“The other common Tibetan classification scheme is to label streams z and 3 as Mere Mentalism and place them doxographically below Centrism,… — Karl Brunnholzl Psychology Copy Share Image
“Through examples that are asserted by both, While not analyzing what serves the result. [4cd] In the way that worldly people see… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“The Karmapa clearly says that both the object of negation of reasoning and the object of negation of the path are nothing… — Karl Brunnholzl Nature Copy Share Image
“As Stearns puts it, for many of Dolpopa's contemporaries as well as later masters, his entire system including the novel use of… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Nagarjuna's Rebuttal ofObjec- tions says: If there were anything to be observed Through direct perception and the other instances [of valid cognition],… — Karl Brunnholzl Psychology Copy Share Image
“For, although the Buddhas themselves do not cling to such notions as purity and impurity or truth and untruth, they assist the… — Karl Brunnholzl True reality Copy Share Image
“In brief, if Centrism is explained as a consistent philosophical, ontological, or logical system, that may appeal to our wish for some… — Karl Brunnholzl Faith Copy Share Image
“Some people think, "Through regarding the aggregates as impermanent and so on, the clinging to a self that is permanent, single, and… — Karl Brunnholzl Identity Copy Share Image
“Thus, Pawo Rinpoche says, both Nagarjuna's and Asanga's traditions agree that the unity of perfect meditative stability and knowledge is to rest… — Karl Brunnholzl Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Not observing, not conceptualizing, and not establishing the two extremes, not mentally engaging, and not being occupied with them is what is… — Karl Brunnholzl Middle way Copy Share Image
“If one understands [just] the literal meaning, One becomes arrogant and one's mind deteriorates. Through rejecting the excellent teachings, One will be… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddhism Copy Share Image
“For this expanse of dharmas just as it is, the conventional term "ultimate reality" is used. You might object, "What do you… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Nagarjuna's verse 46]-is extensively taught. [Madhyamaka or emptiness] means being without characteristics that define true reality. It [means] to be unarisen, since… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddhism Copy Share Image
“In summary, prior to Bhavaviveka, the Yogacaras sought to assimilate rather than to oppose Centrism. A particularly striking example of this is… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“As for the distinction between "self-empty" and "other-empty," Dolpopa said that seeming reality is self-empty, while ultimate reality-Buddha nature or the nature… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddha nature Copy Share Image
“In brief, what Centrists refute is any notion of real or absolute existence or an intrinsic nature that is attributed to any… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddha nature Copy Share Image
“Kamalasila's Illumination of Centrism explains: Thus, those who cannot understand all at once that all phenomena lack a nature, for the time… — Karl Brunnholzl Psychology Copy Share Image
“On the level of no analysis, the Karmapa says, when Centrists speak with people who do not like to talk in a… — Karl Brunnholzl Life Copy Share Image
“However, one should be equally aware that, within the entirety of the Buddha's teachings of expedient and definitive meaning in his three… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddhism Copy Share Image
“I think one of the big opportunities in the spread of Buddhism to the West is that Western students of Buddhism, especially… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddhism Copy Share Image
“If form does not exist, do not cling to the existence of mind; And if mind exists, do not cling to the… — Karl Brunnholzl Life Copy Share Image
“In other words, in their own ways, both systems basically attempt to follow the Buddha in addressing the same fundamental problem of… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“This means that, having made it sufficiently clear that mere appearances have no reality, Centrists can still go on to discuss these… — Karl Brunnholzl Ur Eyes Copy Share Image
“A sprout as the subject is without arising, because it is free from arising from any of the four extremes, just as… — Karl Brunnholzl Logic Copy Share Image
“Suzuki: We must keep one thing always before our minds, . . . which is, that Buddhist thought is always the outcome… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddhism Copy Share Image
