“the teachings of the Buddha are always meant to be put into practice in order to remove mental afflictions and suffering, and not primarily as a philosophical system to be established in one way or another.” — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Given this wide perspective, all the teachings of the Buddha can be established as the supreme cause for liberation, since all sutras of expedient meaning are imbued with the definitive meaning. The Sutra That Unravels the Intention explains this through… — 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
“One may wonder, "What is seeing the ultimate?" It means that all phenomena are not seen.” — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The Ornament of Sturas says: Therefore, liberation is only the exhaustion of mistakenness.” — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
