Gelek Rimpoche Tibetan Buddhism 51 Whatever You Learn Practice

Описание: http://www.jewelheart.org/digital-dha... let's look back. What you have achieved materially, I cannot speculate about, nor is it any of my business. You know it yourself. But when we look back at our spiritual path at least we learned one important trick: to be a good, kind person. We also learned another trick. Somehow we are trying to correct our thoughts and make them beneficial to all living beings. Somehow we have learned that. That itself really makes a huge difference in whatever we do in our life - materially or spiritually - unless the nature of the actions you undertook were non-virtuous. Other than that, every neutral thing we engage in becomes perfect. Maybe not perfect, but good virtue. Just because of that motivation. That's one of the gifts Buddha gave and passed on. The earlier Buddhist masters continually passed that on. In a way it is very easy, particularly if you get into the habit of thinking that way. Then it is very easy. It is a matter of minutes or seconds. You take your breath in and out. In one breath you can make that motivation, through which every work you do becomes a little bit better, in the whole year, month, week and particularly that particular day.

When that builds up 360 times, then even though we haven't done anything extraordinary [we benefit]. We may not have done a retreat or this and that, but that itself gives us really quite a lot. So we can look back and appreciate that. And every appreciation of good work builds double merit. So that's a good thing and when we look back in that way we are not bad.