Since I am the pristine consciousness of direct perception, I cannot be discovered through an intellectual search. I am also not an object that can be seen by everyone. Nevertheless, as I pervade all samsara and nirvana, I am not nonexistent. ~ Buddhahood in This Life

Nor, of course, is Truth even ‘One’: if ‘Truth’ could be any conceptual number, it must surely be ‘Zero' — the basis and origin of all numeration and of all multiplicity. ~ Wei Wu Wei

Though the essence of rigpa is difficult to grasp, the potential of pristine consciousness will be accomplished through relaxation. ~ Tantra of the Great Secret Without Syllables

As for the practice of magnificent blazing, Whatever may appear we practice to be the Bodhicitta. We practice our own minds As being embodiments of the Dharma. Our true embodiment Is beyond being something that we must practice Or any act of practicing. ~ Ye shes ‘bar ba chos kyi dbyings

When we give something the name of: “To be meditated on” We are mistaken. The reason for this Is that this is beyond all discussion. As an antidote to our own ideas We meditate on non-conceptuality. This itself is a big idea. ~ Ye shes gsal ba chos kyi dbyings

The understanding that things exist is a total fantasy. The wise do not believe in that logic. It is the essence of our delusions, And because we do not clarify it, We are incorrect. ~ The Origin of Life: The Great King of the Tantras

The understanding of the All Good Victorious One Is the self-originating body of our own true essence. It is not made of causes or conditions. It is not compounded. It pervades us all. It is the body of the Dharma. This is our own awareness. It is a heart of wisdom. ~ Tantra on the Wheel of Wisdom

The significant analogy for our natural base Is the sky, Which is not compounded. It does not come from anywhere. It has existed from the beginning. It does not go anywhere. ~ Tantra on the Heart of the Secret Wheel Of the Wisdom of the Great Perfection

Every situation we are part of invites us to taste the plasticity of our identity, our capacity to be moulded and shaped by events since we too are but a series of events. ~ James Low

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We use a knowledge That we do not cling to or conceptualize. There are no true natures. So what are we afraid of? This too is my supreme empowerment. ~ The Tantra on the All Good One That Brings Together the Roots of the Magnificent Sky

My practice is a practice that lacks any duality. I practice the heart-essence of everyone As being the Bodhicitta. I practice that my own mind Is primordial Buddhahood. ~ The Tantra on the All Good One That Brings Together the Roots of the Magnificent Sky

We do not work. We do not propitiate. We do not hunt. Our experience is spontaneously realized. Our own luminescence is uncontrived. Our awareness is nothing at all. Our circle does not expand or contract. Our true selves are spontaneously realized. ~ Tantra on the Seven Wisdoms

The space of our wisdom Has no extreme or middle. The dominion of the Dharma Has no outside or inside. It is unborn. It is not still. It is not attached. It is spontaneously realized. ~ The Tantra on the Seven Wisdoms Of the Great Perfection of the Bodhicitta

People are stupefied and deadened by their absorption in breadwinning. ~ Gorky

Awareness without visualization Is a transmission that is clear by itself. Not to dwell on anything Is the transmission of direct perception. ~ The Tantra on the Seven Wisdoms Of the Great Perfection of the Bodhicitta

The light of self-originating awareness blazes. This total clarity is beyond our experience. Once we understand the meaning of unspeakable awareness Please make us laugh About this intent that is beyond strife. ~ The Tantra on the Seven Wisdoms Of the Great Perfection of the Bodhicitta

Taking in & holding on, However they may be born, Have no roots. We look inside And we hunt for the seer. Because we are hunting We do not find anything at all. We do not see anything. We do not give any names. We leave no trails, Like the paths of the birds in the sky. ~ Arising by Its Own Force

The totality of samsara and nirvana Is that they are both self-luminous wisdom. We do not abstain from or work on anything. We do not take things up or put them down. We have no origins or engagements. We are not lacking in any way. ~ The Tantra on Awareness Arising by Its Own Force

We settle into the experience Of the Dharmakāya’s own clarity. We see a wisdom that is beyond our thoughts, An intent of self-originating perfection That is clear by itself. ~ The Tantra on Awareness Arising by Its Own Force

Our awareness is like the sky. We have no thoughts About things like the dominion of the sky. It seems that the sky is a happy mind that has no thoughts. Self-originating wisdom is beyond our thoughts. We are not born. We do not stop. We do not stay anywhere. ~ Awareness Arising by Its Own Force

Within the great wind that does not move and is beyond strife The virtues in not traveling dawn on us. We are self-evident, indivisible, and sudden. In this we have the supreme reward, Which is to have no strife. ~ The Tantra on Awareness Arising by Its Own Force

As for our body, It is empty & clear. Its true nature is not to be defined. As for our speech, It is beyond the names of words & sounds. It is beyond discussion and lecturing. As for our heart, It has no thoughts or flickerings. It is beyond beaming out, And is beyond sacrifice. ~ The Jewel Maker

Moreover, Regarding our natural view: Our true natures are not real. They are a Great Perfection. What arises from the earth, water, fire, and wind Is actually Buddhahood. It is uncontrived. It is a great self-liberation. ~ The Jewel Maker

Moreover, Our enduring state is a mighty ease. Its fullness is a rest for the foolish. Our ideas are few and are naturally at ease. This is beyond the works of our body and speech. Those who have knowledge will hold to this. ~ The Jewel Maker

To know the nature of the mind one has to discover that it is empty, inconceivable, and beyond all limitations. This is not an external understanding based on mental analysis. To see the essence of the mind means to abide in its very condition, without any change. ~ Trenpa Namkha

With wisdom, you do not dwell in samsara; with compassion, you do not dwell in nirvana. ~ Maitreya

When we do not have any basis for conceptual delusions We understand that the basis of all things Is the majestic body of the Dharma. We discontinue our own understandings of delusion. This kind of undeluded vision Comes from a core that is primordially liberated. ~ The Jewel Maker

So it is that the mind that is liberated Is itself not without compassion. The wisdom that is present in the base Forms a basis for the arising of our own natural energy. ~ The Jewel Maker

In general, It shows us a vision, And it makes wisdom Out of the connection between a mother and her child. At the meeting on the border of samsara and nirvana Our radiance is clear, So in a body of light We distil a wisdom that is beyond our ideas. ~ The Jewel Maker

London banks lent money to Spain to reconquer Mexico and lent money to Mexico to fend off the reconquest. ~ Greg Grandin, America, América: A New History of the New World

The earth is a completely perfect home. It is great. There is nowhere better. This is because its nature does not shift. ~ The Jewel Maker

The nature of multiplicity is nondual and things in themselves are pure and simple; being here and now is construct-free and it shine out in all forms, always all good; it is already perfect, so exertion is redundant and spontaneity is ever-immanent. ~ The Cuckoo's Song of Gnosis

In Mahayana and tantric teachings, the Buddha also refers to the Dharmakaya Buddha, or formless Buddha, which is not a person or supernatural being but rather the unconditioned true nature of each of us that is already perfect. ~ Anam Thubten

Where there is attachment, let it go! Just letting go, we are entirely free. What else can anyone wish to know? ~ Saraha

In these difficult times you may feel that it is helpful To be sharp and critical with aggressive people around you. This approach will just be a source of distress and confusion for you. Speak calmly – that’s my sincere advice. ~ Longchenpa

The wish to try to prevent negative circumstances and suffering and to cause positive circumstances and happiness for all beings is important within the karmic system because it creates the seed of pure compassion and the right point of view. ~ Thinley Norbu

How wonderful! Supreme heart son— when you sustain the view of the fundamental nature, you encounter the mother of indivisibility. In undistracted, uncontrived, non-meditation, you encounter the mother of spontaneous presence. ~ Sera Khandro

Metaphysically, subjectivity, represented by the vocable ‘I’ cannot possibly disappear — since it has never appeared — so that the notion of its being subjected to the process of ‘dying’ is out of the question and should never have been posed or entertained. ~ Wei Wu Wei

We are spontaneously perfected in the uncontrived state Of the great wisdom that is our awareness. Non-contrivance is the path of our secret dominion. We know of it by way of its lack of any origin or application. ~ The Tantra of Nine Jewel Spaces

What is seen outside, manifesting clearly and unobscured from the eyes, is the light that arises from within the heart and simply passes through the channels of the eyes. ~ Trenpa Namkha

If phenomena are constricted through the limited perception of the ordinary senses, the passions arise and cause karma. When phenomena are recognized as the inconceivable affluence of wisdom senses, Buddhahood is attained. ~ Thinley Norbu

Ultimate truth is held to be awareness manifesting without elaboration, spontaneously accomplished as the essential cause. ~ Dudjom Rinpoche

May sights and sounds become the state of emptiness beyond focal point, And, out of this emptiness, perfect in a single moment of recollection, May the kāya of the deity, the primordially perfect great seal, Manifest completely, like a water bubble from water. ~ Mingyur Palgyi Drönma

Practise letting go of your attachments, opening to your connection with others and settling into the intrinsic spaciousness of your being. ~ James Low

Through immersion in a clarity that is not static, It dawns on us. It is a magnificent clear light. It is spontaneously realized from the primordial, And has no position ~ Tantra of the Nine Jewel Spaces

In the practice of the clear light of wisdom We totally cut through the permanence that we crave for. We cut through the brambles of our flickering ideas. ~ Tantra of the Nine Jewel Spaces