Monthly Archives: January 2021

Nothing endures but change, and accepting this has the potential to transform the dread of dying into joyful living. —Mingyur Rinpoche

Recognizing that you do not know how to distinguish between right and wrong, abstain from deviating from the teachings of the scriptures, from whatever your teacher does not instruct, from arbitrarily presenting your own doctrines, from unnecessary disputation, from mocking … Continue reading →

Every kind of teaching is transmitted through the culture and knowledge of human beings. But it is important not to confuse any culture or tradition with the teachings themselves, because the essence of the teachings is knowledge of the nature … Continue reading →

Gathering ends in depletion. Rising ends in falling. Meeting ends in parting. Living ends in death. —Udana Varga

Regarding the sutras that teach emptiness, as many as were taught by the Victor, by all of them afflictions are reversed. But Buddha Nature is never refuted in them. […] Within the afflictions, primordial wisdom abides as immaculate Suchness. —Nagarjuna, … Continue reading →

On all occasions, the faith, diligence, wisdom, and compassion that please the Buddhas, spiritual power, honesty, dignity, decency, excellent livelihood, and generosity, discipline, meditative absorption, and the higher commitments —may all beings always abide in good actions and never fall … Continue reading →

Whatever a teacher must do for his disciples, out of compassion, I have done that for you. These are the roots of trees, and these, the empty houses. Concentrate! Do not be negligent and be remorseful later. This is my … Continue reading →

Most wholesome actions are difficult before they become easy. Most unwholesome actions are easy before they become difficult.  —Tashi Norbu Rinpoche

The thief left it behind: the moon at my window. —Ryokan Taigu

To believe straight away is foolishness; to believe after having seen clearly is good sense. That is the Buddhist policy of faith; not to believe blindly, or to rely only on people, textbooks, conjecture, reasoning, or whatever the majority believes, … Continue reading →