Today cities have great environmental greening, the streets are decorated with colourful flowers. Instead of picking the flowers, we can accumulate great merit by visualising offering flowers to buddhas and chanting mantras. Why don’t you do it? Actually, you can offer anything beautiful you see to Buddhas. Thus, accumulating merit is fairly easy by adopting the skilful means of chanting mantras.
~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES
The cessation of suffering means to eradicate all defilements. When the cloudy sky is blown by a wind, the clear, blue sky will appear. Likewise, when defilements and negative karma are eliminted by renunciation, bodhicitta and the view of emptiness, the wisdom of buddhas, aka luminous buddha nature, will appear. This is referred to as the cessation of suffering.
~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES
According to Buddhism, arising and cessation of all phenomena hinges on dependent arising, and are free from the power of any ghosts and gods. Our happiness and suffering are not related to any ghosts and gods, therefore we don’t need to worship them; rather, we need to worship compassion and wisdom.
~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES
If having conviction in the law of karma and reincarnation, one would remind oneself: despite the fact that this life is finished, it’s the end of one part of endless life and the continuation to the next part. In various time and space, life manifests in various forms. The prosperity, success and failure of this life cannot be carried over into the next life, but spiritual accomplishment, wholesome and unwholesome habitual patterns will not vanish; rather, like the computer data, they can be copied into the next life. Regardless of being a senior citizen, you still have the next life and hope.
~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES
Manjushri is the embodiment of wisdom of buddhas and bodhisattvas. The sword he holds in his right hand doesn’t aim at any sentient beings, rather, it aims at sentient beings’ ignorance, which leads to endless suffering and ruining one’s own happiness.
~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES
According to Buddhism, arising and cessation of all phenomena hinges on dependent arising, and are free from the power of any ghosts and gods. Our happiness and suffering are not related to any ghosts and gods, therefore we don’t need to worship them; rather, we need to worship compassion and wisdom.
~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES
My teacher, H.H. Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche, once told me, before you attain the enlightenment, your comprehension of the dharma can be likened to reading a road map, thus you must practice vigorously.
~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES
The world has its natural law, our subjective mind needs to be in accordance with the objective law. If refusing to accept and face with the natural law, then we’ll suffer. Hence observing the world with the right views and facing the world with the right mindset will enable us to be tougher.
~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES
There are two ways to realise Dzogchen: one is to listen to dharma extensively, then to accumulate immense merits by engaging in the practice of cultivating renunciation and bodhicitta, the practice of mandala offering and embarking on the path of bodhisattvas. When accumulation of merit rises to a certain level, one can realise emptiness; another way is to rely on the qualified master’s blessing. The premise to receive such blessing is to have devotion. The stronger the devotion, the more blessing one can receive.
~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES
