My introduction to the world of the Great Perfection (Dzogchen in Tibetan) occurred when I was just a small boy. The first years of my life were spent in my mother’s village near the border of Tibet and Nepal. I haven’t been back there since I was young, but I vividly...

‘After practising meditation for a while, we must enter the state of no-self. Beopjeong Sunim

We all want to be happy and there are many books and teachers in the world that try to help people be happier. Yet we all continue to suffer. Therefore, we may think that we’re “doing it wrong.” Somehow we are “failing at happiness.” That isn’t true. Being able to...

‘Knowing the root cause of Dukkha, one will be able to extinguish it. That root cause is delusion, the wrong understanding that there is a self and things belonging to a self.’ Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

La ira no surge de improviso ni de golpe. Normalmente, acumulamos un montón de pequeñas heridas o enfados, pero no los expresamos hasta que se hacen tan grandes que explotamos. Para evitar que las cosas lleguen a ese punto podemos recurrir a una práctica de...

‘Those who cross this teeming sea, hard with mighty waves. Wisdom's theirs the holy life lived, world's end reached, gone beyond.’ Samyutta

‘When you awaken to the unique and wonderful dharma of your true nature, it is as if the lost child had come home.’ Bassui Tokushō

‘Consciousness clings to many forms.’ Bassui Tokushō

‘Give birth to the mind which has no dwelling place.’ Bassui Tokushō

‘Kindness and the good heart are important at the beginning, in the middle and at the end.’ Dalai Lama