Monthly Archives: March 2022

The view of the natural state is beyond concepts. The meditation is beyond meditating. The conduct is beyond accepting and rejecting. The fruition is beyond hope and fear. —Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche

Don’t investigate the roots of things, investigate the root of mind! Once the mind’s root has been found, you’ll know one thing, yet all is thereby freed. But if you fail to find the root of mind, you will know … Continue reading →

Since all virtuous thoughts and actions motivated by clinging to a concrete reality or to a self-cherishing attitude are like poisonous food, give them up. Learn not to cling, but to know the phantomlike nature of experience. —Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro … Continue reading →

You, the knower of the world, realized the two levels of reality, by yourself, not studying them from others. They are the relative and the absolute; there is not some third level of reality. —Sutra of the Meeting of Father … Continue reading →

Shamatha is one-pointed attention. Vipashyana is the distinct discernment of phenomena, correctly and exactly as they are. Shamatha curbs disturbing emotions, while vipashyana utterly purifies them. —Buddha Shakyamuni, Cloud of Jewels Sutra

When unfavorable places are abandoned, disturbing emotions gradually fade. When there are no distractions, positive activities naturally increase. As awareness becomes clearer, confidence in the Dharma grows. To rely on solitude is the practice of a Bodhisattva. —Tokme Zangpo

Apart from its cruel treatment of billions of helpless animals and the merciless death it inflicts at the slaughterhouses, livestock cultivation is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and a leading cause of deforestation, water and air pollution, and … Continue reading →

There are these Four Foundations of Mindfulness. What four? When one keenly contemplates the body just as a transient form, while always acutely aware and clearly comprehending, one thereby removes any urge, envy, jealousy, frustration, and discontent rooted in this … Continue reading →

In my native land waves of attachment to friends and kin surge; hatred for enemies rages like fire; the darkness of indifference, not caring what to adopt or avoid, thickens. To abandon my native land is the practice of a … Continue reading →

The body is inanimate and the mind is empty. What can cause pain to an inanimate thing or damage the void? Where do diseases come from, where do they go, and where do they live? Illnesses are mere sudden projections … Continue reading →