Top 8 Quotes by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Don’t let any emotional thought concerning success or failure, fame or gain, overtake you, and don’t dwell upon them. Give up your personal shortcomings, such as foolish talk, distracting activities, and

Don’t let any emotional thought concerning success or failure, fame or gain, overtake you, and don’t dwell upon them. Give up your personal shortcomings, such as foolish talk, distracting activities, and absentmindedness. Train in being totally gentle in all physical, verbal, or mental activities. Don’t ponder the flaws of others; think instead of their good sides.

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Giving Up, Thinking, Emotional

The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'. Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness. To ignore our basic nature, is to wander in fear and confusion, to directly realise our essential nature is to be Enlightened.

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Spiritual, Nature, Buddhist

Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing friends and family. Materialism, ambition and mundane achievements are the worldly hallmarks of success. We experience the phenomenal world and our minds as solid and truly existent. Very few people doubt these assertions and question their solidity. Yet, the process of disbelief is the first step on the spiritual path.

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Spiritual, Ambition, Reality

Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.

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Aggressive, Accomplish, All Things

When remaining in awareness itself, every thought movement, no matter what kind, is like a drawing in air.

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Stars, Clouds, Air

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Marcia Binder Schmidt, Erik Pema Kunsang (2001). “Vajra Speech”, p.79, Rangjung Yeshe Publications

There is no thing to see: you simply need to see that.

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Needs

The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment one thought or emotion after another like the surface of the ocean in turmoil, without any recognition of mind essence. This confusion is continuous, without almost any break, life after life.

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Ocean, Teaching, Talking

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Erik Pema Kunsang, Marcia Binder Schmidt (1994). “As It Is”, p.82, Rangjung Yeshe Publications