When others praise you, arrogance immediately arises.
When others criticize you, you become entangled in resentment, frustration, suffering, and complaint.
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The deluded mind that clings to the duality of subject and object—whatever it fabricates—cannot but fall into the cage of its own habitual patterns.
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What is attachment? And what is the suffering it brings?
It appears before our six senses, then turns around and controls us, giving rise to suffering.
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“Having taken the Bodhisattva vows—regarding all beings as one’s mothers—one pledges: ‘May I take upon myself defeat and loss, and offer victory to others.’
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We have turned spiritual practice into a mere ornament of our lives.
In moments of ease and comfort, we casually sit cross-legged for a while, putting on the appearance of realization...
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Guru Padmasambhava, the principal founder of Tibetan Buddhism, entered Tibet in the eighth century to propagate the Dharma and established Samye Monastery, the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet.
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The Twenty-One Tārās
The Twenty-One Tārās do not refer to twenty-one separate or independent deities. Rather, they are the differentiated and embodied expressions of the compassionate vows and enlightened activity of Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva.
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Mipham Rinpoche taught:
“Deluded beings, lax and careless, entangled in inferior conditions—even if they live for a very long time...
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The Mahāyāna Sūtra of the Precious King of Adornments states:
“The Six-Syllable Mantra is, in essence, the subtle and wondrous heart-mind of Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva.
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The Buddha said to Ānanda:
“Ānanda, if there are beings who, throughout immeasurable and countless kalpas, have created karmic offenses—whether light or grave...
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In The Sūtra of the Ocean of Meaning, the Buddha explains in detail that practitioners should refrain from sixty-four kinds of defiled speech.
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In the Mahāratnakūṭa Sūtra, the Buddha taught:
“Though one may accumulate wealth amounting to thousands of millions,
if the mind clings to it with greed and refuses to let go,
the wise declare that such a person, while alive, is constantly impoverished.”
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Patrul Rinpoche states in The Words of My Perfect Teacher:
“There are always three things that must be kept concealed:
one’s own virtues,
the faults of others,
and one’s plans for the future.”
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