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According to Buddha, attachment – clinging, grasping, craving – is effectively the main source of our suffering in day-to-day life. Big surprise! We usually confuse it with love, which is necessarily altruistic, and is the source of our own happiness and the capacity to help others.

Buddha’s view of the mind describes two distinct categories of states of mind: the deluded, disturbing ones – such as attachment, anger, low self-esteem and the rest – and the virtuous, spacious ones – such as love, compassion, patience, and so on.

A key function of attachment and the other delusions, and the main reason they cause suffering, is that not only do they cause us pain but they actually cause the things, the events, the people out there to appear back to us, as Lama Zopa puts it, in a distorted way. Attachment causes things to look more delicious than they really are, anger causes things to appear more ugly than they really are.

And the problem is we totally believe these appearances. This is what keeps us stuck in our misery.

As we learn to doubt the way things appear to us, we are beginning to loosen the grip of ego-grasping, the root delusion, which misrepresents the very nature of self and everything else.

Tse Chen Ling, San Francisco, Thursday 27th March 2025.

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The Workshop is in the Mind

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Women of Wisdom series.

According to Buddha, attachment – clinging, grasping, craving – is effectively the main source of our suffering in day-to-day life. Big surprise! We usually confuse it with love, which is necessarily altruistic, and is the source of our own happiness and the capacity to help others.

Buddha’s view of the mind describes two distinct categories of states of mind: the deluded, disturbing ones – such as attachment, anger, low self-esteem and the rest – and the virtuous, spacious ones – such as love, compassion, patience, and so on.

A key function of attachment and the other delusions, and the main reason they cause suffering, is that not only do they cause us pain but they actually cause the things, the events, the people out there to appear back to us, as Lama Zopa puts it, in a distorted way. Attachment causes things to look more delicious than they really are, anger causes things to appear more ugly than they really are.

And the problem is we totally believe these appearances. This is what keeps us stuck in our misery.

As we learn to doubt the way things appear to us, we are beginning to loosen the grip of ego-grasping, the root delusion, which misrepresents the very nature of self and everything else.

Tse Chen Ling, San Francisco, Thursday 27th March 2025.

… continue reading

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All sentient beings are caught in the trap of suffering in the realms of existence. Bodhichitta is a mind that wishes to free beings from suffering and bring them to the state of enlightenment. A bodhisattva is a person who has that bodhichitta mind, is a practitioner of the enlightenment thought which is the aspiration to achieve complete enlightenment as a perfect Buddha for the benefit of oneself and all other sentient beings. Love and compassion are the forces that motivated all activities of Bodhisattvas. Love is a strong wish that aspires to attain happiness for all sentient beings and compassion is the state of mind that wishes each being to be freed from all sufferings or sorrows, great compassion is the root wisdom. In all the Buddhist teachings, there’s so many of them, it seems such a vast number of teachings, the key thing I think we find difficult is to put them in some kind of framework, to understand how all the teachings relate to each other. When we study any body of knowledge, we know that’s what we do, when you’re studying anything, you know where it fits, if it’s a more advanced teaching you have to understand the relationship to the earlier teaching, this makes sense, it’s really logical. But we don’t think of spiritual teachings like that. I can’t stress it enough, what work we need to have done on ourselves in order to have compassion for others. We can discuss the qualities of compassion, what they are and how you get them. But if we haven’t done enough work in the earlier part of the practice, it’s impossible, it’s like a joke, we don’t understand it. Especially the teachings here, on how to be a Bodhisattva. It’s a Sanskrit word, the loose equivalent you could say - a saint. If you sit there as a Catholic and listen to the teachings on how to become a saint, it sounds ridiculous doesn't it. It sounds too high! It seems impossible. Buddha’s view is, we’ve all got this extraordinary potential, the wisdom wing is all the work you do to develop your qualities, it’s about you, you are the beneficiary of those practices. The very first level of practice, you abide by the laws of karma, you have discipline, you live in vows, you stop harming others. Why? Because you don’t want future suffering, because everything you think and do and say, produces the person you become. Then you go to the next level of practice and you start to unpack and unravel your mind, this is the key job. You really begin to have a deep understanding of Buddhist psychology, you know what the delusions are, you know what the positive qualities are, and you know how to distinguish between them. You are the beneficiary of this! You’re turning yourself into a less neurotic, less angry, less attached, less harmful person. You’re becoming a wiser, more relaxed, more fulfilled person. The practices are all related to how to turn you into a marvellous person. Now what this qualifies you to do, is enter into the compassion work. Now you keep working on yourself, that never stops, but now the reference point is how to help others. How to break down the barriers between the neurotic self and others. How to develop these profound levels of love, compassion, great compassion, that culminate in this outrageous approach called Bodhichitta. Centrul Budist White Mahakala, Romania, 8th September 2021 YouTube…

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All sentient beings are caught in the trap of suffering in the realms of existence. Bodhichitta is a mind that wishes to free beings from suffering and bring them to the state of enlightenment. A bodhisattva is a person who has that bodhichitta mind, is a practitioner of the enlightenment thought which is the aspiration to achieve complete enlightenment as a perfect Buddha for the benefit of oneself and all other sentient beings. Love and compassion are the forces that motivate all activities of Bodhisattvas. Love is a strong wish that aspires to attain happiness for all sentient beings and compassion is the state of mind that wishes each being to be freed from all sufferings or sorrows, great compassion is the root wisdom. These next three weeks we’re going to be talking about compassion. We’ve got the wisdom wing and the compassion wing. It’s a wonderful analogy, it works brilliantly, it covers all the Buddha’s teachings, and it’s also very personal. The point of the entire path is to become this Buddha. So what is a Buddha? Buddha is a person who has completely rid their mind of all the rubbish, all the fears, all the dramas, all the suffering, which we all have got so much of. And they’ve only got what’s left, which is this incredible wisdom, clarity, power, confidence, compassion and empathy. The Buddha’s whole point, from the big picture point of view, is that’s the nature, the potential of every one of us. It’s quite an outrageous idea really! It sounds mystical. But this is one of the things that can really help us when we’re having problems and dramas, when we’re overwhelmed by the negativity, just to try and remember that we’ve got this marvellous potential. This negativity is true, it’s right now, but it’s not intrinsic to us. This is something that can be very powerful for our mind. The compassion wing, of this bird that needs two wings, is this enormous empathy with others, this connection with others, the seeing of others suffering, and this wish that they be happy which is love, and the wish they don’t suffer and that’s compassion. But that’s contingent upon the wisdom wing. If you’re overwhelmed by your own pain and suffering, you can’t think of anybody else. It’s not possible, your own suffering is so enormous. This is why we should have compassion for ourselves for a start. But certainly have compassion for others. It’s obvious that to prepare yourself to be able to benefit others, you’ve got to know how to benefit yourself. It’s really logical. We have enormously big hearts, we think what can I do to help, but we don’t actually have methods to know that first I’ve got to put myself together. If you want to help other people with their problems, you can have incredible compassion for them, but what good is that compassion if you don’t know how to help them. That’s the wisdom wing. If you want to help other people with their problems, you’ve got to know your own. You’ve got to help yourself first, and that qualifies you to then help others. That’s the logic of the whole path. So what’s this wisdom? Learning about your own mind, and the way your mind works, the way the delusions work, the way we create karma. This qualifies us to help put ourselves together, then it qualifies us to go - oh my god, look at all this, everybody is in the same boat. We’re all suffering. Questions include - how can we know that everybody wants to be happy, understanding that others want to be happy but some people don’t deserve to be happy, is pity a low form of compassion or is it a sophisticated way of self cherishing, how to deal with bullying, how to transform aggression towards ourself and others into compassion, how can we overcome feeling overwhelmed by seeing all the suffering around, and only with shamatha and vipasana meditation can we find answers to all the questions? Centrul Budist White Mahakala, Romania, 1st September 2021. YouTube…

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