A Teaching by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
Many of the mental habits that we have are self-destructive. They invite frustration, disappointment and things of that kind. It puts us in a situation where we just dwell on past failures, past experiences of trauma, and all the bad things that happened to us earlier on in life. We think about the future only with a sense of anxiety, fear and worry – thinking that things will get worse or something bad is going to happen. This includes worrying about oneself in terms of one’s physical health or one’s mental soundness.
When we look at mindfulness - awareness practices - we begin to see that nothing is fixed. If nothing is fixed then we have the capacity to direct our mind in a totally different direction if we so choose. That means we are not condemned to repeat the same old stuff. We are not condemned to have the same old thoughts, same old emotions, same old feelings. It is not easy to go beyond self entrenched habitual tendencies but unless we take a radical u-turn and begin to take note of how the mind functions, we are condemned to think, feel and react to life in the same old way.
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RINGU TULKU RINPOCHE is a Tibetan Buddhist Master of the Kagyu Order. He was trained in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism under many great masters such as HH the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa and HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He took his formal education at Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok and Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India and has served as Professor of Tibetology in Sikkim for 17 years.
Since 1990 he has been traveling and teaching Buddhism and meditation at more than 50 Universities, Institutes and Buddhist Centres in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Asia. He also participates in various interfaith dialogues. He authored several books on Buddhism as well as some children’s books both in Tibetan and European languages.