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Category - Quotes

Quote-Repaying Kindness

The sea is not my problem, My task is not the mountain, My job is not the earth; My calling’s rather to attend That I should never fail Repaying kindness granted me. Verses of Drumsong, King of the Serpentines...

Quote-Enlightenment

Since everything is an illusory display, It is possible to attain enlightenment. “Analysis of the Stages of Self-Consecration” by Aryadeva (200-250 CE)

Quote-Nagarjuna

Wisdom that knows the reality of all dharmas. “Maha-Prajna-Paramita Sastra” by Nagarjuna (circa 150-250 CE)

Quote-Erroneous View #73

Acknowledging that following the “Fifty Stanzas of Guru Devotion” requires one to pay respect to a fake holy master. “The Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation” by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III...

Quote-Reality

Reality, or true form, is the true perfect state that you who learn from Buddha want to attain. It is the state of no birth and no death. It is this reality. H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, ‘Imparting the Absolute Truth...

Quote-Same Taste

When river water and spring water are combined in a bowl, can you separate the river water from the spring water?……… This is what is meant by the underlying principles and truth are of the ‘same taste...

Photo of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. , Washington D.c., January 19, 2012.

QUOTE–Bad Karma

Why can it be said that we must stay far away from evil or bad karma but it cannot be said that we must eliminate evil or bad karma? Within the truth of Buddhism, there is the doctrine that the law of cause and effect...

Photo of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. , Washington D.c., January 19, 2012.

QUOTE–Meditation

Meditation practice involves realizing the concept of emptiness, realizing that phenomena are devoid of characteristics or attributes, realizing non-attachment, cutting off deluded thoughts, and returning to one’s...