In limbo, always in limbo. It is the joy of limbo without presupposing heaven or hell.
Skilful means: you cannot treat everyone equally well by treating everyone the same way. “Skilful” means you don’t.
There are those who know practice must be fuelled by compassion. Yet this “must” becomes moralistic, leading them to purchase a gallon or two of compassion at a time, enough to keep their engines running a while longer. The point is to drill down deeper, deeper into the ground, until the oil gushes forth.
The quiet joy of glimpsing myself in my dog’s face.
“You have already overcome ‘I’, but you still have ‘am’ left hanging around.” — Trungpa Rinpoche
“Then the mind’s bliss comes forth.” — Jampel Pawo
You belittle yourselves by modestly saying: “we are but common men—he is a sage.” You bald idiots! What is the frantic hurry to deck yourselves in a lion’s skin when all the while you are yapping like wild foxes? A real man has no need to give himself the airs of a real man! You […]
Yunmen took the high seat and said, “What is it to hear sound and realize the Way; to see form and enlighten the mind?” Raising his hand, Yunmen said, “Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva brings money and buys a sesame rice-cake.” Lowering his hand, he said, “Actually, it’s a dumpling.” Entangling Vines, #88
So long I heard them talk of this, But did not know which this. It turns out it’s this this. What cheeky frauds they am!
Once, at the time of Shakyamuni, a group of seven women was walking through a graveyard. Coming upon a fresh corpse, one of them pointed to it and said: “Here is a man’s body. Where has he gone?” Another answered: “What . . . ” Hearing this, the women all realized the truth that she […]
BEATING THE POISONED DRUM 