Jewel Heart International Blog

What is your own practice? Your own practice is recognizing the ultimate truth, understanding what is reality. And training your mind to be a good person. That is your practice. Your achievement is whenever you change yourself, whenever you are trying to be a better person, changing your behavior. For example, in earlier times you...
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In one way, I feel like many wise people are Buddhist, even though they don’t know they are Buddhist. Why? Because technically they believe in taking refuge in the Three Jewels practice over taking refuge in a deity that they have no idea where it lives, how it functions and especially how that works.  There...
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If you have a proper refuge taking practice, there is no doubt you are Buddhist. In society, whether they call or recognize you as Buddhist or not, that’s a social thing. But based on your spiritual practice, yes, you are. So therefore, the practice of taking refuge should be a perfect way to take refuge....
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Very often when people approach Buddhism they wonder: am I a Buddhist now or not? I don’t think it matters whether you are officially Buddhist or not. Some people are born in a Buddhist family and feel, “I am Buddhist”. Yet they do not have a single Buddhist practice in their life. Also, some think,...
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Arrogance is a big problem  I would like to talk about something that makes us idiots and uncomfortable in our daily life, and that is arrogance. Usually, when we talk about arrogance the first thing that comes to mind is trying to bully someone or showing off. We don’t see the real part of arrogance...
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