“One may wonder, "What is seeing the ultimate?" It means that all phenomena are not seen.” — Karl Brunnholzl Seeing Copy Share Image
“The Ornament of Sturas says: Therefore, liberation is only the exhaustion of mistakenness.” — Karl Brunnholzl Freedom 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 Reality 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 Emptiness 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 Abandoning 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
“the unity of perfect meditative stability and knowledge is to rest right within profound knowledge's seeing that is without seeing anything and… — Karl Brunnholzl Knowledge 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
“You might wonder, "Why is the ultimate not the sphere of cognition?" Because it is asserted that cognition, or consciousness, is the… — Karl Brunnholzl Consciousness 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 Sutra of the Arrival in Lanka says: In the future, those who cling to non-Buddhist thinking will conceive of the wisdom… — Karl Brunnholzl Personal experience Copy Share Image
“Elsewhere Buton says that the distinction between Autonomists and Consequentialists is a conceptual construct by Tibetans that is not found in India.… — Karl Brunnholzl Distinction 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 Buddhism 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 Buddhism 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
“Its meaning is to rest one-pointedly on the focal object [of meditation], without being distracted by other thoughts. If this [one-pointed resting]… — Karl Brunnholzl Focus 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 Lineage Profound 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 Buddhism 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 Consciousness Copy Share Image
“However, despite their synthesis of Yogacara and Centrism, all Yogacara-Madhyamikas, such as Jnanagarbha, Santaraksita, Kamalasila, and Haribhadra, unanimously refute the notion of… — Karl Brunnholzl Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
“In fact, in much the same way as the Centrists, Yogacaras like Asanga and Vasuhandhu introduce and employ expedient concepts, such as… — Karl Brunnholzl Different level Copy Share Image
“If you first fix a horn on the head of a rabbit and then remove it again, the rabbit might wonder what… — Karl Brunnholzl Existence 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 Buddhism 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 Buddhism 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 Buddhism Copy Share Image
“what Nagarjuna and Candrakirti demonstrated so extensively is precisely that nothing makes sense when it is analyzed, not even such ordinary, everyday… — Karl Brunnholzl Meaning of life Copy Share Image
“the Centrist approach of presenting mere conditionality without analysis is in clear opposition to any reifications of asserting arising from the four… — Karl Brunnholzl Cause and effect 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
“In general, every negation must depend on the rejection of an affirmation or proposition, which means that emptiness as a nonimplicative negation… — Karl Brunnholzl Negation Copy Share Image
“On the one hand, using precise philosophical categories and analyses in scriptures such as the Centrist ones, whose primary aim is to… — Karl Brunnholzl Philosophy 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
“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
“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 Consciousness Copy Share Image
“Prajnapdramita sutras sav: In the perfection of knowledge, no [notions] such as "form is permanent" or "form is impermanent" are observable. If… — Karl Brunnholzl Impermanent 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
“Eighth Karmapa Mikyo Dorje's commentary on Ike Ornament of Clear Realization says: This basis-the nature of phenomena-is neither other-empty nor self-empty, because… — Karl Brunnholzl 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
“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
“In brief, Centrists focus more on the objective side and dissolve all reference points within the mind, including mind itself. In this… — Karl Brunnholzl Psychology 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.” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c69/karl-brunnholzl-4600_psychology_hence-emptiness-is-also-not-an-object-of_55069.jpg)
![“The Sutra of the Arrival in Lanka says: In the future, those who cling to non-Buddhist thinking will conceive of the wisdom of the noble ones as existing as an object of personal experience and as having the nature of an entity… How could such notions operate in the noble ones? If such [notions]…” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0fd/karl-brunnholzl-4600_personal-experience_the-sutra-of-the-arrival-in-lanka-says-i_1118222.jpg)
![“Its meaning is to rest one-pointedly on the focal object [of meditation], without being distracted by other thoughts. If this [one-pointed resting] were stopped, all meditative concentrations would stop. Therefore, in general, "mental nonengagement" has the meaning of not mentally engaging in any…” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/604/karl-brunnholzl-4600_focus_its-meaning-is-to-rest-one-pointedly-on_1635099.jpg)
![“[Beings with such realization] do not behold sentient beings, but great compassion still flowers in them. They do not behold themselves either, but they still lend their support to all sentient beings. They do not behold anything to be attained whatsoever, but they still establish beings in great…” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/87f/karl-brunnholzl-4600_buddhism_beings-with-such-realization-do-not-beho_1190300.jpg)
![“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 is contained in the body, and the [body] is again contained in the mind. As for the mind, it has no color and no shape. It is natural luminosity that…” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8f8/karl-brunnholzl-4600_psychology_therefore-everything-is-the-illusory-mag_189022.jpg)
![“[O]ne could assume an incompatibility, at one and the same level of reference, between two philosophical propositions, both of which cannot be true in accordance with the principle of contradiction. Alternatively, one might perhaps suppose a complementarity - perhaps even an incommensurability…” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a51/karl-brunnholzl-4600_buddhism_o-ne-could-assume-an-incompatibility-at_1574326.jpg)
![“Thus, it is seen that the expanse of dharmas is not an object of speech, reflection, or expression. It is for just this [type of seeing] that the conventional terms "penetrating the nature of phenomena" and "beholding ultimate reality" are used. The conventional term "personally experienced…” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d0/karl-brunnholzl-4600_buddhism_thus-it-is-seen-that-the-expanse-of-dhar_1033120.jpg)
![“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 body with form and so on, but those who make any such [denial] only invalidate themselves by perception and such.” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/52d/karl-brunnholzl-4600_nature_not-only-can-nobody-deny-the-appearance_199293.jpg)
![“Prajnapdramita sutras sav: In the perfection of knowledge, no [notions] such as "form is permanent" or "form is impermanent" are observable. If even a form as such is not observable, how could this be the case for [its] being permanent or impermanent? The same holds for [all phenomena] up through…” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8c0/karl-brunnholzl-4600_quote_prajnapdramita-sutras-sav-in-the-perfect_1127864.jpg)
![“Here, master Bhavya states [this as] the main argument, and then he formulates four autonomous reasons as the means to prove the subject property. The venerable and fearless Candrakirti presents this by labeling the mere refutation of arising from the four extremes a "position." He teaches the…” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cb7/karl-brunnholzl-4600_logic_here-master-bhavya-states-this-as-the-ma_140001.jpg)
![“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, and since it does not abide…” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c40/karl-brunnholzl-4600_poetry_asanga-s-commentary-elaborates-on-this-v_616422.jpg)
