Karma Thegsum Choling Minneapolis

“Let us pray for world peace, social justice, and environmental balance, which
begin with our own breathing.
I breathe in calmly and breathe out mindfully.
Once I have seeds of peace and happiness within me, I try to reduce my selfish
desire and reconstitute my consciousness.
With less attachment to myself, I try to understand the structural violence in the
world.
Linking my heart with my head, I perceive the world holisitically, a sphere full of
living beings who are all related to me.
I try to expand my understanding with love to help build a more nonviolent
world.

I vow to live simply and offer myself to the oppressed.
By the grace of the Compassionate Ones and with the help of good friends, may
I be a partner in lessening the suffering of the world so that it may be a proper
habitat for all sentient beings to live in harmony during this millenium.”

Contributed by Stu Webb, from the book,
“Mindful Politics: A Buddhist Guide To Making The World A Better Place”, ed. by Melvin McLeod, (Wisdom Pub. 2006)

Properly applied the practices of Tibetan Buddhism facilitate shifts in consciousness to higher levels where true, far-reaching wisdom manifests. Real wisdom is so rare there’s almost no reason to mention it these days. Very few people know what it is, why we need it, how different things would be if, on balance, people had it or at least could connect to it. Given the set of challenges the human race faces NOW, not some time in the future, we urgently need problem solving based in transcendent wisdom. For this reason alone, everyone should engage in meditation every day. All people free to do so should be doing daily meditation practice. Start now. Adopt a daily meditation practice. WAKE UP.

“Developmental psychologists have looked at scales of development for decades. And once you start understanding these, the first thing you want to know is: How can we help adults move through these stages? … And, interestingly, there is only one thing that’s been consistently demonstrated to move people, on average, about two stages - and that’s meditation…

…Amrit Sen, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, demonstrated that there’s never been a famine in a democratic country. A democracy stems from at least stage-five moral development. Since seventy percent of the world’s population is not there, the single best thing you can do to end world famine is to meditate. Meditation has a profound impact on the average level of consciousness in the world. It’s very, very important…

…meditation is a way to help you disidentify with finite objects and rest in that ground of being which is your very nature, your very SELF… meditation is extrememly important, and don’t ever let anybody tell you that it’s just not having any impact on the world. You’re changing the fundamental fabric of the cosmos when you meditate.”

Ken Wilber in what is enlightenment magazine, Issue 32.

“… to do that you have to access the innate capability of the brain, and the tools, the key, to really develop the brain holistically is to experience the holistic reality, the meditative state, so-called spiritual experience, the experience of the unified field at the source of thought.”(my bold)

Quote from What tHe Bleep Do wE (know)!? the book. ISBN 0-7573-0334-x

Shamata Meditation is precisely the experience of the unified field at the source of thought.

Buddhism is a verb. It is the deliberate pursuit of the higher, non-ordinary states of consciousness.

Lama la

Shamata Meditation, a most direct path to all our unrealized potential. Looking… looking…always looking for only the source of thought, Emptiness, the absolute nature of reality.

We have to meditate and reach non-ordinary states of consciousness before we become the creator of our own reality.

Quantum Activist Amit Goswami, Ph.D.

“If we simplify our lives, we gain tremendous freedom. For example, there were great masters in Tibet who expressed the insubstantiality of true existence not only in the outer world of appearances but with their bodies as well. There were some realized beings whose bodies were transparent. They had no shadow. They lived in a house, but the house had no walls. The sunlight came right through the walls. They would sit or lay in space as if lying on a cushion or bed. The possibilities are limitless. Yet it all starts with beginning to simplify our lives, shedding habitual tendencies and conceptual fixations.” Khenpo Rinpoche

from the book The Wish-Fulfilling Wheel by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche