“Don’t trust intellectual teachings, recognize that vast and unborn sameness.”

from Flight of the Garuda

Chapters: 2. The Wordless Teachings

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“With compassion, even enemies turn into friends. Without compassion, even friends turn into enemies.”

from Flight of the Garuda

Chapters: 67. Three Treasures

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“If a person has compassion, they are a Buddha.”

from Flight of the Garuda

Chapters: 69. No Enemy

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“Teachings... are given only for the purpose of realizing the nature of mind. Beyond this, the victorious ones don't teach anything.”

from Flight of the Garuda

Chapters: 63. Easy as Hard

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“Luminosity is the nature of one's mind that aeons of confusion cannot darken.”

from Flight of the Garuda

Chapters: 32. Uncontrived Awareness

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“A moment's realization of the luminosity of one's mind purifies the accumulated evil deeds and obscurations of countless aeons.”

from Flight of the Garuda

Chapters: 16. Returning to the Root, Meditation

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“Besides the mind, there is no other Dharma. Therefore, you have no other action to carry out somewhere else.”

from Flight of the Garuda

Chapters: 25. The Mother of All Things

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“Searching through the paths and levels for a place far away, they have never had a chance to arrive at buddhahood.”

from Flight of the Garuda

Chapters: 47. Effortless Success

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“One with compassion is kind even when angry; one without compassion kills even as he smiles.”

from Flight of the Garuda

Chapters: 37. Nameless Simplicity

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“Fish don't drown in water, snow lions don't freeze in snow... so forget your worries and future plans.”

from Journey to Enlightenment

Chapters: 72. Helpful Fear

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“Without a center, without an edge… without an inside, without an outside… as far as the sky pervades, so does awareness.”

from Life of Shabkar: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogin

Chapters: 14. Finding and Following the Formless Form

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“Even if all the Buddhas were to appear before me, I would have no doubts for them to clarify.”

from Life of Shabkar: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogin

Chapters: 38. Fruit Over Flowers

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“No matter what arises, do not fixate on it! This is the ultimate and essential practice.”

from Flight of the Garuda

Chapters: 15. Inscrutability

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“Because you have realized that everything has one taste in being empty, the delusion of fixating on enemy and friend collapses and there is no thought of dualistic fixation on self and other.”

from Flight of the Garuda

Chapters: 56. One with the Dust

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“The nature of realization is the absence of hope and fear.”

from Flight of the Garuda

Chapters: 3. Weak Wishes, Strong Bones

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“In wild places where no one lives is the market where samsara is traded for nirvana.”

from Journey to Enlightenment

Chapters: 40. Returning

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“From the beginning, mind is emptiness without concrete existence and—like ice melting and becoming water—all of the external world and all sentient being mingle inseparably with this same emptiness.”

from Flight of the Garuda

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“Unless you realize your own mind—no matter which spiritual practices you perform—you're like a beggar who dosn't know that a stone in his fireplace is made of gold and goes around begging”

from Flight of the Garuda

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“When you have molasses on top of your tongue, no need for being told what it tastes like.
When you directly the luminosity of your mind, no need for listening to theories about it.”

from Flight of the Garuda

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