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INNER MONSTER OF ATTACHMENT - RAGA DWESHA X ABHYASA X VAIRAGYA 

OAP- ONE AT PEACE - OLD AGE PENSNR 

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“If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it.” 
 

-- Heraclitus, Fragments

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“Covid-19 won’t end with a bang or a parade,” wrote Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh. “Throughout history, pandemics have ended when the disease ceases to dominate daily life and retreats into the background like other health challenges.”

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A tulku is a being who typically through compassiom decides on their own to remain in this world. They decide to voluntarily reincarnate so they can help other beings.

Over successive lives, they become more and more spiritually perfected. Sometimes this manifests as an old and humble monk named Tenzin. Sometimes this manifests as a spiritual leader who shirks his duties, sleeps with all the women, gets money, and at the end of his short life, remembers his former lives, slaps his forehead and resolves not to pull that crap again.

Of course in the above I speak of the 14th (incarnation) Dalai Lama. He is the most famous Tulku.

They usually have experience with the void and with other different states like the Bardo. Some, like Mingyur, Rinpoche (assuming he is a tulku) have been Devas in former lives and are now here.

They're similar to the bodhisattvas except the bodhisattvas do this for much longer, almost more cosmic period of time. Tulkus are always Bodhisattvas but Bodhisattvas are not always Tulkus.

As far as if you were asking if they are real, that would be equivalent to asking me if Bodhisattvas a real. If that is your question I would simply point at the Buddha. Clearly yes.

Only if you reject the Buddha's Enlightenment or the truthful doctrine of reincarnation could you not like Tulkus.

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B Bodhisatta is a being who one day aspires to become a Buddha.

Typically this is done over many lifetimes, over many ages, extending into cosmic periods of time.

Bodhicitta.

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• Humans have evolved to deal with threats via short-term thinking and to compete for status with showy resources. Saving requires long-term thinking that runs counter to these deep-rooted tendencies.

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some clarity on how your progress may naturally unfold:

'The gradual training begins with the practice of generosity, which helps begin the long process of weakening the unawakened practitioner's habitual tendencies to cling — to views, to sensuality, and to unskillful modes of thought and behavior. This is followed by the development of virtue, the basic level of sense-restraint that helps the practitioner develop a healthy and trustworthy sense of self. The peace of mind born from this level of self-respect provides the foundation for all further progress along the path. The practitioner now understands that some kinds of happiness are deeper and more dependable than anything that sense-gratification can ever provide; the happiness born of generosity and virtue can even lead to rebirth in heaven — either literal or metaphorical. But eventually the practitioner begins to recognize the intrinsic drawbacks of even this kind of happiness: as good as rebirth in wholesome states may be, the happiness it brings is not a true and lasting one, for it relies on conditions over which he or she ultimately has no control. This marks a crucial turning point in the training, when the practitioner begins to grasp that true happiness will never be found in the realm of the physical and sensual world. The only possible route to an unconditioned happiness lies in renunciation, in turning away from the sensual realm, by trading the familiar, lower forms of happiness for something far more rewarding and noble. Now, at last, the practitioner is ripe to receive the teachings on the Four Noble Truths, which spell out the course of mental training required to realize the highest happiness: nibbana.'

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ONE LIFE THEORY V REBRTHS 

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As the vastness of the ocean cannot be contained in a small cup, so it is impossible to receive infinite wisdom in the finite cup of human intelligence.

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To attain higher state of consciousness and divine perception, it is necessary through meditation to withdraw the mind from its continual restless activity. In the interiorized state, spritual sensitivity, or intuition, awaken. Intuition is that power of Spirit inherited by the soul by which truth is perceived directly, without the medium of any other faculty. As the vastness of the ocean cannot be contained in small cup, so it is impossible to receive infinite wisdom in the finite cup of human intelligence. Man's consciousness must be expanded if it is to hold the illimitable ocen of truth.

Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.

Journey To Self-realization. P.298-299

[ Proof of God's existence ]

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HE GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA

(By Swami Yatiswarananda)

Published by: Vedanta Study Circle Athens, Greece 1994

Volume 1,

Part 1 : INNER AND OUTER SOLITUDE :

CALLOUSNESS IS NOT NON-ATTACHMENT

71. You should be non-attached, but you should not become callous to the suffering and misery of others, naturally. Callousness is not non-attachment, but selfishness, clinging to one’s own dear ego. Try to render help only to the extent in which you already have the power. Otherwise pray to your Ishtam for those who need assistance and ask Him to come to their help. If you do this sincerely and intensely, He will do what is best for them. You see, you cannot help others efficiently if you cannot help yourselves. If a boat capsizes and you and your companions fall into the river, you may be able to save one of them, but not ten. If you try to save them all, all will be drowned, including yourself.

HOW TO DEAL WITH THE POISON OF THE WORLD

72. So, gauge your own strength first, dispassionately, using all your discrimination. Then try to help others if the opportunity arises. Even with your vibrations, with your will-power you can do something for them, to the extent in which these are in tune with the Will of the Divine, or of the Ishtam.

73. Shiva drank the poison so that the whole world might be saved. But one must first have the capacity to assimilate the poison without being poisoned oneself. One must first attain to Shiva’s tremendous purity and non-attachment. Better begin with small doses! To the extent in which your own system becomes pure and immune, greater and greater doses of poison can be assimilated without danger. The more you feel for others, the more you wish to help them, the more you should become non-attached and be drawn towards your Ishtam, towards the Lord, and the purer you should become. Pray to the Divine for yourself as well as for others and scold Him, tell Him, “Why are you so perverse? Why are you putting so many obstructions in our way? Why are you just blinding yourself? This is your creation. See your own light!”

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