Quotes Tagged ‘buddha nature’

“The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves. In fact, it is the ego that feels that we have an ego. It is ego that tells us, My ego is bothering me. I feel very self-conscious about having to be me. I feel that I have a tremendous burden in me, and I wonder what the best way to get rid of it is. Yet all those expressions of restlessness that keep coming out of us are the expression of buddha nature: the expression of our unborn, unobstructed, and nondwelling nature.”

by Chogyam Trungpa from Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa
Tags: buddha mind, long, restlessness, ego, egolessness, buddha nature, Chogyam Trungpa, Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa

“By relaxing the mind, you can reconnect with that primordial, original ground, which is completely pure and simple.”

by Chogyam Trungpa from Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
Tags: cosmic mirror, emptiness, awareness, buddha nature, tathagatagarbha, simplicity