“Some people think that expedient meanings are false and deceiving and thus should not be relied upon. Also, some Buddhists say, "We… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Since Buddhist studies and practices are designed to influence our most ingrained habitual tendencies, they generally represent processes that naturally require repeated… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“However, there is the danger in all broad categorizations, such as the classification of Buddhist teachings as self-empty or other-empty, that they… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“O Manjusri, in the world, there are two types of persons who destroy the genuine dharma: those who have strong views about… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Thus, it is seen that the expanse of dharmas is not an object of speech, reflection, or expression. It is for just… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“[Beings with such realization] do not behold sentient beings, but great compassion still flowers in them. They do not behold themselves either,… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“[O]ne could assume an incompatibility, at one and the same level of reference, between two philosophical propositions, both of which cannot be… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Thus, what remains after the adventitious stains are realized to be non-existent is clearly not some reified entity, but the naturally pure… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Buddhism in general and Centrism in particular is not meant as a philosophical edifice but as a set of tools for experientially… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“The Ornament of Sutras says: It is said that enlightenment is attained By those nonconceptual bodhisattvas Who regard all that has been… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“If one understands [just] the literal meaning, One becomes arrogant and one's mind deteriorates. Through rejecting the excellent teachings, One will be… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“For this expanse of dharmas just as it is, the conventional term "ultimate reality" is used. You might object, "What do you… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Nagarjuna's verse 46]-is extensively taught. [Madhyamaka or emptiness] means being without characteristics that define true reality. It [means] to be unarisen, since… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“In brief, what Centrists refute is any notion of real or absolute existence or an intrinsic nature that is attributed to any… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“However, one should be equally aware that, within the entirety of the Buddha's teachings of expedient and definitive meaning in his three… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“I think one of the big opportunities in the spread of Buddhism to the West is that Western students of Buddhism, especially… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Suzuki: We must keep one thing always before our minds, . . . which is, that Buddhist thought is always the outcome… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“the Thus-Gone One knows the potentials of very impure sentient beings, and through his words [that cause] revulsion, such as impermanence, suffering,… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“One may wonder, "What is seeing the ultimate?" It means that all phenomena are not seen.” — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The Ornament of Sturas says: Therefore, liberation is only the exhaustion of mistakenness.” — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
