Author Archives: Tashi Nyima

If you want more love in your life, love more. If you want more compassion, help more. If you want more power, serve more. If you want more wealth, give more. If you want more peace, make peace. If you … Continue reading →

We perceive entities where there is only process, qualities where there is only projection, and happiness where there is only suffering. We perceive the unreal as real, the impermanent as permanent, and the unpleasant as pleasant. The remedy is intellectual, … Continue reading →

The ground is the fundamental nature of enlightenment. The path refers to the training that enables us to recognize that enlightenment. The fruit is awareness of the inner radiant wisdom. Ultimately, the fruit is inseparable from the ground, the fundamental … Continue reading →

“I” is simply a conventional designation; it exists as a pronoun, a word, a sound. What does not exist is a corresponding entity, a substantial and permanent self. 𑁋TN

Realizing space-like Dharmakaya for your own benefit, you will accomplish the welfare of sentient beings as far as space pervades. Attaining Sambhogakaya and Nirmanakaya for the welfare of others, you will benefit sentient beings as far as your mind pervades … Continue reading →

I shape and offer human tsa-tsas of the Two World-Honored Ones, Amideva and Shakyamuni. 𑁋TN

Bodhisattvas accomplish what is difficult to accomplish; they are great beings who have set out to win supreme enlightenment. They do not wish to attain their own private nirvana. On the contrary, they have surveyed the harrowing world of beings, … Continue reading →

“All or nothing” is an invitation to failure. The material plane is dense and things happen at an inscrutable pace. Gradual change is more possible, reliable, and desirable.   𑁋TN

The intellect is a valuable tool, but it doesn’t encompass the whole of our reality. In fact, it can be a trap preventing us from gaining access to the most profound aspects of our own nature. 𑁋Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche

On-the-cushion mindfulness means that you sit beautifully but you walk the streets neurotically. If we really apply the practice to our mind, then it’s with us everywhere we go.  𑁋Ponlop Rinpoche