Monthly Archives: April 2020

If our progressive and prosperous modern society, with its emphasis on quantity, convenience, and speed, is concerned about overcoming this crisis, we must look at our lives in the light of coexistence and interdependence and transform our lives into the … Continue reading →

Know the right view to be like space, without bias! Know the right view to be like earth, supporting everything! Know the right view to be like water, collecting everything! Know the right view to be like fire, burning all … Continue reading →

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently. —Pema Chödron

Wisdom is the self-liberation of grasping and clinging; in it, there is neither thinking nor a thinker. It is not ordinary. It is free from fixed convictions. It is beyond suffering. It is supreme peace. —Jigme Lingpa

Though grief in the Ocean of Samsara is described, and its renunciation urged, few are really convinced and renounce it with determination. —Milarepa

The guru lineage originates with someone called Vajradhara or Samantabhadra. Our masters tell us that he is our own mind, the nature of our own mind. This means that when we trace back through the lineage, we actually end up … Continue reading →

When sectarians persuade sentient beings, they may use malicious speech, beat them, or scold them, and in these ways subdue them. But the Bodhisattva does not do these things. When he teaches sentient beings, he does not use coarse or … Continue reading →

When you yourselves know: “These things are unwholesome; these things are blamable; these things are censured by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to harm and ill,” abandon them. —Buddha Shakyamuni, Kalama Sutra

These two slander the Tathagata. Which two? He who expounds what was not said or spoken by the Tathagata as said or spoken by the Tathagata, and he who expounds what was said or spoken by the Tathagata as not … Continue reading →

The wise should not kill sentient beings. Why should they not? Those sentient beings who kill others will make their lives short and be repeatedly born in the hell, animal, and ghost realms. Therefore, those who wish for no affliction … Continue reading →