Ogmin

For those to come who will not have met me, my image will light up the night of ignorance. ~ Guru Padmasambhava, Padma bKa'i Thang c.100

When the manifest causes of conceptual thinking have subsided, one sees the jungle's end and approaches the ocean. ~ Mipham

The Supreme Doctrine is in the highest degree a sheltering tree. Our barbarian country is plunged in darkness and has no star. ~ Padma bKa'i Thang, c.57

I realized that the nature of this mind, The root of samsara and nirvana, Is an ineffable luminous void With nothing to cling to. ~ Shabkar

If one does not recognize the single luminous innate mind, that is the basis of delusion. If one realizes and stabilizes it, that is the basis of liberation. The first is the basis and the second is the result. ~ Jigme Tenpa'i Nyima

Just as no darkness exists in the center of the sun, to a yogin the universe and all beings all arise as deities. ~ Shabkar

If the effect of knowing the Dharma doesn't manifest as a cure for fear, suffering and affliction, its purpose has been lost. ~ Mipham

An autumn evening; It is no light thing, To be born a man. ~ Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828)

The shape of Autumn That has passed through the shutters, - The candle's twisted flame. ~ Konishi Raizan (1654-1716)

One came, And visited someone; An autumn eve. ~ Buson (1716 – 784)

It is the tenth month: I go nowhere; No one comes here. ~ Shōhaku (1443-1527)

We always have thoughts and emotions coming up, but these thoughts are a projection or an expression of our own essence. Simply recognize the essence of the thought as it arises. It arises from you and it dissolves into you. ~ Tulku Urgyen

Whenever we do not recognize the pure nature of the manifestation of wisdom display, we cling to unobstructed mind's uncatchable self-arising reflection, obscuring its inseparable emptiness and luminosity, and separating the divisionless phenomena elements into subject and object. ~ Thinley Norbu

The root of the word “buddha” denotes cognition, not the cognition belonging to sensory consciousness, but to existential being in itself that is self-aware spaciousness. “Buddha” is thus a synonym of the light of the mind. ~ Keith Dowman

Appearances are the magical display of the mind. The mind is empty, without base, without foundation. By holding baseless phenomena to be the self You and I wander in the realm of samsara. ~ Gendun Chopel

If there is a subject or an object there is grasping. Rigpa is not an object of knowledge and the one perceiving or recognizing it is not a subject. ~ Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche

The subject that observes and manipulates objects becomes alienated from its world. To experience oneself as one of many things in the world is to experience the world as a collection of separate things, which according to Daoism and Buddhism is a serious error. ~ David Loy

One’s attention, liberated or not, is always limited by the forms of awareness that circumstances make available. The paradox is that to be one with those conditions is to experience one’s awareness and life as unconditioned. ~ David Loy

Is there anyone more shameless in the eyes of those who have a conscience than someone who does not provide refuge for those who lack it, who does not, to the best of his abilities, comfort others or who takes the wealth of his subjects without thinking about them? ~ Mipham

Once you’ve realized the nature of space, To have space made apparent Is the Great Perfection, the supreme path of freedom. There is nothing to do other than the Great Perfection. Everything is emptiness; this realization of indwelling space Is the view of emptiness. ~ Dudjom Lingpa

Don’t pursue or cling to the object of desire; attend to the clinging mind. The appearance of clinging instantly self-liberates into the bliss of emptiness. The bliss of emptiness is nothing but discriminating insight. ~ Patrul Rinpoche

The exalted state of the Great Perfection is beyond the reach of words, thought, and expression. Rest in that experience, without fabricating it by dualistic mind. ~ Sera Khandro

I don’t need a retinue and students. They just cause anger. Intangible deities and demons are my retinue and disciples to tame. I don’t need anything! Everything is ruined by needs. ~ Sera Khandro

When I was born, I had no head, my eye was single and my whole body also was filled with light; and the light that I was, was the light that I saw by, and the light that I saw by was the light that I was. ~ M. Heron

Son, the wide-awake consciousness of this moment Is the dharmakaya, the wisdom of your instant presence. Keep it immaculate, vividly clear, and naked! Leave it evenly, free from thinking and beyond the conceptual mind! ~ Shense Lhaje

Just us. In our little house Far from everybody, Far from the world, Only the sound of water over stone. And then I say to you, "Listen. Hear the wind in the trees." ~ K. Rexroth

The vulture in the sky is skillful in flying, Without impediments he soars everywhere. How quiet is the country without an owner! How happy are the deer without an enemy! ~ Shense Lhaje

After recognizing, you should enhance that—by repeating short moments, many times. It should be short, because when the moment is short, there is no time for new thoughts to come in and obscure it. If you try to make it last longer, it becomes merely a conceptual idea. ~ Tulku Urgyen

Whatever manifests as objects, whatever arises in the mind, the key point of these phenomena is the state of evenness - utter relaxation, with neither suppresion nor indulgence. Abandon yourself in imperturbable rest, for this is the very consummation of enlightened intent. ~ Longchenpa

These teachings thus make fully evident the ultimate meaning of the sublimely secret great perfection, so that it is no longer elusive. May they free all beings without exception, effortlessly and naturally, within primordial basic space as the ground of being. ~ Longchenpa

Some are of this type from the start, while others become that way through refinement. ~ Treasury of Higher Teachings

In meditation that constitutes uncultivated abiding, the avenues of the senses are lucid, though conceptual mind does not engage in thought. Mind that reflects on awareness itself is such that it is not lost to outer phenomena. ~ Reverberation of Sound

Since there is freedom in the bare act of perception, things fade in the very moment of seeing them. Freedom is absolute, so there is natural purity. Freedom is beyond time, so gradual familiarization is unnecessary. Freedom is natural, so it is uncontrived. ~ The Reverberation of Sound

View is unique, free of the limits of elaboration. Meditation is unique, free of the limits of concepts or focused attention. Conduct is unique, free of the limits of effort or achievement. Fruition is unique, free of the limits of renunciation or attainment. ~ Shri Singha

Dharmadhatu, luminous but not manifest, permeates everything everywhere. It is the supreme level, beyond conceptual fabrication. It is primordial enlightenment within samsara itself. It is instant arrival on the unfabricated level. ~ Namkha Dang Nyampai Gyu

Marvelous! The experiential domain of buddhas is not some place discovered by searching. Because this domain is not an object, like (a specific) phenomenon of the six senses, searching for it is like a blind person trying to grab the sky. ~ Kunjed Gyalpo

Never ignore your basic attitude. Be gracious. Respect, gratitude, and devoted interest are all we need. If we have those, we’re not lacking anything. Apply joyful effort. With an appreciative awareness of primordial purity, we discover true beauty everywhere, in abundance. ~ Khenchen Palden Sherab

All you practitioners, male and female, who wish to realize the faultless and correct point of view, should let your mind rest fully awake in a state of unfabricated emptiness. When your mind is quiet, then rest in that quietness without trying to fabricate anything. ~ Patrul Rinpoche

You masters who are clever in teaching and you students who are good in meditation, don't be proud; take advice from those who are learned. Don't invent everything yourself; resolve your own mind. Don't deceive yourself; be free from doubt. ~ Patrul Rinpoche

In the natural context of evenness, with no split between objects and mind, rest free of any framework, with naturally pristine perception that leaves no trace. Timeless awareness -profound insight - is evident within the ultimate state of innate lucidity. ~ Longchenpa

Without wishing for the state to continue for a long time and without fearing the lack of it altogether, all that is necessary is to maintain pure presence of mind, without falling into the dualistic situation of there being an observing subject perceiving an observed object. ~Namkhai Norbu

In the same way, one comes to the moment-by-moment decisive experience of what is innately pristine, empty yet lucid, by letting the busyness of apparent phenomena and mind rest naturally in the lucid expanse, so there is utter relaxation, nonconceptual and free of elaboration. ~ Longchenpa

Things appear without being reified as objects, while mind arises without being reified as a subject. The eyes see without analyzing. One is led along the path of ineffability - the nature of phenomena. ~ Reverberation of Sound

Once you have the View, You will be like the sky; When a rainbow appears, it is not flattered, when clouds appear, it is not disappointed. There is a deep sense of contentment. ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Without deliberately settling, without thinking, and without requiring anything, abide naturally in nonconceptual evenness. Since this has always been so, the mind of effort does not pertain. Any abiding in that supreme bliss constitutes the heart essence of all phenomena. ~ Kunjed Gyalpo

Beyond the conceptual mind, without limitations, blissful, clear, and thought-free, Self-originated wisdom never ceases and has no delusion, Transcending the limits of the dualistic considerations of hope and fear. Since everything is contained in the same essence, overcome duality! ~ Shense Lhaje

He is the essence which is the reality of motivation, yet he is not motivation. He is the essence which is the reality of consciousness, yet he is not consciousness. Like the element of space, he does not abide in any of the four elements. ~ Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra

All phenomena of the world of appearances and possibilities, whether of samsara or nirvana, abide in supreme spontaneous presence as the natural radiance of the three kayas - essence as emptiness, nature as lucidity, and responsiveness as the arising of their myriad display. ~ Longchenpa

How marvelous! The vajra of self-knowing awareness is timeless awareness blazing everywhere. The naturally manifest vajra without characteristics blazes in all directions. The radiantly fearless vajra is supreme emptiness. ~ The Perfect Dynamic Energy of the Lion

Phenomena can have only an apparent space-time existence as concepts in mind. Then who is there “competely to comprehend” this? Nobody, I do. As any sentient-being may say, if he apperceives that— Objective absence is subjective presence, Which is absolute release. ~ Wei wu Wei