Wisdom

http://www.wisdombook.org/

"You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright"

Beginner's Mind - An Approach to Listening

"Beginner's mind is Zen practice in action. It is the mind that is innocent of preconceptions and expectations, judgments and prejudices. Beginner's mind is just present to explore and observe and see 'things as-it-is.' I think of beginner's mind as the mind that faces life like a small child, full of curiosity and wonder and amazement. 'I wonder what this is? I wonder what that is? I wonder what this means?' Without approaching things with a fixed point of view or a prior judgment, just asking 'what is it?' "

http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/08/beginners_mind

Gesar of Ling

"It is said that many centuries ago the kingdom of Ling, famous for the piety and the wisdom of its sages, was to suffer a time of great unhappiness. Darkness, the shadow of revenge, was to fall over the people, and the light of the dharma would be extinguished. Such a night, never to be relieved by the dawn, was to come about because of a woman who thought her unhappy life was the result of the Buddha's curse. Vengeance and hatred filled her heart, so that her dying wish was to be reborn with her three sons as rulers in Buddhist kingdoms and so be able to take revenge on the dharma, the Buddha's teaching. "

http://www.crosby-lundin.com/tibet/culture/folktales/gesarofling.html

the dark Padmasambhava

"Recently browsing the excellent Himalayan Art website, I came across this 17th century painting of Padmasambhava, or as the inscription has it, “the honoured Mahāguru of all the Conquerors”, also known as Guru Rinpoche. The composition is unusual: the central figure is surrounded by 356 small Padmasambhavas, their clothes in recurring sequences of different colours that gives the whole painting a striking geometric pattern."


http://earlytibet.com/2008/09/09/padmasambhava-ii-the-dark-padmasambhava/

Asian & Pacific Studies - Historical Photographs

"This document is a part of Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library and Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library. It keeps track of leading on-line collections of still images of value/significance to researchers in Asian and Pacific Studies."

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/Asian-Historical-Photographs.html

The Wisdom of Shambhala

"There's always the primordial dot: that spark of goodness that exists even before you think. We are worthy of that. Everybody possesses that unconditioned possibility of cheerfulness, which is not connected purely with either pain or pleasure. You have an inclination: in the flash of one second you feel what needs to be done. It is not a product of your education; it is not scientific or logical; you simply pick up on the message. And then you act: you just do it."

http://www.shambhala.org/teachers/vctr/ges.html

Visit the Potala Palace instantly: No need to get up.

"As I float over lush Tibetan mountainside in my flying clamshell, I enjoy the sights on my way to the Potala Palace: A fountain shooting rainbows in the air, a temple to sacred geometry housing enourmous spinning platonic solids, the Dalai Lama outside a temple giving teachings. Wait a minute, you say, how is any of this realistic? Welcome to the Tibet region of Second Life."

http://chasuma.blogspot.com/2008/09/visit-potala-palace-instantly-no-need.html

Building an Enlightened Society, Chögyam Trungpa

Building an Enlightened Society, Chögyam Trungpa (New York 1982)

http://www.onlinedharmaclassics.org/index.php?option=com_hwdvideoshare&task=viewvideo&Itemid=1&video_id=125