‘The essence of emptiness is the non-existence of duality.’
Madhyānta-vibhāga
‘The essence of emptiness is the non-existence of duality.’
Madhyānta-vibhāga
‘When you reflect on the practice of the ancients… Sometimes, while practising it is as easy as pushing a boat over ice. At other times it is as difficult as trying to drag a cow to a well.’
Kusan Sunim
‘The Buddha was totally awakened and saw the three times as clearly as if they were held in the palm of his own hand. The teachings are based on this immense clarity.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
‘This liberation is like earth, because it’s the refuge of all sentient beings.’
Avalokiteshvara
‘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.