Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Gampopa Sonam Rinchen
Every sentient being is capable of attainting enlightenment, which is not so much a change from one extreme, Samsara, to another, Nirvana, but the ineffable experience in which both have ceased to dominate the thought of man so that he begins to live his life as transformed by pure transcendence. Samsara and Nirvana are not entities, but interpretations of our experiences, and as such are both Sunyata, which again is an operational term, not an ontological concept. Although all sentient beings may attain enlightenment by their own efforts, because each is a potential Buddha, human existence is the most suitable occasion for such striving. It is not something self-evident, although we can only act as human beings.
— from the introduction to Jewel Ornament of Liberation (translated by Herbert V. Guenther)
Gampopa Sonam Rinchen (1079–1153) was a Buddhist monk who established the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. A physician from Dagpo, Tibet, he was the star pupil of Tibetan Buddhist master Milarepa. Renowned for clarity of perception and knowledge of Buddhist practices, Gampopa wrote The Jewel Ornament of Liberation as a way to integrate various strands of Buddhist practices. This synthesis became the basis for various monasteries which he had founded.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Gampopa Sonam Rinchen
Gampopa Sonam Rinchen
Every sentient being is capable of attainting enlightenment, which is not so much a change from one extreme, Samsara, to another, Nirvana, but the ineffable experience in which both have ceased to dominate the thought of man so that he begins to live his life as transformed by pure transcendence. Samsara and Nirvana are not entities, but interpretations of our experiences, and as such are both Sunyata, which again is an operational term, not an ontological concept. Although all sentient beings may attain enlightenment by their own efforts, because each is a potential Buddha, human existence is the most suitable occasion for such striving. It is not something self-evident, although we can only act as human beings.
— from the introduction to Jewel Ornament of Liberation (translated by Herbert V. Guenther)
Gampopa Sonam Rinchen (1079–1153) was a Buddhist monk who established the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. A physician from Dagpo, Tibet, he was the star pupil of Tibetan Buddhist master Milarepa. Renowned for clarity of perception and knowledge of Buddhist practices, Gampopa wrote The Jewel Ornament of Liberation as a way to integrate various strands of Buddhist practices. This synthesis became the basis for various monasteries which he had founded.