‘One should reflect and try to find out the difference between “self” and “others”.’
Dalai Lama
Tibetan Buddhism
Morning meditation — Noticing a single shortcoming in ourselves.
‘Noticing a single shortcoming in ourselves is far more useful than seeing a 1,000 in someone else. We can correct our own.’
Dalai Lama
Morning meditation — Kindness and the good heart.
‘Kindness and the good heart are important at the beginning, in the middle and at the end.’
Dalai Lama
Morning meditation — Empty awareness free from conceptual elaboration.
‘Empty awareness free from conceptual elaboration is a luminous glow beyond clarity or obscuration that pervades all samsara and nirvana.’
Sera Khandro
Morning meditation — I don’t expect any result apart from primordial perfection.
‘I don’t expect any result apart from primordial perfection.
Mingled with the expanse of great, blissful, self-knowing awareness,
I rest within the indivisibility of threefold space.’
Sera Khandro
Advice for Göndrak from Chokgyur Lingpa.
From The Essential Amrita of Profound Meaning: Oral Instructions and Practical Advice Bestowed Upon Fortunate Followers, Eye-opener to What is to be Adopted and Abandoned. by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa When you let the looker be, within awareness,It is free of colour… Read More ›
Morning meditation — I don’t believe in meditation.
‘I don’t believe in meditation.
If I did, what ongoing flow of my innate nature could there be?’
Sera Khandro
Afternoon meditation — Shantideva reasons that we don’t discriminate between different parts of our body.
‘Shantideva reasons that we don’t discriminate between different parts of our body, so why do we discriminate between all living beings?’
Dalai Lama
Buddhism now 