Your entire life ~ Dudjom Rinpoche
Take your entire life as the only measure for the duration of your practice. Dudjom Rinpoche
Quote Archives: Dudjom Rinpoche
Hope and fear ~ Dudjom Rinpoche
Mixing the eight worldly concerns with your spiritual practice is extremely dangerous, like eating food mixed with poison. The eight worldly concerns in concise form can be reduced to two things, hope and fear, which are, in fact, desire and anger. Dudjom Rinpoche
Keep your mouth shut ~ Dudjom Rinpoche
Although it is fairly easy to bring adverse circumstances into the path, doing the same for positive circumstances is very difficult. Even those who vainly assume themselves to be highly realized beings risk enslavement by the son of Mara and are distracted by devoting themselves to ways of becoming important in this life. Be very […]
Finding the lama in your heart ~ Dudjom Rinpoche
Since pure awareness of nowness is the real buddha, In openness and contentment I found the lama in my heart. When we realize this unending natural mind is the very nature of the lama, Then there is no need for attached, grasping, or weeping prayers or artificial complaints, By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, […]
The pith instruction of all practices ~ Dudjom Rinpoche
In brief, taking your own mind as witness, make your life and practice one, and at the time of death, with no thought of anything left undone, do not be ashamed of yourself. This itself is the pith instruction of all practices. Dudjom Rinpoche
Dealing with thoughts in meditation ~ Dudjom Rinpoche
When thoughts come while you are meditating, let them come; there’s no need to regard them as your enemies. When they arise, relax in their arising. On the other hand, if they don’t arise, don’t be nervously wondering whether or not they will. Just rest in their absence. If big, well-defined thoughts suddenly appear during […]
Outside and inside ~ Dudjom Rinpoche
I recognize that the ultimate teaching of sutra and tantra Is emptiness, but can’t make use of that recognition; My mindstream stays hard as horn. When I practice remaining in mind’s true condition I am without stability, yet I mouth off about the profound view And toss cause and effect to the winds. On the […]
Deeper and deeper ~ Dudjom Rinpoche
The more and more you listen, the more and more you hear; the more and more you hear, the deeper and deeper your understanding becomes. Dudjom Rinpoche
Awareness itself ~ Dudjom Rinpoche
Although hundreds or thousands of explanations are given, There is only one thing to be understood – Know the one thing that liberates everything – Awareness itself, your true nature. Dudjom Rinpoche
Practicing the authentic Buddhist path ~ Dudjom Rinpoche
It is not enough to have just obtained this human form. You must at once practice the authentic Buddhist path since the time of your death is unpredictable. Furthermore, at death you should have no regrets and should not be ashamed of yourself, like Jetsun Milarepa: In my, Milarepa’s, religious tradition, We live so as […]
The essence of practice ~ Dudjom Rinpoche
Samsara and enlightenment’s emptiness is the view. Natural, uncontrived settling is meditation. The body, speech, and mind’s acts aligned with the Dharma is conduct: These are the essence of practice, Be sure to keep them in your heart! Dudjom Rinpoche