Jamgon Kongtrul famous quotes

The primordial purity of the ground completely transcends words, concepts, and formulations.
-- Jamgon Kongtrul

#Emptiness #Purity

Why chase after thoughts, which are superficial ripples of present awareness? Rather look directly into the naked, empty nature of thoughts; then there is no duality, no observer, and nothing observed. Simply rest in this transparent, nondual present awareness. Make yourself at home in the natural state of pure presence, just being, not doing anything in particular.
-- Jamgon Kongtrul

#Home #Naked #Looks

Continue practice into everyday life with a single meditation, always keeping in mind the intention to help others in all activities, eating, dressing, sleeping, walking, or sitting.
-- Jamgon Kongtrul

#Sleep #Helping Others #Practice

Historic accounts of the lives of great masters have told of rainbows and other special signs, like the rain of flowers, and of special clouds that appeared, witnessed by people on very special occasions and at auspicious events.
-- Jamgon Kongtrul

#Rain #Flower #Clouds

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

We want his power more than his purity.

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.