Kelsang Gyatso
Kelsang Gyatso
Kelsang Gyatsois a Buddhist monk, meditation teacher, scholar, and author. He is the founder and former spiritual director of the New Kadampa Tradition-International Kadampa Buddhist Union, an "entirely independent" Modern Buddhist order that claims to be a tradition based on the teachings of the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism , although they follow only the interpretations of this text by their guru , which has grown to become a global Buddhist organisation and currently claims to have 1200 centers and...
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Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind.
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To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.
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Due to mistakenly believing that outer problems are their own problems, most people seek ultimate refuge in the wrong objects. As a result, their suffering and problems never end.
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Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.