Enough of all this ancillary discursiveness now!

“Pawo Rinpoche comments that, in Tibet, the intention of the lineage of profound view is usually explained as self-emptiness, that is, as a nonimplicative…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“One may wonder, "What is seeing the ultimate?" It means that all phenomena are not seen.”

— Karl Brunnholzl

“Hence, [emptiness] is also not an object of [something like the] cognition of Buddhas, because they do not have [such a thing as] cognition.”

— Karl Brunnholzl

“Here, master Bhavya states [this as] the main argument, and then he formulates four autonomous reasons as the means to prove the subject property.…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“In general, every negation must depend on the rejection of an affirmation or proposition, which means that emptiness as a nonimplicative negation is not…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“Therefore, everything is the illusory magical display of one's own mind. It is appearing yet delusive, and delusive while appearing. Thus, all of it…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“In brief, the very quintessence of all meditative concentrations of both the sutras and the tantras of the great vehicle is to see, through…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“The Ornament of Sturas says: Therefore, liberation is only the exhaustion of mistakenness.”

— Karl Brunnholzl

“Not only can nobody deny the appearance of mere consciousness whose nature is other-dependent and not affected by the flaw of conceptions of a…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“And so-in what amounts to a deeply ironic twist of fate-Candrakirti was posthumously awarded highest honors from an orthodox scholarly tradition that could sustain…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“As for the notion of Buddha nature, there is no reifying interpretation of it in any of the texts of the lineage of vast…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“Whether on the level of no analysis or with analysis, it is never justified that mind exists whereas form does not exist. Under analysis,…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“To reiterate, no such divisions existed in India. Some Tibetans, such as Mikyo Dorje and Pawo Rinpoche, refused to follow either of these later…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“If the mere nonexistence of attention and mental engagement is taken to be "nonattention" and "mental nonengagement," it is to be analyzed in what…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“However, neither victory nor defeat comes about through the words of the other party alone. This means that if we speak the truth without…

— Karl Brunnholzl