Gampopa famous quotes

Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.
-- Gampopa

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From virtue all happy states arise.
-- Gampopa

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When thoughts arise, recognize them clearly as your teacher.
-- Gampopa

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Regard everyone you meet as the Buddha and you will know 10,000 Buddhas.
-- Gampopa

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Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...

The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.