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Nothing is as it appears. Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle,
A dream, an apparition,
Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen. Know all things to be like this:
As the moon in a bright sky
In some clear lake reflected,
Though to that lake the moon has never moved.
Know all things to be like this:
As an echo that derives
From music, sounds, and weeping,
Yet in that echo is no melody.
Know all things to be like this:
As a magician makes illusions
Of horses, oxen, carts and other things,
Nothing is as it appears. Buddha
Understanding your mind!
"Even though that which is usually called "mind"
is widely esteemed and much discussed,
Still it is not understood or it is wrongly understood
or it is understood in a one-sided manner only.
Since it is not understood correctly, just as it is in itself,
There comes into existence inconceivable numbers
of philosophical ideas and assertions.
Furthermore, since ordinary individuals do not understand it,
They do not recognize their own nature,
And so they continue to wander among the six destinies of
rebirth within the three worlds, and thus experience suffering.
Therefore, not understanding your own mind is a very grievous fault. Guru Padmasambhawa  Mind Not seeing your mind as Buddha,
you obscure Nirvana.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 15 October 2009 )
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Mahayana Buddhism - Ringu Tulku |
 Explaining the practice of Mahayana Buddhism and answering your questions will be the aim of this teaching; and the questions do not have to be about what I am specifically teaching. This will be good for yourself and others.
We can also have some understanding and not practice at all, like me. In Tibet, we saw a great lama with more than 10,000 monks and nuns. He tried to teach us, “On my nose you will see a white AH, can you see it? Look here! I am so sad that you cannot see it! Look, here is the Chenrezig!” - and we could not see it. “Look in my fotos!” Then he gave a high and deep teaching. Of me, he said, “He has studied a lot but no practice, no experience!”
I have studied and received lots of teaching, but he said that if you do not practice it is of no use.
So we can understand, but not practice. We can that we don’t practice - that’s up to us - but the first step is to understand how to practice. Then if we practice maybe there is something happening. If we don’t practice, of course nothing much will happen (Laughs). The understanding of the practice is rather easy. I don’t know if you can say Buddhism is complicated. You can say complicated, if you like, because it’s a very vast subject. It can be a very vast subject. You can spend many years or many lives to study every part of it and still you cannot finish it.
But it’s not necessary to have all that information to practice on your own. If someone has to become a lineage holder, then yes; but if you just need to practice on your own, you don’t need to know everything about everything.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 28 March 2007 )
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