CTR Quote of the Week

The obstacle to patience is aggression. Patience does not mean biding your time and trying to slow down. Impatience arises when you become too sensitive

Acknowledging sanity is a discipline or a pretense: you pretend to be the Buddha, you believe you are the Buddha. Again, we are not talking

The crazy wisdom of directness, complete directness, involves relating directly with sanity, or bodhi mind. This is relating with the experience of the Buddha when

In Padmasambhava’s life, the ultimate good news is that the spiritual journey need never have been made. The journey has already been completed; therefore there’s

Conquering conceptuality and the sense of experience is a step toward the proclamation known as the lion’s roar. First you have to conquer the enemy;

New techniques are continually being introduced in our society; new books are constantly brought out. You think the books might tell you how to become

The way of the bodhisattva, a practitioner who is dedicated to helping others, is one of tremendous identification with the dharma. The dharma is no

Everything in our life is a footprint of the Buddha. Anything that goes on, whether we regard it as sublime or ridiculous, is a footprint.

Usually, we are pissed off at our world. We have lots of complaints when things don’t fulfill their function in our life: Our husband is

Every talk does not have to be a confirmation. If listening to your student or to your teacher always had to be a confirmation, it

Usually, telling the truth is very depressing. If you mix the truth with a bit of lying, if you add a bit of salt and

Thoughts do not really come up as such; they just emerge in our minds. You cannot watch their birth–they are just there. In other words,

As you continue to practice mindfulness and awareness, the seeming confusion and chaos in your mind begin to seem absurd. You see that your thoughts

Perceptions are not governed by one statement alone, but by individuals reacting to the basic elements. When individuals react to air, water, fire, space, or

Our ordinary approach to reality and truth is so poverty-stricken that we don’t realize that the truth is not one truth, but all truth. It

Giving a Part of Oneself You have to be fully involved; you have to become one with what you are doing. So it is with

According to the Buddhist tradition, people inherently possess buddha nature; that is, they are basically and intrinsically good. From this point of view, health is

I do not believe in the mystical world, the ethereal world, the world of the unseen, unknown, or whatever. There is no reason to believe

A saint in the Buddhist context — for example, Padmasambhava or a great being like the Buddha himself — is someone who provides an example

To work with the dichotomy of self and others, first it is necessary to consider the facts and patterns of life, that is, your behavior,

At a certain point, you develop a genuine aspiration to get rid of the wall—the separation between you and others. However, you should not think

To develop the nonviolent approach, first of all you have to see that your problems are not really trying to destroy you. Usually, we immediately

If anyone gets too near the wall that ego has built, it feels insecure. It thinks that it is being attacked and then thinks that

The most difficult discipline is to be what you are. Constantly trying to be what you are not is much easier, because we are trained