“Asanga's commentary elaborates on this verse: The [ground consciousness] is difficult to understand, since it is not [taught] on the lower levels of the teachings, since it abides as bearing the characteristics of the seeds of the [six] operative consciousnesses,… — 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 negation in which nothing whatsoever exists as a remainder after analysis through reasoning. The intention of the lineage of vast activity is explained as the other-empty ultimate that exists as a permanent and lasting remainder after… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share
“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