‘Because there is no origination there is no duration and no destruction.’
Nagarjuna
Nagarjuna
Morning meditation — Those for Whom Sunyatā is.
Nāgārjuna says ‘Sunyatā is the exhaustion of all views’ and adds ‘Those for whom Sunyatā is itself a theory are incurable.’
Nagarjuna
It is in the Nature of Emptiness. By Arya Nagarjuna
One’s mind is primordially unborn.
Morning meditation — Letter to a Friend.
‘Many things threaten life, which is even more ephemeral than a bubble of water. Amazing to exhale after inhaling and to awake from sleep.’
Nagarjuna
More Amazing than Amazing!
That is more wondrous than wondrous!
Cherishing Others, by Dalai Lama
Equalizing oneself and others means developing the attitude and understanding that: ‘Just as I desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering, so do all living beings, beings as infinite as space; they also desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.’
Handbook of Tibetan Iconometry
Occasional book review, ‘The Handbook of Iconometry’
Human life is extremely hard to find, by Geshe Sonam Rinchen
A blind turtle lives on the ocean bed and surfaces just once every hundred years. A golden yoke floats on the vast ocean, blown here and there by the wind. What are the chances of the turtle surfacing at just the right time and in just the right place to be able to put its head through the yoke?
Buddhism now 