Author Archives: Tashi Nyima

There’s no benefit in deceiving yourself. 𑁋Bodhidharma

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

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 →

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

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

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

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 →

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

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 →

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