Chenrezig is Compassionate Emptiness

Chenrezig is compassionate emptiness. Chenrezig is not a flesh and blood person who has to sit there for eternity and who has to hold his two arms up. He is the affect of the realization of emptiness. The affect of the realization of emptiness is compassion, the natural feeling of realizing emptiness. So Chenrezig’s form is that as appearance. Chenrezig’s mantra – OM MANI PEME HUNG – is that as sound.

[From a teaching on Essence of Wisdom: Stages of the Path, Part 6, by Lama Tashi Topgyal. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.]

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