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About Tashi Nyima

I am a Dharma student, and aspire to be a companion on the path. I trust that these texts can offer a general approach and basic tools for practicing the Buddha's way to enlightenment. ||| Soy un estudiante del Dharma, y aspiro a ser un compañero en el sendero. Espero que estos textos ofrezcan a algunos un mapa general y herramientas básicas para la práctica del sendero a la iluminación que nos ofrece el Buda.

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There’s no benefit in deceiving yourself. 𑁋Bodhidharma

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True Buddhahood

Reverence to you, who, seeking to make meaningful all your efforts, made throughout beginningless time, sat unmoving in the vajra posture beneath the bodhi tree in Magadha and awakened unto true Buddhahood, attaining perfect enlightenment. 𑁋Arya Nagarjuna

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Praise

Reverence to the Buddha Shakyamuni! You I shall praise, who first awakened the mind of enlightenment, then completed the accumulations of merit and wisdom, and now in this age, through the vast power of your actions, have become the Lord … Continue reading

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Paths

When one is not yet near nirvana, there are many paths. When one is near nirvana, there is but a single path. 𑁋Surangama Sutra

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Memories

Just like a dream experience, whatever I enjoy will become a memory. Whatever has passed I will not see again. 𑁋Arya Shantideva

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Balanced

Do not let your mind get too tense or too inwardly concentrated; let your senses be naturally at ease, balanced between tension and relaxation. 𑁋Machig Labdron

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Heaven and Hell

Heaven and hell are not at the end of your life; they are here and now. The door opens at every moment; at every moment you walk between heaven and hell. It is something that happens from moment to moment, … Continue reading

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Uncertainty

Any speech that ignores uncertainty is not the speech of a sage. Remember this. —Ajahn Chah

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Three Gateways

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. 𑁋Brahmā-paripṛcchā-sūtra What is the samadhi of emptiness? The contemplation … Continue reading

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Recognition

If only beings would recognize their own true face as that of the Tathagata whom they so eagerly seek! 𑁋Heze Shenhui

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