Rev. Danny Fisher

Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings
February 12, 2010

A Gift of Dharma for 2.12.10

Today’s dharma quote is yet another from the Vidyādhara, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche(1939-1987), whom I first quoted and wrote a little bio for here.  It’s from his book The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology, pg. 141 (via the Chronicles of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche):

According to the Buddhist tradition, people inherently possess buddha nature; that is, they are basically and intrinsically good. From this point of view, health is intrinsic. That is, health comes first; sickness is secondary. Health is. So being healthy is being fundamentally wholesome, with body and mind synchronized in a state of being which is indestructible and good….This intrinsic, basic goodness is always present in any interaction of one human being with another.

February 12, 2010

A Gift of Dharma for 2.11.10

Today’s quote comes from Siddhartha Gautama (circa fifth and/or sixth century B.C.E.)–the historical Buddha and de facto progenitor of the Buddhist religions.  This is it:

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind and trouble will follow you, like the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow you, as your shadow unshaken.

In this world, hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the Law, ancient and inexhaustible. We are what we think.

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February 12, 2010

“Is the Dalai Lama an Atheist?”

The great B. Alan Wallace answers this question in an interview this week with Skeptiko.

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