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The meaning of the name Tara, which is sanskrit, is
'Dolma' in Tibetan. Dolma means to free something, to be free
or the method of freeing. Tara is a mother aspect, in a sense
of spaciousness and limitlessness - being able to hold and
carry everything through love and compassion. Rokpa (tib.)
means help, in a sense of coordination and harmony, of
coordination between inner and outer environment. Training or
therapy means not to be arrogant: "other people don't know
anything, but I am better". Training means mainly
understanding. We develop understanding by analysing
ourselves, looking into positive and negative things which are
in ourselves. Training has to do with maturity, with
understanding, with digesting experience, not pick a new idea
and put it into our brain. All understanding is already within
ourselves, our inheritance, but we don't realise this. What we
are doing is learning how to recognise this. With this
understanding, we approach therapy or training as how to
simplifiy our life, not to complicate it. How to digest all
the things that are happening to ourselves and outside of
ourselves, to understand and to be given time to develop
patience. The foundation for this process is compassion. This
therapy teaches: everything is based on compassion. Compassion
for oneself; not just for other people. We need to understand,
to forgive and to have compassion for ourselves. We also need
to have compassion for our friends, and for our enemies. One's
own problems, and the concept of enemy or friend - this is all
misunderstanding and confusion, created without any reason. So
compassion is the main therapy which can enable us to overcome
all our difficulties whatever they are. "If you imagine that
your mind is like space, then you are able to digest all your
problems without any difficulties." What we try to achieve is
limitless space, so that the mind becomes like space. All the
things that are happening in the mind, like happy, unhappy,
sad, enjoyment are like different buildings in space. It
doesn't matter how many buildings are happening, still there
is space, this space can never be filled. If you imagine that
your mind is like space, then you are able to digest all your
problems without any difficulties. This is the conclusion of
what we hope to achieve by understanding Tara Rokpa Therapy or
Training, that you become like space, and then you can build
anything you want to build, the space can never be too small!
"Compassion is the main therapy which can enable us to
overcome all our difficulties whatever they are."
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