Sublime

From that authentic presence, which comes out of nonaggression and gentleness, comes action.

“Is there a way out of this karmic maze?” a disciple asked. Tulsi answered, “Yes there is. It is living in compassion, dharma. As karma captures, binds and holds our physical and mental interactions, dharma liberates us from all conditioning and all trappings. Dharma is the spiritual sustenance, and is the antidote to karma.

Atisha passed on his lineage to his close disciples, and a few generations later, Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (1102–76) wrote down these teachings, which were later organized as the The Mahayana Instructions on the Seven Points of Mind Training, fifty-nine slogans divided into seven categories. This presentation of lojong, which makes up the framework of

The mentality of karma altogether is: If I do this, that is going to happen.

Mahayana philosophy proposes a drastic but effective answer which is the theme of a class of literature called Prajna-paramita, or “wisdom for crossing to the other shore,” a literature closely associated with the work of Nagarjuna (c. A.D. 200), who ranks with Shankara as one of the greatest minds of India.

Original nature is cultivated externally through virtuous acts and internally through nonattachment to forms.

When we are trapped in the trance of feeling separate and unworthy, Buddha nature appears to be outside of us.