Quotes from Longchenpa

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.

Realization that is beyond characteristic or designation is marvelous!

Begin with bodhicitta, do the main practice without concepts,Conclude by dedicating the merit. These, together and complete,Are the three vital supports for progressing on the path to liberation.

Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth.

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

we should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind; and stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.

homage to glorious samantabhadra, the all-good to timeless buddhahood, basic total presence, to unchanging spontaneity, the spacious vajra-heart, to the nature of mind - natural perfection, constantly, simply being, we bow down.

In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing that they burst into laughter.

As a beginner, it is most important that you secure your own well-being, guarding your mind in solitude, abandoning distractions and busyness, avoiding unfavorable situations, and subduing the mental afflictions with appropriate antidotes.

Let whatever you do or whatever appears Just be in its natural state, without premeditation. That is true freedom.

The mind is stirred up by ideas, which are like chaff. It is agitated by distractions, which are like the gusting wind. Thus there is no access to this nature. But if you rest correctly in the pure accomplished mind Beyond arriving and departing, Whence there's nothing to remove, To which there's nothing to be added; If you rest in primal wisdom All-creating, free from stain, You will behold this nature as it is.

When the mind rests open, blank, Utterly without the apprehension of appearing objects, This is the moment of the universal ground.

In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter