Monthly Archives: June 2024

Wisdom, the direct perception of Suchness, is always momentary. If we cling to a fixed view, however valid it may have been at the time, we turn it into a questionable and inaccurate opinion. Everything flows; everything changes. Nothing remains … Continue reading →

According to the aspirations of sentient beings, I taught different vehicles (Sravakayana, Boddhisatvayana, Vajrayana). I also taught the One Vehicle (Ekayana). As long as a mind aspires to enter the Path, there will be no end to the vehicles that … Continue reading →

Those who have not yet been ferried over to the other shore, I will ferry over. Those who have not yet understood, I will cause them to understand. Those who have not found peace, I will cause them to find … Continue reading →

The more we reject certain social, religious, or racial sectors, the more we close our hearts and the less we embody our genuine enlightened nature. The more critical, the more rigid, the more we cling to our likes and dislikes, … Continue reading →

EH MA HO! How wonderful! Bodhisattvi Tashi Chodron, Auspicious Upholder of the Dharma, Laura Lorena Utrecht, has arrived in the Pure Land! EH MA HO! How wonderful! In this lifetime, she attained a precious human birth with the necessary freedoms … Continue reading →

Doers of what is hard are the Bodhisattvas, the great beings who have set out to win supreme enlightenment. They do not wish to attain their own private nirvana. On the contrary, they have surveyed the highly painful world of … Continue reading →

The Five Vajrayana Paths (Accumulation, Preparation, Seeing, Familiarization, and No More Learning) are always permeated with the Four Immeasurables (Compassion, Loving Kindness, Equanimity, and Rejoicing) and the four Ways of Attracting (Generosity, Encouragement, Instruction, and Example). 𑁋TN

Among all living things 𑁋mountains and rivers, grasses and trees, even the sounds of blowing winds and rising waves— there is nothing that is not the recollection of the Buddha. 𑁋Ippen Shonin

Just as oil is present in a mustard seed, all of us, all sentient beings, have Buddha Nature. Though it is present, we do not recognize it, because our minds are obscured by delusions. When, as a result of the … Continue reading →

I share with other elders our various ailments, separation from our loved ones, frequent medical appointments, multiple visits to pharmacies, walkers, canes… this particular taste of suffering. Each age has its own. 𑁋TN