Today, the full moon (July 10th) is also "Universal Prayer Day", and am happy to offer another musical offering, an aspiration prayer for love and compassion for the world and the beings within it. The Great Compassionate One, the fully awakened Buddha Avalokiteshvara's six-syllable Mantra Om Mani Padme Hum is medicine and soothing for troubled… Continue reading NEW MUSIC/SONG: Breathing Out Love and Compassion (Om Mani Padme Hum), a mantra of healing and love for troubled times and minds (Adele Tomlin/Dakini Songs, July 2025)
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A DIAMOND CONNECTION: THE NINE “GENERAL” ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF A QUALIFIED GURU: “Willing to give up their own life to ensure a student does not go to the lower realms” (“Fifty Verses on the Guru” by 17th Karmapa (Day 1 2025)
“In order to realize the nature of your mind, spiritual instructions alone will not help you alone, you also need to receive the blessings of a guru who has realization. So, it's not just the lineage of the words but the lineage of the meaning that is important.” “Like these days, in foreign countries people… Continue reading A DIAMOND CONNECTION: THE NINE “GENERAL” ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF A QUALIFIED GURU: “Willing to give up their own life to ensure a student does not go to the lower realms” (“Fifty Verses on the Guru” by 17th Karmapa (Day 1 2025)
WHAT IS LOVE? The Buddhist view vs. the worldly view of love, attachment and equanimity and as an essential quality of a Buddhist teacher
"There is an idea that love is generally love we have for our children, families, lovers or spouses. Yet, in reality, this kind of love can easily breakdown over small or big matters, sometimes over something very trivial like taking personal offence at what someone said to you, or you thinking they ‘disrespected’ you. It… Continue reading WHAT IS LOVE? The Buddhist view vs. the worldly view of love, attachment and equanimity and as an essential quality of a Buddhist teacher
DISMANTLING ARTIFICAL BOUNDARIES: Concepts of nations, ‘self’ and ‘other’; developing great love and compassion and ‘without borders’ ultimate nature. ‘Four Dharmas of Gampopa’ by 17th Karmapa (Day 8)
“Then the ‘path clarifies confusion’. First, meditating on impermanence, clarifies the confusion of fixating on this life. Meditating on karmic cause and effect, clarifies the confusion of wrong views. Meditating on the defects of samsara, clarifies the confusion of attachment to samsara. Meditating on loving-kindness and compassion, clarifies the confusion of the Hinayana vehicles. Meditating… Continue reading DISMANTLING ARTIFICAL BOUNDARIES: Concepts of nations, ‘self’ and ‘other’; developing great love and compassion and ‘without borders’ ultimate nature. ‘Four Dharmas of Gampopa’ by 17th Karmapa (Day 8)