“Pawo Rinpoche comments that, in Tibet, the intention of the lineage of profound view is usually explained as self-emptiness, that is, as… — 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… — Karl Brunnholzl Psychology 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… — Karl Brunnholzl Logic 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… — 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… — Karl Brunnholzl Psychology 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… — Karl Brunnholzl Life Copy Share Image
“The Ornament of Sturas says: Therefore, liberation is only the exhaustion of mistakenness.” — Karl Brunnholzl Freedom 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… — Karl Brunnholzl Nature 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… — Karl Brunnholzl Twist of fate 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… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddha nature 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.… — Karl Brunnholzl Psychology Copy Share Image
“To reiterate, no such divisions existed in India. Some Tibetans, such as Mikyo Dorje and Pawo Rinpoche, refused to follow either of… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“If the mere nonexistence of attention and mental engagement is taken to be "nonattention" and "mental nonengagement," it is to be analyzed… — Karl Brunnholzl Psychology Copy Share Image
“However, neither victory nor defeat comes about through the words of the other party alone. This means that if we speak the… — Karl Brunnholzl Failure Copy Share Image
“Finally, when rising from meditative equipoise, with the awareness that all phenomena are illusionlike, one extensively engages in the accumulation of merit.” — Karl Brunnholzl Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Through the realization that what is seen is of one's own mind, Clinging to duality is abandoned. Abandoning means fully understanding And… — Karl Brunnholzl Psychology Copy Share Image
“He underlines the distinction between mental nonengagement and the absence of mental engagement. The first is understood as the fundamental noninvolvement in… — Karl Brunnholzl Meditation Copy Share Image
“There is nothing to be removed from it And not the slightest to be added. Actual reality is to be seen as… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“You might wonder, "Why is the ultimate not the sphere of cognition?" Because it is asserted that cognition, or consciousness, is the… — Karl Brunnholzl Psychology Copy Share Image
“Asanga's commentary elaborates on this verse: The [ground consciousness] is difficult to understand, since it is not [taught] on the lower levels… — Karl Brunnholzl Poetry Copy Share Image
“Some people think that expedient meanings are false and deceiving and thus should not be relied upon. Also, some Buddhists say, "We… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddhism Copy Share Image
“All in all, The Sutra of the Teaching ofAksayamati lists eight criteria that distinguish expedient and definitive meaning: i) The expedient meaning… — Karl Brunnholzl Education Copy Share Image
“the teachings of the Buddha are always meant to be put into practice in order to remove mental afflictions and suffering, and… — Karl Brunnholzl Education Copy Share Image
“The perfect nature, however, is not connected with any seeming phenomena whatsoever. It is without arising, abiding, and ceasing and also without… — Karl Brunnholzl Nature Copy Share Image
