Cultivating Happiness: Buddhist Methods for Training the Mind

"Wakefulness is the way to life.
The fool sleeps
As if he were already dead.
But the master is awake
And he lives forever.

He watches.
He is clear.

How happy he is!
For he sees that wakefulness is life.
How happy he is,
Following the path of the awakened.

With great perseverance
He meditates, seeking
Freedom and happiness.

So awake, reflect, watch.
Work with care and attention.
Live in the way
And the light will grow in you...."

-Buddha from the "Dhammapada Sutra"

The Help of Cultivation to This Life

"People face more difficult situations than before in the current world. Population increased and natural resource areas per capital reduced, natural environment moves closer toward unbalance and dangerous conditions, people always eat unnatural grown foods, people’s work intensity, the load is over one can bear, everyone needs to face more selfish people wh, malevolent competition between people, wrong logic and thinking cannot be corrected and opposed, no one care about other people’s frustration and suffering in mind, self’s future is in a turmoil and uncertainty, war occurred with no definite reason between countries….

Everything we face will make our lives that look like normal to be distorted. These existed “external conditions” will little by little erode our “mind” and “lives”, and gradually we will have unnormal “value view” and “wrong thinking and judgement”. According to the “law of cause and effect” these will bring “troubles” to our this life and future lives, and we are in uncontrollable “life conditions” and “are controlled” unwillingly. Moreover these “distortions and harms” cannot use the worldly methods to improve, and only Dharma that has different natural than conventional contaminative characteristic can have transforming function to them.

How to make our “lives conditions” back to “natural and peaceful” conditions, make us escape from this “whirlpool of current situation” and find a “standpoint” to self-observe again? When our minds gradually accumulate “pure positive karma”, “good heart and kindness spiritual”, have “content with less desire”, can “stand on other’s angle to consider problem”, have “tranquil mind”, have “fair and honest contemplation to life”, and all of these will make us gradually get rid of “controlling of current situations”. These existences are like “clean and warm spring” pure into our “minds” and “lives” and make our ““distorted” lives” gradually recover.

Buddhism has perfect and undefiled theory system and actualized realization guide, provide us to understand ourselves and start the opportunity of “mind rescue”, and make us from recovering the “twisted life” to “natural and healthy conditions” as the starting point."

-Lama Namnang Mingjo Dorje Rinpoche

We welcome everyone to join our introductory meeting!

Michelle, Lama Namnang Mingjo Dorje Rinpoche’s disciple and teaching assistant, who has been studying under his guidance for over 25 years.

Wishes to meet with everyone to continue the introductory Buddhism series; introducing our Lama, Lineage and Buddhism.

Helping everyone to smoothly enter into Buddhist cultivation path; and through Rinpoche’s guidance and instructions help the Dharma to take root and have real function on the students minds to become the good disciples of Buddha.

For more information about our Guru, Lineage, Center and different group learning and practice opportunities, please contact Michelle @ +18312464932 or email at ratnatreasure.michelle@gmail.com