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.Rin-poche has described it as more than the standard equilibrium meditation as he hasadded a number of techniques for overcoming anger and developing patience..Bibliography.Gyatso, Tenzin, His Holiness the Dalai Lama.The Meaning of Life: Bud-dhist Perspectives on Cause and Effect.Translated and edited by JeffreyHopkins.Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1992.Practicing Wisdom.Translated and edited by Geshe Thupten  Jinpa.Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2005.Tegchok, Geshe Jampa.The Kindness of Others: A Commentary on theSeven-Point Mind Training.Boston: Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive,2006.Yeshe, Lama Thubten.Becoming Vajrasattva: The Tantric Path of Purification.Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2004.  .Becoming Your Own Therapist & Make Your Mind an Ocean (com-bined edition).Boston: Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, 2003.The Bliss of Inner Fire: Heart Practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa.  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A special pill prepared from vari-ous sacred and other substances according to tradition.Tibetan meditatorswould use them for sustenance in remote areas when food was scarce.LamaYeshe used to make his own, which he sometimes distributed to his students.compassion (Skt: karuna).The sincere wish that others to be separated from theirmental and physical suffering and the feeling that their freedom from suffer-ing is more important than one s own.A prerequisite for the development ofbodhicitta.consciousness.See mind.cyclic existence (Skt: samsara; Tib: khor-wa).The six realms of conditioned exis-tence, three lower hell, hungry ghost (Skt: preta) and animal and threeupper human, demigod (Skt: asura) and god (Skt: sura).It is the beginningless,recurring cycle of death and rebirth under the control of delusion and karmaand fraught with suffering.It also refers to the contaminated aggregates of a sen-tient being.delusion (Skt: klesha).An obscuration covering the essentially pure nature ofmind, being thereby responsible for suffering and dissatisfaction.There are sixprincipal and twenty secondary delusions; the main delusion is ignorance, outof which grow desirous attachment, hatred, jealousy and all the others.Dharma (Skt).Spiritual teachings, particularly those of Shakyamuni Buddha.Literally, that which holds one back from suffering.The second of the ThreeJewels of Refuge.dualistic view.The ignorant view characteristic of the unenlightened mind inwhich all things are falsely conceived to have concrete self-existence.To such aview, the appearance of an object is mixed with the false image of its being inde-pendent or self-existent, thereby leading to further dualistic views concerningsubject and object, self and other, this and that and so forth.ego.The wrong conception that  I am self-existent ; the self-existent I.The viewof the self held by a mind that has not realized emptiness.120.ego, attachment, and liberationemptiness (Skt: shunyata).The absence of all false ideas about how things exist;specifically, the lack of the apparent independent, self-existence of phenomena.enlightenment (Skt: bodhi).Full awakening; buddhahood [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]