Within emptiness, everything exists in a harmonious state,
Whether it is good, bad, beautiful, or ugly.
Just as all the oceans have the flavor of salt,
The diversity of things participates in the unity of emptiness.
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Shantarakshita
quoted in the book The Ninth Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje's Ocean of Certainty
Further quotes from the book The Ninth Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje's Ocean of Certainty:
- Free from all empirical characteristics
- Maintaing awareness in the states of agitation and meditative equipoise
- Maintaining awareness
- The root of samsara and nirvana
- Realizing the nature of mind
- Mind’s reflections
- The way to rest the mind
- Relaxing in an unconditional state