Sublime

You can think of him as a buddha—not Shakyamuni but your buddha, if that’s all your merit can handle.

My uncle, the yogi, came to see me at my father's house just after he had witnessed this event, and his eyes were full of tears as he told me about it. He said it was a terrible tragedy that none of us had known enough to recognize that this seemingly ordinary person, living so close to us, had actually been a verygreat practitioner, from whom we c

We need to develop some confidence in order to know that dropping the masks is not an act of suicidal madness but of renewal.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Fresh awareness of whatever arises … is sufficient.

But their minds are full of peace because they are free from self-importance.

Atisha Dipamkara,

when we move past the convenience of language and categories, every second manifests the bardo of becoming.

Ryokan,