In the Presence of Masters: Wisdom from 30 Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist Teachers

If we want to engage tantric practice, we should follow Naropa’s example and give up our concern with our appearance and reputation, with the way we look and what people think of us.

WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF EMPTINESS, OUR COMPASSION CAN BACKFIRE

strengthen the understanding of the importance of meditation. We need to take time to reflect upon our human situation, karma and its creation, and the various experiences of sentient beings.

The Indian gurus from whom the major lineages of Tibetan Buddhism were derived were tantric practitioners.

The qualities of buddhahood pervade all beings just as oil pervades a sesame seed.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

When we face things as they are, we give up the hope of something better.

This allows us to go beyond our own experiences of what we think is suffering.

It means we acknowledge and renounce with conviction the cycle of suffering.