Buddhism: Nyingma Wisdom

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Nyingma Wisdom Feb 25th 2012, 17:01 I've been writing a brief overview of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. This is the oldest school of Tibetan Buddhism. Its founding teachers came to Tibet from India and also from Uddiyana, located in what is now the Swat Valley of northern Pakistan. I believe Nyingmapa is the only living tradition of Buddhism that can trace at least part of its ancestry directly to Gandhara, the lost Buddhist kingdom of the Middle East. Probably the Nyingma teacher best known in the West is Sogyal Rinpoche. I'm sure some of you have read some of his books, such as The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. I thought I'd post a couple of quotes from the book, but I'm having a terrible time choosing one. There are so many good ones. Well, here are a couple, and if you have other quotes you want to add, feel free. "Don't let us take doubts with exaggerated seriousness nor let them grow out of proportion, or become black-and-white or fanatical about them. What we need to learn is how slowly to change our culturally conditioned and passionate involvement with doubt into a free, humorous, and compassionate one. This means giving doubts time, and giving ourselves time to find answers to our questions that are not merely intellectual or 'philosophical,' but living and real and genuine and workable. Doubts cannot resolve themselves immediately; but if we are patient a space can be created within us, in which doubts can be carefully and objectively examined, unraveled, dissolved, and healed. What we lack, especially in this culture, is the right undistracted and richly spacious environment of the mind, which can only be created through sustained meditation practice, and in which insights can be given the change slowly to mature and ripen." One more: "We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don´t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home. "Meditation, then, is bringing the mind home."

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