WORDS OF WISDOM AUTHOR: KHENPO TSULTRIM LODRO

One needs to keep some distance from bad friends, regardless of whoever they are. One needs to maintain one’s views in regards to religious belief and practices even when dealing with one’s parents, relatives and friends. It’s best to influence them to undertake dharma study; if not, one needs to keep some distance from them. The primary principle of Buddhism is dependent arising, one can create causes and conditions, there doesn’t exist a creator of omnipotent god to make all causes and conditions, or fate predestined, just like the programming of computer, as though nobody can change it.

~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES

The sequence to follow a teacher is, first, to analyse the teacher, then to follow the teacher; in the end to practice and emulate the teacher’s intention, which is our goal in following a teacher.

~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES

Why the negative karma of having the wrong view is so severe? According to Chittamatra school, various virtuous and unvirtuous seeds are stored in the alaya consciousness of sentient beings. Once we engender wrong views, which will vanquish all the power of virtuous seeds, from then on, the virtuous seeds or the root of virtue in our mind stream will discontinue.

~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES

Why the negative karma of having the wrong view is so severe? According to Chittamatra school, various virtuous and unvirtuous seeds are stored in the alaya consciousness of sentient beings. Once we engender wrong views, which will vanquish all the power of virtuous seeds, from then on, the virtuous seeds or the root of virtue in our mind stream will discontinue.

~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES

The world has its natural law, our subjective mind needs to be in accordance with the objective law. If refusing to accept and face with the natural law, then we’ll suffer. Hence observing the world with the right views and facing the world with the right mindset will enable us to be tougher.

~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES

Today some people have habituated to lying, they would lie without any reason. Everyone needs to be heedful, refraining from being careless of lying. Even telling a lie unintentionally, one needs to purify it by confessing.

~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES

The concept of non-self and emptiness are not easy to comprehend. From the beginningless time up to now, ordinary beings have an ingrained view of the existence of self, of other sentient beings, and of the external, phenomenal world. The view as such is so rooted that it’s rather difficult to change. One can gain some experiential understanding by listening to the teaching on emptiness and practicing on non-self repeatedly.

~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES

Bodhicitta is our eternal, ultimate insurance policy. In order to assure our safety in samsara, we need to have an insurance policy as such, which is not bought, rather it needs to be cultivated with compassion. One can only cultivate bodhicitta with loving kindness and compassion.

~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES

The concept of non-self and emptiness are not easy to comprehend. From the beginningless time up to now, ordinary beings have an ingrained view of the existence of self, of other sentient beings, and of the external, phenomenal world. The view as such is so rooted that it’s rather difficult to change. One can gain some experiential understanding by listening to the teaching on emptiness and practicing on non-self repeatedly.

~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES