{"quotes":[{"text":"Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness.Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home -- at ease.","author":"Lama Surya Das","tags":["anger","approval","buddhism","buddhist-wisdom","craving","desire","expectation","fatigue","fear","freedom","frustration","regret","tibetan-buddhism"],"id":14495,"author_id":"Lama+Surya+Das"},{"text":"The Heart-mantra of Dependent Origination (rten-'brel snying-po [རྟེན་འབྲེལ་སྙིང་པོ]), which liberates the enduring continuum of phenomena and induces the appearance of multiplying relics ('phel-gdung [འཕེལ་གདུང་] and rainbow lights, is:[OṂ] YE DHARMĀ HETUPRABHAVĀHETUN TEṢĀṂ TATHĀGATOHY AVADAT TEṢĀṂ CA YONIRODHO EVAṂ VĀDIMAHĀŚRAMAṆAḤ [YE SVĀHĀ]('Whatever events arise from a cause, the Tathagāta [Buddha, 'Thus-gone'] has told the cause thereof, and the great virtuous ascetic has taught their cessation as well [so be it]').","author":"Graham Coleman","tags":["buddhism","dependent-origination","mantra","tantra","tibetan-buddhism"],"id":21282,"author_id":"Graham+Coleman"},{"text":"If we lack the proper antidotes of emptiness and bodhichitta, we will not be able to control our minds when frightening appearances manifest. It is considered a sign of progress in this practice if we go unconscious, and then, when we wake up, have forgotten our names and whose bodies we have! This is the ceasing of clinging to the body.","author":"Zongtrul Losang Tsöndru","tags":["buddhism","chöd","emptiness","mahayana","selflessness","tibetan-buddhism"],"id":64130,"author_id":"Zongtrul+Losang+Ts%C3%B6ndru"},{"text":"Without hope, Chöd practitioners are freed from the limits of hope and fear; having cut the ropes of grasping, definitely enlightened, where does one go?","author":"Machik Labdrön","tags":["buddhism","chöd","enlightenment","fear","hope","tibetan-buddhism"],"id":80530,"author_id":"Machik+Labdr%C3%B6n"},{"text":"But karma is not in fact a material accumulation, and does not depend on externals; rather its power to condition us depends on the obstacles that impede our knowledge. If we compare our karma and the ignorance that creates it to a dark room, knowledge of the primordial state would be like a lamp, which, when lit in the room, at once causes the darkness to disappear, enlightening everything. In the same way, if one has the presence of the primordial state, one can overcome all hindrances in an instant.","author":"Namkhai Norbu","tags":["1989","dzogchen","enlightenment","ignorance","karma","metaphor","tibetan-buddhism"],"id":99060,"author_id":"Namkhai+Norbu"},{"text":"Achala, worrying and scheming about your next life, before you have even completed this one, is not a good practice.' Rinpoche.","author":"Daniel Prokop","tags":["death-and-dying","dying","past-lives","reincarnation","taking-it-with-you","tibet","tibetan-buddhism"],"id":137464,"author_id":"Daniel+Prokop"},{"text":"The life-tree of practice is single-minded application.","author":"Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye","tags":["buddhism","practice","practice-makes-perfect","tibetan-buddhism"],"id":148937,"author_id":"Jamgon+Kongtrul+Lodro+Taye"},{"text":"All the philosophical theories that exist have been created by the mistaken dualistic minds of human beings. In the realm of philosophy, that which today is considered true, may tomorrow be proved to be false. No one can guarantee a philosophy's validity. Because of this, any intellectual way of seeing whatever is always partial and relative. The fact is that there is no truth to seek or to confirm logically; rather what one needs to do is to discover just how much the mind continually limits itself in a condition of dualism.Dualism is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem, are like nets which trap us in dualism. When we discover our limits we have to try to overcome them, untying ourselves from whatever type of religious, political or social conviction may condition us. We have to abandon such concepts as 'enlightenment', 'the nature of the mind', and so on, until we are no longer satisfied by a merely intellectual knowledge, and until we no longer neglect to integrate our knowledge with our actual existence.","author":"Namkhai Norbu","tags":["dualism","dzogchen","enlightenment","gnosis","nonduality","philosophy","tibetan-buddhism"],"id":188520,"author_id":"Namkhai+Norbu"},{"text":"But, nevertheless, if there is even the slightest recognition, liberation is easy. Should you ask why this is so—it is because once the awesome, terrifying and fearful appearances arise, the awareness does not have the luxury of distraction. The awareness is one-pointedly concentrated.","author":"Karma-glin-pa","tags":["bardo","buddhism","concentration","liberation","tantra","tibetan-buddhism"],"id":192519,"author_id":"Karma-glin-pa"},{"text":"Just calling one's practice 'approach and accomplishment' and staying in retreat for years will produce nothing but hardship. Completing hundreds of millions of mantras will not even bring the warmth of the ordinary qualities that mark one's progress on the path! In other words, if the essential points of the path are not taken into account, perseverance will amount to nothing more than chasing a mirage.","author":"Patrul Rinpoche","tags":["1860","buddhism","mantra","tantra","tibetan-buddhism","vajrayana"],"id":203932,"author_id":"Patrul+Rinpoche"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}