Monthly Archives: March 2023

There are twenty-eight benefits of solitude: it guards us, increases our life expectancy, gives us vigor, conceals our failings, removes any bad reputation and brings fame, destroys discontent and brings satisfaction, banishes fear and endows us with confidence, removes sloth … Continue reading →

See if you can bear sufferings such as illness, being undermined, and despised. To be unable to do so is to be ordinary, a sign you have not completed the path. —Khenpo Gangshar

Although the nature of the mind is indivisible, it is seen by those whose view is mistaken as if it were divided into perceived, perceiver, and self-awareness. 𑁋VII Karmapa Chodrak Gyatso

If one night you pass by a coiled rope on the ground in the dark, you might think it is a snake curled up and be so terrified that your heart races. Similarly, when we are immersed in the darkness … Continue reading →

All phenomena have the nature of emptiness, beyond conceptual reference. All phenomena have the nature of signlessness, beyond conceptual thought. All phenomena have the nature of wishlessness, beyond acceptance and rejection. 𑁋Buddha Shakyamuni, Brahmā-paripṛcchā-sūtra

I teach and transform obstinate beings within the worlds of the Five Corruptions, causing their minds to be regulated and subdued, so that they renounce the unwholesome and return to the wholesome. But one or two of ten will still … Continue reading →

The nature of the mind is empty and without foundation. Your own mind is insubstantial, like an empty sky. Look at your own mind to see whether it is like that or not. Divorced from views that conceptually determine the … Continue reading →

The Tathagata has taught that attachment is a minor misdeed that is given up slowly; aversion is a major misdeed that must be given up quickly; and indifference is a major misdeed that is given up slowly. Among those, minor … Continue reading →

Does compassion arise without effort? Is your devotional longing great? Is your mind stable in concentration? Do you experience a strong feeling of revulsion for worldly concerns? Is your diligence strong? Do you experience an increase in pure appearances? If … Continue reading →

If anyone could establish unbelieving parents in faith, they would obtain peace; if anyone could establish immoral parents in morality, they would obtain peace; if anyone could establish ignorant parents in knowledge, they would obtain peace; if anyone could establish … Continue reading →