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Longchenpa ཀློང་ཆེན་རབ་འབྱམས་པ།

(Longchen Rabjampa, Drimé Özer)

1308 – 1364 CE

A child prodigy who could read and write at age 5, started learning the Nyingma tantras at 7, and was first ordained at 12; Longchenpa studied science as well as philosophy and Buddhism. One of ”the Three Omniscient Ones,”most important writer on the Dzogchen teachings, and abbot of the first Himalayan Buddhist monastery at Samye; he wrote more than 250 books and helped unify many diverse streams of Tibetan teachings into a comprehensive system known as Longchen Nyingthig. Considered an incarnation of a famous princess, Longchenpa was not only a monk but also fathered a son and daughter.

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Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

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The Basic Space of Phenomena

Quotes by Longchenpa (47 quotes)

Set out on the path to peace by being alert and mindful to the misery of chasing after the fame, fortune, pleasure, and power goals of a belief in a separate self. Quickly conquer this fictitious being and enjoy the feast of life's true meaning.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

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“The root of confused and harmful activity arise from the loss of awareness.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

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“Through kindness you become loveable, through compassion a benefit to others, through joy distinguished, and through equanimity untroubled.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

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“Like a dream, our actions seem to not be very meaningful or important; but, they bring about all the variety of happiness and suffering.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

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“It is Being itself that becomes the real teacher as we learn by encountering ourselves in and through others.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

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“The most important thing in life is to learn how to live in a way that makes life worth living.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

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“Learning is not merely the memorizing of isolated facts but rather a perennial search for values relevant to existence.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

Themes: Education

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“Recognizing the irrelevance of mass propaganda, realization becomes a world-shattering experience as we uproot ego, the familiar fades away, and we lose it's comforting normality.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

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“The wise are like others in that they are leaders in the world. They are unlike other in that they go beyond the world.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

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“Progress on the Path is a reconstitution of our belief in a fictitious self, a transformation of ego being into real, authentic being.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

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“Love may turn into an inordinate clinging to the love object, compassion can turn into sentimentality and a feeling of helplessness, joy can turn into a feeling of elation and over-excitement that gets lost in unrealistic goals, but equanimity brings us back to solid ground. It’s still vulnerable to apathy but this is countered by love completing the cycle.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

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“Creative imagination resolves duality into unity and spontaneity, illuminates the ultimate meaning of life, and establishes meaningful being in the now.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

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“Authentic presence may have a dream-like quality but it is not dreaming or tied to any purpose but founded on the recognition of reality developing from acceptance and appreciation.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

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“Enlightenment sets the mind free and is like returning home from an alien world, like a mother and child huddling together, like a light gathered and beamed onto its source.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

Themes: Enlightenment

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“The thought of death prevents us from losing ourselves in the illusions that constantly surround us, brings us back to our true selves, and reminds us of the importance of this very moment.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

Themes: Illusion

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“Dismiss thoughts that prize so much what is really only food for worms, fire, vultures, and jackals.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

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“The meaning of life is not discovered by thinking but by living the very life of meaning with its images, symbols, and concepts.”

from Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་

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“Mind itself is a vast expanse, the realm of unchanging space. It's indeterminate display is the expanse of the magical expression of its responsiveness.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Mind Magic

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“Naturally occurring timeless awareness—utterly lucid awakened mind—the expanse of the naturally settled state that entails no effort of achievement.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Wu Wei

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“With the perception of the true nature of phenomena, wisdom arises continuously. Not created or achieved and like the sun in the sky, it abides timelessly, amazing and superb.

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Wisdom

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“Labeling takes place in confusion, for what is nonexistent is taken to exist... Since there never has been confusion, is no confusion, and never will be confusion, conditioned existence is merely a label.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Confusion

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“Whatever thoughts arise are equal as mental events—simply conscious states that leave no trace.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: No Trace

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“All phenomena are timelessly free in awakened mind, and so there is no phenomenon that is not free... no need now for anyone to make an effort to free them anew... Do not strive or try to achieve!”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Ambition Freedom

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“Days and dates are pristine; months, years, and eons are pristine. One thing is pristine; everything is pristine. The spiritual and the nonspiritual are pristine.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Sacred World

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“Awareness is free timelessly awakened buddhahood. Do not confine it within the trap of the ordinary mind of reifying fixation... Those who bind themselves by holding to biases where none exist corrupt themselves, delude themselves. They are confused by the perception of an abyss where no confusion exists.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Moral Freedom

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“The winds of a garuda unfold within the egg... when the shell breaks, the garuda soars into the vault of the sky. Similarily spontaneously present awareness immediately arises in and of itself, naturally lucid.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Butterfly

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“Everything being encompassed within a supreme state of equalness without bias constitutes the expanse of infinte evenness, which entails no dualistic perception.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

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“everything is timelessly equal, with no time frame of earlier or later, no better or worse”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Time

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“Since that mind has no cause and is not an object that comes into being, it does not abide in any finite way, is inexpressible, and transcends the realm of the imagination... It is not within the realm of the imagination, for it defies illustration or description.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Imagination

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“everything is a naturally occurring realm of bliss—the very context of sublime enlightenment, a state of spontaneous equalness”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Equality

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“Everything is subsumed within all-inclusive awakened mind... the true nature of all phenomena is that of awakened mind”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Basic Goodness

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“Mind itself—that is, the nature of awakened mind—is pure like space, and so is without birth or death, pleasure or pain.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Pleasure

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“Given that they are of one taste in naturally lucid awakened mind, samsara and nirvana are fully encompassed within the scope of awareness”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: One Taste

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“However things appear or sound, within the vast realm of basic space they do not stray from their spontaneous equalness as dharmakaya, awakened mind.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

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“Like water in a mirage, a dream, an echo, a phantom emanation, a reflection, a castle in the air, or a hallucination; all things are clearly apparent yet to not truly exist”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Water Reality

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“Since these enlightened qualities—identical in permeating all buddhas and ordinary beings alike—are already and forever present, they are not obscure by the darkness of flaws and faults.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

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“all is perfect—without being made so, everything is perfect. Naturally occurring timeless awareness is by nature spontaneously perfect.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Basic Goodness

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“In simply arising, forms are by nature empty. From what is unborn there manifests what seems to be born, but even as it manifests, nothing whatsoever has been born... These are illusory expressions of emptiness. Even with abiding there is nothing that abides.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

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“For those without pure perception, there is no recognition or awareness of habitual, dualistic patterns”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

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“Awakened mind is the actual state of everything.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

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“other approaches are like attempts to create the already-present sun by dispelling clouds and darkness through a process of effort and achievement.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

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“Within the essence of totally pure awakened mind, there is no object to view or anything that constitutes a view—not the slightest sense of anything to look at or anyone looking.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Non-Thought

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“It is present in everyone but within the reach of only a few... If you rest naturally with whatever manifests, without conscious striving, it is evident.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Simplicity

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“The timeless ground, the innately abiding ground, is the ground that is at the very heart of enlightenment... do not stray from the lucid expanse that is the ultimate meaning of awareness!”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Continuity

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“Unchanging and ever-present, the embodiment of the kayas and timeless awareness is the conferral of the supreme, naturally occurring empowerment... there is no need for concerted effort, for it is spontaneously present by nature.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

Themes: Letting Go

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“In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter.”

from The Basic Space of Phenomena

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“Ordinary mind is seduced by trivial sense objects in all their variety. Beings are deceived by misconstruing what is not dualistic as dualistic.”

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