The Two Truths བདེན་པ་གཉིས།
The Two Truths བདེན་པ་གཉིས།
1. Conventional truth ཀུན་རྫོབ་བདེན་པ།
2. Ultimate truth དོན་དམ་བདེན་པ།
Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, hearing which one attains peace.
Dharma Quote: Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, hearing which one attains peace. By: Gautama Buddha. Source: dhammapada.
Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.
Dharma Quote: Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame. By: Gautama Buddha. Source: dhammapada.
No matter how many teachings you have heard, to be motivated by ordinary concerns, such as a desire for greatness, fame or whatever, is not the way of the true Dharma.
Dharma Quote: No matter how many teachings you have heard, to be motivated by ordinary concerns, such as a desire for greatness, fame or whatever, is not the way of the true Dharma. By: Patrul Rinpoche. Source: Words of My Perfect Teacher.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Dharma Quote: No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. By: Gautama Buddha. Source: dhammapada.
What makes an action positive or negative? Not how it looks, not whether it is big or small, but it is the positive or negative motivation that is behind it.
Dharma Quote: What makes an action positive or negative? Not how it looks, not whether it is big or small, but it is the positive or negative motivation that is behind it. By: Patrul Rinpoche. Source: Words of My Perfect Teacher.
Why be unhappy about something if it can be remedied – And what is the use of being unhappy about something if it cannot be remedied
Dharma Quote: Why be unhappy about something if it can be remedied? And what is the use of being unhappy about something if it cannot be remedied? By: Shantideva. Source: Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra.
What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.
Dharma Quote: What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low. By: The Buddha. Source: Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.
Since all is empty, all is possible.
Dharma Quote: Since all is empty, all is possible. By: Nāgārjuna.
Karma Kagyu Lineage Refuge Tree Thangka
This detailed explanation features interactive thangka painting of the Ngayur Nyingma Lineage Tree, also known as Refuge Tree or Refuge Field. The description is based on the Longchen Nyingtik ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག Lineage Tree by Gonpo Tseten Rinpoche མགོན་པོ་ཚེ་བརྟན།, with depictions and names of the gurus and main figures of his lineage. Longchen Nyingtik is a terma (revealed scriptures) tradition of dzogchen (“Great Perfection”) practice revealed by Jigme Lingpa འཇིགས་མེད་གླིང་པ།
