If you make a real effort to take refuge sincerely in the Three Jewels, everything that opposes your practice will be transformed into favorable circumstances and your merit will grow unceasingly. Patrul Rinpoche
Once bodhicitta has been aroused in you whatever dharma practices you do will lead to the attainment of perfect enlightenment. Patrul Rinpoche
As in a dream, all the external objects perceived with the five senses are not there, but appear through delusion. As in a magic show, things are made to appear by a temporary conjunction of causes, circumstances and connections. As in a visual aberration, things appear to be there, yet there is nothing. As in […]
Breathing gently, people enjoy their slumber. But between one breath and the next there is no guarantee that death will not slip in. To wake up in good health is an event which truly deserves to be considered miraculous, yet we take it completely for granted. Patrul Rinpoche
Always take the lowest place. Wear simple clothes. Help other beings as much as you can. In everything you do, simply work at developing love and compassion until they have become a fundamental part of you. Patrul Rinpoche
Do not chase after the object of your anger – look at the angry mind, Anger is self-arisen and self-liberated, clarity-emptiness by nature, Clarity-emptiness is nothing other than mirror-like wisdom – Within anger self-liberated, recite the six-syllable mantra. Patrul Rinpoche
The result of learning, contemplation, and meditation should be a steady and real increase in the love and compassion of bodhicitta, together with a steady and real diminution of ego-clinging and negative thinking. Patrul Rinpoche
Perfectly stay in the natural flow, There is no other concentration. Perfectly realize the natural state, There is no other wisdom. Patrul Rinpoche
Whatever is born is impermanent and is bound to die. Whatever is stored up is impermanent and is bound to run out. Whatever comes together is impermanent and is bound to come apart. Whatever is built is impermanent and is bound to collapse. Whatever rises up is impermanent and is bound to fall down. So […]