Bodhicitta

If you want to help yourself, produce excellent bodhicitta.
If you want to help others, produce excellent bodhicitta.
If you want to serve the doctrine, produce bodhicitta.
If you want the path to bliss, produce bodhicitta.

 

Khunu Rinpoche Tenzin Gyaltsen (1894-1977) is the author of The Jewel Lamp: A Praise of Bodhicitta, a book of 356 verses. It can be found titled under Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea.

Emptiness

There is no studying or meditating on emptiness.
Being present without conceptions, without labels, without naming.
Being with no subject, no action, no object. Not even one taste.
Now can you put into words emptiness or the nature of the mind as such?
Any attempt is futile.
Loving kindness and compassion are it's expression.

Paul Bowles

HERE I AM

When I am here I shall not mind
I shall merely murmur:
If no one comes and sees me here it will be all right

Here it is hard to believe that anything is free
Come let us lapse into freedom
Let all these things become less than dust
Let me not think at all ever
Let these things come close together
Let everything be slow and soft
Let the wind blow over the roof at noon
Let everything be soft here because there is no dust
Let anything except what is coming come
That is the way I always have felt

Paul Bowles

Suffering and Self-grasping

Whenever I look at someone's suffering, I realize that the types of suffering are numerous as the specks of dust floating in the sunlight. However, if we can eliminate self-grasping there is but the nakedness of the mind-as-such.

Heart Consciousness

"The more loving you are, the more intelligent you become"

Keisha Crowther, 'Little Grandmother"

Humble Pie

Self-grasping and wrong desire are like crops
destroyed by frost.
If the Dharma, which is meant to tame the mind,
becomes a source of arrogance,
the root of virtue is cut.
This is my heart's advice.

Prematurely attempting to benefit beings is like a leader
with no sight.
It is a cause of not helping others
and of suffering for oneself.
Make effort in loving-kindness, aspiration,
and dedication.
This is my heart's advice.


The Jewel Treasury of Advice.
Drikung Bhande Dharmaradza (1704-1754)

The book advertised herein is Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche's commentary on the The Jewel Treasury of Advice.

What is a Pureland?

"What is the pureland really? The pureland is one's own stainless primordial awareness. If, from moment to moment,you regain and retain your own primordial enlightened nature: that is the Pureland. Everything comes from your own mind. Understand that, remain there:that is the Pureland."

The Oral Commentaries by Drikung Kagyü Teachers in San Francisco Gyalwa Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang Rinpoche in The Oral Commentaries by Kagyü Teachers in San Francisco.