The most essential nature of our mind is called the “Mind of Clear Light” in all the Tibetan traditions. It’s the goal for all practitioners. It’s the primordially enlightened mind of a Buddha. It’s not produced through practice, meditation, acquiring…
Jackson Peterson says : “How does the mirror “manage” it’s reflections? Yet in its complete absence of any form of management, it always remains unchanged and pristine. It doesn’t even “allow” or “accept” the reflections. It has no method at…
ISANYA JNANA DESIKAR says : “The Self, fulness and perfection, can neither be described nor rejected. It is a state of bliss and knowledge beyond words, having no day and no night. It is called nishtha by the Vedas. The…
H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche says : “Worries concerning the melodramas of day-to-day life serve no purpose. To fret in this futile manner is to be like the child who is delighted at having built a sand castle, and distraught when…
H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche says : “The teachings we need most are those that will actually strengthen and inspire our practice. It is all very well to receive teachings as high as the sky, but the sky is not that…
H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche says : “The practitioner who has the greatest yearning devotion receives the greatest blessing. Even though rain falls evenly over the land, it is only where perfect seeds are properly cultivated and ready to sprout that…
H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche says : “The Buddha is not going to project you to Buddhahood, as if throwing a stone. He is not going to purify you, as if washing a dirty cloth, nor is he going to cure…
H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche says : “Once you overcome the hatred within your own mind, you will discover that in the world outside, there is no longer any such thing as even a single enemy. But if you keep giving…
H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche says : “Keep in mind the many beings who are suffering in the same way as you are, and pray that your suffering may absorb theirs and that they may be liberated from all suffering. In…
H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche says : “If you master your mind, it will remain naturally concentrated, peaceful and aware. You will even be able to wander around in a crowd without being distracted and carried away by desire or aversion.”