Ten Stages After this session Dare to be fully recovered

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRxcf_KFMLmnICFQ8B5WbBmkX5d0wPDWaKPSUY0kv9ZsxXp5xhxO8cN-uvdojfR2OfFWRGhYPCUFiUxrkJDOy4DYMmlixqtaoNP9WQzJr7fpMzW9iUoK4clnWEURZCDim-uVnG1Av8EE4/s1600/MEDITATION+MIND.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRxcf_KFMLmnICFQ8B5WbBmkX5d0wPDWaKPSUY0kv9ZsxXp5xhxO8cN-uvdojfR2OfFWRGhYPCUFiUxrkJDOy4DYMmlixqtaoNP9WQzJr7fpMzW9iUoK4clnWEURZCDim-uVnG1Av8EE4/s320/MEDITATION+MIND.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt;">After this session Dare to be fully recovered<br /> <br /> When a new hour begins today, dare to smile gratefully.<br /> <br /> When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.<br /> <br /> When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.<br /> <br /> When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.<br /> <br /> When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.<br /> <br /> When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.<br /> <br /> When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.<br /> <br /> When times are tough, dare to be tougher.<br /> <br /> When love hurts you, dare to love again.<br /> <br /> When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.<br /> <br /> When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.<br /> <br /> When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.<br /> <br /> When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.<br /> <br /> When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.<br /> <br /> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /> <!--[endif]--></span>

Ten Stages After this session Dare to be fully recovered

After this session Dare to be fully recovered When a new hour begins today, dare to smile gratefully. When there is darkness, dare t...

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MEDITATIONS ON THE TEN STAGES PATH

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiEe5qH6zRmXkEnr1DY8FJp5IRvIBpueFe2Oxkx__zYwXfFMz1nFlxv0g_vrXH-nirOhLg24KBYxSa8Jlbl4EtO08RQV6KRmXUEV19e7gegaUjVCeiBQjHYt8UUtqeIU72rwNiZ_ATatc/s1600/DSC_0084-EFFECTS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiEe5qH6zRmXkEnr1DY8FJp5IRvIBpueFe2Oxkx__zYwXfFMz1nFlxv0g_vrXH-nirOhLg24KBYxSa8Jlbl4EtO08RQV6KRmXUEV19e7gegaUjVCeiBQjHYt8UUtqeIU72rwNiZ_ATatc/s320/DSC_0084-EFFECTS.jpg" width="180" /></a></div> <h4 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: novecento_sans_medium, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meditations ON THE TEN STAGES PATH</span></h4> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The path begins with strong reliance<br /> On my kind Teacher, source of all good;<br /> O Bless me with this understanding<br /> To follow him with great devotion.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This human life with all its freedoms,<br /> Extremely rare, with so much meaning;<br /> O Bless me with this understanding<br /> All day and night to seize its essence.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> My body, like a water bubble,<br /> Decays and dies so very quickly;<br /> After death come results of karma,<br /> Just like the shadow of a body.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> With this firm knowledge and remembrance<br /> Bless me to be extremely cautious,<br /> Always avoiding harmful actions<br /> And gathering abundant virtue.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Samsara’s pleasures are deceptive,<br /> Give no contentment, only torment;<br /> So please bless me to strive sincerely<br /> To gain the bliss of perfect freedom.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> O Bless me so that from this pure thought<br /> Come mindfulness and greatest caution,<br /> To keep as my essential practice<br /> The doctrine’s root, the Pratimoksha.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Just like myself all my kind mothers<br /> Are drowning in samsara’s ocean;<br /> O So that I may soon release them,<br /> Bless me to train in bodhichitta.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> But I cannot become a Buddha<br /> By this alone without three ethics;<br /> So bless me with the strength to practise<br /> The Bodhisattva’s ordination.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> By pacifying my distractions<br /> And analyzing perfect meanings,<br /> Bless me to quickly gain the union<br /> Of special insight and quiescence.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> When I become a pure container<br /> Through common paths, bless me to enter<br /> The essence practice of good fortune,<br /> The supreme vehicle, Vajrayana.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The two attainments both depend on<br /> My sacred vows and my commitments;<br /> Bless me to understand this clearly<br /> And keep them at the cost of my life.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> By constant practice in four sessions,<br /> The way explained by holy Teachers,<br /> O Bless me to gain both the stages,<br /> Which are the essence of the Tantras.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> May those who guide me on the good path,<br /> And my companions all have long lives;<br /> Bless me to pacify completely<br /> All obstacles, outer and inner.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> May I always find perfect Teachers,<br /> And take delight in holy Dharma,<br /> Accomplish all grounds and paths swiftly,<br /> And gain the state of Vajradhara.</div>

MEDITATIONS ON THE TEN STAGES PATH

Meditations ON THE TEN STAGES PATH The path begins with strong reliance On my kind Teacher, source of all good; O Bless me with thi...

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Ten Stagers will know most and yet will act innocently.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSQMDnw-eW5pWRJFF2vHCWq4BfXWzv184YSwt_ZSUyjA_pgADWsO9SMzT3igKEFupKnQ10qN9x8VkFFwL2beXsrdOiNweBSsT2IAqtMLaPHb9Sqjh_DibGH28QQ_jwFiB7hOnSmVV4c6jL/s1600/SOCIAL+RECOVERY456.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSQMDnw-eW5pWRJFF2vHCWq4BfXWzv184YSwt_ZSUyjA_pgADWsO9SMzT3igKEFupKnQ10qN9x8VkFFwL2beXsrdOiNweBSsT2IAqtMLaPHb9Sqjh_DibGH28QQ_jwFiB7hOnSmVV4c6jL/s640/SOCIAL+RECOVERY456.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Ten Stagers will know most and yet will act innocently. It is the ones who know little who make a fuss about their knowledge. The more stagers know, the less we show to others. Besides, a ten stager is never ready to correct people for their follies, to condemn them for their errors, or to accuse them of foolishness.We have experienced all these and more we see so much of errors and follies and foolishness that we never feels inclined to point them out; we just sees dissociations in its different aspects, and understands the process we go through in life. It is by mistakes and errors that we learn in the end, and stagers never feels that we should condemn anyone for them; we only feels that they are natural given the dissociations we all suffer.</span></blockquote>

Ten Stagers will know most and yet will act innocently.

Ten Stagers will know most and yet will act innocently. It is the ones who know little who make a fuss about their knowledge. The more st...

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We who have realised the inner life our child within

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB41YO0xE4uQUqB6Sc5MWwHCGCW-fiPfbrOageRUvrnD3B_gxZVyIUpwJCpPFn_TNgD4enTBnvvaHvbPiL-R2ss2xRNXMpOsXoGmtgGF22702VIOmOGfO3mDa_TerbVE-9MpXfxHL98Dg0/s1600/Cortijo-Overlooking-Africa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB41YO0xE4uQUqB6Sc5MWwHCGCW-fiPfbrOageRUvrnD3B_gxZVyIUpwJCpPFn_TNgD4enTBnvvaHvbPiL-R2ss2xRNXMpOsXoGmtgGF22702VIOmOGfO3mDa_TerbVE-9MpXfxHL98Dg0/s320/Cortijo-Overlooking-Africa.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">We who have realised the inner life our child within is a mystery to everyone; no one can fathom the depth of that child, except that it promises sincerity, it emits love, it commands trust, it spreads goodness, and it gives an impression of a perfect child within and the truth. For the adult who has realises the child within every act is his meditation; if we are walking in the street it is our meditation; if we are  working , that is our meditation.</span>

We who have realised the inner life our child within

We who have realised the inner life our child within is a mystery to everyone; no one can fathom the depth of that child, except that it p...

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