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by JohnJigmeHeimrShmidt
Sun Apr 15, 2012 4:53 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Your favorite quotes.
Replies: 59
Views: 17708

Re: Your favorite quotes.

Always take the lowest place. Wear simple clothes. Help other beings as much as you can. In everything you do, simply work at developing love and compassion until they have become a fundamental part of you.
- Patrul Rinpoche, Words of My Perfect Teacher
by JohnJigmeHeimrShmidt
Fri Apr 29, 2011 5:55 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: A Shamatha Discussion
Replies: 2
Views: 1270

Re: A Shamatha Discussion

For others looking for more good resources on Shamatha, the first half of the book "Calm Abiding and Special Insight" is on Calm Abiding (Shamatha) by Geshe Gedun Lodro, so a source from the Tibetan viewpoint. It's a habit. We are visually super stimulated, perhaps, so the tendency to visu...
by JohnJigmeHeimrShmidt
Fri Apr 29, 2011 2:59 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: A Shamatha Discussion
Replies: 2
Views: 1270

A Shamatha Discussion

Hello, I thought I'd make a post to see if we could get a thread going on training the mind in Shamatha. I am hoping that we can exchange experiences, advice, and resources. Shamatha being the widespread meditation that it is in Buddhism (and beyond), there are many resources, but one that I find pa...
by JohnJigmeHeimrShmidt
Tue Feb 01, 2011 12:19 am
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Travel to Shechen
Replies: 1
Views: 979

Travel to Shechen

Hello all! I have interest in traveling to Shechen monastery in Boudha, Nepal sometime in the near future and am looking for advice from any of you who have either been there (or currently live in Kathmandu). I am looking to receive the transmission of the Longchen Nyingtik Ngondro. Would any of the...
by JohnJigmeHeimrShmidt
Fri Jan 28, 2011 7:30 pm
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Beginning Longchen Nyingthig Ngondro!
Replies: 13
Views: 5089

Re: Beginning Longchen Nyingthig Ngondro!

Nangwa, thank you for the speedy reply!

I am hoping to soon find an opportunity to receive the transmission.

For you ngondro practitioners out there, how long do you spend doing one repetition/cycle of the LNN practice? I'm curious how many of these I'll be able to do in the morning, evening.
by JohnJigmeHeimrShmidt
Fri Jan 28, 2011 6:59 pm
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Beginning Longchen Nyingthig Ngondro!
Replies: 13
Views: 5089

Re: Beginning Longchen Nyingthig Ngondro!

Greetings to all! This is my first post, so a couple things: Sangyey: I'm reading the "revised edition" which is good. Also the Guide to Words of My Perfect Teacher by Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang is clutch. I also wish to begin practicing the Longchen Nyintik Ngodro. My understanding is that it...

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