Dalai Lama XIV

NEVER GIVE UP

No matter what is going on

Never give up

Develop the heart

Too much energy in your country

Is spent developing the mind

Instead of the heart

Be compassionate

Not just to your friends

But to everyone

Be compassionate

Work for peace

In your heart and in the world

Work for peace

And I say again

Never give up

No matter what is going on around you

Never give up

Dalai Lama XIV

Buddhānusmṛti

Buddha's nine qualities (Nava Guna):

Iti’ pi so bhagava araham sammasambuddho vijjacaranasampanno sugato lokavidu anuttaro purisadammasarathi sattha devamanussanam buddho bhagava’ti.

 Mahayana Sutras and in Āryatriratnānusmṛti sūtra, is given as:

ityapi buddho bhagavāṃstathāgato'rhan samyaksaṃbuddho vidyācaraṇasampannaḥ sugato lokavidanuttaraḥ puruṣadamyasārathiḥ śāstā devamanuṣyāṇāṃ buddho bhagavāniti

This Gatha can be translated in English as:

"Thus indeed is the Exalted One (1) an accomplished one, (2) a fully-enlightened one, (3) endowed with knowledge and good conduct, (4) well gone or gone to bliss, (5) a knower of the world, (6) an unsurpassed leader of persons to be tamed, (7) a teacher of humans and devas, (8) the awakened or the one who knows, (9) the sublime or exalted."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddh%C4%81nusm%E1%B9%9Bti

Maitreya

Maitreya (Sanskrit) or Metteyya (Pali) is regarded as a future Buddha of this world in Buddhist eschatology.

kyabje lama zopa rinpoche

What did the great yogi Dromtönpa mean by “renounce this life”? He meant we should renounce suffering, which means renouncing the worst of all sufferings, the delusions—ignorance, attachment, anger, pride, jealousy and so forth—all the negative minds that are the root of all suffering. This is what practicing Dharma really means: facing the root of suffering, the delusions.

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Book : Freedom through understanding

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However, the meditation we practice should serve to destroy our delusions, our unsubdued mind. If it does not, it’s the wrong meditation; it’s useless. In the same way, the purpose of following religion is to completely destroy the root of suffering, the delusions; the unhealthy, unsubdued mind. If the path or religion we’re following does not do that, does not serve to decrease our delusions, then the path we’re following is imperfect; there’s something wrong with it.

 What we’re practicing is wrong. The purpose of practicing Dharma is also to destroy these delusions. However, practicing Dharma does not mean just doing ritual things; practicing Dharma does not mean just reciting mantras; practicing Dharma does not mean just worshipping, making offerings and so forth. Just doing these things does not mean we’re practicing Dharma. Simply wearing robes is not practicing Dharma; nor does reading texts of Lord Buddha’s teachings, the Buddhadharma, mean we’re practicing Dharma.

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Book: Freedom through understanding

Avatamsaka Sutra

Avatamsaka Sutra 

41 verses (gathas) to Cultivate Bodhicitta

https://thubtenchodron.org/2008/05/thought-training-slogans/

Kyabje Lama Zopa rinpoche

The best way to dedicate merit is to dedicate it to achieve enlightenment for all beings. When you do this, that merit becomes inexhaustible, unceasing. A very important point when you dedicate merit is to also dedicate it in the purest way,by“sealing it with emptiness.” By specifically concentrating on the meaning of “mere imputation,” the emptiness of all things from their own side, you make your dedication in a way that is pure and unstained by the concept of true existence...

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Singha Thekchen Namdrol Rinpoche

“We are all the by-products of what we have chosen to keep in our memories and focus upon… so we become whatever it is that we like or what we don't like. Samsara can only be stopped by our own changes.”

 Singha Thekchen Namdrol Rinpoche

Night flowering lotus

It is written in the Mahayana Sutras that Avalokiteshvara gave his mantra to the Buddha himself, and Buddha in turn granted him the special and noble task of helping all beings in the universe toward buddhahood. At this moment all the gods rained flowers on them, the earth shook, and the air rang with the sound OM MANI PADME HUM HRIH. 

In the words of the poem: 

Avalokiteshvara is like the moon Whose cool light puts out the burning fires of samsara In its rays the night-flowering lotus of compassion Opens wide its petals.

TIBETAN BOOK OF LIVING AND DYING

SOGYAL RINPOCHE

Dalai Lama

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama

Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Attachment obscures the mind and prevents it from realizing emptiness.

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Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Book:

Dear Lama Zopa : radical solutions for transforming problems into happiness

Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

When we don’t meditate, impermanent things appear as permanent, and we believe in that; dependent things appear as independent, and we believe in that.

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Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Book:

Dear Lama Zopa : radical solutions for transforming problems into happiness