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Tantric Buddhism, charting the "fast path" to realization |
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You've got a minute left. How will you spend it?
"There comes a point when you know you have take meditation seriously," Ken McLeod says in his discussion of verse 33 of The 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva. He hits us not long after with, "If you had 1 minute left in your life, how would you spend it?" Then he invites us to really stop for a moment and consider that very prospect, providing appropriate background sound effects: tick, tick, tick... If we're wondering, what with our ambitions, whether we've got the time to practice, practice itself will take care of that: All efforts to gain recognition and attention are undermined by your efforts to be awake and present in your life. They are mere compensations for a fear of death, unmet emotional needs, or the desire to be someone. More » -
The Vidyadhara Vow: Reading the Small Print of the Vajrayana
A Guest Post by Lama Jhampa Thaye. Lama Jhampa's most recent post on the Tricycle Blog can be found here. More »
