Category Archives: Dharma View

How does one break through doubt and hesitation? Apply the skillful means of hearing, reflecting, contemplating, and meditating on the Dharma, then put the Dharma into practice in your daily life. These are the means for working with doubt and … Continue reading →

The Buddha teaches according to the capacity of students. Some He urges to refrain from harm, others to do good; some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism. And to some He teaches the profound, the terrifying, the practice of … Continue reading →

In simple situations, do not be careless. In difficult ones, do not be afraid. Do not boast of your success nor become dispirited in failure. Be different, but not strange. Seem ordinary, but never mediocre.

Liberation as ever-perfect does not refer to the liberation of a Buddha that has occurred in the past, such as that of Buddha Sakyamuni, but to the way in which countless beings are liberated right now and will continue to … Continue reading →

The degree to which any experience repels, frightens, or seems to weaken us is equal to the degree to which such experience can make us stronger, more confident, more open, and more able to accept the infinite possibilities of our … Continue reading →

From time immemorial we have been addicted to the self. It is how we identify ourselves. It is what we love most dearly. It is also what we hate most fiercely at times. Its existence is also the thing that … Continue reading →

The result of learning, contemplation, and meditation should be a steady and real increase in the love and compassion of bodhichitta, together with a steady and real diminution of ego-clinging and negative thinking. ―Patrul Rinpoche

There is no unwholesomeness like anger, and no discipline like patience. Strive always therefore for serenity, cultivating it in varied ways. ―Shantideva

Since beginningless time, we’ve gone through so much pain for transient pleasures. Yet with a thousand times less effort, we could have reached enlightenment itself. ―Ven. Rene Feusi

This body, and all my good besides, and all my merits gained and to be gained, I give them all away, withholding nothing, to bring about the benefit of beings. ―Shantideva