Author Archives: Tashi Nyima

Some recluses and sham sages are deeply attached to their own views. Those who see only one side of things engage in quarrels and disputes. […] Possessed by conceit, fettered by conceit, bound by conceit, they argue ruthlessly because of their views and cannot go … Continue reading →

There is an unborn, an uncaused, an unmade, an unconditioned. If there were no unborn, uncaused, unmade, and unconditioned, no liberation would be possible from what is born, caused, made, and conditioned. But since there is an unborn, an uncaused, an … Continue reading →

While doing something else, recite the Holy Name. Don’t do something else while reciting the Name. —Honen om amideva hrih, namu amida butsu, a mi da phat, amitoufo, namo amitabhaya

It is by living with a person that her virtue is to be known… It is by association that her purity is to be known… It is in adversity that her fortitude is to be known…. It is by conversation … Continue reading →

Like the reflection of the moon on water, that is still the moon; like a face in the mirror, that is still the face, the Dharma does not vanish. —Keizan Jōkin

The ultimate truth understood solely as an absence of existence is an extreme view; it is the conceptual counterpart of the wrong view of the inherent existence of phenomena. The Heart Sutra declares: “Form is empty, emptiness is form, emptiness … Continue reading →

Those who, having obtained vast wealth, are not intoxicated by it, are not led into heedlessness and reckless indulgence which endangers others, are very rare in this world. Those who, having obtained much wealth, are intoxicated by it, led into … Continue reading →