Complete Circle Of Illusion

Hi! I'm relatively new to Buddhism and most of my education has been from Theravadan teachers. What is Dharmakaya, and why would someone show it off?

Any practice that helps you, is by its nature a good practice.

There is no end to desire, it just goes on and on and on. Is there any way to completely gratify a desire? If we satiate ourselves — if, for example we eat so much that we stuff ourselves full of food — then suddenly we have no more desire for food, we have an aversion to it. But before long the desire is there again and so we eat more, and then we do not want any more . . . And we keep going on like that — gratifying desire without understanding it. ​

"This work defies the dreary but prevalent notion that the serious is the important, that the playful is the inconsequential, and above all that we are under some obligation to draw conclusions about ourselves and our world and then stick to them."

Spiritual life is not about becoming someone special but discovering a greatness of heart within us and every being. It is an invitation to inwardly drop our opinions, our views, our ideas, our thoughts, our whole sense of time and ourselves, and come to rest in no fixed position.

Tension is one of the most common blockages to practice and mindfulness that we encounter. Whether it appears as anxiety, frustration, anger, expectation or sadness, most of us carry around a lot of tension. Perhaps we find moments of peace and relaxation (and therefore concentration and open mindedness) when we meditate - for some of us maybe not even then! When the body and mind are tense, it is much harder to practice in all areas - patience, mindfulness, kindness - all of the practices and perfections become harder when we are not relaxed.

Since the original nature of mind is spaciousness without obstruction, all things reflected there liberate themselves moment to moment regardless of their characteristics. However, it is due to our clinging and attachment that various things become stuck and recurrent.

Because the nature of all things is that of emptiness and impermanence, life will never be perfect.