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Abhidharma, 19, 49, 119, 146, 160
Acceptance, 69–70
Acquisition or accumulation, 34–35; automobile ad caption, 35; Bushmen example, 34; “catalogue consciousness,” 68; consuming more than needed, 60–61; hungry ghosts and, 68
Acting for the good, 73–85; generosity, 75–77; hearing the Dharma and sharing it with others, 82–83; meditation, 83–85; merit (punna), 73–74; renunciation or nondoing of the ten unwholesome activities, 74; respect, 79–81, 82; service, 81–82
Addiction, 72
Adultery, 62
Aeon, 117
Agassiz, Louis, 99–100
Aggregates (khandra), Buddha’s five, 149, 154
Alcott, Sophia, 33
Ananda, 19, 21, 148, 170
Anapanasati Sutta, 20
Anger: Buddha on, 113; harmful nature of harsh or aggressive language, 64–65; working with, 111–14
Arhant, 17, 18, 116, 117, 119; lion’s roar and, 18; Second Council controversy and, 21–22, 117; Theravada tradition and, 23; Tibetan Vajrayana tradition and, 23
Atisha, 12
Attachment: aggregates (khandra), five clung-to, 149, 151; awareness and letting go of, 102; bodies and fear of loss, fear of death, 140; breathing practice and, 20; difference between love and, 35; defined, 35; ideas and, 12; impermanence and being able to let go of, 30–31; self and, 139–43; sense pleasures and, 135–36, 145–46; views and, 136—38. See also Letting go
Auden, W. H., 108
Augustine, 101
Aversion, 68, 70; forms of, 68, 102; freeing the mind from, 102; heart contracts and, 113; grief and sorrow as, 68–69; practicing lovingkindness and, 111–14
Awakening, 132; call to, 43; direct way to (Satipatthana), 10, 69, 91–92; Eightfold Path, 63, 67, 155; faith and possibility of, 46–48, 53–55; found within (“Buddha Mind within”), 119–20, 188; how to accomplish, 147–56; moment of, from thought or mood, 38, 95, 101, 174; not a democratic process, 22; right speech and, 62–63; sudden, gradual cultivation, 173–76; suffering and, 53–54
Awareness, 10, 11, 84–85; bare attention, 98–103; going within and, 46; Dzogchen teachings (naked awareness), 173–81; impermanence and, 147—49, 150; “it isn’t it,” 48; judging vs. delighting in, 38; motivation and, 37; nature of, 38, 133; Nirvana transcends awareness or equals awareness, 10, 38, 159, 161, 169–73; pure, as Nirvana, 169; suffering and, 146, 149–49; union with emptiness, 10, 48
Bankei, 137
Bare attention, 98–103
Basho, 15
Batchelor, Stephen, 51
“Beautiful mind states,” 49
Belief, 48
Berry, Wendell, 180
“Beyond the Snow Belt” (Oliver), 123
Bodh Gaya, India, 87–88, 137
Bodhi, Bhikkhu, 105
Bodhi Tree, 16, 17, 24
Bodhicitta (“awakened heart”), 5, 121–22, 192; practicing, 128–31; relative (as compassion), 122–28, 131; self-care and, 128; Shantideva on, 128–29; Ultimate, 4, 122
Bodhisattva, 24; defined, 17, 18; paramitas (perfections), 117–18; path, as dividing issue in Buddhist tradition, 19, 116–22; Tibetan Vajrayana tradition and, 23
Bodhisattva, the (Buddha before enlightenment), 23, 31, 64, 74
“Breaking” (Berry), 180
Breathing practices, 20, 84, 93–94; “Buddho,” 93
Buddha (Siddhartha Guatama): abolishes minor rules of monastic orders, 21; awakening of, 16, 29–30; birth, 15; as Bodhisatta (before enlightenment), 23, 31, 64, 74; Channa, example of, 127; compared to good shepherd, 55; death of, 18; dependent origination and, 53; Dhammapada, teaching, 56, 86, 97; discourse to son, Rahula, 156; discourses in Pali, 6–7, 19; eight great vicissitudes of life and, 31; five courses of speech, 65; Four Noble Truths, 24; history, 15–18; past lives of, 18, 81; moral precepts as rules of training, 57; on anger, 113; on associating with the wise, 22; on breathing practice, 94; on consciousness and cessation of becoming, 170; on consciousness dependent on conditions, 161; on death of a loved one, 35; on death of Sariputta, 69; on defilements, 187; on effort, 103; on faith and suffering, 54; on going within, 44; on hindrances, 133; on holy life, 159; on impermanence, 31, 148–49, 150; on letting go, 183; on living with respect, 79–80; on metta practice, 110; on morality, 78; on motivation, 36; on nonclinging, 134, 155; on parents, 80; on patience, 104; on practice, 14; on rise and fall of phenomena, 164; on selflessness, 156; on teaching the Dhamma, 117; on the Unconditioned, 166; on wandering through samsara, 187; pragmatism of, 19; refrain for replying to, 53; refusal to appoint a successor, 17; rules created by, 17; Sanskrit and, 7; “Setting the Wheel of Dharma in Motion,” 24; sexual activity and spiritual path, 62; Satipatthana and, 10; story of Mistress Vedehika, 172–73; suffering and its end, teaching, 53; teaching the Dharma, 16–17; ten unwholesome actions, 56–72; verses on his freedom, 16. See also Sutras
Buddhas, living, and Buddhahood, 17–18, 23, 119–20; possibility of achieving, 71, 118–19, 122
Buddha Kassapa, 75–77
Buddha-Nature, 4, 24, 182
Buddha Shakyamuni (“Sage of the Shakyas”), 24
Buddhadasa, Ajahn, 158, 178
Buddhism: Abhidharma (Buddhist psychology), 19, 49, 119, 143, 146, 160; adaptation vs. integrity to origins, 20, 184–94; “building-from-below” vs. “swooping-from-above,” 186–91; compatibility with West, 2; differences in various traditions, 4, 12, 17, 18–26, 108, 116–22, 137, 157–83; “engaged,” 193; ethos of pragmatism, 19; evolution of (Turnings of the Wheel), 24–26, 137, 182; First Council, 18–20; issue of who or what constitutes ultimate spiritual authority, 22, 23; Mahasanghika (“Great Assembly”), 21–23, 117, 118; metta and, 108; Second Council, 21–24, 117; Sixth Council, 20; Sutras (discourses of Buddha), 19; Tibetan sayings on different Dharmas, 19; Vinaya (monastic rules), 19, 62. See also specific contries, schools, and traditions
Buddhist-Christian conference, 1196, 11–12, 42
Buddhist Univeristy at Nalanda, 2–3
Burmese Buddhism, 10, 20, 23, 161; Dozogchen vs., 10; inclusion of laity, 20; “rise and fall” practice, 20. See also Theravada
Cambodia, Buddhism in, 23
Carter, Stephen L., 51
Chaa, Ajahn, 31
Change, law of, 31, 148. Seen also Impermanence
China: Buddhism in, 23, 119; Nien Cheng in, 63–64; Tibet oppressed by, 125–26
Chinul, 101, 107, 173–76, 191
Choedrak, Tendzin, 125–26
Civility (Carter), 51
Commitment, 42–43
Compassion, 5, 116–31; acting for the good and, 81, 124; balanced by wisdom, 126–27; Buddhahood, attaining and, 116–22; “Divine Abodes,” 144; as nonsectarian practice, 5; One Dharma and, 13, 14, 131; practicing bodhicitta, 128–31; relative bodhicitta and, 122–28; self-test, 122–23; starting with ourselves and those closest, 123; Thich Nhat Hahn on, 124; Tibetan teaching, 131
Consciousness, 132–34, 160–61; as dependent on conditions, 160–61; Nirvana and, 169–71; self’s identification with, 142–43
Confidence (in the moment’s experience), 48–49
Connected Discourses (of Buddha), 54
Courage: strength of heart, 103–4
Covetousness (wanting mind), 68
Dai Bosatsu Monastery, 9
Dalai Lama: compassion of, 125, 128, 130; compassion with emptiness, 180; difficulty of practice, 188; example of wanting, 135; at Gethsemane Abbey, 42; on anger, 72; on forgiveness, 111; on service, 81; on ways of understanding, 11–12; on worthiness, 71; spiritual journey of, 185–86; true religion is kindness, 79
Daumal, René, 47
Days of Henry Thoreau, The (Harding), 33–34
Death, 33–34; Buddha on grieving a loved one, 35; difference between loss and grief, 35; fear of, attachment and, 140; Sixteenth Karmapa, 106
Deathless, 16. See also freedom
Defects of samsara, 37–38, 41
Delusion (ignorance), 11, 30, 133–34, 168, 172; hindrances as, 133, 146; “skillful means” to break free from, 11
Dependent origination, 53
Dhammapada, 5, 56, 86; first two verses, 97; hatred ceases only by love, 125; verses on the wandering mind, 83–84
Dharma (“the truth,” “the way of things,” “the natural laws of body and mind”), 16, 155; Buddha’s teaching of, 16–17; change, law of, 31; as deep common sense, 53; existence of, within the mind, 46; faith and, 55; four mind-changing reflections and, 38–39; hearing and sharing it with others, 82–83; One (unified theory of), 4, 5, 6, 12–14; surrender to (faith in), 49; Tibetan sayings on, 19, 27, 131; Turnings of the Wheel, 24–26, 137. See also One Dharma
Dharmakaya, 4, 182, 183
Diamond Sutra, The (Mu Soeng), 25
Diet, 59
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, 95
Dipa Ma, 29, 49
“Divine Abodes,” 144
“Don’t know mind,” 11
Doubt, 51–53
Dudjom Rimpoche, 136–37
Dzogchen (“Natural Great Perfection”), 9, 10, 176–81, 189; fabricated and unfabricated mindfulness, 90; liberated mind in, 10, 164
Eightfold Path, 63, 67, 155
Emotion: afflictive (kilesas), 146; arising during meditation, 95–96; experiment in awareness and, 96; self and, 141
Emptiness, 11, 24, 41, 44–45; awareness and liberated mind, 10, 174, 176–81; Buddhist meaning of, 41, 176; compassion and, 121; nonclinging and, 144–45; selflessness and, 41, 45, 82; “solid ground of,” 128,156
Energy, 117
Enlightened beings, 70–71
Enlightenment, stages of, 166–67. See also Nirvana
Erhard, Werner, 48
Essential Rumi, The, 86
Faith (saddha), 40–55; belief vs., 48; Buddha on, 54; commitment and, 42–43; defects of Samara and, 37–38, 41; doubt and, 51–53; example of others and, 42, 43–44; going within, 43–46; impermanence, 30–35, 41; as initial inspiration for enlightenment, 41; law of karma, 36–37, 41; possibility of awakening and, 46–48; prayer and, 49–51; precious human birth, 28–30, 41; suffering and, 43, 53–55; Triple Gem and, 44; as wholesome quality, 48–49
Fear, 70
Five aggregates (khanda), 149, 151, 159–61; all the material elements of the physical universe, 159–60; all the mental formations other than feeling and perception, 160; consciousness, 160–61; feeling, 160; perception, 160
Forgiveness, 110–11
Four Bodhisattva Vows, The (San Francisco Zen Center), 116
“Four Foundations of Mindfulness” (Satipatthana), 10, 69, 91–92
Four Noble Truths, 24, 91
Four reflections, 28–39, 41
Francis of Sales, 94
Freedom: Buddha’s verses on, 16; as deathless, 16; defined, 72; equals awareness, 10, 38, 159; faith and possibility of, 41; names for, 4; selflessness and, 48; transcends awareness, 10, 159, 161. See also Liberated mind; Nirvana (Nibbana)
Gandhi, Mahatma, 108
Generosity, 75–77, 117
Gethsemane Abbey, 12, 42
Goals in spiritual practice, 41
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 43
Goldstein, Joseph: belief and, 48; Burma monastery, stay at, 102; contemplation of sila, 30; courage and, 103—4; Dzogchen practice, 50; emptiness and, 40–41; first dharma teacher, 31, 41; Harvard Divinity school, 49–50; India, studies of Theraveda in, 136–37; issues faced by, 120–21; journey to Kashmir, 111–12; knee injury, 150; mantra, “choose the difficult,” 185; mantra used as skillful means by, 173–74; Maui, Hawaii, visit, 152; meditation practice of, 41, 45–46, 48, 103–4, 135, 173—74; meditation retreat in Nepal, 52–53; metta practice, 109–10; mindful of intention and, 98; motivation, example of, 130; Nagarkot, Nepal, 60; Peace Corps, 45, 82; prayer ritual of, 50–51; rafting trip, Salmon River, Idaho, 142; retreat at St. Petersburg, 145; retreat at Vallecitos Mountain Refuge, 149–50; seeking a teacher in India, 87–88; self-knowledge and, 37, 45–46; selflessness and, 82; sense pleasures and, 135, 145; spiritual journey of, 4; stealing, heightened sensitivity to, 59–60; surrender to the Dharma and, 49; Theravada tradition vs. Dzogchen teachings and, 9–11
Gossip, 66
Gratitude, 110
Greed, 172
Grief and sorrow, 35, 68–69, 70
Guru Rinpoche, 177
Gyalwang Drukchen Rinpoche, 50
Haiku, 61
Hanh, Thich Nhat, 114, 124
Happiness, 57–58; acting for the good and, 73–74, 97; law of karma and, 36; making choices and, 78; Metta Sutta, 110; motivation and, 97; pleasures of the senses and, 62; Ryokan and, 61; stage of equanimity and, 165; Tibetan prayer, 57
Harding, Walter, 33–34
Harvard Divinity School, 49
Hatred, 172; ceases only by love, 125
Heart qualities, 48–49
Heart’s release, 134
Hindrances, 91, 133, 146
Hui Neng, 119–20, 138
Hungry ghost, 68
Icarus, 189
Ignorance. See Delusion of mind
Impermanence, 14, 30–35, 41, 150; aging and, 30–31; “anything can happen anytime,” 150; Buddha on, 31, 148–49, 150; eight great vicissitudes of life and, 31; “end of accumulation is dispersion,” 34—35; “end of birth is death,” 33–34; “end of meeting is separation,” 35; “If it’s not one thing, it’s another,” 31; letting-go mind and, 32; letting go of attachments and nonclinging, 30–31, 147–48; meditation practice and seeing, 148–49; mindfulness of, 32
Indestructible Truth (Ray), 182
India: schools of Buddhism in, 21–23, 24; Vajjian republic, 21
“Insight knowledges,” 164–65, 166
Insight Meditation Society, 98, 124
Intention, 97
Intoxication, 77
Japan, Buddhism in, 24, 119
Jataka tales, 64, 118
John of the Cross, 165
Judging: delighting in awareness vs., 38; others, 81–82; self-examination without, 57, 61, 188–89; understanding source of, 96; Western culture and, 30, 37
Kalu Rinpoche, 1
Kaplan, Robert, 177–78
Karma, 29, 36; law of, 36–37, 41, 58, 126; as “the light of the world,” 36; motivation and, 36–37; Padmasambhava on, 37
Kayos, 182
Kilesas (afflictive emotions or defilements), 146, 171–73, 187
Killing or physically harming others (or ourselves), 58–59, 77
Kindness. See Lovingkindness
King, Jocelyn, 156
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 108, 125
Korean Zen, 1, 23–24, 101, 173–76
Kusch, Polykarp, 40
Laos, Buddhism in, 23
Laurens Van der Post, Sir, 34
Lemle, Mickey, 34
Letting go (nonclinging): Buddha’s advice, 183; detachment vs., 146; how to accomplish, 147–56; liberation through, 134; mantra for nonclinging, 136; nonreactive exercise, 144 -46; peace from, 31, 32; self, 139–43; sense pleasures, 135–36; Sutta Nipata on, 70; views, 136–37
“Letting-go mind,” 32
Liberated mind: different perspectives on, 157–59; dispassion and, 150–51; Dzogchen view of, 10; how to accomplish, 147–56; possibility of achieving, 71, 118; ultimate nature of, 3–4; understanding what is the path and what is not the path, 164; suffering and, 53–54; through nonclinging, 134. See also Letting go; Nirvana
Life: circularity of, 47–48; fashioning as an artist creates his art, 61; law of dependent origin and, 53; things greater than, 64
Life and Death in Shanghai (Nien Cheng), 63–64
“Light of the world, the,” 36
Lion’s roar, the, 18
Listening, 82, 92–93
Living in the moment, 47, 48, 101; St. Francis on, 101
Long Discourses, 170
Loss, 69; attachment and, 140; as change, 69; difference from grief, 35, 69
Love: attachment vs., 35; cessation of hatred and, 125; Divine Abodes,” 144; Merton on, 111
Lovingkindness (metta), 5, 105–15; forgiveness, 110–11; generosity of the heart, 108–11; language and, 65; practice of, 109–11; Sutta, 109, 110; as true religion, 79; understanding impermanence and, 35; working with anger, 111–14
Lying, 63–64, 77
Maha Bua, Ajahn, 167–68
Mahasanghika (“Great Assembly”), 21–23, 117, 118
Mahasi Sayadaw, 10, 19–20, 92, 161
Mahayana (“Great Vehicle”) school of Buddhism, 23–24, 25, 118–20, 177, 182; Lotus Sutra, 118; Sutras, 119; Theravada tradition vs., 24–25, 116
Masahide, 184
Meditation, 117; as acting for the good, 83–85; beginning with thoughts of forgiveness, 110–11; breathing practices, 20, 84, 93–94; Buddha’s advice on feelings during, 148; calming the mind and collecting attention, 83–84; how to practice, 92–98; impermanence, 148–49; language, passive voice, to stop identification as observer, 143; object of attention for, 84; opened to lay people, 20; opening to difficulties, 123–24; “rise and fall,” 20; “rolling up the mat stage,” 165; sitting, 92; solitary practice and, 81; stages of purification, 161–66; Theravada tradition and transcendence of awareness in, 10, 159, 161; vipassana, 92; vipassana romance or vendetta, 140. See also Mindfulness
Merit (punna), 73–74
Merton, Thomas, 12, 111
Metaphysics, 12
Metta Sutta, 109
Milarepa, 40, 188
Mind, actions of, 67–71; “beautiful mind states,” 49; concentration, 162–63; consciousness, 132–34, 160–61; corruptions of insight, 164; delusion and, 133; Dharma and, 37; ill will, 68–69; “in-order-to,” 136; letting-go, 32; of non-grasping, 5; observing, 88; purifying, 82, 86–104, 161–66, 188; released, 167–73; seductiveness of thought, 140—41; taking refuge within, 44–45; thought, awareness of, 101; thought process, 95; training through meditation, 83–84; unwholesome states, 146; wandering, 94–95; wanting (covetousness), 68; wrong view, 70–71
Mind Essence, 4, 182–83
Mindfulness, 14, 53, 88–92; breathing and, 20; defined, 32, 89; emotions and, 141–42; fabricated and unfabricated (Dzogchen teaching), 90; five aggregates and, 160; “Four Foundations of” (Satipatthana), 10, 69, 91–92; impermanence and, 32–35; non-sectarian practice, 5, 88; Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche on, 89–90; speech and, 65
Mindlessness, 39
Mitchell, Stephen, 189
Morality (doing no harm), 56–72; sila, 30, 77–79, 162. See also Nonharming
Mother Teresa, 51, 108
Motivation, 36–37, 60, 97, 120; Padmasambhava on, 37
Mount Analogue (Daumal), 47
Mu Soeng, 25
Mun, Ajahn, 167
Munindra, Anagarika, 31, 41, 88
Murray, W. H., 42–43
Nalanda University, 12
Nanananda, Bhikkhu, 169–70
Naropa, 134
Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, 136
Nature of Mind, 4, 90, 164, 176, 178, 179, 188–89
Nien Cheng, 63–64
Nirmanakaya, 182, 183
Nirvana (Nibbana), 4, 157–83; cessation of defilements (kilesa nibbana), 171–73; consciousness dependent on conditions and, 160–61, 168–71; as constant, 167–68; debates, 181–83; Eightfold Path, 63, 67, 155; limitations of language and, 181; mind released (view of Nirvana), 167–73; mindfulness as direct path to, 13, 69; “Natural Great Perfection” (Dzogchen), 176–81; “path” and “fruition” (maggaphala), 166–67; patience and, 104; Sariputta on, 166; stages of enlightenment, 166–67; stages of purification, 161–66; sudden awakening, gradual cultivation, 173–76; term, 158–59. See also Awakening; Liberated Mind
Nonclinging. See Letting go
Nongrasping, 5, 14
Nonharming, principle of, 56–72, 77–79; actions of the body, 58–62; actions of the mind, 67–71; actions of speech, 62–67; backbiting and gossip, 66; covetousness (wanting mind), 68; frivolous and useless talk, 66–67; happiness and, 57; harsh, angry, or aggressive language, 64–65; ill will, 68–69; importance of personal integrity, 57; killing or physically harming others (or ourselves), 58–59, 77; lying, 63–64, 77; motivation and, 60, 67; sexual misconduct, 61–62, 77; sila, 30, 77–79, 162; stealing, 59–61, 77; wrong view, 70–71
Nonseparation, 107
Nothing That Is, The (Kaplan), 177–78
Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, 9, 10, 14, 89–90, 121
O’Keefe, Georgia, 79
Oliver, Mary, 123
“On the Faith Mind” (Seng-Ts’an), 144
One Dharma, 4, 5, 6, 26, 108; as “engaged Buddhism,” 193; mindfulness and, 192–93; nonclinging as doorway to, 138; selflessness at center of, 45; three pillars of, 192; two truths and, 106–7; unification of issues in, 116–17, 131, 184–94; what it is, 12–14; wisdom as essence of, 193
Padmasambhava, 37, 40, 177, 178–79
Pali, 6–7; canon, 7
Parables and Portraits (Mitchell), 189
Paramitas (perfections), 117–18
Parinibbana Sutta, 21, 44
Pascal, 127
Path of Purification, The, 75, 162, 181–82
Patience, 104, 117
Patrul Rinpoche, 56, 73
Peace: letting go and, 31, 32; nonremorse and, 78, 162
Practice: best way, 12; breathing, 20; Buddha on, 14; faith in, 49. See also Meditation; Mindfulness
Prayer, 49–51; Gyalwang Drukchen Rinpoche’s, 50; Merton on, 111; Mother Teresa on, 51; Refuge Tree, 50; Tibetan, for happiness, 57
Precious human birth, 28–30, 41; karma and, 29; law of dependent origin and, 53; respecting parents and, 80
Pride, 70
Proust, Marcel, 84–85
Pure Heart, 4
Purifying the mind, 82, 86–104, 161–66; bare attention, 98–103; conduct (sila), 162–63; courage: strength of heart, 103–4; four foundations of mindfulness, 91–92; how to practice, 92–98; knowledge and vision of the way (“insight knowledges”), 164–65, 166; practice of mindfulness, 88–90; view, 163
Questions of King Milinda, The, 42
Reality: metaphysics and, 12; relative and ultimate (“the two truths”), 5, 105–7
Rebirth, 143–16; psychological, 144
Refuges, 1; Three, 50; Tree, 50
Regret, 78
Relationships: care in, 79; impermanence of, 35; separation and sorrow, 35
Respect, 79–81, 82
Rinzai, 121
“Rise and fall,” 20
Rumi, 86, 132, 142
Ryokan, 61, 114–15
Sadhus, 34
Saleh, Denis, 104
Sambhogakaya, 183
Samsara (“perpetual wandering”): Buddha on, 187; defects of, 37–38; distracted mind of, 42
Sangha, 17, 44, 55
Sanskrit, 6–7
Sao, Ajahn, 167
Sariputra, 136–37; Sariputta, 69, 166, 170
Sarnath, 24
Satipatthana Sutta (“Four Foundations of Mindfulness”), 10, 69, 91–92
“Scottish Himalayan Experience, The” (Murray), 42
Scudder, Samuel, 99–100
Self, 11, 74, 139–43; aggregates (khandra), five, 149, 151, 159–61; concept, 152; concept of body and, 139—40; emotions, identification with and, 141—42; emptiness as absence of, 176–81; freeing oneself from, 141—42, 156; identification with consciousness and, 142–43; metaphor of the chariot, 153; rebirth and, 143—46; Rinzai’s teaching on, 121; Wei Wu Wei on, 153; as wrong view, 71
Selflessness (anatta), 71, 169; emptiness and, 41, 45, 48, 82, 177–81; experiment, 156; nature of all phenomena, 151; purification of view and, 163; realizing, 151–56
Self-Liberation Through Seeing with Naked Awareness, 177, 178–79
Seng-Ts’an, 9, 144
Sense(s): mediation and, 147–48; pleasure of, 135–36, 145–46
Service, 81–82
“Setting the Wheel of Dharma in Motion,” 24
Seung Sahn, 1, 11
Sex: abstinence, 62; energy, 61; lust, Sayadaw U Pandita on, 61–62; misconduct, 61–62, 77; principle of nonharming and, 62
Shabkar, 176
Shantideva, 128–29
Siddhartha Gautama, 15–16, 18. See also Buddha
Sila (“morality”), 30, 77–79, 162
Sisyphus, 189
Sixteenth Karmapa, 106
“Skillful means,” 11, 12, 13, 173, 186–91
Songs of the Sisters, 54–55
Speech, 62–67; backbiting and gossip, 66; frivolous and useless talk, 66–67; harsh, angry, or aggressive language, 64–65; lying, 63–64, 77; mindful of intention and, 98
Spinoza, 39
Sri Lanka, 23
Stealing, 59–61, 77
Suffering: attachment to sectarian beliefs and, 138; Buddha’s teaching, 53, 54, 149; as call to awareness, 146; change and, 149–50; end of, 166; faith and, 43, 53–55; Four Noble Truths and, 24; “five clung-to aggregates” and, 149; grief and sorrow, 35, 68–69; impermanence, understanding of, and, 30–31; letting go of, 31; liberation as paramount issue, 191–92; mindfulness to alleviate, 113; root cause, awareness of, 101
Sutras, 19; Anapanasati, 20; dialogue of Vajira and Mara, 153; evolution of new, 24; four radiances, 82–83; Lotus, 118; Metta, 109, 110; Nipata, 70, 138; Pali, on cessation of defilements, 171, 187; Parinibbana, 21, 44; Satipatthana (“Four Foundations of Mindfulness”), 10, 69, 91–92
Sutta Nipata, 70, 138
Suzuki Roshi, 138
Szymborska, Wislawa, 157
Taoist saying, 106
Tathagata (“One thus gone”), 148
Tekiken, 114
Ten Commandments, 68
Thailand, Buddhism in, 23; forest tradition, 31, 93, 167, 171; Marble Temple, Bangkok, 45
Thanissaro Bhikkhu, 170
Theravada Buddhism (“Teachings of the Elders”), 4, 5, 6, 23, 24–25; arhant ideal and, 23, 117, 119; countries that practice, 23; Goldstein and, 136–37; Mahayana school vs., 24–25, 116; metta chant, 107; Nirvana transcends awareness, 159, 161, 169–70; Pali canon, 7; Path of Purification, The, 75, 162; prayer and, 49–50; purifying the mind, 86; Satipatthana, 10
Thoreau, Henry David, 33–34, 127–28
Thurman, Robert, 74
Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, The, 82
Tibetan Buddhism, 1, 4, 6; compassion, training in, and, 131; debate on turnings of the Wheel, 182; Dzogchen, 9, 10, 90, 164, 176–81, 189; four reflections, 28–39; ice and water metaphor for Nature of Mind, 179; Mahayana school, 23, 24, 177; motivation, 36; Nyingma school, 10, 136; prayer for happiness, 57; prayer in, 50; “radiance,” 177; ultimate, empty nature of the mind, 44—45; Vajrayana (“Diamond Vehicle”) tradition, 23
Tilopa, 134
Tracing Back the Radiance (Chinul), 174–75
Triple Gem, 44
Trust, 49
Truth, 64; “two truths, the,” 5, 105–7
Trungpa Rinpoche, 48, 86–87, 143
Tsoknyi Rinpoche, 178
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, 90
Twain, Mark, 68
U Pandita, Sayadaw, 30, 52–53, 61–62, 102, 135, 185
Unborn, 4, 31, 82, 166, 181
Unconditioned, 4, 158, 166
Undying, 31
Unwholesome actions, 58–72; actions of the body, 58–62; actions of the mind, 67–71; actions of speech, 62–67
Vajira, 153
Vajrayana, 5, 25
Vietnam, Buddhism in, 24
Vinaya, 19, 62
Vipassana, 92, 140
Viriya (“effort”), 103
Virtue, 117
Way of the Bodhisattva, The (Shantideva), 128–29
Wei Wu Wei, 44, 109, 153
Western Buddhism, 1–3, 6, 13, 24, 192–94; changes in Burmese Buddhism and, 20; Chinul’s emphasis on moments of awakening and, 175; effort, too much attention to, 103; as nonsectarian, 191; as synthesis of wisdom traditions, 26, 120, 184–94; teaching in, 22–23; two truths and, 107
Western culture: beauty in, 78; feelings of unworthiness and disconnect, 30; goals in spiritual practice and, 47; Wheel of Dharma, 24–26, 137, 182,193
Wheel of Lite, 143, 144
Wisdom, 117, 184–94; acting for the good and, 81; compassion and, 126–27; “crazy,” 127; honoring, 71; listening to the Dharma and, 82–83; as nonsectarian practice, 5; One Dharma and, 13, 14, 193; possibility of achieving, 71; practice, necessity of and, 14; relying on teachers, 22–23
Words of My Perfect Teacher, The (Patrul Rinpoche), 56, 73
Wrong view, 70–71
Zen, 4, 5, 6, 107, 119, 189; metta meditation, 107