tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post7446427349512207105..comments2024-03-25T17:38:01.020+08:00Comments on Digital Tibetan Buddhist Altar: Light and Shadow FlowersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post-637228347031622382011-02-06T05:18:38.790+08:002011-02-06T05:18:38.790+08:00Well, you could always send me an email. Many peop...Well, you could always send me an email. Many people do. <br /><br />rinpoche2006()gmail()com<br /><br />The interest to end one's own pain is common; the wish to arrange such cessation for others, whilst not giving a whole lot of thought to one's own interests, is ideal.Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17607443504553459238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post-4721011051839992092011-02-06T05:09:18.883+08:002011-02-06T05:09:18.883+08:00Having had the silence and isolation to reflect on...Having had the silence and isolation to reflect on myself to some degree, and knowing therefore that I ultimately desire peace - bliss - or a cessation of pain at the very least, and, having both a generosity of spirit and the relative lack of delusion to oblige me to extrapolate that this desire is one held by all other (people, at least) and knowing that to damn someone else to limitless suffering is to create an imbalance or demons in the world, then how could it be other than that all of my actions (some in a more apparent way than others) are aligned with the desire to help, or (at the very least) not harm other sentient beings? And lastly, if your answer to this query is that it is imprudent to provide a definitive answer without knowing me: I then feel obliged to ask: How would I make such knowing possible?Jin Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post-70249318346273527232011-01-24T09:58:20.984+08:002011-01-24T09:58:20.984+08:00I hope I understand your question correctly.
This...I hope I understand your question correctly.<br /><br />This is not one of those situations where I feel particularly comfortable just throwing out a blanket answer, without knowing more.<br /><br />Let me say that you can find ample scriptural authority to answer your question any number of ways, some of them directly opposite of the others.<br /><br />From the Dzogchen perspective, for example, the answer to your question would be yes -- a resounding "yes," actually.<br /><br />But, if you want to take that "yes" in the absence of other factors, such as a fundamental wish to benefit others, or a fundamental wish to at least avoid harming others, then it becomes very dangerous -- particularly in this society, in this time.<br /><br />I don't know how to answer you without knowing you.Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17607443504553459238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post-57665300256928436812011-01-23T12:26:18.779+08:002011-01-23T12:26:18.779+08:00Am I in error to turn away with the conclusion the...Am I in error to turn away with the conclusion then, that to respond to some of our desires - indeed wholeheartedly - is instrumental in having one's soul climb the ladder of understanding? And that the imagined cause (there it gets tricky) and the observed effect (of one's action's) are as fruitful seeds AS ANY OTHER in the desire to understand the problem of human existence? er-ah The Problem - which is human existence?Jin Bnoreply@blogger.com