‘There is no other door to peace,
And it destroys wrong views.
That which is the object of
All Buddhas is called selflessness.’
Aryadeva
‘There is no other door to peace,
And it destroys wrong views.
That which is the object of
All Buddhas is called selflessness.’
Aryadeva
Nāgārjuna says ‘Sunyatā is the exhaustion of all views’ and adds ‘Those for whom Sunyatā is itself a theory are incurable.’
Nagarjuna
‘The body was like mist, so it was free from dualistic activity and there was recognition devoid of the self and other.
I thought: “It makes sense that all sentient beings can understand the meaning of the nature of mind like I have understood it.”’
Padmasambhava
One’s mind is primordially unborn.
‘If a person wants to comprehend Buddhahood, they should purify their mind until it is just like empty space.’
Avatamsaka Sutra
‘This liberation is like the sun, dispelling the darkness of the nescience of all sentient beings.’
Avalokiteshvara
‘Knowledge and ignorance are both untrue, nothing but dream and illusion. The nonduality of true and untrue, that’s the state of buddha.’
Longchenpa
‘Truth is beyond words, but the Buddha used them to teach, to point out the truth.’
Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way