Blessing must arise from within your own mind. It is not something that comes from outside. When the positive qualities of your mind increase and the negativities decrease, that is what blessing means. The Tibetan word for blessing … means transforming into magnificent potential. Therefore, blessing refers to the development of virtuous qualities you did not previously have and the improvement of those good qualities you have already developed. ― Dalai Lama XIV
Thursday, January 31, 2013
A Bodhisattva Speaks
A PATH OF THE HEART by Jack Kornfield - this is best book on becoming a Bodhisattva like The Dalai Lama above! I am going to study and meditate with Jack Kornfield starting this weekend.
Going to study and meditate with Jack Kornfield is the big leap I posted about below. I am a fortunate man. I did meditate with Jack in Berkeley, California in 1984 not long after he returned after becoming a monk in Thailand!
Ivan Frimmel: Although I heard only a bit - but only some high prizes - about Jack Kornfield here in South Africa, I never read any of his book/s, or heard any of his talk/s. I don't think he ever came to visit SA, otherwise I would have probably gone to see him (unless I was traveling somewhere... I also think you are very blessed to have such a wonderful time with such a renown and experienced Vipassana teacher - a student of Ajahn Chah and Joseph Goldstein... I presume the studying is residential, and mostly in the USA - for how long? Lucky you, indeed! My best wishes!!
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