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Shechen Gyaltsap

1871 – 1926 CE

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's main teacher

Famous Nyingma Dzogchen master and one of Jamgön Mipham’s closest disciples, Shechen Gyaltsap was Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's guru and through him had a profound influence on Tibetan Buddhism's migration to the West.

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Chariot of Complete Liberation

Quotes by Shechen Gyaltsap (10 quotes)

“If you don't cling, whatever arises is naturally freed. Simply remain in the great equal taste without rejecting or accepting.”

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“Nothing to illuminate,
Nothing to eliminate,
Looking perfectly at perfection itself,
Seeing perfection, one is perfectly free.”

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“We need an enlightened education to bring to emphasize ideas of cooperation and solidarity rather than values of competition and indifference. A vision of an interdependent and connected world can be at the heart of what we pass on to future generations. This way, we may understand how interdependency and cooperation can remedy contemporary ills”

from Chariot of Complete Liberation

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“Whatever you do—walking, eating, sitting, and so forth—abandon laziness, indolence, apathy, negligence, and distraction.”

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Themes: Carpe diem

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“Master the habitual patterns that make you resist any change in your body, speech, and mind, even in the most insignificant activities.”

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“Once you have embarked on the path of liberation, it is inappropriate to behave in an ordinary way: observe your mind all the time with vigilance and lucidity.”

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“When heat, moisture, and fertile soil come together, you do whatever you can to sow grain. When the crops are ready in autumn, you do whatever you can to harvest them... Now that you have a precious human life free of all impediments and endowed with all favorable conditions, apply yourself unrelentingly to spiritual practice!”

from Chariot of Complete Liberation

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“It is not enough to intellectually understand the nature of mind. We have to get rid of the veils that obscure it.”

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“The qualities of enlightenment are inherent in consciousness but can remain invisible for a long time... always present in us but latent until we recognize it”

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Themes: Enlightenment

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“Like gold hidden in its matrix, buddhahood is hidden by the tendencies created by mental poisons and then reinforced by the actions that those disturbances have produced.”

from Chariot of Complete Liberation

Themes: Delusion

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