Monthly Archives: Feb 2015

The location of the truth of the Great Perfection is the unfabricated mind of the present moment, this naked radiant awareness itself, not a hair of which has been forced into relaxation. Maintaining this at all times, just through not forgetting it even in the states of eating, sleeping, walking, and sitting, is called meditation. However, until you are free from the obscurations of cognition, it is impossible for this not to be mixed with the experiences of bliss, clarity, and non-conceptualisation. Nevertheless, just by not forgetting the nature of one’s own awareness — the kind that is not a tangled mindfulness that gets more tangled in order to be mindful — at some point the unelaborated ultimate truth, transcending terms and examples, will appear.

— Jigme Lingpa

image

Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery located at 88 Bight Hill Road Singapore 574117. Tel: 68495300

image

Free from even a speck of mind’s activity, there is not even a speck to cling to. Thoroughly trained in the oral instructions, at the time one leaves this body behind, one dissolves into the space of paramita. Thus, mind is unborn. Mind is like the sky. Don’t corrupt it with a mist of conceptualisations.

— Marpa

image

Tibetan Buddhist Studies Society preparation for tomorrow’s Puja.

Event Venue: Yeo’s Building 2 Telok Blangah Street 31 Singapore 108942. 3 days event from 27/02/2015 – 01/03/2015

image

image

image

image

image

image

Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery located at 88 Bight Hill Road Singapore 574117. Tel: 68495300

image

We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are the reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything.

— Kalu Rinpoche

image

Gaden Shartse Dro-Phen Ling located at 12 Guillemard Lane Singapore 399878. Tel: 63449521

In-house teaching by Dagyab Kyabgoen Rinpoche

image

When only the view was established, it was said by the Buddhas, “All views of emptiness are a source of faults,” therefore, the view cannot be viewed. For one with wisdom, there is no view; for one with sharp intelligence, it is beyond words; for one with diligence, nothing is to be meditated on; for one with faith, there is no cause and result; for one with compassion, there are no sentient beings; for the gatherer of the accumulations, there is no buddhahood. Freedom from extremes is beyond knowledge, expressions, and objects; Madhyamaka, Chittamatra, and so on, expressions in words are proliferations. Thoughts in the mind are concepts, the nature is inexpressible and unthinkable. For as long as views continue to exist, there is no liberation from all suffering. Conceptuality is great ignorance; it is said one sinks into the ocean of samsara. Without the mind stream being liberated by hearing, do not express the view in words! With scripture, reason, and upadesha, the view is determined, mind is at ease. When only the practise of meditation was done, there was no meditation, and also no meditator. That meditation free from extremes is without an object, so leave one’s activities and practise.

— Jetsun Dragpa Gyaltsen

image

Buddhist event during Lunar New Year. Singapore Buddhist Federation located at 59 Lorong 24A Geylang Singapore 398583. Tel: 67444635.

Event Venue is as above mentioned on 1/03/2015

image

By distinguishing the conventional from the ultimate, it is tempting to disparage the former in contrast to the latter, developing a sort of theory of one truth and one falsehood. This is done if one reifies the entities associated with the ultimate, such as emptiness or impermanence or the Four Noble Truths, or the Buddha. Then one treats these as real, intrinsically existent phenomena. The conventional then become the world of illusion.

— Gorampa

image