How many obscurations and how many afflictions have been subdued or cleared away? This is the true test of meditation, not what wonderful or special experiences we might have.
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17th Karmapa
from the book Traveling the Path of Compassion: A Commentary on The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva
translated by Ringu Tulku & Michele Martin
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- Why the Dharma is so important
- Discipline
- Teaching what is really useful
- Seeing what Dharma practice actually is
- Finding real solitude
- Why we need to give up our worldly concerns
- The Greatest Satisfaction
- Giving and Receiving
- Taking advantage of opportunities
- Our Actual Enemy
- Joyful discipline
- Taming Our Mind
- Avoiding criticism
- Putting ourselves in someone else’s place
- Seeing clearly what is genuine and what is false
- Remembering the Lama