Profound and tranquil, free from complexity,
Uncompounded luminous clarity,
Beyond the mind of conceptual ideas;
This is the depth of the mind of the buddhas.
In this, there is not a thing to be removed,
Nor anything that needs to be added.
It is merely the immaculate,
Looking naturally at itself.
~Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche
How boundless the cleared sky of Samadhi!
How transparent the perfect moonlight of the Fourfold Wisdom!
At this moment what more need we seek?
As the Truth eternally reveals itself,
This very place is the Lotus Land of Purity,
This very body is the Body of the Buddha.
- Song of Meditation, Hakuin Ekaku Zenji
Homage to Manjushri!
I bow down to the all-powerful Buddha
Whose mind is free of attachment,
Who in his compassion and wisdom
Has taught the inexpressible.
In truth there is no birth –
Then surely no cessation or liberation;
The Buddha is like the sky
And all beings have that nature.
Neither samsara nor nirvana exist,
But all is a complex continuum
With an intrinsic face [...]
In difficult times , it is only bodhichitta that heals. When inspiration has become hidden, when we feel ready to give up, this is the time when healing can be found in the tenderness of pain itself. This is the time to touch the genuine heart of bodhichitta. In the midst [...]
PEOPLE GET INTO A HEAVY-DUTY sin and guilt trip, feeling
that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something
bad and they are being punished. That’s not the idea at all. The idea
of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to
open your heart. To the degree that you didn’t understand [...]
The self is a metaphor. We can decide to limit it to our skin,
our person, our family, our organization, or our species. We
can select its boundaries in objective reality As the systems
theorists see it, our consciousness illuminates a small arc in
the wider currents and loops of knowing that interconnect us.
It is just as plausible to [...]
From: ‘When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times’
by Pema Chodron
“We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough
or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from
the point of view of someone who is awake, that’s death.
Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed
and whole, self-contained and comfortable, [...]
An Excerpt From:
Loving-Kindness is the Best Medicine
by Tulku Thondop Rinpoche
The essence of loving-kindness is wishing joy for others.
Like a loving mother for her child,
Serve others by offering all—your body, wealth, and merits
And bear all the hurts caused by them. —Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa
The Buddha said, “Mind is the main thing and it is the leader.” The [...]
From: Everyday Zen
by Charlotte Joko Beck
When we find our life unpleasant or unfulfilling, we try to escape the unpleasantness by various subtle escape mechanisms. In such attempts we are dealing with our lives as if there’s me and then there’s life outside me. As long as we approach our lives in this way we will [...]
