Not only is there no difference between being close to the guru or far away, the guru’s blessings are stronger when you are far away. For example, Milarepa stayed with Marpa in order to receive all the oral instructions, then went off to practice in the mountains of Lachi. Once, when Milarepa supplicated Marpa with […]
In a dream there’s nothing substantial but there is the mere appearance of something substantial. Thus, its true nature transcends both existence and nonexistence. Its true nature is not something we can describe with these kinds of terms, because it is beyond any type of thing we might be able to think up about it. […]
When our hands rub two sticks together, that produces a fire that will eventually cease, but this fire does not come from anywhere to the sticks when it first begins to burn them, and does not go anywhere when it goes out. Fire is empty of coming and going. Similarly, ignorance, clinging to the belief […]
If you understand that all the misleading appearances of worldly existence are not intrinsically real, they will not tend to mislead you. If you have attachment to friends and enemies as being real, they will mislead you. But if you have equanimity towards both, they will not mislead or deceive you. If you see a […]
Up in the sky’s expanse, true being, unborn, forever pure Beautiful is the world below me — how many colors do I see But when I look I can’t find anything that’s born or has a root So the time has come to meditate on true reality, of ego-clinging free All my possessions, all that […]
Singing in the expanse of equalness Dancing in the expanse of equalness May we meet in the expanse of equalness Emaho, this wonderful dharma Khenpo Tsultrim Rinpoche
Our instinctive, emotional attachment or clinging to a vague notion of self is the source of all our suffering. From the idea of ‘self’ comes that of ‘other’. It is from the interaction of ‘self and ‘other’ that desire, hatred and delusion arise. There are many kinds of desire including greed, envy and miserliness. Hatred […]
The Buddha taught many times in the Mahayana sutras that the five aggregates, and the suffering that goes along with them, are of the nature of original and perfect purity. There is not the tiniest bit of impurity anywhere within them that needs to be abandoned. Therefore, Mahayana practitioners do not want to be rid […]
The unborn true nature of all phenomena And the unceasing true nature of luminous clarity Are encompassed by mind itself, luminous clarity, unborn and unceasing. Khenpo Tsultrim Rinpoche
