Sublime

mind is naturally pristine, and that your mental events are just passing through. You must deeply realize this.

Chagdud Tulku observes that it would be hard to find a completely faultless teacher, and even if we did, we probably wouldn’t realize it. Nevertheless, “we can rely on a lama who, through meditation practice, has removed some of the mind’s obscurations, attained some degree of realization, and developed great compassion. Teachers with a good heart

In Madhyamaka philosophy, ultimate reality is not seen as something that exists outside of or above the empirical reality with which we are confronted every day.

Then there is the very nature of mind, its innermost essence, which is absolutely and always untouched by change or death. At present it is hidden within our own mind, our sem, enveloped and obscured by the mental scurry of our thoughts and emotions.

There was a spontaneous simplicity and humility about him.

Naropa consolidated Tilopa’s teachings in the well-known six yogas of Naropa (see chapter 11), a particularly important and distinctive part of the Kagyü heritage.