Sublime

Are there any serene, gentle monastics from Chögyam Trungpa’s generation who have accomplished this much in the West? I’m still looking.

Conze says, “Merit is the indispensable condition for all further spiritual progress. Nevertheless, to aim at merit is to diminish it. And why? Because when giving, etc. is accompanied by wrong metaphysical views that assume the reality of gift, giver and reward, it produces only limited results. But if it aims at emptiness alone, then the reward b

Buddha-nature

really being aware of the whole reason why we need to be free from samsara.

To realize one’s true nature as no-self—a Buddha—is the fruit of zazen and the path of practice.

And yet, Milarepa is held up as the example of a person with perfect devotion.

valid.

Surya Das, who looks 110 percent Jewish,

Bodhidharma’s Vast Emptiness