Quotes about Chöd

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WE can learn to rejoice in even the smallest blessings our life holds. It is easy to miss our own good fortune — often happiness comes in ways we don’t even notice.
To seek the self, one must first have a clear idea of what one is looking for. Thus, some meditation manuals advise acti — Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Story of Buddhism: A Concise Guide to Its History Teachings
Without discursive thought it is just dharma practice. Hope together with aim obscures. One does not cut through pride b — Machik Labdrön, Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Tradition
Chöd is conventionally and misleadingly seen as analogous to, if not derived from, shamanic initiatory dismemberment vis — Michelle Sorensen, Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Tradition
Without hope, Chöd practitioners are freed from the limits of hope and fear; having cut the ropes of grasping, definitel — Machik Labdrön, Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Tradition
Dharma practice means physical hardship; it means that you shouldn't be pansies about it. You should exert yourselves wh — Ngagpa Yeshe Dorje, Path of the Yogi
If we lack the proper antidotes of emptiness and bodhichitta, we will not be able to control our minds when frightening — Zongtrul Losang Tsöndru, Chöd in the Ganden Tradition: The Oral Instructions of Kyabje Zong Rinpoche
When we are meditating in a haunted graveyard, or even in our rooms, frightening external and internal appearances may a — Zongtrul Losang Tsöndru, Chöd in the Ganden Tradition: The Oral Instructions of Kyabje Zong Rinpoche