Friday, June 22, 2018

The life of Milarepa by Lobzang Jivaka

  • First Step of Understanding
    • Twelve nidanas - which shows 
      • Interdependece of everything in this world upon everything else and that in this manner my body and presence in life here is due to ignorance. 
      • Ignorance is the prime cause of rebirth
      • Body as means of deliverance from rebirth - To thosee who can realise this, their very bodies may the means of their deliverance from rebirth but to the rest thier bodies are but the fetters that bind them to the wheel of life  and death. 
      • Life as dividing line - Hence our life  is the dividing line between the higher or the lower.  Each must decide for  himself which way he goes.  
      • Guru is cheif source of success and hapiness
  • Second step of Understanding 
    • Rareness of birth as a well-endowed human beings
      • amidst other beings

      • death
      • inevitable effect of one's action
      • on the ubiquity of suffering
    • Extreme desire for leberation - Understanding the nature of life - leads to extreme desire for leberation from this such existence. 
    • Eight Fold path - only means of emancipation
    • Two paths - Higher path and Lower path
  • Third step of Understanding  
    • Guru - necessary for such a endeavour
    • Initiation
    • Knowlege - grammar, logic, metal and moral reasoning
    • Practice of self-observation - to know "there is no such thing as I", "I" is fallacious. 
    • Fruition
      • Mind at rest - Mind is perfectly at rest, mental motion ceases, time seems stand still. 
      • Ecstacy - Faculty of conciousness gain a state of ecstacy
      • Egolessness - persond who think about I and the rest can never experience it. 
      • a keen analytical sense, clear and inquiring mind
      • prompted from compassion - all acheivement for common good. 
      • Direct Experience - "Nothing must be allowed to stand in the way of achievement, and just as food itself, not the name of food, is what satisfies appetite so one must experience the Truth, not merely have an academic  definition of it. 
      • Obstacle - Bodily comfort, bodily necessities should not be allowed to stand as obstacle. 


Friday, June 15, 2018

7 Habits of Highly Effective people

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