When you understand mind,
You understand everything.
– Nagarjuna
When you understand mind,
You understand everything.
– Nagarjuna
Ultimate co-emergent wisdom can only come
From gathering accumulations and purifying obscurations,
And through the blessings of a realized master—
You should know that it’s foolish to rely on any other method.
Saraha – Treasury of Dohās
All beings are buddhas
But this is concealed by adventitious stains.
When their stains are purified, their buddhahood is revealed.
– Hevajra Tantra
“… there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”.
– Shakespeare, (Hamlet, Act II, Scene II).
These days if you tell the truth no one listens, and if anyone says something false everybody holds it to be true. That is why I have never said this to anyone before: I am not an ordinary being, I am a bodhisattva who took birth intentionally as a result of prayers of aspiration.
– Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche (1846-1912), Spoken to his attendant Lama Ösel and recorded in his biography
The cause is the buddha nature. The support is the most precious human body. The circumstance is the spiritual friend. The method consists of his instructions. The result consists of the kayas of perfect buddhahood. The activity is the spontaneous accomplishment of beings’ benefit.
Gampopa (1079–1153) – Jewel Ornament of Liberation
Existence and non-existence are extremes,
Purity and impurity are extremes as well,
Thus, having relinquished both extremes,
The wise do not dwell even in the middle.
– Buddha Shakyamuni, King of Samādhi Sūtra
Shamar Rinpoche
From “A Change of Expression” (Editions Dzambhala, 1991)