Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 06/06/2025We are like lightning bugs circling a field in the summer. Without clear goals and the knowledge to implement them, the energy we expend has little value and few results. Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche Time, Space, and Knowledge A New Vision of Reality 000
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Space and the awareness of space. This is the basic message. -Yeshe Tsogyal 0101
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 08/05/2025This may also describe those days in the early 70s when Dharma was seeded in Boulder by Trungpa Rinpoche. But not the even earlier arrival in Berkeley, and the vast activity of Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche. 020
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 04/05/2025The mind's own nature is emptiness, luminosity, and bliss. It is free from all thought, yet embraces all things. - Naropa 061
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Thinking is the combination of -Conditioning -Recall -Inferential Cognition 000
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 30/04/2025As the Buddha Nature pervades all beings; Not a single being is unsuitable. Uttaratantra 1162
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Look naturally at the essence of your own mind, Free from arising, abiding, & ceasing. By looking this way, you see Awareness/Emptiness, free of clinging and fixation, the naked Dharmatā. This is the true Guru Rinpoche of definitive meaning. - Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche 041
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 14/03/2025bbc.com/future/artic...bbc.comThe bizarre quantum paradox of 'negative time'Cause is usually followed by effect, but in the quantum world, time's sequencing is not so straightforward. 020
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Losar arrived during a rare Planetary alignment Chotrul Duchen arrives on a Lunar eclipse 031
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Let go of the one having thoughts; And you become the one witnessing thoughts. 000
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 23/02/2025A teacher once told me, regarding karma, one thing to avoid is ever allowing someone to kill a living being for you. This could happen in your kitchen or in a restaurant. Regret (not guilt nor shame) begins the purification process for past karmic actions. 000
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 22/02/2025I prostrate to my own mind, That eliminates mind's ignorance, By dispelling the web of mental events, Through this very mind. -Nagarjuna 130
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 21/02/2025It is not appearances that bind you Naro. It is your clinging to appearances that binds you. - Tilopa to his student Naropa 021
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 09/02/2025If you tighten the string too much it will snap; And if you leave it too slack, it won't play. 031
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 07/02/2025The difference between a trained mind and an untrained mind lies in the ability of pausing, looking at that, and sensing whether it is necessary or not. An untrained mind doesn't think at all; everything just happens. That is simply called habitual patterns. - Khandro Rinpoche 021
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. -Jung 🧘 020
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Just recognizing this nature of awareness is not enough. The aspect of abidance, becoming acquainted with that state, must be stabilized. So it is important to sustain undistractedly the constant mindfulness of letting your mind rest in the natural state. -Lama Mipham 040
Upadeśa @olddog108.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Buddha described the experience of anger as holding onto a hot coal while waiting to throw it at an enemy. 031
