Crazy? Or Crazy Wisdom? Advice from the Master
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What is the difference between crazy wisdom and just being crazy? ~ Chögyam Trungpa
Chögyam Trungpa: In the case of ordinary craziness, we are constantly trying to win the game. We might even try to turn craziness into a credential of some kind so we can come out ahead. We might try to magnetize people with passion or destroy them with aggression or whatever. There’s a constant game going on in the mind. Mind’s game- constant strategies going on- might bring us a moment of relief occasionally, but that relief has to be maintai…
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ACI 20th Anniversary Video – YouTube
http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/21/the-battle-for-buddha/
Boom, there is the rub! Is the #mindfulness craze a good thing or bad thing? Is it useful when divorced from the ethical underpinnings? Killer quote:
Snipers could also benefit from mindfulness training, notes Ronald Purser, a professor of management in the College of Business at San Francisco State University and a practising Buddhist: “It would enhance attention, concentration and aim. Terrorists would benefit from it, too.”
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ACI-SD Secrets Revealed Edition!
Let Me Tell You A Secret: Another Asian Classics Institute (ACI) teacher has moved to San Diego! Okay, I know him but I haven’t even seen here face-to-face yet, because he’s been really busy with work…
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Giving is the Cause of Getting, Now with SCIENCE
Any Buddhist worth their beads should already know this to be true, and now this professor at the Wharton School of Business puts it into practice, proves it with case-studies and wrote a book about it, which is now in my Amazon Wishlist (contact me about that last one: my birthday is coming up)
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Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead?
The organizational psychologist Adam Grant argues that the key to hyperefficiency is tirelessly helping others.
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More awesome from Robert Thurman : WHAT IS BUDDHISM? on Vimeo
He also explain why, quite frankly, the Tibetan tradition is better, but not in so few words
Robert Thurman : WHAT IS BUDDHISM? from tad fettig on Vimeo.
All that and he’s Uma’s dad, too.
Can a Westerner get Enlightened? Bat-Orshikh is a Mongolian Lama featured in +Fettig…
Can a Westerner get Enlightened? Bat-Orshikh is a Mongolian Lama featured in +Fettig Tad's upcoming documentary, "Sky Burial"
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Three Kinds of Meditation
A comment to the question "Does anyone use sutras when they meditate?" in the Buddhism and Meditation community on G+
According to the Indo-Tibetan tradition, there are 3 kinds of meditation, and sutras would definitely be useful for 2 of them. The kind we are most familiar with is_jok gom_, or placement meditation. That is focussing single-pointedly on an object; such as the breath, a Buddha image, sensations, etc.
What is really helpful for changing the heart are shar gom and che gom, review, and analytical meditation. In a deep, quiet mind state, you can review a sutra, a list of problems or benefit from sutra, for examples. Analytical meditation is to kick it around: do the steps follow? Does this accord with my own experience?
Using such things as following the breath as a warm-up, contemplation like this is much more powerful than just thinking about stuff.
All 3 could actually happen in one session even: suppose you recall the steps to death awareness. Then you examine them. Out of that may pop-up a powerful personal realization of you own impermanence. Then focus deeply on this realization to "burn it in" to your mind.
Hope this helps.?
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Swimming in the Infinite | Tricycle | Robert Thurman
Awesomeness from Robert Thurman:
“There is no point in being Buddhist! One does it for the sheer joy of swimming in the infinite!”
via Swimming in the Infinite | Tricycle.
From Matthieu Ricard, a man proven by #science to be happy:
From Matthieu Ricard, a man proven by #science to be happy:
"The search for #happiness is not about looking at life through rose-colored glasses or blinding oneself to the pain and imperfections of the world. Nor is happiness a state of exultation to be perpetuated at all costs; it is the purging of mental toxins, such as hatred and obsession, that literally poison the mind. It is also about learning how to put things in perspective and reduce the gap between appearances and #reality . To that end we must acquire a better knowledge of how the #mind works and a more accurate insight into the nature of things, for in its deepest sense, suffering is intimately linked to a misapprehension of the nature of reality." Be sure to look up his #tedtalk
Wearing a 128-channel geodesic sensor net, Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard sits in a soundproof room and prepares for an electroencephalography (EEG) test at the EEG facility in the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on June 5, 2008. Ricard is a longtime participant in an ongoing research study led by Richard J. Davidson that monitors a subject’s brain waves during various forms of meditation including compassion meditation. Davidson is director of the Waisman Lab for Brain Imaging and Behavior (WLBIB) and the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry.©UW-Madison University Communications 608/262-0067Photo by: Jeff MillerDate: 06/08 File#: NIKON D3 digital frame 2838
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