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Padmasambhava པདྨཱ་ཀ་ར།

("The Lotus-Born", Guru Rinpoche)

8th century CE

Known as “The Second Buddha” and founder of Tibetan Buddhism the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet, and the Nyingma school; Padmasambhava came to Tibet at the request of King Trisong Detsen. Venerated also in northern India, Bhutan, and Nepal; Padmasambhava became famous for subduing “demonic forces” that prevented Buddhist teaching from becoming rooted in Tibet. Rather than conquering these negative influences, he took the tantric approach of transforming the demons into protectors. His name and symbolism comprise one of the most common and popular mantra-prayers in Tibetan Buddhism and is believed to communicate and inspire sacred teachings of transformation.

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Tibetan Book of the Dead

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Quotes by Padmasambhava (13 quotes)

“Birth and death apply to everybody constantly, at this very moment.”

from Tibetan Book of the Dead

Chapters: 24. Unnecessary Baggage

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“In the infinite mandala of space, all phenomena are easily accommodated.”

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“My father is the intrinsic awareness, my mother the ultimate sphere of reality; I belong to the caste of non-duality.”

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“at last somebody really cares about you, somebody is not playing a game of hypocrisy, is not going to tell you a lie in order to please you, which is what has been happening throughout your whole life”

from Tibetan Book of the Dead

Themes: Lies

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“Conflict arises because duality is not seen as it is at all... if we are completely in touch with these dualistic feelings, that absolute experience of duality is itself the experience of nonduality.”

from Tibetan Book of the Dead

Themes: Conflict

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“Buddhism looks for the basic cause of suffering and discovers this to be the belief in a self or ego... the remedy is to see through the illusion, to attain the insight of emptiness.”

from Tibetan Book of the Dead

Themes: Buddhism

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“Let go into the clear light, trust it, merge with it. The original nature of your own mind, it is home, the natural, unmanisfestated state of the universe.”

from Tibetan Book of the Dead

Themes: True Self

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“The visions you experience have no reality outside your consciousness—no need to become attracted to the beautiful, repulsed by the frightening, or seduced by the sexual ones.”

from Tibetan Book of the Dead

Themes: Sex

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“Remember the clear light, the pure bright shining white light of your own nature, it is deathless.”

from Tibetan Book of the Dead

Themes: Longevity

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“Without a consort, a partner of skillful means, there is no way to experience the mysteries of tantra.”

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“The basis for realizing enlightenment is a human body. Male or female, there is no great difference. But if she develops the mind bent on enlightenment, the woman's body is better.”

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“My view is as vast and open as space or sky, yet my action is as minute as an atom.”

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“First, do not lose the view in action... at the same time one should not lose one's actions in the view.”

Themes: Victory

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Quotes about Padmasambhava (1 quotes)

“Padmasambhava was an Indian teacher who brought the complete teachings of the buddhadharma to Tibet. He remains our source of inspiration even now, hre in the West. We have inherited his teachings, and from that point of view, I think we could say that Padmasambhava is alive and well.”

Chögyam Trungpa 1939 – 1987 CE
from Crazy Wisdom (1972)

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