“The Blessed One… in accordance with their thinking, has eliminated all reifications without exception through progressively teaching the aggregates, constituents, and sources;… — Karl Brunnholzl Psychology 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 Perception 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
“the teachings of the Buddha are always meant to be put into practice in order to remove mental afflictions and suffering, and… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddha Copy Share Image
“In brief, the Karmapa says, with regard to the manner of what is to be proven and the means of proof in… — Karl Brunnholzl Enlightenment 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
“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
“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
“According to the teachings of the Buddha and the Indian commentaries, however, such direct seeing of emptiness is precisely what happens in… — Karl Brunnholzl Education Copy Share Image
“Conventionally though, not realizing this [undifferentiable unity] is labeled "the phase of cyclic existence," while its realization, just as it is, [is… — Karl Brunnholzl Enlightenment 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
“For, although the Buddhas themselves do not cling to such notions as purity and impurity or truth and untruth, they assist the… — Karl Brunnholzl Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“However, during the whole process of employing such provisional levels of analysis that may include what looks like autonomous reasoning to others,… — Karl Brunnholzl Intelligence 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
“In other words, in their own ways, both systems basically attempt to follow the Buddha in addressing the same fundamental problem of… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddhist 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 Disengagement 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
“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
“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
“In explaining the meaning of this passage in his Chariot ofthe Tagbo Siddhas,"°" the Eighth Karmapa says that the sutras' explicit meaning… — Karl Brunnholzl Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“the Thus-Gone One knows the potentials of very impure sentient beings, and through his words [that cause] revulsion, such as impermanence, suffering,… — Karl Brunnholzl Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Therefore, when the three natures are presented without analysis, seeming dependent origination is the other-dependent nature, because it is common, conventional consensus… — Karl Brunnholzl Material things 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
“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
“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
“In the context of the path, [Autonomists] settle in meditative equipoise within spacelike emptiness of appearance and [Consequentialists] settle in meditative equipoise… — Karl Brunnholzl Journey 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
“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
“Real existence" never appears for any kind of consciousness, since it is not a knowable object. Also, to identify and negate such… — Karl Brunnholzl Consciousness Copy Share Image
“In brief, it appears that most Centrists clearly distinguish between accepting a nonreifying notion of mere mind as a step in the… — Karl Brunnholzl Meditation 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
“If form does not exist, do not cling to the existence of mind; And if mind exists, do not cling to the… — Karl Brunnholzl Existence Copy Share Image
“Just as space is without divisions through the divisions created by vessels, In true reality, there are no divisions that are created… — Karl Brunnholzl 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 Karmapa clearly says that both the object of negation of reasoning and the object of negation of the path are nothing… — Karl Brunnholzl Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“If Consequentialists do not formulate inferences that are established through valid cognition in their own system, they would not even in their… — Karl Brunnholzl Dreams 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… — Karl Brunnholzl Education Copy Share Image
“In brief, as long as the direct vision of ultimate reality has not dawned in the mind, one definitely has to rely… — Karl Brunnholzl Consciousness 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 Realization 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
![“Nagarjuna's Rebuttal ofObjec- tions says: If there were anything to be observed Through direct perception and the other instances [of valid cognition], It would be something to be established or rejected. However, since no such thing exists, I cannot be criticized.” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/393/karl-brunnholzl-4600_perception_nagarjuna-s-rebuttal-ofobjec-tions-says_2560713.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/i/0fd/karl-brunnholzl-4600_personal-experience_the-sutra-of-the-arrival-in-lanka-says-i_1118222.jpg)
![“Conventionally though, not realizing this [undifferentiable unity] is labeled "the phase of cyclic existence," while its realization, just as it is, [is called] "the attainment of Buddhahood." At this point, however, there is neither a conditioned nor an unconditioned substance or entity that is…” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab8/karl-brunnholzl-4600_life_conventionally-though-not-realizing-this_1337458.jpg)
![“A sprout as the subject is without arising, because it is free from arising from any of the four extremes, just as a frog's long hair." Here, master Bhavya states [this as] the main argument and then formulates four autonomous reasons as the means to prove the subject property. The venerable and…” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6db/karl-brunnholzl-4600_logic_a-sprout-as-the-subject-is-without-arisi_3011171.jpg)
![“the Thus-Gone One knows the potentials of very impure sentient beings, and through his words [that cause] revulsion, such as impermanence, suffering, identitylessness, and impurity, he produces weariness in those sentient beings who like cyclic existence. Thus, he introduces them to the noble…” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29e/karl-brunnholzl-4600_buddhism_the-thus-gone-one-knows-the-potentials-o_3150885.jpg)
![“Nagarjuna's verse 46]-is extensively taught. [Madhyamaka or emptiness] means being without characteristics that define true reality. It [means] to be unarisen, since it is neither existent nor nonexistent. It is neither something existent that has already arisen nor something nonexistent that is…” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8e/karl-brunnholzl-4600_buddhism_nagarjuna-s-verse-46-is-extensively-taug_2757063.jpg)
![“In the context of the path, [Autonomists] settle in meditative equipoise within spacelike emptiness of appearance and [Consequentialists] settle in meditative equipoise within illusionlike emptiness of reality.” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/142/karl-brunnholzl-4600_journey_in-the-context-of-the-path-autonomists-s_1802963.jpg)
![“Just as space is without divisions through the divisions created by vessels, In true reality, there are no divisions that are created by entities. Therefore, by perfectly realizing them to be of equal taste, You, excellent Knower, realize [all] knowable objects in a single moment.” quote by Karl Brunnholzl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/690/karl-brunnholzl-4600_single-moment_just-as-space-is-without-divisions-throu_1871509.jpg)
