March 24, 2006
WINDHORSE and OBSCURED INTRINSIC NATURE
Ananda stands before the Tibetan Stupa in Santa Fe where i studied, practiced, and received. This phase of my contemplative education succeeded my contemplative studies at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado under Rinpoche Chogyam Trungpa's era.
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WF DHARMA H(OM)EWORK of the week;
watch the movie; WINDHORSE
and
contemplate why, given the scope and dimension of this film, it is essentially ignored in the Outer World.
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a WindHorse Prayer Banner; early morning light, WF Temple H(om)e.
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For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result we clutch on to happiness and suffering as real, and in our unskillful and ignorant actions go on sowing the seeds of our next birth. Our actions keep us bound to the continuous cycle of worldly existence, to the endless round of birth and death. So everything is at risk in how we live now at this very moment: How we live now can cost us our entire future.
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the tragedy of falling into delusion again and again and repeating the painful round of birth and death. This life is the only time and place we can prepare in, and we can only truly prepare through spiritual practice: This is the inescapable message of the natural bardo of this life.
- Sogyal Rinpoche