Here is a retreat center on the west coast of the United States, where many people are doing a three-year retreat. It would help you make progress in your practice if you could find a quiet place nearby to meditate for a few days during public holidays every year.
Our true self is concealed in the deepest part of the mind, which we will get to meet only when we have transcended all emotions. Coming face to face with our true self is the ultimate self-awareness. All the answers are also here.
It’s autumn in the southern hemisphere. The sky is clear and the air comfortably cool as leaves in the mountains are slowly turning colors. Many practitioners favor the fall and its seasonal landscape because this is the best season for spiritual practice. The frequent changes of the autumn scene make it easier to perceive impermanence.
Seasons move from autumn back to spring again. Days move when today turns back to yesterday. Time, an abstract concept based on the change in physical matter, cannot exist on its own. We, however, pay more and more attention to time and see it as the one thing we lack the most.
At Auckland University in New Zealand I discussed the relationship between the Avataṃsaka Sūtra (or the Flower Garland Sutra) and the theory of relativity. The theory of relativity as presented in the Avataṃsaka Sūtra completely overturns mankind’s common-sense understanding of time and space.
Our true self is concealed in the deepest of mind whom we may get to meet only when we have transcended all emotions. Coming face to face with one’s true self is the ultimate self-awareness. All the answers are also here.
~ Khenpo's blog published on 8 May 2016
Here, one sees, hears, smells and feels the ocean, but one cannot find the existence of mind. Mind dissolves into this pure blue space, into infinite freedom and peace…This perhaps is where we ultimately abide.
A treasury of abundant information and references can be found in the library of the National University. For a long time, books have been the one thing that brings me the most joy. I remember when I was 15, there were not that many books around to read. There was one copy of Outlaws of the Marsh in Tibetan which I read three times; I could almost recite the whole book from memory. Presently, 90% of my possessions are books. To me, books are no longer just ordinary possessions but fine teachers and helpful friends whom I’ve never gotten tired of my whole life.
