Sublime

Teitaro Suzuki, unofficial lay master of Zen Buddhism, humorous offbeat scholar, and about the most gentle and enlightened person I have ever known; for he combined the most complex learning with utter simplicity. He was versed in Japanese, English, Chinese, Sanskrit, Tibetan, French, Pali, and German, but while attending a meeting of the Buddhist

Or, instead, they can seek out someone who is Dharma-savvy, an authentic lineage guru, who can teach them what they really need

of rebirth in this teaching?”

any tantric practitioner, whether male or female, who carries the Vajrayāna commitments especially of the practice of the feminine yidam is also considered an embodied ḍākinī, foiling the notion that only women can be considered human ḍākinīs. Finally, subsuming all

To most people these dichotomies and ambivalences are merely negative experiences – but to yogis and yoginis they are opportunities to realise nonduality.

Whether we concretise our sense of being through sharply defined individuation, or concretise our sense of being through symbiosis; we are still involved with concretisation.

He came up with the term “basic goodness.” It’s a brilliant choice of words that could have come only from someone who had not only knowledge but confidence, compassion, wisdom, and a karmic link to the Dakpo Kagyu lineage that can be authenticated and traced back twenty-five hundred years.

In the Vajrayana, you transform the guru into more than a person. The guru is the path.

That’s what the ‘Buddhist label’ does – it abolishes labels of any kind; even the label of Dharma.[199]