Mahaguru Padmasambhava

Lady Tsogyal asked the LotusBorn master: What is the dividing line between pain and pleasure?

 The master replied: Pain is uneasiness of mind, while pleasure is mental ease. When applying this experientially to

your stream-of-being, look into the painful state of uneasiness and see that it does not consist of any concrete substance but rather is mind. Mind is empty, and this empty quality is a state of ease—this is the vital point of changing pain to ease. Tsogyal, this advice of utmost importance, I give to you.

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Treasures from Juniper Ridge: the profound instructions of padmasambhava to the dakini

yeshe tsogyal. From the revelations of Nyang Ral Nyima Özer, Rigdzin Gödem, Sangye Lingpa, Rinchen Lingpa, Dorje Lingpa, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, and Chokgyur Lingpa. Translated from the Tibetan based on the teachings of Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche by Erik Pema Kunsang (Erik Hein Schmidt). Edited by Michael Tweed and Marcia Binder Schmidt. First ed.