Every single negative thing we have ever thought or done has ultimately arisen from our grasping at a false self, and our cherishing of that false self, making it the dearest and most important element in our lives. All those negative thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions that are the cause of our negative karma are engendered by self-grasping and self-cherishing. They are the dark, powerful magnet that attracts to us, life after life, every obstacle, every misfortune, every anguish, every disaster, and so they are the root cause of all the sufferings of samsara.
December 4
It is important to reflect calmly, again and again, that death is real and comes without warning.
Don’t be like the pigeon in the Tibetan proverb: He spends all night fussing about, making his bed, and dawn comes up before he has even had time to go to sleep.
December 6
Devotion is the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of mind and all things. As we progress in it, the process reveals itself as wonderfully interdependent: We, from our side, try continually to generate devotion, which itself generates glimpses of the nature of mind, and these glimpses only enhance and deepen our devotion to the master who is inspiring us. So in the end devotion springs out of wisdom: devotion and the living experience of the nature of mind become inseparable and inspire each other.
December 8
When you practice meditation, rather than “watching” the breath, let yourself gradually identify with it, as if you were becoming it. Slowly the breath, the breather, and the breathing become one; duality and separation dissolve.
You will find that this very simple process of mindfulness filters your thoughts and emotions. Then, as if you were shedding an old skin, something is peeled off and freed.
December 12
It may be surprising for the West to learn how very many incarnations there have been in Tibet, and how the majority have been great masters, scholars, authors, mystics, and saints who made an outstanding contribution both to the teaching of Buddhism and to society. They played a central role in the history of Tibet.
I believe that this process of incarnation is not limited to Tibet but can occur in all countries and at all times. Throughout history there have been people of artistic genius, spiritual strength, and humanitarian vision who have helped the human race to go forward. I think of Gandhi, Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, of Shakespeare, of Saint Francis, of Beethoven and Michelangelo.
When Tibetans hear of such people, they immediately say they are bodhisattvas. And whenever I hear of them, of their work and vision, I am moved by the majesty of the vast evolutionary process of the buddhas and masters that emanate to liberate beings and better the world.
December 16
I often think of the great masters and imagine beings who have their depth of realization as magnificent mountain eagles, who soar above both life and death and see them for what they are, in all their mysterious, intricate interrelation.
To see through the eyes of the mountain eagle, the view of realization, is to look down on a landscape in which the boundaries that we imagined existed between life and death shade into each other and dissolve. The physicist David Bohm has described reality as being “unbroken wholeness in flowing movement.”
What is seen by the masters, then, seen directly and with total understanding, is that flowing movement and that unbroken wholeness. What we, in our ignorance, call “life” and what we, in our ignorance, call “death” are merely different aspects of that wholeness and that movement.
December 17
When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn. And in the all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly and directly, both the subtlest workings of your own mind and the nature of reality.
December 18
One great master in the nineteenth century had a disciple who was very thick-headed. The master had taught him again and again, trying to introduce him to the nature of his mind. Still he did not get it. Finally, the master became furious and told him: “Look, I want you to carry this bag full of barley up to the top of that mountain over there. But you mustn’t stop and rest. Just keep on going until you reach the top.”
The disciple was a simple man, but he had unshakable devotion and trust in his master, and he did exactly as he had been told. The bag was heavy and it took him a long time.
At last, when he reached the top, he dropped the bag. He slumped to the ground, overcome with exhaustion, but deeply relaxed. All his resistance had dissolved, and with it his ordinary mind. At that instant, he suddenly realized the nature of his mind. He ran back down the mountain, and, against all convention, burst into his master’s room.
"I think I’ve got it now . . . I’ve really got it!”
His master smiled at him knowingly. “So you had an interesting climb up the mountain, did you?”
December 19
The practice of mindfulness, of bringing the scattered mind home, and so of bringing the different aspects of our being into focus, is called Peacefully Remaining or Calm Abiding.
All the fragmented aspects of ourselves, which had been at war, settle and dissolve and become friends. In that settling we begin to understand ourselves more, and sometimes even have glimpses of the radiance of our fundamental nature.
December 20
Remaining in the clarity and confidence of Rigpa allows all your thoughts and emotions to liberate naturally and effortlessly within its vast expanse, like writing in water, or painting in the sky. If you truly perfect this practice, karma has no chance to be accumulated, and in this state of aimless, carefree abandon, what Dudjom Rinpoche calls “uninhibited, naked ease,” the karmic law of cause and effect can no longer bind you in any way.
December 21
To learn how to die is to learn how to live; to learn how to live is to learn how to act not only in this life but in the lives to come. To transform yourself truly and learn how to be reborn as a transformed being to help others is really to help the world in the most powerful way of all.
Let us dare to imagine now what it would be like to live in a world where a significant number of people took the opportunity, offered by the teachings, to devote part of their lives to serious spiritual practice, to recognize the nature of their minds, and so to use the opportunity of their deaths to move closer to buddhahood, and to be reborn with one aim, that of serving and benefiting others.
December 22
How can the wisdom mind of the buddhas be introduced? Imagine the nature of mind as your face; it is always with you, but you cannot see it without help. Now imagine that you have never seen a mirror before. The introduction by the master is like holding up a mirror suddenly in which you can, for the first time, see your face reflected.
Just like your face, this pure awareness of Rigpa is not something “new” that the master is giving you that you did not have before, nor is it something you could possibly find outside of yourself. It has always been yours, and has always been with you, but up until that startling moment you have never actually seen it directly.
December 23
In the West, people tend to be absorbed by what I call “the technology of meditation.” The modern world, after all, is fascinated by mechanisms and machines and addicted to purely practical formulas. But by far the most important feature of meditation is not the technique but the spirit: the skillful, inspired and creative way in which we practice, which could also be called “the posture.”
The masters say: “If you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment, then meditation and realization will automatically arise.” Talk about posture is not esoteric pedantry; the whole point of assuming a correct posture is to create a more inspiring environment for meditation, for the awakening of Rigpa.
There is a connection between the posture of the body and the mind. Mind and body are interrelated, and meditation arises naturally once your posture and attitude are inspired.
December 24
Mipham, a great Tibetan master who lived around the late 1900s, was a kind of Himalayan Leonardo da Vinci. He is said to have invented a clock, a cannon, and an airplane. But once each of them was complete, he destroyed it, saying it would only be the cause of further distraction.
December 25
For as long as space exists
And sentient beings endure,
May I too remain,
To dispel the misery of the world.
SHANTIDEVA
December 26
Compassion is a far greater and nobler thing than pity. Pity has its roots in fear and carries a sense of arrogance and condescension, sometimes even a smug feeling of “I’m glad it’s not me.” As Stephen Levine says: “When your fear touches someone’s pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes compassion.” To train in compassion is to know that all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways, to honor all those who suffer, and to know that you are neither separate from nor superior to anyone.
December 27
Just as the ocean has waves, and the sun has rays, so the mind’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. The ocean has waves, yet the ocean is not particularly disturbed by them. The waves are the very nature of the ocean. Waves will rise, but where do they go? Back into the ocean. And where do the waves come from? The ocean.
In the same manner, thoughts and emotions are the radiance and expression of the very nature of the mind. They rise from the mind, but where do they dissolve? Back into the mind. Whatever rises, do not see it as a particular problem. If you do not impulsively react, if you are only patient, it will once again settle into its essential nature.
When you have this understanding, then rising thoughts only enhance your practice. But when you do not understand what they intrinsically are—the radiance of the nature of your mind—then your thoughts become the seed of confusion. So have a spacious, open, and compassionate attitude toward your thoughts and emotions, because in fact your thoughts are your family, the family of your mind. Before them, as Dudjom Rinpoche used to say: “Be like an old wise man, watching a child play.”
December 28
It is crucial now that an enlightened vision of death and dying should be introduced throughout the world at all levels of education. Children should not be “protected” from death, but introduced, while young, to the true nature of death and what they can learn from it.
Why not introduce this vision, in its simplest forms, to all age groups? Knowledge about death, about how to help the dying, and about the spiritual nature of death and dying should be made available to all levels of society; it should be taught, in depth and with real imagination, in schools and colleges and universities of all kinds; and especially and most important, it should be available in teaching hospitals to nurses and doctors who will look after the dying and who have so much responsibility to them.
December 29
Where exactly is our buddha nature? It is in the skylike nature of our mind. Utterly open, free and limitless, it is fundamentally so simple and so natural that it can never be complicated, corrupted, or stained, so pure that it is beyond even the concept of purity and impurity.
To talk of this nature of mind as skylike is, of course, only a metaphor that helps us to begin to imagine its all-embracing boundlessness; for the buddha nature has a quality the sky cannot have, that of the radiant clarity of awareness.
It is said: “It is simply your flawless present awareness, cognizant and empty, naked and awake.”
December 30
“Once you have the View, although the delusory perceptions of samsara may arise in your mind, you will be like the sky; when a rainbow appears in front of it, it’s not particularly flattered, and when the clouds appear it’s not particularly disappointed either. There is a deep sense of contentment. You chuckle from inside as you see the facade of samsara and nirvana; the View will keep you constantly amused, with a little inner smile bubbling away all the time.”
DILGO KHYENTSE RINPOCHE
Every single negative thing we have ever thought or done has ultimately arisen from our grasping at a false self, and our cherishing of that false self, making it the dearest and most important element in our lives. All those negative thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions that are the cause of our negative karma are engendered by self-grasping and self-cherishing. They are the dark, powerful magnet that attracts to us, life after life, every obstacle, every misfortune, every anguish, every disaster, and so they are the root cause of all the sufferings of samsara.
December 4
It is important to reflect calmly, again and again, that death is real and comes without warning.
Don’t be like the pigeon in the Tibetan proverb: He spends all night fussing about, making his bed, and dawn comes up before he has even had time to go to sleep.
December 6
Devotion is the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of mind and all things. As we progress in it, the process reveals itself as wonderfully interdependent: We, from our side, try continually to generate devotion, which itself generates glimpses of the nature of mind, and these glimpses only enhance and deepen our devotion to the master who is inspiring us. So in the end devotion springs out of wisdom: devotion and the living experience of the nature of mind become inseparable and inspire each other.
December 8
When you practice meditation, rather than “watching” the breath, let yourself gradually identify with it, as if you were becoming it. Slowly the breath, the breather, and the breathing become one; duality and separation dissolve.
You will find that this very simple process of mindfulness filters your thoughts and emotions. Then, as if you were shedding an old skin, something is peeled off and freed.
December 12
It may be surprising for the West to learn how very many incarnations there have been in Tibet, and how the majority have been great masters, scholars, authors, mystics, and saints who made an outstanding contribution both to the teaching of Buddhism and to society. They played a central role in the history of Tibet.
I believe that this process of incarnation is not limited to Tibet but can occur in all countries and at all times. Throughout history there have been people of artistic genius, spiritual strength, and humanitarian vision who have helped the human race to go forward. I think of Gandhi, Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, of Shakespeare, of Saint Francis, of Beethoven and Michelangelo.
When Tibetans hear of such people, they immediately say they are bodhisattvas. And whenever I hear of them, of their work and vision, I am moved by the majesty of the vast evolutionary process of the buddhas and masters that emanate to liberate beings and better the world.
December 16
I often think of the great masters and imagine beings who have their depth of realization as magnificent mountain eagles, who soar above both life and death and see them for what they are, in all their mysterious, intricate interrelation.
To see through the eyes of the mountain eagle, the view of realization, is to look down on a landscape in which the boundaries that we imagined existed between life and death shade into each other and dissolve. The physicist David Bohm has described reality as being “unbroken wholeness in flowing movement.”
What is seen by the masters, then, seen directly and with total understanding, is that flowing movement and that unbroken wholeness. What we, in our ignorance, call “life” and what we, in our ignorance, call “death” are merely different aspects of that wholeness and that movement.
December 17
When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn. And in the all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly and directly, both the subtlest workings of your own mind and the nature of reality.
December 18
One great master in the nineteenth century had a disciple who was very thick-headed. The master had taught him again and again, trying to introduce him to the nature of his mind. Still he did not get it. Finally, the master became furious and told him: “Look, I want you to carry this bag full of barley up to the top of that mountain over there. But you mustn’t stop and rest. Just keep on going until you reach the top.”
The disciple was a simple man, but he had unshakable devotion and trust in his master, and he did exactly as he had been told. The bag was heavy and it took him a long time.
At last, when he reached the top, he dropped the bag. He slumped to the ground, overcome with exhaustion, but deeply relaxed. All his resistance had dissolved, and with it his ordinary mind. At that instant, he suddenly realized the nature of his mind. He ran back down the mountain, and, against all convention, burst into his master’s room.
"I think I’ve got it now . . . I’ve really got it!”
His master smiled at him knowingly. “So you had an interesting climb up the mountain, did you?”
December 19
The practice of mindfulness, of bringing the scattered mind home, and so of bringing the different aspects of our being into focus, is called Peacefully Remaining or Calm Abiding.
All the fragmented aspects of ourselves, which had been at war, settle and dissolve and become friends. In that settling we begin to understand ourselves more, and sometimes even have glimpses of the radiance of our fundamental nature.
December 20
Remaining in the clarity and confidence of Rigpa allows all your thoughts and emotions to liberate naturally and effortlessly within its vast expanse, like writing in water, or painting in the sky. If you truly perfect this practice, karma has no chance to be accumulated, and in this state of aimless, carefree abandon, what Dudjom Rinpoche calls “uninhibited, naked ease,” the karmic law of cause and effect can no longer bind you in any way.
December 21
To learn how to die is to learn how to live; to learn how to live is to learn how to act not only in this life but in the lives to come. To transform yourself truly and learn how to be reborn as a transformed being to help others is really to help the world in the most powerful way of all.
Let us dare to imagine now what it would be like to live in a world where a significant number of people took the opportunity, offered by the teachings, to devote part of their lives to serious spiritual practice, to recognize the nature of their minds, and so to use the opportunity of their deaths to move closer to buddhahood, and to be reborn with one aim, that of serving and benefiting others.
December 22
How can the wisdom mind of the buddhas be introduced? Imagine the nature of mind as your face; it is always with you, but you cannot see it without help. Now imagine that you have never seen a mirror before. The introduction by the master is like holding up a mirror suddenly in which you can, for the first time, see your face reflected.
Just like your face, this pure awareness of Rigpa is not something “new” that the master is giving you that you did not have before, nor is it something you could possibly find outside of yourself. It has always been yours, and has always been with you, but up until that startling moment you have never actually seen it directly.
December 23
In the West, people tend to be absorbed by what I call “the technology of meditation.” The modern world, after all, is fascinated by mechanisms and machines and addicted to purely practical formulas. But by far the most important feature of meditation is not the technique but the spirit: the skillful, inspired and creative way in which we practice, which could also be called “the posture.”
The masters say: “If you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment, then meditation and realization will automatically arise.” Talk about posture is not esoteric pedantry; the whole point of assuming a correct posture is to create a more inspiring environment for meditation, for the awakening of Rigpa.
There is a connection between the posture of the body and the mind. Mind and body are interrelated, and meditation arises naturally once your posture and attitude are inspired.
December 24
Mipham, a great Tibetan master who lived around the late 1900s, was a kind of Himalayan Leonardo da Vinci. He is said to have invented a clock, a cannon, and an airplane. But once each of them was complete, he destroyed it, saying it would only be the cause of further distraction.
December 25
For as long as space exists
And sentient beings endure,
May I too remain,
To dispel the misery of the world.
SHANTIDEVA
December 26
Compassion is a far greater and nobler thing than pity. Pity has its roots in fear and carries a sense of arrogance and condescension, sometimes even a smug feeling of “I’m glad it’s not me.” As Stephen Levine says: “When your fear touches someone’s pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes compassion.” To train in compassion is to know that all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways, to honor all those who suffer, and to know that you are neither separate from nor superior to anyone.
December 27
Just as the ocean has waves, and the sun has rays, so the mind’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. The ocean has waves, yet the ocean is not particularly disturbed by them. The waves are the very nature of the ocean. Waves will rise, but where do they go? Back into the ocean. And where do the waves come from? The ocean.
In the same manner, thoughts and emotions are the radiance and expression of the very nature of the mind. They rise from the mind, but where do they dissolve? Back into the mind. Whatever rises, do not see it as a particular problem. If you do not impulsively react, if you are only patient, it will once again settle into its essential nature.
When you have this understanding, then rising thoughts only enhance your practice. But when you do not understand what they intrinsically are—the radiance of the nature of your mind—then your thoughts become the seed of confusion. So have a spacious, open, and compassionate attitude toward your thoughts and emotions, because in fact your thoughts are your family, the family of your mind. Before them, as Dudjom Rinpoche used to say: “Be like an old wise man, watching a child play.”
December 28
It is crucial now that an enlightened vision of death and dying should be introduced throughout the world at all levels of education. Children should not be “protected” from death, but introduced, while young, to the true nature of death and what they can learn from it.
Why not introduce this vision, in its simplest forms, to all age groups? Knowledge about death, about how to help the dying, and about the spiritual nature of death and dying should be made available to all levels of society; it should be taught, in depth and with real imagination, in schools and colleges and universities of all kinds; and especially and most important, it should be available in teaching hospitals to nurses and doctors who will look after the dying and who have so much responsibility to them.
December 29
Where exactly is our buddha nature? It is in the skylike nature of our mind. Utterly open, free and limitless, it is fundamentally so simple and so natural that it can never be complicated, corrupted, or stained, so pure that it is beyond even the concept of purity and impurity.
To talk of this nature of mind as skylike is, of course, only a metaphor that helps us to begin to imagine its all-embracing boundlessness; for the buddha nature has a quality the sky cannot have, that of the radiant clarity of awareness.
It is said: “It is simply your flawless present awareness, cognizant and empty, naked and awake.”
December 30
“Once you have the View, although the delusory perceptions of samsara may arise in your mind, you will be like the sky; when a rainbow appears in front of it, it’s not particularly flattered, and when the clouds appear it’s not particularly disappointed either. There is a deep sense of contentment. You chuckle from inside as you see the facade of samsara and nirvana; the View will keep you constantly amused, with a little inner smile bubbling away all the time.”
DILGO KHYENTSE RINPOCHE
Thursday, December 11, 2008
B.Usada
Date/Time: 2nd January 2008 / 12:05:56 pm
Sahabat Meditasi Yth: Kami mengucapkan Selamat Tahun Baru 2008, semoga semakin sehat, tenang, bahagia dan sejahtera. Merta Ada & kel, Assisten & Staf BU. SSHB
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 27th December 2007 / 8:42:58 am
Hidup ini berkondisi & tdk ada yg gratis.Kalau rajin pangkal pandai,hemat pangkal kaya,meditasi pangkal sehat,tenang & bahagia.Sdhkah bermdtasi hari ini? Sshb
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 20th December 2007 / 2:35:38 pm
Jgn buat kebenaran menyesuaikan pada kemauan kita sendiri tapi buatlah kita menyesuaikan diri kepada kebenaran shg kualitet hidup kita bertambah baik. Sshb-MA
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 13th December 2007 / 8:25:42 am
Iklas artinya berbuat dg pikiran bersih tnp ego,benci& gelisah.Brisi rasa syang,cinta&tenang seimbang,dpt dikuatkan mlalui pengertian&mdts.Sdhkah mmilikinya?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 7th December 2007 / 12:49:31 pm
Kebodohan & ego membuat kita buta melihat kesalahan sendiri sebaliknya menyalahkan org lain.Mdts meningkatkn kewaspadaan & kejujuran kita.Sdhkah Anda bermdts?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 30th November 2007 / 10:48:55 am
Pujian menyentuh dalam ke batin,dilanjutkan dg niat baik membawa kemajuan,diikuti niat buruk menjerumuskan.Mdts menguatkn kewaspadaan dari niat buruk.Sshb,MA.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 22nd November 2007 / 4:15:27 pm
Tdk ada waktu bermdts? Sama spt "tdk stop mengisi bensin krn terlalu sibuk menyetir",pikiran kurang keheningan&kejernihan. Sdhkah Anda stop dgn bermdts.NK/MA.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 17th November 2007 / 9:12:19 am
Tak ada pesta yg tak usai,tak ada liburan yg tak berakhir,tak ada kesenangan atau penderitaan yg tak berakhir,semuanya berproses. Hadapi dg pkrn harmonis.Sshb
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 9th November 2007 / 4:06:08 pm
Susah sedikit mau pingsan,senang sedikit mabuk kepayang.Ini terjd krn pikiran msh lemah,gelisah,serakah &kawatir. Sdhkah bermdts utk menjernihkannya? Sshb-MA.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 2nd November 2007 / 1:32:22 pm
Melekat dg sesuatu yg kt senangi itu BIASA. Melepas yg kt senangi itu LUAR BIASA. Marilah mengikis KEMELEKATAN kt pelan2 dgn bermeditasi. SSHB- Meimei/pak MA.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 26th October 2007 / 8:35:17 am
Yg dia katakan & yg kudengar perkataannya sama tapi yg dia maksud & yg kumaksud belum tentu sama.Hidup sulit diduga tp dpt diatasi dg pikiran harmonis.Sshb-MA
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 18th October 2007 / 1:39:22 pm
Pikiran Buruk sgt lihai,dia akan mencari segala alasan agar kita bisa menikmati & melekati kesenangan indria. Sdhkah Anda bermdts utk menaklukkannya? SSHB-MA.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 3rd October 2007 / 5:44:50 pm
Dulu pemarah,judes&wajahnya spt raksasa,skrg sdh tua lebih lembut,pengertian&wajah spt dewi,alangkah berntungnya dia.Sdhkah mlembutkan hati dg bermdts?SSHB-MA
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 27th September 2007 / 3:09:42 pm
Lao Tzu: Dia yg mengenal orang lain adalah bijak,dia yg mengenal dirinya adalah tercerahkan. Sdhkah bermeditasi utk mengenal diri Anda? SSHB - (Putu Dana/MA).
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 20th September 2007 / 11:43:35 am
Yg tdk enak mjd enak, yg enak mjd tdk enak. Berubah terus menerus shg menimbulkan ketdkpuasan.Dpt mengatasi perubahan menimbulkan kebahagiaan.Sdhkah bermdts?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 13th September 2007 / 11:23:37 am
Kita sll merasa umur msh pnjang shg yg tdk penting didahulukn,yg penting(brbuat baik&mensucikn diri)ditunda,pdhl kmatian bs dtg tiap saat.Sdhkah Anda bermdts?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 6th September 2007 / 3:59:57 pm
Kala bencana,byk yg meninggal,muda/tua,kaya/miskin.Muncul pengertian, kita jg bs mengalaminya.Ingin berbuat baik,mendekati Tuhan/kekekalan,kita dijalan benar.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 31st August 2007 / 1:48:53 pm
BUSC :Sebuah batu besar takkan pecah sekali pukul dgn palu. Sudahkah Anda tekun bermeditasi untuk melenyapkan derita Anda? SSHB - Merta Ada
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 23rd August 2007 / 3:35:38 pm
Badan & pikiran spt hardware & software,bergantungan,hrs seimbang,baru dpt berfungsi sesuai yg diperlukan. Sdhkah berusaha menyeimbangkannya dg mdts? Sshb-MA.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 20th August 2007 / 9:52:49 am
Makin berani menghadapi: perubahan,ketidakpastian,susah & senang,lalu bisa melepas disebut makin dewasa mental kita.Sdhkah melatihnya hari ini dg mdts?Sshb-MA
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 10th August 2007 / 5:22:46 pm
Kata2 jauh jaraknya dgn perbuatan.Pintar teori tanpa dilaksanakan,manfaatnya kurang. Sudahkah Anda bermeditasi utk mempraktekkan kata2 dan teori Anda? SSHB-MA
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 3rd August 2007 / 3:47:23 pm
Kaya raya, terkenal dan dicintai, jk sakit tak dpt dinikmati. Sehat adalah keuntungan tertinggi. Sdhkah Anda bermeditasi hari ini agar sehat? Sshb - Merta Ada
_____________________________________________________________________________________
14th June 2007 / 8:38:46 am
Lebih baik mncintai drpd dicintai;melayani drpd dilayani;menyapa drpd disapa,akan memperkuat pikiran baik kita.Sdhkah memperkuatnya dg mdts hr ini? Harya/MA.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
21st June 2007 / 4:38:34 pm
Kebaikan adalah pertanda adanya kesehatan,cinta, dan kebahagiaan di hati.Sdhkah kebiasaan baik Anda dilatih dg bermeditasi Bali Usada hari ini? SSHB-Merta Ada
_____________________________________________________________________________________
6th July 2007 / 12:24:29 pm
Hidup kita akan lebih bermakna kalau kita mau memberi (NN).Sudahkah Anda melatih "memberi" hari ini ketika bermeditasi memancarkan cinta kasih? Sshb-Merta Ada
_____________________________________________________________________________________
12th July 2007 / 1:48:41 pm
Hati yg penuh kasih selalu peka dan peduli pd penderitaan sesama.Meditasi bersama akan mengasah kepekaan Kita.Sdhkah Anda bermeditasi hari ini? SSHB-Laksmi/MA
_____________________________________________________________________________________
18th July 2007 / 1:05:33 pm
Spt bulan sabit yg brubah smakin besar mnjadi purnama,dmkn seorg manusia sharusnya mningkatkn sifat baik & mngembangkn diri dr hari ke hari!Be happy.Metta/MA
_____________________________________________________________________________________
27th July 2007 / 9:59:09 am
J Rumi: Bagaimana aku dapat mengetahui masa silam / masa depan, kala kekuatan cahaya sang Kekasih bersinar hanya untuk SEKARANG. SSHB-Ade (disadur,Merta Ada).
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Sahabat Meditasi Yth: Kami mengucapkan Selamat Tahun Baru 2008, semoga semakin sehat, tenang, bahagia dan sejahtera. Merta Ada & kel, Assisten & Staf BU. SSHB
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 27th December 2007 / 8:42:58 am
Hidup ini berkondisi & tdk ada yg gratis.Kalau rajin pangkal pandai,hemat pangkal kaya,meditasi pangkal sehat,tenang & bahagia.Sdhkah bermdtasi hari ini? Sshb
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 20th December 2007 / 2:35:38 pm
Jgn buat kebenaran menyesuaikan pada kemauan kita sendiri tapi buatlah kita menyesuaikan diri kepada kebenaran shg kualitet hidup kita bertambah baik. Sshb-MA
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 13th December 2007 / 8:25:42 am
Iklas artinya berbuat dg pikiran bersih tnp ego,benci& gelisah.Brisi rasa syang,cinta&tenang seimbang,dpt dikuatkan mlalui pengertian&mdts.Sdhkah mmilikinya?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 7th December 2007 / 12:49:31 pm
Kebodohan & ego membuat kita buta melihat kesalahan sendiri sebaliknya menyalahkan org lain.Mdts meningkatkn kewaspadaan & kejujuran kita.Sdhkah Anda bermdts?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 30th November 2007 / 10:48:55 am
Pujian menyentuh dalam ke batin,dilanjutkan dg niat baik membawa kemajuan,diikuti niat buruk menjerumuskan.Mdts menguatkn kewaspadaan dari niat buruk.Sshb,MA.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 22nd November 2007 / 4:15:27 pm
Tdk ada waktu bermdts? Sama spt "tdk stop mengisi bensin krn terlalu sibuk menyetir",pikiran kurang keheningan&kejernihan. Sdhkah Anda stop dgn bermdts.NK/MA.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 17th November 2007 / 9:12:19 am
Tak ada pesta yg tak usai,tak ada liburan yg tak berakhir,tak ada kesenangan atau penderitaan yg tak berakhir,semuanya berproses. Hadapi dg pkrn harmonis.Sshb
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 9th November 2007 / 4:06:08 pm
Susah sedikit mau pingsan,senang sedikit mabuk kepayang.Ini terjd krn pikiran msh lemah,gelisah,serakah &kawatir. Sdhkah bermdts utk menjernihkannya? Sshb-MA.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 2nd November 2007 / 1:32:22 pm
Melekat dg sesuatu yg kt senangi itu BIASA. Melepas yg kt senangi itu LUAR BIASA. Marilah mengikis KEMELEKATAN kt pelan2 dgn bermeditasi. SSHB- Meimei/pak MA.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 26th October 2007 / 8:35:17 am
Yg dia katakan & yg kudengar perkataannya sama tapi yg dia maksud & yg kumaksud belum tentu sama.Hidup sulit diduga tp dpt diatasi dg pikiran harmonis.Sshb-MA
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 18th October 2007 / 1:39:22 pm
Pikiran Buruk sgt lihai,dia akan mencari segala alasan agar kita bisa menikmati & melekati kesenangan indria. Sdhkah Anda bermdts utk menaklukkannya? SSHB-MA.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 3rd October 2007 / 5:44:50 pm
Dulu pemarah,judes&wajahnya spt raksasa,skrg sdh tua lebih lembut,pengertian&wajah spt dewi,alangkah berntungnya dia.Sdhkah mlembutkan hati dg bermdts?SSHB-MA
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 27th September 2007 / 3:09:42 pm
Lao Tzu: Dia yg mengenal orang lain adalah bijak,dia yg mengenal dirinya adalah tercerahkan. Sdhkah bermeditasi utk mengenal diri Anda? SSHB - (Putu Dana/MA).
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 20th September 2007 / 11:43:35 am
Yg tdk enak mjd enak, yg enak mjd tdk enak. Berubah terus menerus shg menimbulkan ketdkpuasan.Dpt mengatasi perubahan menimbulkan kebahagiaan.Sdhkah bermdts?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 13th September 2007 / 11:23:37 am
Kita sll merasa umur msh pnjang shg yg tdk penting didahulukn,yg penting(brbuat baik&mensucikn diri)ditunda,pdhl kmatian bs dtg tiap saat.Sdhkah Anda bermdts?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 6th September 2007 / 3:59:57 pm
Kala bencana,byk yg meninggal,muda/tua,kaya/miskin.Muncul pengertian, kita jg bs mengalaminya.Ingin berbuat baik,mendekati Tuhan/kekekalan,kita dijalan benar.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 31st August 2007 / 1:48:53 pm
BUSC :Sebuah batu besar takkan pecah sekali pukul dgn palu. Sudahkah Anda tekun bermeditasi untuk melenyapkan derita Anda? SSHB - Merta Ada
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 23rd August 2007 / 3:35:38 pm
Badan & pikiran spt hardware & software,bergantungan,hrs seimbang,baru dpt berfungsi sesuai yg diperlukan. Sdhkah berusaha menyeimbangkannya dg mdts? Sshb-MA.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 20th August 2007 / 9:52:49 am
Makin berani menghadapi: perubahan,ketidakpastian,susah & senang,lalu bisa melepas disebut makin dewasa mental kita.Sdhkah melatihnya hari ini dg mdts?Sshb-MA
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 10th August 2007 / 5:22:46 pm
Kata2 jauh jaraknya dgn perbuatan.Pintar teori tanpa dilaksanakan,manfaatnya kurang. Sudahkah Anda bermeditasi utk mempraktekkan kata2 dan teori Anda? SSHB-MA
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 3rd August 2007 / 3:47:23 pm
Kaya raya, terkenal dan dicintai, jk sakit tak dpt dinikmati. Sehat adalah keuntungan tertinggi. Sdhkah Anda bermeditasi hari ini agar sehat? Sshb - Merta Ada
_____________________________________________________________________________________
14th June 2007 / 8:38:46 am
Lebih baik mncintai drpd dicintai;melayani drpd dilayani;menyapa drpd disapa,akan memperkuat pikiran baik kita.Sdhkah memperkuatnya dg mdts hr ini? Harya/MA.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
21st June 2007 / 4:38:34 pm
Kebaikan adalah pertanda adanya kesehatan,cinta, dan kebahagiaan di hati.Sdhkah kebiasaan baik Anda dilatih dg bermeditasi Bali Usada hari ini? SSHB-Merta Ada
_____________________________________________________________________________________
6th July 2007 / 12:24:29 pm
Hidup kita akan lebih bermakna kalau kita mau memberi (NN).Sudahkah Anda melatih "memberi" hari ini ketika bermeditasi memancarkan cinta kasih? Sshb-Merta Ada
_____________________________________________________________________________________
12th July 2007 / 1:48:41 pm
Hati yg penuh kasih selalu peka dan peduli pd penderitaan sesama.Meditasi bersama akan mengasah kepekaan Kita.Sdhkah Anda bermeditasi hari ini? SSHB-Laksmi/MA
_____________________________________________________________________________________
18th July 2007 / 1:05:33 pm
Spt bulan sabit yg brubah smakin besar mnjadi purnama,dmkn seorg manusia sharusnya mningkatkn sifat baik & mngembangkn diri dr hari ke hari!Be happy.Metta/MA
_____________________________________________________________________________________
27th July 2007 / 9:59:09 am
J Rumi: Bagaimana aku dapat mengetahui masa silam / masa depan, kala kekuatan cahaya sang Kekasih bersinar hanya untuk SEKARANG. SSHB-Ade (disadur,Merta Ada).
_____________________________________________________________________________________
New Year Greetings 2008
Date/Time: 31st December 2007
To/From: RADITA 11:34:35 am
Neither fancy gift nor beautiful word that I present 2U，Just a plain "Happy Nu Year" along with a wish that U'll always find happines for years 2come. Radita TT (陈宥达)
To/From: ARIF 3:30:44 pm
Before 2007 is over,
Before I start a new beginning..
I wanna sorry 4 everything I've done wrong..
From deepest of my heart..
Happy New Year 08. Arief S n Fam
To/From: Machmud Jerry 6:19:46 pm
selamat tahun baru 2008 semoga bahagia sekeluarga banyak rezeki sukses selalu machmud club deluxesekeluarga
To/From: LEONARD (iwan) 6:46:41 pm
Year 2007 is almost passed, we greatly thankful for all you have done to us on all the trusts, efforts, time, and friendship. Wish you a very wonderful new year. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008. Warmest regards, Leonard and families
To/From: +628111776498 10:21:16 pm
Wishing u,not juz smiles,but langhters, not juz joys,but happiness,not juz riches,but wealth,not juz peace,but serenity,'HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008'Gbu n ur family.fr budi & fam
To/From: st 12:03:51 am
Bos... Selamat tahun baru 2008 semoga tambah sukses
____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 1st January 2008
To/From: RANDY 12:31:40 am
m-Transfer
BERHASIL
01/01 00:00:08
No Urut 010108
Rp. 80,000,000.00
Ref 0001012009
Ini buat Hadiah Taon Baru He.He.He..
"Happy New Year 2008" /RANDY &kel
To/From: LEONARD (iwan) 6:27:09 am
Thank you for the Trust that U guys have given me. Hoping that this Year brings the things that you'd like the best, and that the year to follow is among your most auspicious!
'HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008' (indra & family)
To/From: Machmud Jerry 6:27:30 am
Kearifan datang dari keheningan. Lihat dan dengar saja... biar keheningan yang menjadi pembimbing.
Selamat Tahun Baru 2008 - indra&keluarga
To/From: st 6:27:49 am
Jika sumber kebahagiaan/kesedihan masih dari luar, itu tandanya seseorang belum menjadi master, masih jadi budak!
Selamat Tahun Baru 2008
To/From: FERRY 6:30:16 am
Year 2007 had passed, I greatly thankful for the trusts, efforts & friendship. Wish you a very wonderful prosperous new year.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008.
Warmest regards - indra&family
To/From: RUDY (iwan) 7:37:46 am
A New Start
A New Beginning
A New Chapter
A New Year
Forget the Bad
Cherish the Good
"Happy New Year 2008" May God Bless U" Rudy & Family
To/From: CLARA 10:24:19 am
Thanks for the greeting! Happy New Year too to u and ur family!
To/From: AGUS batam 12:27:58 pm
As the new year dawns, May it bring the beginning of new hopes, heart be filled with smiles, and Your days be warm with togetherness. Happy New Year 2008.
To/From: CANDRA1 12:51:43 pm
A New Start
A New Beginning
A New Chapter
A New Year
Forget the Bad
Cherish the Good
"Happy New Year 2008" May God Bless U" Indra & Family
To/From: inge (mbing) 4:10:51 pm
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008
To/From: LILI 9:36:12 pm
... Cinta
... Kebahagiaan
... Kasih sayang
... Persaudaraan &
... Persahabatan tumbuh dr
.+""+.+""+.
+ HATI yg +
"+.Tulus .+"
"+.+" MET TAHUN BARU, Murah Rejeki, Sehat & Sukses selalu dlm menapak hari2 ke depan. Dalam lindungan dan kasih Nya.
To/From: KAGWAN (charles) 8:58:56 pm
Selmt Tahun Baru 2008... Smg akn mndptkn yg lebih & lebih lg dlm karir, karya, kebahagiaan, dan kesehatan, wish U all the best.
To/From: KAGWAN (charles) 6:31:10 am
Kearifan datang dari keheningan. Lihat dan dengar saja... biar keheningan yang menjadi pembimbing.
Selamat Tahun Baru
To/From: RADITA 11:34:35 am
Neither fancy gift nor beautiful word that I present 2U，Just a plain "Happy Nu Year" along with a wish that U'll always find happines for years 2come. Radita TT (陈宥达)
To/From: ARIF 3:30:44 pm
Before 2007 is over,
Before I start a new beginning..
I wanna sorry 4 everything I've done wrong..
From deepest of my heart..
Happy New Year 08. Arief S n Fam
To/From: Machmud Jerry 6:19:46 pm
selamat tahun baru 2008 semoga bahagia sekeluarga banyak rezeki sukses selalu machmud club deluxesekeluarga
To/From: LEONARD (iwan) 6:46:41 pm
Year 2007 is almost passed, we greatly thankful for all you have done to us on all the trusts, efforts, time, and friendship. Wish you a very wonderful new year. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008. Warmest regards, Leonard and families
To/From: +628111776498 10:21:16 pm
Wishing u,not juz smiles,but langhters, not juz joys,but happiness,not juz riches,but wealth,not juz peace,but serenity,'HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008'Gbu n ur family.fr budi & fam
To/From: st 12:03:51 am
Bos... Selamat tahun baru 2008 semoga tambah sukses
____________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 1st January 2008
To/From: RANDY 12:31:40 am
m-Transfer
BERHASIL
01/01 00:00:08
No Urut 010108
Rp. 80,000,000.00
Ref 0001012009
Ini buat Hadiah Taon Baru He.He.He..
"Happy New Year 2008" /RANDY &kel
To/From: LEONARD (iwan) 6:27:09 am
Thank you for the Trust that U guys have given me. Hoping that this Year brings the things that you'd like the best, and that the year to follow is among your most auspicious!
'HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008' (indra & family)
To/From: Machmud Jerry 6:27:30 am
Kearifan datang dari keheningan. Lihat dan dengar saja... biar keheningan yang menjadi pembimbing.
Selamat Tahun Baru 2008 - indra&keluarga
To/From: st 6:27:49 am
Jika sumber kebahagiaan/kesedihan masih dari luar, itu tandanya seseorang belum menjadi master, masih jadi budak!
Selamat Tahun Baru 2008
To/From: FERRY 6:30:16 am
Year 2007 had passed, I greatly thankful for the trusts, efforts & friendship. Wish you a very wonderful prosperous new year.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008.
Warmest regards - indra&family
To/From: RUDY (iwan) 7:37:46 am
A New Start
A New Beginning
A New Chapter
A New Year
Forget the Bad
Cherish the Good
"Happy New Year 2008" May God Bless U" Rudy & Family
To/From: CLARA 10:24:19 am
Thanks for the greeting! Happy New Year too to u and ur family!
To/From: AGUS batam 12:27:58 pm
As the new year dawns, May it bring the beginning of new hopes, heart be filled with smiles, and Your days be warm with togetherness. Happy New Year 2008.
To/From: CANDRA1 12:51:43 pm
A New Start
A New Beginning
A New Chapter
A New Year
Forget the Bad
Cherish the Good
"Happy New Year 2008" May God Bless U" Indra & Family
To/From: inge (mbing) 4:10:51 pm
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008
To/From: LILI 9:36:12 pm
... Cinta
... Kebahagiaan
... Kasih sayang
... Persaudaraan &
... Persahabatan tumbuh dr
.+""+.+""+.
+ HATI yg +
"+.Tulus .+"
"+.+" MET TAHUN BARU, Murah Rejeki, Sehat & Sukses selalu dlm menapak hari2 ke depan. Dalam lindungan dan kasih Nya.
To/From: KAGWAN (charles) 8:58:56 pm
Selmt Tahun Baru 2008... Smg akn mndptkn yg lebih & lebih lg dlm karir, karya, kebahagiaan, dan kesehatan, wish U all the best.
To/From: KAGWAN (charles) 6:31:10 am
Kearifan datang dari keheningan. Lihat dan dengar saja... biar keheningan yang menjadi pembimbing.
Selamat Tahun Baru
KL CAFS 2008 March
Date: 26th March 2008
To/From: ¥
12:46:03 pm Lagi ndek toll ini, bagaimana spt hari ini hehehe...
12:49:55 pm Td nanges tak tingal sembunyi dilut. Wes bubuk i ke toko langsung bangun. nanges1jam. Skr kirim rantang. Sampe di embong mau tungu mamayen sampe sandal e coplok 1 tp tau
12:51:34 pm Hehehe.... Iya kapane itu ya gitu, ngambek sandal mau keluar pintu. Nakal itu, tp ndak papa nanti pelan2 ngerti hehehe...
12:58:56 pm Langsung katae ama e wes bok go to scol sek he he..
1:00:10 pm Opo o... Lak ben tambah isa cepet ngerti tho, ndak gitu tambah gede tambah angel mbujuk i ne.
1:01:48 pm Ya ya..biar diurus bu gurunya. Apa mau gymbore sek he he..
1:02:45 pm Ya di trial ndak papa, diliak dek e seneng seng mana
1:08:37 pm Ya ya..aduh untung ada i in pijet urat tgn e cim langsung enteng. Akeh urat e merongkol
1:53:54 pm 01016 603 22961188 ndak tau 603 itu wes termasuk kode negara ndak, apa cuma kode ne kl. Coba en ae. Kmr 902 a/n: indra darmawan go
1:58:09 pm Nanti ae telp e, sms o sek lek mau telp. Skr mau tak tinggal makan ambek pegi careffour
2:05:04 pm Ok.nanti ae .enak e jalan2
6:34:28 pm Wes di htl ta?aduh untung ndak semaput cim ini.td naek tanga pasar gak kuat. Masuk angen.mag,boyok,kepala sakit kabeh,untung ada iin ahli urat, td mau bubuk di pasar,tp kesentrong ac, untung kuat sampe totop,bubukdi mobil, wes lumayanan,tak minumi obat mag dan nuralgin
6:35:54 pm 1jam lagi, nanti lek wes tak sms. Ndak pegi dr tha?
6:37:20 pm Td mau e, tp skr gari boyok e, ini klesetan ambek ditungui si bunciek
6:45:01 pm Telp o skr
6:46:00 pm 5min lagi telp o, check en sek'pulsa e piro. Ben tau habis berapa
7:24:05 pm Liakno celana pendek converse (ada strip lebar putih) ukuran piro.
7:39:34 pm Xl yg warna abu ya
7:47:00 pm Ok. Pegi makan sek
To/From: 'A1'-K
12:50:01 pm Wes trima 300
12:52:15 pm Hehehe... Yo wes rodok lego titik
2:03:41 pm Htl e ruame, Kmr e cuilik, mall e wes tambah rame.
3:07:38 pm fasilitas e komplit ?
3:14:00 pm Gak tau, tp lumayan cidek mall e, tambah ake makanan.
3:30:44 pm Me mari jd pengadilan agama buat Pasangan mpek + herder e hehehe
3:34:43 pm Wik... Dibawa pegi rumah?
3:36:55 pm Gak, seng wdk isuk2 nelpon, mau dtg ngomong2 . . . Trus seng lanang ta panggil menyisan . . . Hehehe
3:39:03 pm Selamat wes entek alkohol e, ndak gitu iso muta2. Tak peker seng lanang ngejokno lu sisan. Paleng nge-check 300 e punya e sapa hehehe...
3:40:50 pm Hehehe . . . Gak, seng wdk wes persis koyok seng sini omongno . . . Ya wes semoga sukses ae lah mpek hahahahaha
3:41:41 pm Hehehe kalah mbleneki chivas 4 botol
3:42:43 pm Baru terima 300 wes paketan e koyok gini, bayangno lek 1.5 langsung waktu itu.
3:43:30 pm Hahaha . . . Dipasung koyok bojone wiro
3:45:28 pm Hahaha... Cuocok e gitu rasane. Seng bener suruh kerja njabuti bulune sarang burung ae. Lek mari 1kg dijak pegi 1x
3:48:19 pm Hahaha ... Iso alergi bulu.. Sampe buluken
To/From: DIGI Date/Time: 26th March 2008 / 1:35:25 pm
DiGi welcomes you to Malaysia, we wish you a pleasant stay! To make calls,
dial +
To/From: DIGI Date/Time: 26th March 2008 / 1:35:34 pm
For more travel info, contact TourismMalaysia @ 1300885050. Stay with DiGi for the hottest IDD & roam rates in town.
To/From: CELCOM Date/Time: 26th March 2008 / 2:16:26 pm
Welcome to Malaysia.You can access your Careline and Voicemail by dialling your home short codes,the same way as you do at home.Have a pleasant stay in Celcom
To/From: LULUK
4:46:41 pm Cak... Aku tolong delokno ISBN ne dong gong e jy. Tak golekno sisan, mompong ndek kene.
4:48:12 pm ìsbn iku penerbit tah?
4:52:04 pm Duduk, koyok barcode e. Mlebu o website e onok. Yo menisan penerbit e ae, trus telp e sisan, bek2 e gak onok tak telp, soale aku tinggal ndek cidek e markas e.
4:53:00 pm Duduk, koyok barcode e. Mlebu o website e onok. Yo menisan penerbit e ae, trus telp e sisan, bek2 e gak onok tak telp, soale aku tinggal ndek cidek e markas e.
4:59:43 pm ISBN:9789833332519, Publisher:JY books Sdn Bhd. Telp.6Θ3-22841213.
5:00:21 pm Judul e cak?
5:10:04 pm DONG GONG, Date selection. Sori suwi komputere hang. Wes sampek KL ?
5:11:22 pm Wes, maeng jam 12. Tinggal ndek midvalley hehehe... Ketokane lt yo jek lumayan lares, aku mari ndelok tokone.
5:14:52 pm Hehe...soale LT podo karo JY, jos marketinge. Lek suhu kan jos klenik'e saiki. Tapi francis cukup pede yo, kursuse gak onok seng murah.
5:17:06 pm Hehehe... Iyo, didelok ae yok opo wong e mene. Mudah2 an gak salah invest hehehe.... Wong kene ketok ane fengshui minded mulai enom sampek tuwek
5:19:54 pm Nek wes balik invest'e bareng budhal maneh cak. Kudu go inter mmg ben mentereng.
5:21:58 pm Hehehe... Iyo, lek apik xuan gong da gua e gak popo dijokok, bila perlu yin feng shui ne sisan hahaha...
5:25:34 pm Hahaha..iyo wes kamsia.
To/From: inge (mbing)
11:00:38 pm sory ganggu Ko indra kok ada masalah lagi ya anakku sing gede habis kecelakaan spd mtr
11:04:00 pm Kapan suk? Arek e ya apa? Ditubruk apa nobrok?
11:11:18 pm Tadi sore jam 5 dijl margo mulyo ditubruk spd pancal skrg dioperasi tulang tangane sikut lepas dr engsele
11:15:11 pm 4-5 hr belakangan ini dek e ada pegi2 ndak?
11:21:21 pm Maksud e pegi2 sing gimana tiap hr sih jemput pacare dr plg kerja
11:24:22 pm Slain dr kebiasaan hari-hari dek e ada pergi ketempat lain gak? Soale biasane lek kecelakaan melibatkan yg lebih ringan dr kt trus efek e parah itu ada teguran.
11:30:12 pm Ko indra ada di malysia ta? sory aku gak ngerti maksud e sms itu tadi
11:32:23 pm Iya ndek m'sia. Lek gak nanti aku mbalek ae ngomong lagi, tgl 2 ben lebih jelas.
11:34:48 pm Ok kamsia
________________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 27th March 2008
To/From: ¥
8:02:38 am Goooood morning... Wes enakan acim?
8:07:08 am Jam 9 sini nanti dipapak. Lagi b-fast, uenak2 ada yong tofu n nasi lemak. Tp hari ini londo sek b-fast e. Ndak sekolah?
12:55:16 pm Acim wes enak an? Sekolah tadi?
2:14:27 pm Wes lumayan cim, anak u anget pagi jd mbolos, tp wes minum ciontong, td tak jak ke gymbore tp ndak mud mungkin gak enak badan
2:16:08 pm Td tak bubukno tros tak tingal ke toko, bangun langsung perangan 10min he he,ngompol gak mau ganti minta mamayen he he..katae ama e wes gak anget skr
6:14:02 pm Wes ndek rumah?
6:26:46 pm Wes mari diman
6:27:37 pm 5min lagi telp, soale jek pup2 skr
6:28:21 pm Ok
To/From: 'A1'-K
7:51:26 pm Hehehe... Celana e larang2, paleng murah 80an.
7:52:09 pm Celana dowo tah ?
7:53:37 pm Gak, shorts' adidas, nike, converse. Tadi Plus 919.5
7:54:38 pm Oh . . . Yo beli o, lek harga segt nike ae. Ok.
7:58:20 pm Kaos e gak ada seng murah ? Celana lek seng murah celana bola
7:59:30 pm Celana bola 60an. Kaos kutungan punya e reebook ada, rasane lumayan harga 40.
8:00:41 pm Ya lek apik beli o ae, celana bal gak usah, mura nok sini
________________________________________________________________________________________
Date: 28th March 2008
To/From: LULUK
11:52:17 am Cak, gambarmu wes muncul dek blog eric, tp ketok teko buri. Cuma ati-ati nek onok sesi foto maneh hehehe...
1:15:24 pm Hehehe... Iyo aku sengaja longgo ngarep dewe ben gak ke photo, paleng kenek o yo geger e. Seng wingi davis ternyata hehehe...
3:52:09 pm Davis melok ngulang? Yok opo kualitas francis? Delok gambare rodok krg bonafid yo, duduk dek htl? Onok wong teko indo ?
6:10:24 pm Dvs tas melok kok, sisipan aku. Ngajar e enak, bedo pengalaman ambek gak hehehe... tp mene tas ngomongno seng seru, aplikasi 81 combo.
8:21:34 pm Iso ngrekam kan? Lek delok tulisane ericteoh, francis iki haruse jago prediksi. Yo didelok wae cak.
8:21:38 pm Seng melok wong piro? Teko endi wae?
8:27:39 pm Yo lek menurut murid e seng ngulang memang iso prediksi. Mestine ilmu prediksi ne mene. Memang spesialis san yuan, jd kabeh nggawe flying star. Wes tak rekam. Wong 10, seng ngulang 4, soale gratis. Jarene lek teko maneh iso nyerep 25%, ke 3x baru nyerep kabeh hehehe...
8:33:13 pm Yo sip lah. Onok maneh kpn? Nek praktek koyok awakmu mungkin melok sepisan wes 75% hehe...melok pindo iso 150%.
8:36:19 pm Onok mane lek gak akhir agustus yo september, engkok tak paranane maneh hehehe.... Ben gak rugi, aku tuku luopan e, tp leren nggawe sek, mesti pas hr baik jarene. Iki wes onok seng antri 4bln jek dorong entok. Embo temenan hari baik opo ngenteni borongan order hahaha... Wong e gak medit lek ditakok i.
8:48:41 pm Wah nek luopan wae gawe hari apik, berarti kuat dukune hehe...cocok wes. Yo enak nek gak medit, iso kebuka wawasane. Piro rego luopane? Bayar disek?
8:55:00 pm Hehehe... Larang 1600!, bayar kari. Sampek sak iki jek dorong nggawe. Jarene handmade. Lek gak murid e dek e gak gelem ngedoli. Aku tuku buku luopan e dek e.
To/From: RUDY (iwan)
1:41:32 pm Lu jd ke malaysia in ?
1:41:59 pm Ya ini lagi di kl
1:44:00 pm Kpn blk in ? Gw hr ini ada interview cwk jd sales gw in shio monyet in
1:44:59 pm Tgl 2 balik, cantik nggak? Hehehe...
1:46:40 pm Biasa aja tp gw cr monyet nya in
To/From: ARIF
4:38:14 pm Suhu saham tk jual skrg naike buanter susah yah?
6:11:06 pm Hehehe... Yo wes drpd jantungan.
To/From: 'A1'-K
6:11:58 pm Kyr tanya ono mau mobil / oleh2 apa
6:15:43 pm Sembarang wes, seng gampang bawakane
6:36:05 pm Ndak ketok running shoes seng apik ?
6:37:10 pm Blm liak, mari gini ae tak liak e. Merk?
6:38:03 pm Sembarang merk
6:40:58 pm Ukuran e44 / 11 tha?
6:42:51 pm Cobaen ae, different brand, diff sizing, bok gesusu beli biasane sungai wang lbh akeh piliane
To/From: ¥
7:45:03 pm Wes plg tha..engkong e mau ke sini
7:45:44 pm Jek ndandakno hp. Mari gini tak pateni 30min
8:28:59 pm Wes, telp o.
8:29:51 pm Ada engkong e.nanti ae ya
9:58:30 pm Tak telp ya
________________________________________________________________________________________
Date: 29th March 2008
To/From: LULUK
9:32:57 am Iki onok koncoe tn seng melok hehehe... (ngulang) c.p lim
10:25:26 am Wah nek dek dunia maya cp.lim iku wes kelas master. Berarti francis kualitase wes diakui.
10:30:14 am Hehehe... Jarene dek e flying star e frnacis iki ciamik, sampek dek e ae ngulang sak iki. Rasane wingi bareng davis dek e. Ngomong e ketokane hebat.
To/From: ¥
12:46:03 pm Lagi ndek toll ini, bagaimana spt hari ini hehehe...
12:49:55 pm Td nanges tak tingal sembunyi dilut. Wes bubuk i ke toko langsung bangun. nanges1jam. Skr kirim rantang. Sampe di embong mau tungu mamayen sampe sandal e coplok 1 tp tau
12:51:34 pm Hehehe.... Iya kapane itu ya gitu, ngambek sandal mau keluar pintu. Nakal itu, tp ndak papa nanti pelan2 ngerti hehehe...
12:58:56 pm Langsung katae ama e wes bok go to scol sek he he..
1:00:10 pm Opo o... Lak ben tambah isa cepet ngerti tho, ndak gitu tambah gede tambah angel mbujuk i ne.
1:01:48 pm Ya ya..biar diurus bu gurunya. Apa mau gymbore sek he he..
1:02:45 pm Ya di trial ndak papa, diliak dek e seneng seng mana
1:08:37 pm Ya ya..aduh untung ada i in pijet urat tgn e cim langsung enteng. Akeh urat e merongkol
1:53:54 pm 01016 603 22961188 ndak tau 603 itu wes termasuk kode negara ndak, apa cuma kode ne kl. Coba en ae. Kmr 902 a/n: indra darmawan go
1:58:09 pm Nanti ae telp e, sms o sek lek mau telp. Skr mau tak tinggal makan ambek pegi careffour
2:05:04 pm Ok.nanti ae .enak e jalan2
6:34:28 pm Wes di htl ta?aduh untung ndak semaput cim ini.td naek tanga pasar gak kuat. Masuk angen.mag,boyok,kepala sakit kabeh,untung ada iin ahli urat, td mau bubuk di pasar,tp kesentrong ac, untung kuat sampe totop,bubukdi mobil, wes lumayanan,tak minumi obat mag dan nuralgin
6:35:54 pm 1jam lagi, nanti lek wes tak sms. Ndak pegi dr tha?
6:37:20 pm Td mau e, tp skr gari boyok e, ini klesetan ambek ditungui si bunciek
6:45:01 pm Telp o skr
6:46:00 pm 5min lagi telp o, check en sek'pulsa e piro. Ben tau habis berapa
7:24:05 pm Liakno celana pendek converse (ada strip lebar putih) ukuran piro.
7:39:34 pm Xl yg warna abu ya
7:47:00 pm Ok. Pegi makan sek
To/From: 'A1'-K
12:50:01 pm Wes trima 300
12:52:15 pm Hehehe... Yo wes rodok lego titik
2:03:41 pm Htl e ruame, Kmr e cuilik, mall e wes tambah rame.
3:07:38 pm fasilitas e komplit ?
3:14:00 pm Gak tau, tp lumayan cidek mall e, tambah ake makanan.
3:30:44 pm Me mari jd pengadilan agama buat Pasangan mpek + herder e hehehe
3:34:43 pm Wik... Dibawa pegi rumah?
3:36:55 pm Gak, seng wdk isuk2 nelpon, mau dtg ngomong2 . . . Trus seng lanang ta panggil menyisan . . . Hehehe
3:39:03 pm Selamat wes entek alkohol e, ndak gitu iso muta2. Tak peker seng lanang ngejokno lu sisan. Paleng nge-check 300 e punya e sapa hehehe...
3:40:50 pm Hehehe . . . Gak, seng wdk wes persis koyok seng sini omongno . . . Ya wes semoga sukses ae lah mpek hahahahaha
3:41:41 pm Hehehe kalah mbleneki chivas 4 botol
3:42:43 pm Baru terima 300 wes paketan e koyok gini, bayangno lek 1.5 langsung waktu itu.
3:43:30 pm Hahaha . . . Dipasung koyok bojone wiro
3:45:28 pm Hahaha... Cuocok e gitu rasane. Seng bener suruh kerja njabuti bulune sarang burung ae. Lek mari 1kg dijak pegi 1x
3:48:19 pm Hahaha ... Iso alergi bulu.. Sampe buluken
To/From: DIGI Date/Time: 26th March 2008 / 1:35:25 pm
DiGi welcomes you to Malaysia, we wish you a pleasant stay! To make calls,
dial +
To/From: DIGI Date/Time: 26th March 2008 / 1:35:34 pm
For more travel info, contact TourismMalaysia @ 1300885050. Stay with DiGi for the hottest IDD & roam rates in town.
To/From: CELCOM Date/Time: 26th March 2008 / 2:16:26 pm
Welcome to Malaysia.You can access your Careline and Voicemail by dialling your home short codes,the same way as you do at home.Have a pleasant stay in Celcom
To/From: LULUK
4:46:41 pm Cak... Aku tolong delokno ISBN ne dong gong e jy. Tak golekno sisan, mompong ndek kene.
4:48:12 pm ìsbn iku penerbit tah?
4:52:04 pm Duduk, koyok barcode e. Mlebu o website e onok. Yo menisan penerbit e ae, trus telp e sisan, bek2 e gak onok tak telp, soale aku tinggal ndek cidek e markas e.
4:53:00 pm Duduk, koyok barcode e. Mlebu o website e onok. Yo menisan penerbit e ae, trus telp e sisan, bek2 e gak onok tak telp, soale aku tinggal ndek cidek e markas e.
4:59:43 pm ISBN:9789833332519, Publisher:JY books Sdn Bhd. Telp.6Θ3-22841213.
5:00:21 pm Judul e cak?
5:10:04 pm DONG GONG, Date selection. Sori suwi komputere hang. Wes sampek KL ?
5:11:22 pm Wes, maeng jam 12. Tinggal ndek midvalley hehehe... Ketokane lt yo jek lumayan lares, aku mari ndelok tokone.
5:14:52 pm Hehe...soale LT podo karo JY, jos marketinge. Lek suhu kan jos klenik'e saiki. Tapi francis cukup pede yo, kursuse gak onok seng murah.
5:17:06 pm Hehehe... Iyo, didelok ae yok opo wong e mene. Mudah2 an gak salah invest hehehe.... Wong kene ketok ane fengshui minded mulai enom sampek tuwek
5:19:54 pm Nek wes balik invest'e bareng budhal maneh cak. Kudu go inter mmg ben mentereng.
5:21:58 pm Hehehe... Iyo, lek apik xuan gong da gua e gak popo dijokok, bila perlu yin feng shui ne sisan hahaha...
5:25:34 pm Hahaha..iyo wes kamsia.
To/From: inge (mbing)
11:00:38 pm sory ganggu Ko indra kok ada masalah lagi ya anakku sing gede habis kecelakaan spd mtr
11:04:00 pm Kapan suk? Arek e ya apa? Ditubruk apa nobrok?
11:11:18 pm Tadi sore jam 5 dijl margo mulyo ditubruk spd pancal skrg dioperasi tulang tangane sikut lepas dr engsele
11:15:11 pm 4-5 hr belakangan ini dek e ada pegi2 ndak?
11:21:21 pm Maksud e pegi2 sing gimana tiap hr sih jemput pacare dr plg kerja
11:24:22 pm Slain dr kebiasaan hari-hari dek e ada pergi ketempat lain gak? Soale biasane lek kecelakaan melibatkan yg lebih ringan dr kt trus efek e parah itu ada teguran.
11:30:12 pm Ko indra ada di malysia ta? sory aku gak ngerti maksud e sms itu tadi
11:32:23 pm Iya ndek m'sia. Lek gak nanti aku mbalek ae ngomong lagi, tgl 2 ben lebih jelas.
11:34:48 pm Ok kamsia
________________________________________________________________________________________
Date/Time: 27th March 2008
To/From: ¥
8:02:38 am Goooood morning... Wes enakan acim?
8:07:08 am Jam 9 sini nanti dipapak. Lagi b-fast, uenak2 ada yong tofu n nasi lemak. Tp hari ini londo sek b-fast e. Ndak sekolah?
12:55:16 pm Acim wes enak an? Sekolah tadi?
2:14:27 pm Wes lumayan cim, anak u anget pagi jd mbolos, tp wes minum ciontong, td tak jak ke gymbore tp ndak mud mungkin gak enak badan
2:16:08 pm Td tak bubukno tros tak tingal ke toko, bangun langsung perangan 10min he he,ngompol gak mau ganti minta mamayen he he..katae ama e wes gak anget skr
6:14:02 pm Wes ndek rumah?
6:26:46 pm Wes mari diman
6:27:37 pm 5min lagi telp, soale jek pup2 skr
6:28:21 pm Ok
To/From: 'A1'-K
7:51:26 pm Hehehe... Celana e larang2, paleng murah 80an.
7:52:09 pm Celana dowo tah ?
7:53:37 pm Gak, shorts' adidas, nike, converse. Tadi Plus 919.5
7:54:38 pm Oh . . . Yo beli o, lek harga segt nike ae. Ok.
7:58:20 pm Kaos e gak ada seng murah ? Celana lek seng murah celana bola
7:59:30 pm Celana bola 60an. Kaos kutungan punya e reebook ada, rasane lumayan harga 40.
8:00:41 pm Ya lek apik beli o ae, celana bal gak usah, mura nok sini
________________________________________________________________________________________
Date: 28th March 2008
To/From: LULUK
11:52:17 am Cak, gambarmu wes muncul dek blog eric, tp ketok teko buri. Cuma ati-ati nek onok sesi foto maneh hehehe...
1:15:24 pm Hehehe... Iyo aku sengaja longgo ngarep dewe ben gak ke photo, paleng kenek o yo geger e. Seng wingi davis ternyata hehehe...
3:52:09 pm Davis melok ngulang? Yok opo kualitas francis? Delok gambare rodok krg bonafid yo, duduk dek htl? Onok wong teko indo ?
6:10:24 pm Dvs tas melok kok, sisipan aku. Ngajar e enak, bedo pengalaman ambek gak hehehe... tp mene tas ngomongno seng seru, aplikasi 81 combo.
8:21:34 pm Iso ngrekam kan? Lek delok tulisane ericteoh, francis iki haruse jago prediksi. Yo didelok wae cak.
8:21:38 pm Seng melok wong piro? Teko endi wae?
8:27:39 pm Yo lek menurut murid e seng ngulang memang iso prediksi. Mestine ilmu prediksi ne mene. Memang spesialis san yuan, jd kabeh nggawe flying star. Wes tak rekam. Wong 10, seng ngulang 4, soale gratis. Jarene lek teko maneh iso nyerep 25%, ke 3x baru nyerep kabeh hehehe...
8:33:13 pm Yo sip lah. Onok maneh kpn? Nek praktek koyok awakmu mungkin melok sepisan wes 75% hehe...melok pindo iso 150%.
8:36:19 pm Onok mane lek gak akhir agustus yo september, engkok tak paranane maneh hehehe.... Ben gak rugi, aku tuku luopan e, tp leren nggawe sek, mesti pas hr baik jarene. Iki wes onok seng antri 4bln jek dorong entok. Embo temenan hari baik opo ngenteni borongan order hahaha... Wong e gak medit lek ditakok i.
8:48:41 pm Wah nek luopan wae gawe hari apik, berarti kuat dukune hehe...cocok wes. Yo enak nek gak medit, iso kebuka wawasane. Piro rego luopane? Bayar disek?
8:55:00 pm Hehehe... Larang 1600!, bayar kari. Sampek sak iki jek dorong nggawe. Jarene handmade. Lek gak murid e dek e gak gelem ngedoli. Aku tuku buku luopan e dek e.
To/From: RUDY (iwan)
1:41:32 pm Lu jd ke malaysia in ?
1:41:59 pm Ya ini lagi di kl
1:44:00 pm Kpn blk in ? Gw hr ini ada interview cwk jd sales gw in shio monyet in
1:44:59 pm Tgl 2 balik, cantik nggak? Hehehe...
1:46:40 pm Biasa aja tp gw cr monyet nya in
To/From: ARIF
4:38:14 pm Suhu saham tk jual skrg naike buanter susah yah?
6:11:06 pm Hehehe... Yo wes drpd jantungan.
To/From: 'A1'-K
6:11:58 pm Kyr tanya ono mau mobil / oleh2 apa
6:15:43 pm Sembarang wes, seng gampang bawakane
6:36:05 pm Ndak ketok running shoes seng apik ?
6:37:10 pm Blm liak, mari gini ae tak liak e. Merk?
6:38:03 pm Sembarang merk
6:40:58 pm Ukuran e44 / 11 tha?
6:42:51 pm Cobaen ae, different brand, diff sizing, bok gesusu beli biasane sungai wang lbh akeh piliane
To/From: ¥
7:45:03 pm Wes plg tha..engkong e mau ke sini
7:45:44 pm Jek ndandakno hp. Mari gini tak pateni 30min
8:28:59 pm Wes, telp o.
8:29:51 pm Ada engkong e.nanti ae ya
9:58:30 pm Tak telp ya
________________________________________________________________________________________
Date: 29th March 2008
To/From: LULUK
9:32:57 am Iki onok koncoe tn seng melok hehehe... (ngulang) c.p lim
10:25:26 am Wah nek dek dunia maya cp.lim iku wes kelas master. Berarti francis kualitase wes diakui.
10:30:14 am Hehehe... Jarene dek e flying star e frnacis iki ciamik, sampek dek e ae ngulang sak iki. Rasane wingi bareng davis dek e. Ngomong e ketokane hebat.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)