Those who can read the Buddhist tips of these eminent monks are definitely people of great blessings!

01 Summary of Atisha's Quotations

The three major disciples of Ku, Russia, and Zhong asked Venerable Atisha: Which is more important, the reading of scriptures or the teachings of the guru?

Venerable Atisha said: The teachings of the guru are more important.

The third disciple asked: Why?

His Holiness said: Although you are familiar with the Tripitaka and are proficient in the Dharma, if you do not have the practical experience and guidance of the guru in the process of studying, you will become disconnected from the human and Dharma. The so-called guidance of the guru, in short, is how to keep the three precepts, how to make the body, speech, and mind tend to the good path, and that's all.

The three disciples asked His Holiness: What is the best way to cultivate the Tao?

His Holiness said: Realizing selflessness is the highest state of the wise, taming one's own mind is the highest state of precepts, thinking about others is the highest state of morality, always observing one's own mind is the best teaching, realizing the emptiness of all dharmas is the best remedy for breaking away from afflictions, breaking away from worldly behavior is the highest Taoist practice, reducing worries is the best practice achievement, no greed is the highest state of supernatural power, no stinginess is the highest degree of renunciation, gentleness and peace are the highest precepts, willingness to worship the wind is the highest forbearance, giving up worldly affairs is the highest diligence, and being unpretentious is the highest meditation. Not being attached to everything is the highest wisdom, pointing out shortcomings is the best teacher, hitting the nail on the head is the best teaching, guarding the heart and awareness is the best friend, disease and demonic obstacles are the best spurs, going with the flow of everything without forcing is the best way to do things, putting people on the right path is the best way to help others, and being able to make people's hearts good is the highest altruistic merit.

Zhongdunpa asked His Holiness: What is the most fundamental thing of Buddhism?

His Holiness said: The most fundamental thing in Buddhism is the view of nature with compassion as the core. It is like a panacea, which can cure all troubles.

Zhong Dun said: Why do some people who claim to be enlightened have not diminished their greed and hatred?

His Holiness said: Those people are bragging and lying, and those who have truly realized emptiness, have become saints, and there will be no such situation. Not to mention true enlightenment?

Zhong Dun asked: What are the paths to realizing emptiness?

His Holiness said: Wukong's Tao is all included in the six paramitas. Those who fully realize the emptiness of all dharmas have no greed for things inside and outside the body, so they have sheparamita; If you have no greed for all things, you will stay away from sinful deeds, so you have the precepts of paramita; Wukong goes to the ego to grasp my love and does not have hatred, so he has the paramita of patience; they are interested in the path they have realized, so they have diligent paramita; realize that the nature of all dharmas is empty and has nothing to think about, so it has the paramita of meditation; The other and all three things are empty and do not give rise to attachment, so they have the wisdom of paramita.

Zhong Dun asked again: Can you become a Buddha only by contemplating and cultivating emptiness?

The Venerable said: Everything that is seen is nothing more than the birth of one's own mind, the mind is clear emptiness, realizing that clear emptiness is "seeing", the mind always dwelling in the bright emptiness is "cultivation", and using the clear emptiness to view all things for illusion and accumulating two resources is "action". If this state of mind appears in the dream, this state of mind will appear in the bardo, and if this state of mind appears in the bardo, it will appear in the bardo, and if this state of mind appears in the bardo, you will be able to achieve the most victory.

When His Holiness lived in Nie Tang, three Tibetan scholars, including Xiang Naqian Dunpa, Ju Dunpa, and Le Cang Dunpa, visited His Holiness and asked for advice.

His Holiness said: In heretical Buddhism, there are all kinds of wrong views and right views, all of which are useless separate thoughts, and life is impermanent, so we should seize the time and do something useful.

Like the poor Dunbar asking: What is the work of the people?

His Holiness said: Cultivating compassion and bodhicitta, caring for countless sentient beings in heaven and earth, cultivating blessings and wisdom for all sentient beings, and wishing to share the blessings and causes of this with all sentient beings, and regard all this as illusory and unreal sexual emptiness.

When His Holiness returned to Bangladesh, King Ali Xiangqu O asked for a parting message, and His Holiness said a passage earnestly, one of which was: "If you only understand the Dharma, you cannot become a Buddha, you must practice it according to the law."

02 Summary of the quotations of Zhongdun Ba Da layman

Once, the three disciples asked Master Zhongdunpa to teach a brief practice of Buddhism.

Dunpa said: Although there are various paths for people to become Buddhas, there is only one that is crucial, and that is the emptiness of nature that is integrated with compassion. Among them, emptiness is the bodhicitta of victory, which is the realization of the nature of all dharmas. Compassion is worldly bodhicitta, which is great compassion for unenlightened beings. Those who practice Mahayana Buddhism must first give rise to these two kinds of bodhicitta, and in the middle, they must cultivate these two minds, and finally the achievement of these two minds is the Buddha's Dharma body and physical body.

These two methods of cultivating bodhicitta can be briefly summarized as three roots and nine branches. The three roots are: cultivating the mind, accumulating capital, and cultivating concentration. The key to cultivating the mind is divided into three branches: the view of impermanence, the view of compassion, and the view of non-self. There are three key branches of accumulating capital: supporting the guru, supporting the Three Jewels, and giving money to the Dharma. The three main branches of meditation: keeping precepts, praying to the guru, and being in a state of silence both physically and mentally. Through the above nine practices, the two kinds of mature and worldly bodhicitta are born, from which the Dharmakaya fruit is born, and from the worldly bodhicitta the two-color body fruit is born, and the two fruits are Buddha.

A monk from Connecticut asked me if I had any intention of doing so.

Dunbar said: From the top of your head to the soles of your feet, look for which point is "me" one by one? When you can't find an identifiable "I", you are "no self". Realizing that the ideological consciousness itself that searches for "I" has no identifiable self, is "Dharma without self".

Another question: What is right view?

Dunba said: Right view is to realize that all things originally have no material nature, there is no essence that can be judged such as impermanence, all phenomena are like dreams, and this illusion is also manifested in one's own mind, so it is not attached to all things, does not pay attention, and the mind is not restrained.

Once Zhongdunpa saw a monk who was turning scriptures.

Dunba said: I am happy to turn the scriptures, but isn't it better to practice?

When the monk heard this, he went to sit under the eaves of the scripture hall every day to read the Tripitaka.

Dunba also said: Reading the Bible is happy, but isn't it better to practice?

After hearing this, the monk went to meditate again.

Dunba also said: Zazen is also happy, but isn't it better to practice?

After hearing this, the monk went to ask Dunpa and said: It seems that turning scriptures, reading scriptures, and sitting meditation are not considered practice, so what is practice?

Dunbar said: Throw away all the worries of this world. Lose! Lose!

Budova asked Master Zhongdunpa: How to distinguish between Buddhism and non-Buddhism? Dunpa said: It is the Dharma that can suppress afflictions, but it is not the Dharma that cannot suppress afflictions; What is anti-secular is Buddhism, and what is worldly is not Buddhism; What is in line with the meaning of the scriptures is the Dharma, and what is not in accordance with the meaning of the scriptures is not the Dharma; The act of receiving good retribution is the Dharma, and the act of receiving evil retribution is not the Dharma.

03 Summary of Geshe Gong Bawa Quotations

Gombava said: The foundation of Buddhahood is to cultivate the two resources of blessing and wisdom, the foundation of the two resources is to cultivate bodhicitta, and the root of cultivating bodhicitta is to cultivate the six degrees. Among them, the root of giving up is to be greedy; The foundation of precepts is to be close to good teachers and friends; The root of forbearance is to be willing to live under others and have no quarrel with the world; The root of the progress of refinement is to often think that life is short; The foundation of meditation is to live in a quiet place; The foundation of wisdom is to observe one's own mental appearance. The root of blessing is sincerity towards the guru; The foundation of achievement is to keep the precepts and keep the oath; The root of merit is to listen, think, and cultivate; The root of altruism is selflessness and selfishness; The root of self-interest and altruism is to persist in practice.

04 Summary of the quotations of Venerable Yerba Xiang

Yerpa Xiangzun said: We practitioners must achieve the Four Noble Deeds on the basis of always thinking about the impermanence of life. The Four Sunnahs are:

1. Clothes do not seek luxury, only seek to protect the body from the cold;

2. Don't eat delicious food, just save life and prolong life;

3. Do not seek a high bed in a luxurious house, but only seek shelter from wind and rain;

4. Don't ask for expensive and fashionable things, only for the needs of life.

In other words, the four noble nags are no desire, no desire, contentment, easy to obtain, and content with fate.

Xiang Zun said: We practitioners must achieve "three unadulterated". That is, the selfishness of benefiting the present world cannot be mixed in the deeds of good deeds, the motives of afflictions cannot be mixed with the motives of afflictions in the actions of body, speech, mind, and mind, and the motives of self-interest cannot be mixed in the practice.

Xiang Zun said: Cultivating the mind must achieve a high level. This high state means that the place should be wide, that is, the thoughts and opinions should be wide; The strict punishment must be strict, that is, strict with one's own behavior; be tough where you should be tough, that is, you must be tough on the enemy of troubles; The weakness must be weak, that is, the bullying and harm of others must be tolerated.

05 Summary of Geshe Buduwa quotations

A layman asked Master Budova: What is the most important method in practice?

Budova said: The most important thing is to see the impermanence of death. Observing the impermanence of death can enable people to enter the Dharma, to persist in practice, and to help them realize the Dharma nature; In addition, observing the impermanence of death can make you give up your nostalgia for this world, make you tired of reincarnation, and help you enter nirvana; In addition, observing the impermanence of death can make life faithful, diligent, and wise; In addition, observing the impermanence of death can enable the Dharma to be sought, to cultivate the Dharma, to complete the practice, and to produce armor and diligence.

06 Summary of Geshe Jinova Quotations

Jin Owa said: All Buddhism can be summed up in only two sentences - do not hurt others, help others. These two sentences summarize the teachings of Tripitaka and the Great and Small Squares.

Jin Owa said: Practitioners of Buddhism and Taoism should hold views that are diametrically opposed to worldly views. Secular people do not respect sentient beings but love Buddha, but we must reverse that loving all beings is more important than loving Buddha. This is not only not disrespectful to the Buddha, but also more in line with the teachings. Here are four reasons:

1. All living beings are our parents, so we should respect and love;
2. Parents and sentient beings suffer in reincarnation, so we should rescue and honor;
3. All living beings are fields of blessings, which can make them get great blessings, so they should be respected;
4. All beings are the objects of Buddha and Bodhisattva's care, and all beings are happy when they are happy with Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, so they should respect and love all beings.
Worldly people care for themselves, and we must care for others. Why? Because it is not others who have suffered since the beginning, but ourselves, the ignorance afflictions that govern our own karma, and the ignorance and afflictions in our hearts are vicious enemies who harm themselves and harm themselves. Relying on sentient beings can cultivate two kinds of bodhicitta, so that one's merits can be completed and liberated to become a Buddha. Therefore, we should care for all living beings.

07 Summary of Geshe Zip Jonwa Quotations

Pujunwa said: The happiness of desirelessness is a hundred times better than the happiness of eros; Understanding a sentence of Buddhism is a hundred times better than understanding thousands of principles and not doing anything; Giving people a sentence is a hundred times better than giving alms of one hundred taels of gold; Knowing one's inner nature is a hundred times better than knowing everything outside the body.

08 Summary of Geshe Niurongba Quotations

Niu Rongpa said: Those who practice the Bodhi path should regard the world as a prison, life as a soap bubble, a good teacher as a treasure, a trouble as a poisonous snake, evil as a poison, pleasure as entering a fire hell, fame as an echo of a rock wall, money and profit as a fishing hook and fishing net, sentient beings as parents, alms as a source of excavation, precepts as adorning the body with precious stones, forbearance as wearing strong armor, diligence as riding a horse, meditation as opening up infinite treasures. We must regard Wen Sixiu as lighting up in the night.

09 Summary of Geshe Ka Regonqiong Quotations

Garton Yoshiyoshi asked for advice on how to practice.

Karegon Qiong said: Lower practitioners do not harm others, middle practitioners care about helping others, and upper practitioners observe and practice the non-birth wisdom of no self and no sentient beings.

Karegongqiong said: Those who do not have integrity cannot achieve achievements, and they need to be close to good teachers and read more scriptures for life; those who do not have the ability to cultivate cannot achieve achievements, and those who are diligent in life need to observe the impermanence of death and treat negativity; Proud and complacent people cannot achieve achievements and need to be humble.

Karegon said: What makes people fall into the sea of suffering is greed, and it is wrong not to get rid of greed; Those who destroy good roots are hatred, and it is wrong not to get rid of hatred; It is pride and complacency that hinders self-improvement, and it is wrong not to get rid of pride and complacency; The cause and effect of obtaining wealth from heaven and earth is almsgiving, and it is wrong not to do alms; The cause and effect of obtaining a perfect human body in the next life is good precepts, and not keeping the precepts is wrong; The cause of becoming a Buddha is the act of a bodhisattva, and it is wrong not to practice the act of a bodhisattva; To achieve both worldly and transcendental achievements, one must rely on tantra, and it is wrong to despise tantra.

Karegunqiong said: The highest state of cultivating wisdom is not holding any view, the highest state of meditation is no thought in the heart, the highest state of practice is no choice, and the highest state of cultivation is no practice and no evidence.

——Excerpt from the Living Buddha
"Inspiring Quotations of Kadam Monks"