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Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
The twentieth-century Indian meditation master Sri Nisargadatta encourages us to wholeheartedly enter this path of freedom: “…all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect.”
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance

Unlike Hinayana Buddhists, who see nirvana as the final goal of practice, Mahayana Buddhists see it as a higher form of delusion still involving the dualities of subject and object, existence and nonexistence.
Red Pine • The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary (NONE)
Seng-wei says, “The Bhagavan tells Subhuti if donors base themselves on false conceptions in their practice of giving and are attached to a subject or object and think that merit is real, this turns out to be false. The Tathagata does not speak of such merit as great, because merit does not exist. But if donors base themselves on the wisdom of the
... See moreRed Pine • The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom
Therefore the Buddha devised the doctrine that is called the Middle Way, that is neither ascetic nor hedonistic.
Watts,Alan • Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion (Alan Watts Love Of Wisdom)
Nirvana Sutra . An account of the final days and final teachings of the Buddha. Although this also exists in Pali, the four Chinese translations are quite different in content and scope. My citations are from the Nan-pen ta-pan nieh-p’an-ching, which was a joint translation by two Chinese monks and a layman, during
Red Pine • The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom
The teaching begins by calling us to develop a faculty called yoniso manasikara, careful attention. The Buddha asks us to stop drifting thoughtlessly through our lives and instead to pay careful attention to simple truths that are everywhere available to us, clamoring for the sustained consideration that they deserve.