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The Essence of Buddhism According to the Great Master #Atisha
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Lots of good practical advice and insight in this one!
Photo of Atisha statue from the Rubin Museum.
"The best teacher is (one) who attacks (your) hidden faults. The best instructions are the (ones) that target those faults." #Atisha #Dipankara "བླ་མའི་མཆོག་མཚང་ལ་རྒོལ་བ་ཡིན། གདམས་ངག་གི་མཆོག་མཚང་ཐོག་ཏུ་འབེབས་པ་ཡིན།" ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ། #Buddhism
"Wisdom without skillful means
And skillful means, too, without wisdom
Are referred to as bondage.
Therefore do not give up either" #Atisha "ཐབས་དང་བྲལ་བའི་ཤེས་རབ་དང།ཤེས་རབ་བྲལ་བའི་ཐབས་དག་ཀྱང༌། གང་ཕྱིར་འཆིང་བ་ཞེས་གསུངས་པ། དེ་བས་གཉིས་ཀ་སྤང་མི་བྱ།" ཨ་ཏི་ཤ། #Buddhism #Aspiration
Embrace your practice with all your heart ~ Atisha
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#Atisha #enthusiasm #dullness #laziness
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#BookReview
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Osho’s The Book of Wisdom is a series of talks based on the ancient “Seven Points of Mind Training” by the Tibetan Buddhist master Atisha. It is one of Osho’s most profound works, blending Tibetan Buddhist teachings with his own vision of inner transformation, awareness, and meditation.
Here’s a summary of the key themes:
Core Message
True wisdom arises from awareness, acceptance, and inner transformation— not from intellectual knowledge. Atisha’s teachings offer a radical path to freedom through conscious suffering, selflessness, and compassion.
1. Mind Training
Atisha’s seven points aim to train the mind to go beyond ego, welcome suffering, and develop bodhichitta (the awakened heart).
Osho interprets these as invitations to die to the false self, so the real can be born.
2. Suffering as a Door
Instead of escaping pain, use suffering as a tool for awakening.
Welcome it consciously, and it becomes transformative.
“When pain is welcomed, it becomes a purification.” - Osho
3. Egolessness & Compassion
Drop the illusion of “I” — this opens the door to compassion.
Osho warns that even spiritual ambition is ego in disguise.
True compassion isn’t a moral duty—it arises from seeing the oneness of all beings.
4. Turn Every Circumstance Into the
Path
Whatever happens—joy or sorrow, success or failure—use it to grow in awareness.
Life becomes the teacher, not an obstacle.
5. Letting Go of Dualities
Atisha’s path is non-dual: no good vs evil, no self vs other.
Osho emphasizes the importance of watchfulness without judgment.
Drop all extremes—be centered, present, whole.
6. Meditation as the Key
All transformation begins in awareness.
Osho constantly returns to the art of watching: thoughts, emotions, the body— all without clinging or pushing away.
7. Live Dangerously, Live Totally
Osho urges us to abandon security and tradition in favor of authentic experience.
True wisdom is not borrowed — it comes through living intensely and meditating deeply.
In Essence:
The Book of Wisdom is not just a commentary on Atisha’s teachings — it is a living transmission. Osho transforms each point into a contemporary spiritual challenge, encouraging you to turn inward, be fearless, and live fully awake.
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Be done with doubt &indecision, & embrace your practice with all your heart. Shake off lethargy, dullness and laziness, and strive always with enthusiasm and joy. #Atisha #LamaSuryaDas #Dzogchen #Meditation #Mindfulness #SelfInquiry #Dharma #AwakeningtheBuddhaWithin #Awareness
Living beings and Victorious Ones alike ~ Atisha
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"Whenever you feel discouraged or inadequate,
Raise your spirits and encourage yourself.
And always meditate on emptiness" #Atisha "ཞུམ་པའི་སེམས་ནི་བྱུང་བའི་ཚེ། །སེམས་ཀྱི་གཟེང་ནི་སྟོད་པར་བྱ། །རྟག་ཏུ་སྟོང་ཉིད་བསྒོམ་པར་བྱ།" ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ། "བྱང་སེམས་ནོར་བུའི་འཕྲེང་བ།"
"If the positive force of bodhichitta had form, it would fill completely the sphere of space and go beyond even that" #Atisha Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment "བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་བསོད་ནམས་གང༌། དེ་ལ་གལ་ཏེ་གཟུགས་མཆིས་ན། ནམ་མཁའི་ཁམས་ནི་ཀུན་གང་སྟེ། དེ་ནི་དེ་བས་ལྷག་པར་འགྱུར།" ཨ་ཏི་ཤ།
"The best lama is (one) who attacks (your) hidden faults. The best instructions are the (ones) that target those faults." #Atisha Dipankara "བླ་མའི་མཆོག་མཚང་ལ་རྒོལ་བ་ཡིན། གདམས་ངག་གི་མཆོག་མཚང་ཐོག་ཏུ་འབེབས་པ་ཡིན།" ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ།
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