‘We turned our backs (on our Original-nature), so do not advocate searching outside for it. Having fully exposed the precious jewel, we do not know it as precious.’
Kusan Sunim
‘We turned our backs (on our Original-nature), so do not advocate searching outside for it. Having fully exposed the precious jewel, we do not know it as precious.’
Kusan Sunim
‘One who knows not this emptiness,
Is terrified to meet desire.
He fears when there is nothing to fear—
How can he ever secure peace and joy?’
The Buddha
‘Observing these changes — these never- ceasing transformations — you know that you must perish. But do you also know that when you perish, something in you does not perish with you?’
Surangama Sutra
In dealing with others, fairness is paramount; in self-reflection, sincerity is crucial.
‘By nature, desire is like empty space, Divorced from anything established. Because of false discrimination, though, The defilement of desire plagues the ignorant.’
The Buddha
Although those who fear desire
Rack their brains seeking liberation from it,
It remains forever intrinsically pure.
‘In consequence a perception of the Path will no longer occur to him — how much less will he see the Path! “One who has finished with the Path”, that is a synonym of a monk who is an Arhat whose outflows are extinct.’
The Buddha
‘Princely people,
Having the resolve of awareness,
Understood what it means,
And that very moment
Was the instant of the ending of time for them.’
The Great Tantra of Vajrasattva