In spring we say that the water is warm,
In winter we say that it is cold.
When covered by the net of defilements,
We speak of sentient beings;
And when freed of defilements,
We talk about buddhas.
~ Nagarjuna
Our nature, or basic state, is defined or described as empty, cognizant, self-existing wakefulness. When you start to try to alter, improve, forge, or form that, it gets spoiled. You capture your natural seat, which is the original state as it is, before starting to create or form anything.
~ T.U.
When you recognize who you are, you cut the root of illusion. The trouble is you never go there. You might understand the idea of who you are, but you keep going back to believing in fake reality, because the illusion of mind won’t let you recognize how it really is.
~ Jigme Losel Wangpo
To have no doubts that all apprehended phenomena are completely devoid of existence,
And that the apprehending consciousness, too, is an illusion,
& to establish nondual gnosis as the ground to be purified—
These are the stages of the path of the final turning of the Wheel of Dharma.
~ Shāntapurīpa
Even those who have little inclination for meditation on emptiness, meditation on the maṇḍala of the deity, and other profound teachings will, by taking refuge, purify their obscurations and accumulate merit, and thus come to realize those teachings.
~ Shechen Gyaltsap
I, myself, am impermanent,
like a tigress in the jungle scared by hunters surrounding her.
Oneself and others are impermanent, like magical illusions.
As I reflect on all this, I know I must singularly align my being
with the sublime Dharma for whatever life remains for me.
~ Sera Khandro
The mind free of anything to be purified and anything to be attained is the Buddha,
Its unchanging, uncontaminated nature is the Dharma,
And its spontaneously perfected qualities are the Saṅgha;
One’s own mind, therefore, is supreme.
~ Accomplishment of Gnosis
The most important thing is to internalize, decisively, the view and meditation of the unmistaken meaning of the fundamental nature of reality, at all times and in every situation. The Buddha said,
Like smelting, shaping, and polishing gold,
thoroughly examine my words.
~ Sera Khandro
Practice in such a way that there is no practice to be done and no practitioner doing it. Practice in the state of the sole essence, all the phenomena of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa being the body of truth. Practice solely in accordance with this, my instruction.
~ Guru Padmasambhava
It is essential for secret mantra practitioners to cultivate great compassion within. Unless compassion takes birth in one’s mind, even if one claims to be a secret mantra practitioner, one is a non-Buddhist, going the wrong way.
~ Guru Padmasambhava
howdy Bro K-
copied exactly as translated; i read it as,
The radiant nature of the mind, (which is)
The virtue that is the essence of the Tathāgata.
Two lines from the Laṅkavatara Sutra;
The virtue that is the essence of the Tathāgata
Is not the domain of intellectuals.
...
The radiant nature of the mind,
The virtue that is the essence of the Tathāgata.
Death and impermanence is the most precious thing for a teacher to teach.
It is the most precious thing for disciples to receive.
It is the most precious thing for meditators to meditate upon.
Yet this profound teaching gets left aside in obscurity.
~ Sangye Tönpa
No pity for little kids, & for the old he has not the least respect,
No kindly look for lovely maids, no mercy for the destitute—
The Lord of Death ignores all social mores, so do not think
While you’re still young, your body fully fleshed + strong,
“For me he’ll bide his time.”
~ Nyala Pema Dündul
The five great elements & all apparent phenomena of the universe arise timelessly as the expression of nonconceptual presence.
Involving no concept of self or other + pure in their natural vividness, they are discerned within the context of natural mind, free of deliberate effort.
~ Longchenpa
Ground yourself in the meaning of aspirational and practical bodhichitta. Even if you can’t serve all sentient beings at the highest level like a powerful and compassionate king, conduct yourself with the motivation of bodhichitta and don’t contradict the bodhisattva trainings.
~ Sera Khandro
Just as the entire vast universe has no limit or center
in the expanse of space, but is uninterrupted openness,
so, within the expanse of awareness, all that manifests outwardly
or inwardly - objects or mind -
is subsumed within openness and is naturally manifest and empty.
~ Longchenpa
Just as the entire vast universe has no limit or center
in the expanse of space, but is uninterrupted openness,
so, within the expanse of awareness, all that manifests outwardly
or inwardly - objects or mind -
is subsumed within openness and is naturally manifest and empty.
~ Longchenpa
This awakened mind that embraces all phenomena, moreover,
is without extreme or bias and is subsumed within supreme openness.
It is like infinite space that embraces the universe,
without limit or center, beyond all imagination or description.
~ Longchenpa
sorry - messed that one up; i'll try again
In the spacious sky in which reification of objects and mind
is cleared away,
awareness, free of the turmoil of thought,
is embraced within the scope of naturally unsullied openness:
the "vajra dance" is the unrestricted and uninterrupted nature
of phenomena.
~ Longchenpa
Concerning the facets of the nature of phenomena,
one implication that can be discerned
is that they consitute self-knowing timeless awareness
as openness, empty yet lucid.
~ Longchenpa
Everything is naturally free, arising from the expanse of the nature
of phenomena,
and thus does not stray elsewhere, being simply the disply
of dharmakaya.
Apparent phenomena, naturally manifest and experienced
unconditionally, are the natural expressions of emptiness.
~ Longchenpa
Vajra basic space - the supremely blissful state of natural rest -
is sublime meditative stability, spontenously present without having
to be cultivated.
Always present, like the course of a great river,
it is self-evident if there is uncontrived equipoise.
~ Longchenpa
As the natural manifestations of awareness,
ineffable phenomena arise as its unceasing display
for those immersed in the genuine nature of illusoriness.
They decide that these are ineffable even as they arise
and do not react in the slightest with acceptance or rejection.
~ Longchenpa
Although phenomena appear as they do to the mind,
they are not mind, nor anything other than mind.
Given their illusory nature as clearly apparent yet ineffable manifestations,
moment by moment they are beyond description, imagination, or expression.
~ Longchenpa
Through the power of being habituated to confused fixation,
your personal manifestations will appear as a world with inhabitants.
Based on this foundation and objects, everything is produced.
~ Tsele Natsok Rangdrol
From the beginning,
No one has moved away from
The experience of their own playfulness.
~ Tantra on Bodhicitta Meditation
Reach a definitive understanding of the birthless base.
In the basic space, train in the path of noninterruption.
For the fruit, carry to conclusion the nonduality of basic space and instant presence.
There is nothing anywhere superior to this.
~ Shense Lhaje
Neural network projection is just a pseudo-scientific gobbledi-gook way of saying that we exist only in the world we perceive—not the world which is actually there, that we live in a totally subjective holographic brain-projection, a dim analogic reflection of the real world.
~ E.J. Gold