Sublime

Buddha-nature is not a potential, it is the way we (and all things, all dharmas) already are. Why then don’t we feel more like buddhas? The Ancestor might retort, “What did you expect being a buddha to feel like?”

Dharma art is a long-term project, but if you are willing to keep up with the basic discipline, you will never regret it.

Hui-neng compares the Great Void to space, and calls it great, not just because it is empty, but because it contains the sun, moon, and stars. True dhyana is to realize that one’s own nature is like space, and that thoughts and sensations come and go in this “original mind” like birds through the sky, leaving no trace.

Thus there must be no confusion between Zen masters and theosophical “mahatmas”–the glamorous “Masters of Wisdom” who live in the mountain fastnesses of Tibet and practice the arts of occultism. Zen masters are quite human. They get sick and die; they know joy and sorrow; they have bad tempers or other little “weaknesses” of character just like

I am not here to present a Buddhist gimmick, so that you can give your artwork a further twist, saying that you have studied with a Buddhist teacher and taken part in the Buddhist world.

Dharani of the Great Compassionate One all the way down New York’s Second Avenue in a Volkswagen bus.

After meeting many of Trungpa Rinpoche’s students over the years—witnessing their seriousness, their veneration to the Buddhadharma, their dedication to the guru—I cannot dismiss them as crazy and ignorant; I cannot say they are a disgrace to the Buddhadharma.

People say everyday mind isn’t our buddha nature I say our buddha nature is simply everyday mind afraid no one will do any work they teach grinding iron rods to make needles

Haruko left a tiny laughing brass Buddha up high, in a corner of the attic, where he is still laughing to this day.