27 Jan 2012 No Comments

Negative Emotions

Buddhism itself, is a skill set that deliberately (from the get go 2500 years ago), teaches you to fish so you can go get your own food supply. It’s an Okie’s  survivalist’s Dream.

Go watch the short video on negative emotions from Ringu Tulku. They are cutting off our food supply.  We worked on this in class. In this video, Ringu Tulku  teaches teaching you to fish and feed yourself with Shantideva’s text.   More →

by jackie in Practice

23 Jan 2012 No Comments

The Reality of Grief

The Grief Center Website

Having a re-occurant memory of “grief”….is it not reliving the sadness again and again? Doesn’t memory of loss take place in the present? It can remain unresolved, painful, for years. Or it can be fresh. It can interfere with living our lives and become an obstacle our loved ones would never want for us. Grief is not spoken of. Especially to our being when it is happening. It is trauma. How then can we view “grief” as humans, something we all share and will go through? Where is our shared cultural support? The education we need to know to help ourselves and our neighbors.  And how can we create our own unique individual narrative inside ourselves that will carry us through? More →

by jackie in Practice

17 Jan 2012 No Comments

January 2012 Practice Advice

Questions answered:

• What is practice?
• Can we break the habit of anxiety?
• Why should we deliberately care about how others feel if we are improving ourselves? What is the buddhist common sense about that?

Practice is anything you do again and again. An outcome of practice is often an unwanted outcome. Anxiety “can” be an outcome of repeating negative messages to oneself such as “what would happen if” all the while, ignoring what is happening at the moment. And so, control over what happens next is lost due to worry.

Positive practice is anything done again and again that brings a more comfortable outcome long term, both for you and for everyone else. More →

by jackie in Practice