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What Begins as an Outlook Will Eventually Become Direct Experience

[From Commentary on The Long Guru Rinpoche Tsok Sadhana, by Lama Tashi Topgyal. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamsto.] The fundamental meaning of the Tibetan term dak nang, or pure appearances, is something almost like “pure projection.” It does not refer so much to what appears to you as it does to the attitude or outlook that […]

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Your Motivation Makes Any Practice Equally Beneficial to Others

[From a teaching on Essence of Wisdom: Stages of the Path, Part 15, by Lama Tashi Topgyal. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] Any practice you do that is motivated by the sincere desire to help all beings — whether it is Chenrezig meditation, Guru Rinpoche meditation, meditation on a peaceful deity or a wrathful deity […]

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Everything is Amrita

[From a teaching on Essence of Wisdom: Stages of the Path, Part 15, by Lama Tashi Topgyal. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] What is the nature of amrita? What is really meant by amrita? This is the key point: it’s not just that some things that exist, such as the five meats and five nectars, […]

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