Quotes from Glenn H. Mullin

In this way practice the meditation that observes How all outer and inner phenomena are no more Than images projected by the distorted mind Onto the according bases of imputation Not even an atom inherently exists. Thus become wise in how all things in both Samsara and Nirvana are mere mental labels; But how nonetheless they continue to function By the unfailing laws of cause and effect.

Here he uses the image of a sun (the masters) shining down from the Vast space of love and wisdom (their activities of body, speech and mind), to mature the minds of trainees (lotus flowers).

To ignite the wisdom fires of bliss and emptiness And burn off the wood of seeming duality; To cultivate the illusory body yoga locked in union With the vision Of Clear light and voidness

The Greatest worldly accomplishment is impotent For those who have not overcome the forces Of karmic instincts and the delusions within

Worldly friends are deceptive time-wasters, Life like a flash of lightning in the sky, And material things like bubbles on a stream; Do not cling to them, Jampal Drak.

The vast majority of humanity today Seems bereft of all common sense. They lack the eye able to tell right from wrong And stagger off the cliff falling to extremes. Some, poisoned by the waters of jealousy, Are obsessed with the thought of besting others; While others, poisoned by hatred and hypocrisy, Race around in a state of utter delirium. And both claim to uphold the spiritual path!

Here near the bottom of the degenerate age The forces of negativity and darkness prevail Even Buddhas, boddhisatvas and Sages shy away And pass silently away to the sphere of peace. How can a simple little butter lamp Placed in the face of a terrible storm Ever hope to eliminate the darkness of night?

All the things that appear to the mind Are merely paintings of names and thoughts; Not even a speck of dust exists From the side of the objects themselves. Meditate again and again on this vision Of emptiness, the final nature of being.

Investigate, for example, a tree. Just as tree is a mere mental label that is Known as neither one with nor separate from its parts, Like it's leaves and branches, similarly all things are Mere imputation of names and mental labels Nagarjuna and his disciples taught in this way.

One understands the meaning of undying, Ah, The essential sound of wisdom

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.