Jamgon Kongtrul famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.
We become aware of the void as we fill it.
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.
[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.
We want his power more than his purity.
The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.
Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.

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