Lamrim Quotes

“Therefore, if one wishes to engage in the general stages of the path of the Great Vehicle and, specifically, in Highest Yoga Tantra, the vital goal is turning definitely the path which is shared with the beings of small and middling scope into the essence.” From The Swift Path – Stages of the Path to […]

“Lacking even a smattering of the experience of detachment from cyclic existence, how is it possible to give rise to a fully characterized, uncontrived Great Compassion observing other sentient beings?” From The Sacred Words of Manjushri – Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by His Holiness the Fifth Dalai Lama, Lobsang Gyatso As translated in: […]

“I and all sentient beings, my mothers, from beginningless time until now, have continuously undergone all the sufferings of cyclic existence in general, and those of the three lower realms in particular. Nevertheless it is still difficult to fathom the depth and breadth of this misery. Now that I have attained a choice human life, […]

“Death is inevitable. Yet, there is no certainty of when I am going to die. Hence, I must work hard to make the most of this life now. So far, people from all classes of society – high, middle and low – have been swiftly overcome by the Lord of Death, like crowds in a […]

“Since it fulfils all the wishes of beings without exception, It is the king of kings among all quintessential instructions; Since it gathers into it thousands of excellent rivers of treatises, It’s as well the ocean of most glorious well-uttered insights. It helps to recognize all teachings to be free of contradictions; It helps the […]

“As for concentration on the Buddha’s body, limitless merit arises through remembering the Buddha. If your image of that body is clear and stable, it makes a great difference to your visualization of the field for accumulating merit through prostrations, offerings, prayers, and so forth, as well as the field for purifying obscurations through confession, […]

“As Shantideva says, you have been sick for a long time with the illness of the afflictions such as attachment—an illness that is long-lasting, intractable, and causes strong suffering. Therefore, you must recognize this to be your situation. Ga-ma-Pa (Ka-ma-ba) said that if we were not in fact sick, then meditating on our sick condition […]

“Beginning with an attitude Of love for all living creatures, Consider beings, excluding none, Suffering in the three bad rebirths, Suffering birth, death and so forth. Then, since you want to free these beings From the suffering of pain, From suffering and the cause of suffering, Arouse immutably the resolve To attain enlightenment.” From Lamp […]

“In order to make familiar to my own mind, And to help benefit fortunate others as well, I’ve explained here in words easy to understand In its entirety the path that pleases the conquerors. “Through this virtue may all beings be never divorced From the perfectly pure excellent path” thus I pray; I, a yogi, […]

“Since cherishing yourself is the source of all misery, And all excellence resides in cherishing others, Cease cherishing yourself and neglecting others, and invert the orientation of the two attitudes; Apply entire devotion to others’ welfare even to your breathing.” From Essence of Fine Speech – Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Ngawang Drakpa […]