‘Sometimes anger may give some kind of immediate support, some kind of strength and power, but in the long run it doesn’t. There’s always some fear behind it.’
Geshe Tashi Tsering
Tibetan Buddhism
Morning meditation — Sensory consciousness and mental consciousness.
‘Sensory consciousness and mental consciousness are interconnected. Sensory consciousness gives signals to mental consciousness, and mental consciousness follows with signals to sensory consciousness. But for us the most powerful mind is mental consciousness.’
Geshe Tashi Tsering
Morning meditation — Often people say they are meditating.
‘Often people say they are meditating, but what they are really doing is thinking of nothing, and the mind is completely dull. I don’t think that is right meditation. It’s just increasing the dullness of the mind.’
Geshe Tashi Tsering
Morning meditation — I often say we should think of our dharma practice as a hobby.
‘I often say we should think of our dharma practice as a hobby.’
Geshe Tashi Tsering
Morning meditation — While we are unenlightened.
‘While we are unenlightened, there is an element of shared or general experience.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Morning meditation — Please understand that all your experience is your personal experience.
‘Please understand that all your experience is your personal experience rather than somebody else’s. It is your experience, and thus is different from the personal experience of others.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Morning meditation — The great beings see with their wisdom eye.
‘The great beings see with their wisdom eye
All things like reflections of forms;
They do not become stuck In the mire of so-called objects.’
Arya Nagarjuna
Morning meditation — Virtue is so feeble.
‘Virtue is so feeble;
Vice is so powerful and terrible! How can good ever triumph over evil
Without the resolve to awaken?’
Acharya Shantideva
Buddhism now 