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Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Repeating the Words of the Buddha

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In Repeating the Words of the Buddha, Tulku UrgyenRinpoche unfolds the path to enlightenment, which is simplythe gradual uncovering of the awakened state alreadypresent in us.With the benevolence and brilliance of a realized being,Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche illustrates in a lucid, humorous fashionthe essential points of spiritual practice and explains, in hisunique straightforward manner how these are to be appliedin our everyday life.Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche was among Tibetan Buddhism’sgreatest masters of the 20th century, and pivotal in bringingthe highest Buddhist teachings to the West.
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124 printed pages
Original publication
2013
Publication year
2013
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  • Daria Zaytsevahas quoted6 years ago
    long as our liking, disliking and indifference are not purified, they block the path to liberation and complete enlightenment.
  • Daria Zaytsevahas quoted6 years ago
    essence, the buddha nature, is like the sun shining in the sky. The expression is our thinking, which is compared to the sun’s reflection.
    The state of being a buddha is unconfused and undeluded, just like the sun shining in the sky. The state of mind of sentient beings is like the reflection of the sun on water. Just as the reflection is dependent upon water, our thoughts are dependent upon objects. The object is what is thought of, the subject is the perceiving mind. Subject-object fixation is the cause for continuing in deluded samsaric existence, day and night, life after life. The fixation upon subject and object, the perceiving subject and the perceived object, is solidified again and again each moment and thus re-creates samsaric existence. Right now we have the five sense objects of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures. In between, as the gates, we have the five senses, and there are also the various consciousnesses which continuously apprehend these different sense objects.
    Can the reflection of the sun on the water illuminate the whole world? Can it even shine over the whole lake? Can it make things grow? No, because it does not have the qualities of the real

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