CTR Quote of the Week

The Tibetan Book of the Dead is based on the fundamental principle of birth and death recurring constantly in this life. One could refer to

If you can afford to be what you are, then that automatically means you could receive others as your guests. Because the ground your guests

Really, you can afford to be what you are! You may think that you’re alone and nobody’s with you. But that in itself is not

You don’t have to delay yourself between thinking and doing things. Rather, you need the fundamental understanding that, to start with, what you’re doing is

On the path of dharma, a person may be convinced that they have gained something which they actually haven’t gained. And if you talk to

Becoming a warrior means that we can look directly at ourselves, see the nature of our cowardly mind, and step out of it. We can

Warriorship is innate in human beings. Therefore, the way to become a warrior– or the warrior’s path — is to see who and what we

In Tibetan culture, the principle of warriorship stands on its own. By warriorship here, we are not particularly talking about the skills necessary to wage

We have created a world that is bittersweet. Things are amusing but, at the same time, not so amusing. Sometimes things seem terribly funny but,

The mind is our working basis for the practice of meditation and the development of awareness. Mind also includes what are known as emotions, which

Spirituality is based on mind. In Buddhism, mind is what distinguishes sentient beings from rocks or trees or bodies of water. That which possesses discriminating

People have difficulty beginning a spiritual practice because they put a lot of energy into looking for the best and easiest way to get into

Commentary on the slogan: If you can practice even when distracted, you are well trained. The idea of this slogan is the realization that whenever

Commentary on the slogan: If you can practice even when distracted, you are well trained. We have all kinds of situations that we have to

Conquering fear is connected with the analogy of a saddle. In the Buddhist teachings we talk about developing such a good sense of mental balance

Without others, we would have no chance at all to develop beyond ego. So the idea here is to feel grateful that others are presenting

This is a little phrase that we should memorize. In Tibet we used to stick it on our door handles and places like that. Again,

If there is no noise outside during our sitting meditation, we cannot develop mindfulness. If we do not have aches and pains in our body,

All of our experiences are based on others, basically. As long as we have a sense of practice, some realization that we are treading on

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