Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
Shakyamuni Buddha said to his disciple Rabjor, "All phenomena are like an illusion and a dream". The reason why the Buddha said this is that whatever manifests is subject to change and dissolution; nothing is inherently solid, permanent, separate, continuous, or defined. If you see the world as solid, you tie yourself up with a rope of entanglement and are constrained and pulled [like a dog] by compulsion as your lead.
~His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche~
Samsara is the tendency to find fault with others
~Naropa~
If someone dreams and doesn't realize he is dreaming, he is relating to his dream mistakenly; if he dreams and knows he is dreaming, he relates to his dream unmistakenly; and if he realizes the ultimate nature of his dream, he rests in the reality beyond conceptual fabrication. The Buddha is inconceivable like the sky. We assign the sky a center and boundary according to our range of vision, but in reality it is limitless.
~Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche~
All these forms that appear to eyes that see,
All things on the outside and the inside,
The environment and its inhabitants
Appear, but let them rest where no self's found;
Perceiver and perceived when purified
Are the body of the deity, clear emptiness—
To the guru for whom desire frees itself,
To Orgyen Pema Jungnay I supplicate.
~Excerpt from Guru Rinpoche's Supplication That All Thoughts Be Self-Liberated~
"There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures.There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding.And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade.And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream.Those rhythms in life are natural events.They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear,
but messages of how things are."..
..~Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche~..
Whoever knows this life to be like the reflection of the moon in water,
Whenever happiness arises will not be attached,
Whenever suffering arises will not be depressed,
And will attain true inner peace.
..~Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche~..
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