The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave another refueling - with shamatha or with other people's love and attention - because you know… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
We believe deep down that we've lost something precious and are seeking it outside ourselves, never realizing that we are carrying it within us… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so tight; it gets very claustrophobic. Carefree means being wide open from within, not constricted. Carefree doesn’t mean careless. It is not that you don’t care about others, not that you don’t have compassion or are unfriendly.… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share
Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any & all thought states.” — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Every time you connect, a little bit more clarity stays around the love, a little bit more space opens up around it. your mind… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
A mantra is basically a means of talking with your thoughts and feelings. It's a time-honored method sometimes referred to as prayer, but really… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep way the… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is someone who… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Life begins with love, is maintained with love, and ends with love. Right now, while we're alive, is the time to practice and express… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
