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Category Archives: Dharma View
Stop Suffering
If you’ve never suffered, may you always have happiness and the causes of happiness! For those of us who’ve experienced heartbreak, rejection, and disappointment, parted with loved ones, lost our health and possessions, come short of fulfilling our dreams, or … Continue reading
Priorities
What you would do if you only had 10 more years to live? 1 more year to live? 1 more month to live? 1 more day to live? 1 more hour to live? 1 more minute to live? Would your … Continue reading
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Distinguishing carefully
The doctrines of the silver and later ages contain errors, and their texts —which adulterate the Dharma like watered-down milk in the market— do not offer faithful witness. The higher rectifies the lower, and superior principles refute the inferior. The … Continue reading
Two Cycles of Four Ages
I bow reverently before the perfect and absolute Buddha, the Welcome, Suchness, Supreme Purity, True Self, Great Bliss, Permanence, and proceed to explain in full the classification of the two cycles of the four ages. The four great ages have … Continue reading
OM A MI DE VA HRIH
OM Guru A Buddha MI Dharma DE Sangha VA the union of wisdom and compassion HRIH pierces through all obscurations OM going for Refuge A generating the mind of enlightenment MI confessing all transgressions DE rejoicing in virtue VA … Continue reading
The Wind that Scatters the Clouds
The ground of purification is the universal ground wisdom, which is like the sky. The object of purification is the incidental stains, which is like the clouds. The agent of purification is the truth of the path, which … Continue reading
On Buddha Nature
In all Suchness there is no differentiation. The Tathagata is pure. All beings share that essence. —Sutralankara This essence of the Tathagata, when not free from the store of defilement, is referred to as the Tathagatagarbha. —Srimaladevi Sutra … Continue reading
Overcoming Delusion
As long as delusion[1] has not ceased, it is impossible for the manifestation of delusion, the cycle of birth and death, to cease. As long as the circulation of the vital winds[2] has not stopped, it is impossible for the … Continue reading
Maps of the Truth
Teachings point to the truth, but are not The Truth. There can be various maps that guide us to our destination —some will be more or less exact than others— but none of them IS the destination. We cannot set … Continue reading
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