Quote from Garchen Rinpoche on blessings
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Quote from Garchen Rinpoche on blessings
Is this the traditional understanding, or a new interpretation?
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Garchen Rinpoche emphasizes love very much. He told me the pure lands arise from love. You have to understand that he's a true yogi. He's vibing how American buddhists are discounting the basics for what they think are the advanced esoterics and he's saying that the advanced esoterics are nothing but love. Try to find a hole in that approach. I dare you.
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The whole quote,
It is the mind of a Bodhisattva, only caring about others is bodhicitta. This mind is the essence of all deities. If you practice any deity with this mind, you will be very close to the deity and receive blessings. What we call blessings is actually nothing but love. The mind that is free of selfishness and only cares about others is a bodhisattvas mind, such limitless love is relative bodhicitta. A Buddha has not only perfected relative bodhicitta but also ultimate bodhicitta, i.e. a Buddha mind has fully realized that all duality is delusion and that in fact there are no self and others. There are different levels of bodhisattvas, there are ten stages or bhumis a bodhisattva progresses through on the path. The enlightened mind is beyond all paths, there is no more training, it is complete awakening.
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One quote by Garchen Rinpoche deserves another:
A hundred scholars and a thousand yogis can say all they want to say about the nature of mind. But all can be summed up by this teaching of Jigme Lingpa . The mind should never be separate from loving kindness and compassion Loving kindness and compassion should never be separated from emptiness. And mindful awareness should never be separate from emptiness. These are the key teachings.
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Thanks!futerko wrote:The whole quote,It is the mind of a Bodhisattva, only caring about others is bodhicitta. This mind is the essence of all deities. If you practice any deity with this mind, you will be very close to the deity and receive blessings. What we call blessings is actually nothing but love. The mind that is free of selfishness and only cares about others is a bodhisattvas mind, such limitless love is relative bodhicitta. A Buddha has not only perfected relative bodhicitta but also ultimate bodhicitta, i.e. a Buddha mind has fully realized that all duality is delusion and that in fact there are no self and others. There are different levels of bodhisattvas, there are ten stages or bhumis a bodhisattva progresses through on the path. The enlightened mind is beyond all paths, there is no more training, it is complete awakening.
Also thanks! That's a good one, too.Jinzang wrote:One quote by Garchen Rinpoche deserves another:
A hundred scholars and a thousand yogis can say all they want to say about the nature of mind. But all can be summed up by this teaching of Jigme Lingpa . The mind should never be separate from loving kindness and compassion Loving kindness and compassion should never be separated from emptiness. And mindful awareness should never be separate from emptiness. These are the key teachings.
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As Kalu Rinpoche said many times, "compassion is the highest siddhi".
"All the sublime teachings, so profound--to throw away one and then grab yet another will not bear even a single fruit. Persevere, therefore, in simply one."
--Dudjom Rinpoche, "Nectar for the Hearts of Fortunate Disciples. Song No. 8"
--Dudjom Rinpoche, "Nectar for the Hearts of Fortunate Disciples. Song No. 8"
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Yes. Lovely!
Whatever virtuous actions we do, is for the sake of "others", then mind never strays away from ones own liberation.
Whatever virtuous actions we do, is for the sake of "others", then mind never strays away from ones own liberation.
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Many thanks for your kind referral, Jinzang.Jinzang wrote:One quote by Garchen Rinpoche deserves another:
A hundred scholars and a thousand yogis can say all they want to say about the nature of mind. But all can be summed up by this teaching of Jigme Lingpa . The mind should never be separate from loving kindness and compassion Loving kindness and compassion should never be separated from emptiness. And mindful awareness should never be separate from emptiness. These are the key teachings.