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Always and everywhere they practice expedient means that suit other beings and that are easily accepted. And they teach them true dharmas that lead them to realize enlightenment. Only this can be called cultivation. This is what is meant by cultivating ‘all auspicious dharmas.’”
Red Pine • The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom
The truth of Dzogchen is the legacy of being human.
Keith Dowman • Spaciousness: The Radical Dzogchen of the Vajra-Heart: Longchenpa's Treasury of the Dharmadhatu
Mahayana does not mean leaving the world and abandoning social connections and responsibilities. Rather, it involves a more inner renunciation in which we give up our designs and preconceptions regarding others and aspire to work with them as and where they are
Reginald A. Ray • In the Presence of Masters: Wisdom from 30 Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
There is no question of knowing the buddha-nature as something “other” and then gearing ourselves up to rest in it.
Reginald A. Ray • Secret of the Vajra World
Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
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“Self-liberate even the antidote.”
Pema Chödrön • Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living (Shambhala Classics)
when everything else is more or less in complete disarray, the buddha-nature is there, as openness, tenderness, and intelligence that transcends the ups and downs.