bodhisattva_vow unhinged be the flame that leads others to the right path burn bright brighter than the sun bring some relief to a stranger cultivate compassion may all your deeds shine with compassion radiant peaceful omniscient right mind right actions right life be the brightest flame 051224 ... oldephebe Hey unhinged I haven't gotten any pretty pictures lately but I feel you on this one. Yeah I feel you here. ... 051224 ... unhinged hey_pheb i'll get them to you sometime today, after the family hits it. i hope you are having a happy day; this is the happiest christmas i've had in awhile. my bro is home from hawaii and my sister's kids are at the perfect age for santa and presents. i don't think you need to worry about making your flame any brighter. thanks for being a bright light for me in the midst of my darkness pheb. 051225 ... unhinged i WILL make my corner of the world a better place to be to live to love to share to give to take to light the paths i cross so all can find them to take the hands of those that need a loving touch to open the eyes inside me that have long been shut (prying open my third eye... new_ink ) i WILL make my corner of the world a better place 060122 ... :) Amen... 060122 ... unhinged urban_bodhisattva noah levine and all his dharma punx 060603 ... hsg soul_on_fire one candle lights another. puressence is to wake up. breathing faith into a seed, givenough loveverything blooms your dream. compass i on is like connecting brain cells. directions... the only thing that really works. we won't stop til we stop suffering. we're only as strong as we are true; all else fails and realigns. we are bloomingkraft forever and ever. we are blessed with life and thru work discover light. we give thanks awakening dust to infinite bliss. to know all competence beyond all doubt, to understand the most free spirit riding the asymptotic wave, closer and closer to the infinite stillnesshininglowingnowledge. to be without fear. complete love because finallyou_knowho_you_areternal. linking linking. clicking clicking. time connecting until it comes full_circle. 071021 ... unhinged learn to say no when it is the right medicine learn to remain open enough to tell the difference learn to smile when frustration rises everything passes shamatha gives us the space to observe the passing (if i feel sad that does not make me selfish or wrong if i feel sad i should BE sad) 110307 ... unhinged . om_gate_gate_paragate_parsamgate_bodhi_svha my_heart_sutra 130421 ... unhinged hey_seattle don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk 130426 ... unhinged be the light for yourself first. don't expect the darkness to thank you for illuminating the shadows. 140111 ... REAListic optimIST Be Home. Be home for yourself. You are already there. Be home for those with whom you are close. Welcome them into your life, your heart. When you disagree, notice and be curious. When you are annoyed, do the same. Remove the obstacles to brilliance Wherever they may arise. So you can return to home when astray, and so you recognize it when you arrive. 140112 ... unhinged be a light a boat a bridge like a drop of mercury in dust like salt that easily dissolves in water like a swan on a lotus pond 200904 ... unhinged teachings on teachings on teachings dilgo khyentse , teacher of chogyam_trungpa rinpoche teaching 'the thirty seven verses on the practice of a bodhisattva' by gyalse ngulchu thogme which was a commentary, condensation of 'the way of the bodhisattva' by shantideva lineage 'outwardly, most of the great siddhas of india looked like unimpressive beggars. their lives were not filled with conspicuous deeds of grandiose charity. but inwardly they had realized emptiness, and their minds were constantly overflowing with love and compassion for all beings. in tibet, too, jetsun milarepa was the same. he never made grand offerings or preformed a lot of meritorious deeds for everyone to see. yet milarepa is considered foremost among all the enlightened yogis of india and tibet, and has been able to turn the minds of countless beings all over the world toward the dharma because he completely cast off all self-clinging and realized emptiness... what matters most is the strength of your compassion. there was once and eminent lama of lhasa who used to make a daily offering of water torma for the hungry ghosts using beautiful vessels of gold. one day, he was late making his offering and some spirits appeared before him. they urged him to make haste. the lama asked them why they were in such a hurry and the spirits replied that they wanted to go to receive kharak gomchung's water torma offering as his was more satisfying than any other. were they to miss it, they feared they would have to starve. the lama wanted to know more about this kharak gomchung and made some inquires. he discovered that he was a humble hermit living in a cave at tsang kharak. apparently, when kharak gomchung offered his water torma, he used half a walnut shell as the container and put only a few grains in it. the water for the offering came from the tears of compassion that fell from his eyes. because his compassion was limitless, all the spirits of tibet came to receive his offerings.' wept i try to rouse the bodhichitta and all i can do wept 200907 what's it to you? who go blather from