Longchenpa famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.
-- Longchenpa

#Buddhist #Laughter #Acceptance
Since things neither exist nor do not exist, are neither real nor unreal,Â are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting - one might as well burst out laughing.
-- Longchenpa

#Real #Laughing #Might
We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.
-- Longchenpa

#Lying #Ambition #Reality
In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter
-- Longchenpa

#Laughter #Facts #Manifest
Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.
-- Longchenpa

#Inner Peace #Quests
To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.
-- Longchenpa

#Practice #Path #Fool
Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy.
-- Longchenpa

#Flower #Compassion #Water
Begin with bodhicitta, do the main practice without concepts,Conclude by dedicating the merit. These, together and complete,Are the three vital supports for progressing on the path to liberation.
-- Longchenpa

#Practice #Support #Progress

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.
What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuinely doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. Custard pie humour is fairly universal, but at the other end, which I'm more interested in, there's the humour that hovers on the darkness, that walks in the shadow of something else, not always that obvious.
As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Longchenpa famous quotes

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