Dharma Roadside Dialogues. Beyond fascination and rejection, a path to peace transcending extremes

I am very happy to announce that I will conduct a monthly series of talks and questions & answers sessions via Zoom, starting on January 30^th.

They will take place every last Saturday of the month. Starting January  30th 2021.

Beyond fascination and rejection, a path to peace transcending extremes

We are often caught between the fascination for the marvels of creation and the desire of liberation. They constitute a paradox that leads to cognitive dissonance and contradictory feelings.

How can we resolve this in order to find a way leading beyond these extremes, therefore contributing to our benefit and that of all, in particular in our close circle of near and dear like our children?

How to show them a way becoming an inspiring role model?

The Four Seals of Dharma are a way to explore this.

ཆོས་རྟགས་ཀྱི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་བཞི་

༈ འདུ་བྱེད་ཐམས་ཅད་མི་རྟག་ཅིང༌།
ཟག་བཅས་ཐམས་ཅད་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བ།
ཆོས་རྣམས་སྟོང་ཞིང་བདག་མེད་པ།
མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ་ཞི་བའོ། །

All compounded things are impermanent.

All contaminated contacts are painful. 

The Tibetan word for contaminated contacts this context is zagche, which means “contaminated” or “stained,” in the sense of being permeated by confusion or duality. The dualistic mind includes almost every thought we have. Why is this painful? Because it is mistaken. Every dualistic mind is a mistaken mind, a mind that doesn’t understand the nature of things. Whenever there is a dualistic mind, there is hope and fear. Hope is perfect, systematized pain. We tend to think that hope is not painful, but actually it’s a big pain. As for the pain of fear, that’s not something we need to explain. The Buddha said, “Understand suffering.” That is the first Noble Truth. Many of us mistake pain for pleasure—the pleasure we now have is actually the very cause of the pain that we are going to get sooner or later. Another Buddhist way of explaining this is to say that when a big pain becomes smaller, we call it pleasure. That’s what we call happiness.

All phenomena are without inherent existence.  

Nirvana is peace beyond extremes.

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From 1:30pm to 2:30pm EST, (19:30 CET) Tsony will give a talk on one of the themes requested by you!

From 3:00pm to 4:00pm EST, (21:00 CET) we’ll have time for your questions or sharing about your experiences regarding your practice.