Self-Immolation

"All of this is merely mind, Coming about like an illusion. Through this, good and bad actions, As well as good and bad rebirths [occur]. Through the wheel of mind stopping, All phenomena come to a standstill. Therefore, the nature of phenomena is identityless. Hence, the nature of phenomena is completely pure." Nagarjuna, Mahāyānaviṃśikā Verses 19-20

If I cling to conditions, then I cling to their passing. I have a heaven & a hell within; no need to wonder what exists after death. If I have no conditions, then there is no passing. There is neither heaven nor hell; no need to wonder what exists after death. —Al Ablah

A hundred things may be explained, a thousand told, But one things only should you grasp. Know one thing and everything is freed – Remain within your inner nature, your awareness! Guru Padmasambhava

I take refuge in the Guru. ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿ གུ་རུ་བཛྲ་དྷ་ར་བྷཊྚཱ་ར་ཀ་མཉྫུ་ཤྲཱི་ཝཱགིནྡྲ་སུ་མ་ཏི་ཛྙཱ་ན་ཤཱ་ས་ན་དྷ་ར་ས་མུ་དྲ་ཤྲཱི་བྷ་དྲ་སརྦ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུཾ་ཧཱུཾ།

“Each sentient being is like a sleeping buddha who is dreaming about inherent existence of self and of all phenomena, and believing the dream to be true. The practice of buddhism is like the method to wake up from this dream, by waking up to the reality of the lack of inherent existence of self and of all phenomena, to become a fully awakened buddha for the benefit of all sentient beings who are still dreaming” ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche

"The nature of space transcends color and shape, Neither stained nor changed by black or white. Likewise, the essence of your mind transcends color and shape, Unpolluted by black or white qualities, misdeeds or virtues. Just as the bright, clear essence of the sun Cannot be obscured by the murk of a thousand aeons, Likewise, the luminous essence of your mind Can’t be obscured by aeons of samsara. Though space is given the appellation “empty,” There’s nothing in space that can be described as such. Likewise, though mind is described as luminous, There’s nothing to give a name, saying it’s like this. Therefore, the nature of mind has always been like space. There are no phenomena at all not contained within it." Tilopa

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"Some people think that moral ethics and discipline are not important when practicing the highest tantra yoga and the vision of emptiness; they think that the precepts are meant for lower practitioners and not for advanced ones. This may be going too far. On the contrary, those who are more realized in the subtle aspects of Dharma have an even more sensitive and genuine conduct, setting a great example for the followers. Following the precepts and keeping them is a 24-hour a day practice. It is a real test for Dharma practitioners to sustain their discipline at every moment for the rest of their lives. Using all our energy in virtuous ways is a very important method for training the body, speech, and mind." Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen

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“By acknowledging that mind is continuous and the root circumstance of all phenomena, we must try to recognize its pure essence, which is Buddha nature. We must try to transform temporary obscurations into positive, contributing circumstances in order to become the same as all Buddhas. We must try to distill the pure essence from the unclear confusion of subject and object which remains in the fragile coincidence container of our nihilist habit's fragmented mind. Instead of creating impure and contradictory phenomena which are the cause of suffering, we must create pure and complementary phenomena through positive habits that create positive karma in our continuous Buddha nature land until we transcend the phenomena of relative truth and attain enlightenment” ~ Thinley Norbu Rinpoche

"The best response to negative emotion is to allow it to self-liberate, by remaining in non-dual consciousness, free from attachment and aversion. If we can do this, the emotion passes through us like a bird flying through space; no trace of its passage remains. The emotion arises and then spontaneously dissolves into emptiness." Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche