Monthly Archives: May 2018

Obsessing over food, clothing, and shelter leads to the three lower paths: To compulsively desire and make a display of clothing is karma for the path of animals. To greedily crave food is karma for the path of hungry ghosts. … Continue reading →

By not renouncing our selves, we who might roam free, lie –of our own choice– in lament of this world. Just cast away! Then you will see that there’s a way to let go of life in this world so as … Continue reading →

Every notion of subject and object [self and selves, phenomena and characteristics] is merely a transformation of consciousness only. –Arya Vasubandhu

If we have to wash a big pile of dirty dishes, we may become disheartened and feel overwhelmed. However, no one has ever had to wash a whole pile of dishes all at once. One can only wash one dish … Continue reading →

The defining characteristic of relative truth is that it is an object of consciousness that in its fundamental nature is essentially empty of true being. The defining characteristic of absolute truth is that it is an object of authentic, sublime … Continue reading →

May all practitioners single-heartedly entrust themselves to the Buddha’s teachings alone and, thinking not of their lives but relying utterly on the recitation of the Name, abandon what the Buddha leads them to abandon, practice what the Buddha leads them … Continue reading →

If you spin a top, it will turn, but if you do not go about spinning it, it will stop. Our turning in the wheel of birth and death is precisely so. With our physical, verbal, and mental actions, there … Continue reading →