They also need faith. This is achieved by the inspiring example of monks and nuns whose pure lifestyle and inner attainment of peace show that renunciation is possible.
On Celibacy
By Ven. Thubten Gyatso
It is 1972, in Jalalabad, and travellers on their journey to the east, stranded in Afghanistan by the Indo-Pakistani war, are partying. A…
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We know the general methods for protecting our mind: recollecting the imminence of death, the sufferings of samsara, the skeleton beneath the skin, the rotting corpse, honey on a razor blade. But we don’t really believe them.
Ven. Thubten Gyatso
A Renounced Mind
By Ven. Thubten Gyatso
One evening in 1975, on the hilltop at Kopan, my girlfriend…