Venerable Kalu Rinpoche

If one does not recognize the mind's true nature, one continues to be completely bewildered by emotional conflict and discursive thought. This can be an endless situation. When I first came to the West in the early seventies, I stopped in Geneva where I met an exotic sheik who had thirty wives; I have since heard that he now has even more. This person obviously has to deal with many conflicting emotions in such a broad-based form of relationship. In recognizing that all this emotional conflict is arising from the mind, one realizes the mind itself is insubstantial and empty. If the force of emotional conflict is removed by one's attaining this recognition, the individual can live peacefully, no matter how many wives or husbands one has.

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GENTLY WHISPERED Oral Teachings by the Very 'Venerable Kalu Rinpoche

Published by Station Hill Press, Inc., Barrytown, New York 12507.

the fourteenth Shamarpa

Just like a good meditation teacher, someone who wants to be a good meditator must also renounce attachment to worldly life. A meditator should live simply, without too many responsibilities, and without ambition. In order to focus, you must be willing to renounce.

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Mipham Chokyi Lodro (27 October 1952 – 11 June 2014), also known as Kunzig[1] Shamar Rinpoche, was the fourteenth Shamarpa of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Khensur Kangur Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche

Khensur Kangur Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyabje_Rinpoche

Kyabje Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo Rinpoche

THE DRAWBACKS OF DELUSIONS (299) 

From An Ornament to the SÒtras: Delusions destroy you, destroy sentient beings, and destroy ethics. Lesser people disparage you; you lose guardians and gain your teacher’s reproach. You gain disputes and infamy, and then rebirth to unconducive states.You lose both what you possess and have yet to acquire, and you gain great suffering. In other words, delusions have many drawbacks. When you develop a delusion, your mindstream becomes a nonvirtuous entity; you then act perversely toward the objects [of the delusions]; this makes the latent seeds of the delusion take hold; so you will continually develop the same sort of delusions—that is, attachment, hostility, or whatever—and enter those forbidden states deprecated by the saints. Your unfortunate karmic actions will increase because of these last two drawbacks. You stray away from both liberation and omniscience, becoming distanced from them. Delusion causes your virtuous actions to decline, and so on; so it makes you wrong yourself and others. It makes your ethics decline; you will be given fewer gifts and be paid less service. Even the buddhas and Dharma protectors will criticize you. Other beings as well as you will suffer because your delusion may make other people want to kill you, and so on. In this life you develop a worse reputation because of becoming embroiled in lawsuits, arguments, and so on. And in future lives you will be reborn in remote lands, or in the lower realms. To summarize, there are an infinite number of drawbacks, and they are all said to be produced by delusions. So when you develop these delusions, you must immediately recognize them clearly as your enemies and employ some means of putting a stop to them.

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Kyabje Pabongkhapa Déchen Nyingpo Rinpoche, 

Book The Liberation in the palm of your hand

Wisdom publications

HH 14 Dalai Lama , Tenzin Gyatso

THE AFFLICTIONS

 Much of Buddhist literature is devoted to exposing the nature of afflictions and the need to overcome them. In Sanskrit, the word for affliction is klesha, and the Tibetan equivalent is nyon mong (literally, “that which afflicts from within”). An affliction, by its very nature, brings about an immediate disturbance within the mind of the individual the moment it arises and thereby causes suffering within that individual.

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HH 14 Dalai Lama , Tenzin Gyatso  

Book The Essence of Heart sutra

Wisdom publications

Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche

Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche suddenly passed away on April 26, 1992 in a car accident in India. His passing is looked upon as a profound method for benefiting sentient beings by removing obstacles for Buddhism, people in general, and for the Karma Kagyu tradition. Nevertheless, for his many disciples who knew him well, it causes in us the deepest sorrow.

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima the Panchen Lama

On 25 April 1995, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima turned six years old. Barely a month later, he became the world’s youngest political prisoner. He has been missing for 27 years.

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is the Panchen Lama, the second-highest authority in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai Lama.

Shakyamuni Buddha

oṃ mune mune mahāmunaye svāhā

Arya Vajra Saraswati

In Tibetan Saraswati is yang chenmo

whose mantra in this last form as Arya Vajrasarasvati (sadhanas no.161 & 163) is:

Om, pichu pichu prajna vardhani jvala jvala medhavardhani dhiri dhiri

buddhivardhani, Svaha

His Holiness Karma Kuchen Rinpoche

His Holiness Karma Kuchen Rinpoche

H.H. Gyangkhang Rinpoche

Everything in the world is fickle and impermanent, so indulgence in the pursuit of material desires will bring only physical and mental pressures and pains. Nevertheless, we don’t realize that it is our heart that determines our suffering and happiness. We mistakenly thought that happiness comes when we possess outward things. Therefore, in order to live a free and happy life, we need to learn to make an adjustment to our inner world.

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 H.H. Gyangkhang Rinpoche

 Chief of Namdroling Monastery

Ogyen Drodul Trinley Dorje , Karmapa

FREEDOM’S INNER CONDITIONS

 Freedom does not start from the outside. Although external conditions have a part to play, that is not where freedom originates. This might sound backward, but authentic freedom arises initially from inner conditions. Its deepest roots are within us. Most often when we speak of freedom, what we actually have in mind are freedom’s outer manifestations. This may be the gravest error we make in our understanding of freedom. If we think we will achieve freedom when we can exercise complete control over our immediate environment, we overlook the single most important determinant of authentic freedom: our own minds.

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Ogyen Drodul Trinley Dorje , Karmapa

Book :Interconnected

Wisdom publications

Gang Tise or Gang Rinpoche

Gang Tise or Gang Rinpoche

Mount Kailash in West Tibet is claimed to be the center of the Tibetan geographical mandala with the top of Mount Kailash as the abode of Chakrasamvara heruka and the female consort Vajrayogini.

Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche

Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche 

The Third Trijang Rinpoche, Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso

Shartsé and Jangtsé colleges held a debate contest session for two days where most of the debates were on the Abhidharma. Since many years had passed since I took the examination, I could no longer remember enumerations in the Abhidharma. As stated in Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (5.25):

Whatever has been learned, contemplated, and meditated upon by one who lacks awareness, like water in a leaky pot, will not be held by the memory. 

As most of the topics had been stolen by the thief of forgetfulness, I was not able to judge the quality of the debaters’ erudition. I gave gifts to young novices of the two colleges who had memorized either the Ornament of Realization or Entering the Middle Way or both and advised them of the importance of putting effort into their studies. On the fifteenth, I gave prenovice and novice ordinations to fifty young monks of Shartsé and Jangtsé including Phara Tulku. On the morning of the eighth, I left Mundgod by car for Belgaum, from where I flew to Delhi. There I stayed at Lama Guru Deva’s house.

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The Third Trijang Rinpoche, Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (1901–1981)

Book :The Magical Play of Illusion: The Autobiography of Trijang Rinpoche

ASIN: B07CLRN3KV

Publisher: Wisdom Publications (October 2, 2018)

His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama

The Name Mantra for His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama

OM AH GURU VAJRADHARA BHATTARAK MANJUSHRI
VAGINDRA SUMATI JNANA SHASANA DHARA SAMUDRA
SHRI BHADRA SARVA SIDDHI HUM HUM

OSHO

Nature cures itself. In fact, nature cures. One has to give time; patience is needed. The English word for an ill person, patient, is beautiful. It means patience is needed; one has to wait. In fact, the function of the doctor is to help the patient to be patient. By giving medicine he is consoled. He thinks: "Now something is being done and soon I will be cured." He is helped in waiting. The doctor cannot do anything else. That's why so many "pathies" work - homeopa thy, allopathy, ayurveda - thousands of pathies work; even naturopathy works. 

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OSHO

The Hidden Harmony

chapter 11 

Sogyal Rinpoche

NO ONE CAN DIE FEARLESSLY and in complete security until they have truly realized the nature of mind. For only this realization, deepened over years of sustained practice, can keep the mind stable during the molten chaos of the process of death. Of all the ways I know of helping people to realize the nature of mind, that of the practice of Dzogchen, the most ancient and direct stream of wisdom within the teachings of Buddhism, and the source of the bardo teachings themselves, is the clearest, most effective, and most relevant to the environment and needs of today.

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Sogyal Rinpoche

The Tibetan book of living and dying

Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa

karmapa khyenno

 

Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa

Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Don't follow after the object of hatred, look at the angry mind. Anger liberated by itself as it arises is mirrorlike wisdom.

Don't chase after the object of pride, look at the grasping mind. Self-importance liberated as it arises is the wisdom of equanimity.

Don't hanker after the object of desire, look at the craving mind.

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Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Lord Buddha

. “Give, even if you only have a little.”

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Lord Buddha

Today full moon day April 16th

MAHA GURU PADMASMABHAVA

Artwork based on statue of Mahaguru Padmasmabhava in Dharmshala

FOUR DHARMAS

 Master Padma said:

 You must make sure your Dharma practice becomes the real Dharma. You must make sure your Dharma becomes the real path. You must make sure your path can clarify confusion. You must make sure your confusion dawns as wisdom. The lady asked: What does that mean? The master said: When you have understanding free from accepting and rejecting after knowing how to condense all the teachings into a single vehicle, then your Dharma practice becomes the real Dharma. When the three vipashyana states of bliss, clarity, and nonthought dawn, they are Dharmakaya itself. In any case, there are many people who fix their minds on an inert state of shamatha. Through that they will be reborn either in the dhyana realms of the gods or, even if they do not incarnate, they will still be unable to benefit beings.

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BOOK

'Dakini Teachings PADMASAMBHAVA'S ORAL INSTRUCTIONS TO LADY TSOGYAL Recorded and concealed by YESHE TSOGYAL •• Revealed by NYANG RAL NYIMA OSER and SANGYE LINGPA Translated according the oral teachings of Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche by ERIK PEMA KUNSANG

MAHA GURU PADMASAMBHAVA

"O son of noble family, if you do not recognise your own projections, even though you have practised dharma for an aeon and are learned in all the sutras and tantras, you will not become a buddha. But if you recognise your projections, with one secret and one word you will become a buddha.

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MAHA GURU PADMASAMBHAVA

THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

SHAMBHALA CLASSICS publications

"हे कुलीन परिवार के पुत्र, यदि आप अपने स्वयं के अनुमानों को नहीं पहचानते हैं, भले ही आपने एक कल्प के लिए धर्म का अभ्यास किया हो और सभी सूत्रों और तंत्रों में सीखा हो, तो आप बुद्ध नहीं बनेंगे। लेकिन यदि आप अपने अनुमानों को पहचानते हैं,  एक रहस्य और एक शब्द तुम बुद्ध बन जाओगे।

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 महा गुरु पद्मसंभव:

 मृतकों की तिब्बती पुस्तक

 शम्भाला क्लासिक्स प्रकाशन

“ಓ ಉದಾತ್ತ ಮನೆತನದ ಮಗನೇ, ನೀನು ನಿನ್ನ ಸ್ವಂತ ಊಹೆಗಳನ್ನು ಗುರುತಿಸದಿದ್ದರೆ, ಒಂದು ಕಲ್ಪಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಧರ್ಮವನ್ನು ಅಭ್ಯಾಸ ಮಾಡಿದರೂ ಮತ್ತು ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಸೂತ್ರ ಮತ್ತು ತಂತ್ರಗಳನ್ನು ಕಲಿತರೂ, ನೀವು ಬುದ್ಧನಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ, ಆದರೆ ನೀವು ನಿಮ್ಮದನ್ನು ಗುರುತಿಸದಿದ್ದರೆ, ನೀವು ಬುದ್ಧರಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಒಂದು ರಹಸ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ಒಂದು ಮಾತು ನೀವು ಬುದ್ಧರಾಗುತ್ತೀರಿ.

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