Contrary to popular belief, buddhist renunciation is not self-flagellation or austerity.
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
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- What is life?
- Like a child at the cinema
- Fearlessness
- Change is inevitable
- Where will they scatter my ashes
- Being a Buddhist
- Pride and pity
- Eventually we are disappointed
- Our true nature is like a wineglass
- The cup that holds the teachings
- Enlightened beings may seem insane
- Happily ever after
- The habit of self
- Clinging to our hopes and fears
- Today is the death of yesterday
- Appreciating the whole cycle of impermanence
- The real enemy
- Nonviolence
- Like moths to the flame