Since the links to Chapters 12 through 18 of "memories" and the Buddhist article were one after another at "The Spiritual Path":

 I decided to reprint them both here in the moment.

The Spiritual Path

Monday, March 11, 2019

I'm reprinting this so it's easier for you to find "Memories" Chapter 12 through 18

Saturday, October 6, 2018

This button will take you to Chapter 12 of "Memories"

Hopefully this Memories Chapter 12 word At the end of Chapter 12 is a word button for Chapter 12 Continued, then at the end of Chapter 12 Continued is chapter 13 word button and so on.

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Tibetan Buddhism and "compassionate right mindfulness"

I've always been an intuitive so knowing what people are feeling and thinking is something that I've had to learn to deal with since I was 2 years old and looked at people's shoes a lot because I was little then and that's what I saw the most was shoes and pantlegs. So, I heard their minds but always wondered why adults never said what they really thought about things. Then, by 15 I realized that the whole human race only exists in our cultures at all because of politeness. Otherwise, there would be no civilization and most of us would be dead. But, this came from understanding how people are from age 2 to 15. So, I have always had a lot of compassion for people and their suffering and wondered how I could help people around me without being killed, beat up or dying in the 1950s and 1960s. And back then this was no easy feat for anyone, even someone who eventually stands now at 6 foot 5 inches. I wasn't always 6 foot 5 inches. I had to grow into this very very slowly growing up and deal with all sorts of violent and sometime armed people with knives or guns on the way.

But now, I'm usually okay because I understand where to go and where not to go to keep my family safe.

But, what many people might not realize is that the Tibetans used to be some of the most violent people on earth historically. They beheaded anyone from another area (until Padmasambhava brought Buddhism to Tibet from India)

Padmasambhava - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmasambhava

Although there was a historical Padmasambhava, little is known of him apart from helping the construction of the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet at Samye, at the behest of Trisong Detsen, and shortly thereafter leaving Tibet due to court intrigues.

‎Yeshe Tsogyal · ‎Mandarava · ‎Rewalsar Lake · ‎Terma

I'm thinking it was between 700 and 1000 AD. IN fact I'm also thinking that Padmasambhava likely was a young Merlin too. And after Merlin took Buddhism to Tibet he went home to England and put Arthur on the Throne of England. This is what I presently think now from all the evidence I have looked through and experienced.

So, Tibetan Buddhism and their discipline of Compassion isn't just something that "fell out of the sky" but was hard won and hard fought to get to this place. And if you have ever been to the Himalayas they are the hardest place to survive above 8000 feet along with the deserts of the world for humans.

So, you have to imagine the toughest, hardiest people imaginable that often die by age 50 or so there in Tibet because life is so very hard the last 2000 years or more and also at altitude that takes a lot out of you too.

But, Right Mindful Compassion to me is the single most powerful thing we have been given from Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism and from the Dalai Lama.

Idiot Compassion is not enough because often the giver dies in the compassionate act.

NO, Right mindful compassion is actually thinking things through for the best outcome for all beings on earth. And this is exactly how the Dalai Lama thinks. It is powerful sort of like having a Buddhist Jesus here on earth with us. He is very very disciplined with all of this by the way. He says he is just a simple monk, but there is so much more to this than that. If you are in his presence it is literally like listening to a Tibetan Buddhist Jesus here on earth. And this is exactly how Tibetan Buddhists of Asia think of him.

By God's Grace.

Note; 25% of Tibetan Buddhists believe in God like I do. The same is true of All Buddhists of all the variations of Buddhism around the world.