Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

Find inner peace and transform your life with meditation. Fan http://t.co/rDSYkbxeIC On our website you can learn the basics of Buddhist meditation. how-to-meditate.org Joined April 2011

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

3 hours ago

Since beginningless time sentient beings like ourself have been trapped in the nightmare of samsara because we have never awoken from the sleep of ignorance, not realizing that all our suffering is just the creation of our own confused mind. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

a day ago

‘Buddha’ is Sanskrit for ‘Awakened One’ – one who has awakened from the sleep of ignorance and is free from the dream of mistaken appearance. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

2 days ago

Another function of compassion is to cause the attainment of enlightenment. Compassion is the seed of Buddhahood, and by developing and enhancing it we cause this seed to ripen and draw us closer to full enlightenment. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

3 days ago

If we always practice non-harmfulness we will always be practicing Dharma, even if we cannot do formal meditation. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

4 days ago

Refraining from harming others is one of the most important practices for a Buddhist. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

5 days ago

Compassion and harmful intentions are like water and fire – completely incompatible. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

6 days ago

It is only because we lack compassion that we sometimes develop the intention to hurt others. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

a week ago

The main function of non-harmfulness, or compassion, is to prevent us from harming sentient beings. A person whose mind is filled with compassion can never wish to hurt anyone. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

a week ago

As humans we experience a great deal of suffering, and so it is relatively easy for us to see the faults of samsara and to develop the wish to be free from it. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

a week ago

Compassion is born of renunciation. If we can understand our own samsara and develop renunciation for that, we can understand the samsara of others and develop compassion for them. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

a week ago

To encourage us to develop renunciation, the wish to attain liberation from samsara, Buddha gave extensive teachings on how ordinary life is in the nature of suffering – but not everyone can apply these teachings right away. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

2 weeks ago

Renunciation is the sincere wish to permanently liberate ourself from suffering and its cause, self-grasping. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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2 weeks ago

Renunciation is the gateway through which we enter the path to liberation. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

2 weeks ago

Mental actions that are contaminated virtue lead us to any of the three higher rebirths: rebirth as a human being, demi-god or god. Mental actions motivated by renunciation lead us to the state of pure and everlasting happiness of liberation, nirvana. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

2 weeks ago

An inner path is a mental action, and is either virtuous or non-virtuous; it cannot be a neutral action. Mental actions that are non-virtuous lead us to any of the three lower rebirths: rebirth as an animal, hungry ghost or hell being. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

2 weeks ago

The path to liberation is not an external path, but an inner path. We know that external paths lead from one place to another, whereas the path to liberation is an inner path that leads from samsara to a Pure Land. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

2 weeks ago

Those who have attained liberation, or nirvana, always abide in a Pure Land in which they experience a pure environment, pure enjoyments, pure bodies and pure minds. This is because their minds are completely pure, free from the stains of all delusions. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

2 weeks ago

By following the spiritual path we will eventually experience the completely pure mind of enlightenment. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

3 weeks ago

From 'Prayer of the Stages of the Path': "Just like myself all my kind mothers Are drowning in samsara’s ocean; O So that I may soon release them, Bless me to train in bodhichitta." ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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Buddhist Meditation @FindInnerPeace

3 weeks ago

In the midst of this increasingly problematic world, all the qualities of enlightenment will awaken in our mind through the practice of patience, and we will truly be able to benefit others. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso