Daily Dharma
Quotes from Chamtrul Rinpoche and other masters of Buddhism
Chamtrul Rinpoche
Sunday
Never underestimate the importance of keeping your vows. Just how a castle will protect the king from being attacked by the enemy, the vows will protect your mind from being attacked by its afflictions.
Chamtrul Rinpoche
Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche
Monday
Some people today are not willing to study or reflect on the Dharma, but they are enthusiastic about meditation. They believe meditating all day with their eyes shut is the ultimate practice. I do not think much of this. Although there are people of the highest caliber who attain enlightenment without study or reflection, are you of such caliber?
Therefore, you cannot live in a cave or another completely isolated place when you first start to practice. Instead, you should be with a qualified Dharma teacher and earnestly receive the Buddhadharma; it is best if you are always engaged in study, reflection, and practice.
Of course, I am not asking you to study and reflect for a lifetime without ever practicing. But to spend an entire life in blind meditation without any study or reflection is also the wrong path!
His Holiness Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche
Longchenpa
Tuesday
O great being, listen!
We strive in meditation because we desire excellence,
but any striving precludes attainment;
excellence resides only in timeless self-sprung awareness.
Longchenpa
Drukpa Kunley
Wednesday
Although mind is clear, one needs a lama;
Although a lamp burns brightly, it still needs oil;
Although mind is self-evident, it needs recognition.
That is the teaching on the three needs.
Drukpa Kunley
Thrangu Rinpoche
Thursday
What's recommended is that if you have a good experience, don't get too excited. And if you have a bad experience, don't mistake it for a serious deviation or a sidetrack that you have to find your way back from. If you have a bad experience, just continue practicing as you were. In other words, whatever happens, just keep looking at your mind.
Thrangu Rinpoche
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Friday
Like waves, all the activities of this life have rolled endlessly on, one after the other, yet they have left us feeling empty-handed. Myriads of thoughts have run through our mind, each one giving birth to many more, but what they have done is to increase our confusion and dissatisfaction.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Milarepa
Saturday
When one comes to the essence of being,
The shining wisdom of reality illuminates all,
Like in the cloudless sky.
Milarepa
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