Ogmin
@ogmin.bsky.social
Nyingma, Tennessee, living on the Chickasaw cession (1816), Meso/Native American Studies, grandfather of many. Focus: quotes from Buddhist wisdom traditions.
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The evil royalty of this degenerate age
are wholly focused on inappropriate actions:
assembling prostitutes, being obsessed with profit,
organizing hunting parties, falsely accusing one another, and stealing.
~ Mipham
are wholly focused on inappropriate actions:
assembling prostitutes, being obsessed with profit,
organizing hunting parties, falsely accusing one another, and stealing.
~ Mipham
December 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The evil royalty of this degenerate age
are wholly focused on inappropriate actions:
assembling prostitutes, being obsessed with profit,
organizing hunting parties, falsely accusing one another, and stealing.
~ Mipham
are wholly focused on inappropriate actions:
assembling prostitutes, being obsessed with profit,
organizing hunting parties, falsely accusing one another, and stealing.
~ Mipham
In short, having decided that your own mind is the buddha, relax deeply in your own natural awareness, free from hope and fear, contrivance and corruption, in the great primordial freedom of natural rest in which any notion of activity or striving has subsided.
~ Longchenpa
~ Longchenpa
December 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
In short, having decided that your own mind is the buddha, relax deeply in your own natural awareness, free from hope and fear, contrivance and corruption, in the great primordial freedom of natural rest in which any notion of activity or striving has subsided.
~ Longchenpa
~ Longchenpa
Once the clear, empty nature of the mind in the present moment—pure awareness that is uncontrived and uncontaminated—has been introduced, there is an aspect that is the unmoving clear, empty dharmatā, from which the self-radiance of space and awareness arises unobstructedly.
~ Longchenpa
~ Longchenpa
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Once the clear, empty nature of the mind in the present moment—pure awareness that is uncontrived and uncontaminated—has been introduced, there is an aspect that is the unmoving clear, empty dharmatā, from which the self-radiance of space and awareness arises unobstructedly.
~ Longchenpa
~ Longchenpa
Thought-free wakefulness is completely clear, as the mind does not apply or arrange any concepts. It is the first instant in which nothing is made, constructed, cultivated, or manufactured; it is your present, uncreated freshness.
~ Tulku Urgyen
~ Tulku Urgyen
November 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Thought-free wakefulness is completely clear, as the mind does not apply or arrange any concepts. It is the first instant in which nothing is made, constructed, cultivated, or manufactured; it is your present, uncreated freshness.
~ Tulku Urgyen
~ Tulku Urgyen
Time is short. Curtail your plans.
~ Zur (1014-1072)
~ Zur (1014-1072)
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Time is short. Curtail your plans.
~ Zur (1014-1072)
~ Zur (1014-1072)
The happiness of beings, the basis of all councils -- have the king and his ministers, proud of their crimes, seen to that?
~ Padma bKa'i Thang [c.41:259]
~ Padma bKa'i Thang [c.41:259]
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The happiness of beings, the basis of all councils -- have the king and his ministers, proud of their crimes, seen to that?
~ Padma bKa'i Thang [c.41:259]
~ Padma bKa'i Thang [c.41:259]
The master asked, "Is the ruler always so unbearably proud?"
~ Padma bKa'i Thang, c.85
~ Padma bKa'i Thang, c.85
November 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The master asked, "Is the ruler always so unbearably proud?"
~ Padma bKa'i Thang, c.85
~ Padma bKa'i Thang, c.85
Do not follow after the past or the future thought. For the moment of the present thought, when you look into what thinks, you do not find that it has any visible form, color, or shape. It is without anything to be seen, in any way whatsoever. Rest evenly in that state.
~ Tulku Urgyen
~ Tulku Urgyen
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Do not follow after the past or the future thought. For the moment of the present thought, when you look into what thinks, you do not find that it has any visible form, color, or shape. It is without anything to be seen, in any way whatsoever. Rest evenly in that state.
~ Tulku Urgyen
~ Tulku Urgyen
Progress comes through effortlessness, nonstriving. Honestly, since we already have it, how could we produce it through effort? If we didn’t have it & had to search for it elsewhere, then we could strive & achieve, but it’s not like that. This is the most precious, & it requires no effort.
~ T.U.
~ T.U.
November 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Progress comes through effortlessness, nonstriving. Honestly, since we already have it, how could we produce it through effort? If we didn’t have it & had to search for it elsewhere, then we could strive & achieve, but it’s not like that. This is the most precious, & it requires no effort.
~ T.U.
~ T.U.
If we examine our authentic nature, nothing can be said to exist therein;
Likewise, taking authenticity as the path, becoming one with it,
Knowing it only in a moment of unimaged, nonconceptual vision,
Consumed by it, we are completely, transparently naked.
~ Longchenpa
Likewise, taking authenticity as the path, becoming one with it,
Knowing it only in a moment of unimaged, nonconceptual vision,
Consumed by it, we are completely, transparently naked.
~ Longchenpa
November 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If we examine our authentic nature, nothing can be said to exist therein;
Likewise, taking authenticity as the path, becoming one with it,
Knowing it only in a moment of unimaged, nonconceptual vision,
Consumed by it, we are completely, transparently naked.
~ Longchenpa
Likewise, taking authenticity as the path, becoming one with it,
Knowing it only in a moment of unimaged, nonconceptual vision,
Consumed by it, we are completely, transparently naked.
~ Longchenpa
The essence is like the original sun shining: naturally radiant and unformed.
~ Tulku Urgyen
~ Tulku Urgyen
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The essence is like the original sun shining: naturally radiant and unformed.
~ Tulku Urgyen
~ Tulku Urgyen
We brilliantly spin the wheel of our awareness.
We are brilliantly entwined into something endless.
We have been spontaneously realized from the primordial.
We do not depend on any striving for a cause or a condition.
Our selves abide in the playfulness of great bliss.
~ Light of the Bodhicitta
We are brilliantly entwined into something endless.
We have been spontaneously realized from the primordial.
We do not depend on any striving for a cause or a condition.
Our selves abide in the playfulness of great bliss.
~ Light of the Bodhicitta
November 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
We brilliantly spin the wheel of our awareness.
We are brilliantly entwined into something endless.
We have been spontaneously realized from the primordial.
We do not depend on any striving for a cause or a condition.
Our selves abide in the playfulness of great bliss.
~ Light of the Bodhicitta
We are brilliantly entwined into something endless.
We have been spontaneously realized from the primordial.
We do not depend on any striving for a cause or a condition.
Our selves abide in the playfulness of great bliss.
~ Light of the Bodhicitta
It is true identity because all complications of “self” or “no-self” have been absolutely quelled.
~ Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra
~ Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra
November 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
It is true identity because all complications of “self” or “no-self” have been absolutely quelled.
~ Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra
~ Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra
What meditation actually means according to the Buddhist point of view is simply maintaining the natural state. Other than the natural state, there is nothing to meditate upon.
~ Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche
~ Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
What meditation actually means according to the Buddhist point of view is simply maintaining the natural state. Other than the natural state, there is nothing to meditate upon.
~ Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche
~ Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche
Consequently, although the Bodhisattvas realize no-self, they immerse themselves in compassion, taking as their object all beings who do not have this realization and who therefore experience—unnecessarily and as though their selves existed—the uninterrupted appearances of suffering.
~ Mipham
~ Mipham
November 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Consequently, although the Bodhisattvas realize no-self, they immerse themselves in compassion, taking as their object all beings who do not have this realization and who therefore experience—unnecessarily and as though their selves existed—the uninterrupted appearances of suffering.
~ Mipham
~ Mipham
Since I am the pristine consciousness of direct perception, I cannot be discovered through an intellectual search. I am also not an object that can be seen by everyone. Nevertheless, as I pervade all samsara and nirvana, I am not nonexistent.
~ Buddhahood in This Life
~ Buddhahood in This Life
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Since I am the pristine consciousness of direct perception, I cannot be discovered through an intellectual search. I am also not an object that can be seen by everyone. Nevertheless, as I pervade all samsara and nirvana, I am not nonexistent.
~ Buddhahood in This Life
~ Buddhahood in This Life
Nor, of course, is Truth even ‘One’: if ‘Truth’ could be any conceptual number, it must surely be ‘Zero' — the basis and origin of all numeration and of all multiplicity.
~ Wei Wu Wei
~ Wei Wu Wei
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Nor, of course, is Truth even ‘One’: if ‘Truth’ could be any conceptual number, it must surely be ‘Zero' — the basis and origin of all numeration and of all multiplicity.
~ Wei Wu Wei
~ Wei Wu Wei
Though the essence of rigpa is difficult to grasp, the potential of pristine consciousness will be accomplished through relaxation.
~ Tantra of the Great Secret Without Syllables
~ Tantra of the Great Secret Without Syllables
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Though the essence of rigpa is difficult to grasp, the potential of pristine consciousness will be accomplished through relaxation.
~ Tantra of the Great Secret Without Syllables
~ Tantra of the Great Secret Without Syllables
As for the practice of magnificent blazing,
Whatever may appear we practice to be the Bodhicitta.
We practice our own minds
As being embodiments of the Dharma.
Our true embodiment
Is beyond being something that we must practice
Or any act of practicing.
~ Ye shes ‘bar ba chos kyi dbyings
Whatever may appear we practice to be the Bodhicitta.
We practice our own minds
As being embodiments of the Dharma.
Our true embodiment
Is beyond being something that we must practice
Or any act of practicing.
~ Ye shes ‘bar ba chos kyi dbyings
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
As for the practice of magnificent blazing,
Whatever may appear we practice to be the Bodhicitta.
We practice our own minds
As being embodiments of the Dharma.
Our true embodiment
Is beyond being something that we must practice
Or any act of practicing.
~ Ye shes ‘bar ba chos kyi dbyings
Whatever may appear we practice to be the Bodhicitta.
We practice our own minds
As being embodiments of the Dharma.
Our true embodiment
Is beyond being something that we must practice
Or any act of practicing.
~ Ye shes ‘bar ba chos kyi dbyings
When we give something the name of: “To be meditated on”
We are mistaken.
The reason for this
Is that this is beyond all discussion.
As an antidote to our own ideas
We meditate on non-conceptuality.
This itself is a big idea.
~ Ye shes gsal ba chos kyi dbyings
We are mistaken.
The reason for this
Is that this is beyond all discussion.
As an antidote to our own ideas
We meditate on non-conceptuality.
This itself is a big idea.
~ Ye shes gsal ba chos kyi dbyings
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
When we give something the name of: “To be meditated on”
We are mistaken.
The reason for this
Is that this is beyond all discussion.
As an antidote to our own ideas
We meditate on non-conceptuality.
This itself is a big idea.
~ Ye shes gsal ba chos kyi dbyings
We are mistaken.
The reason for this
Is that this is beyond all discussion.
As an antidote to our own ideas
We meditate on non-conceptuality.
This itself is a big idea.
~ Ye shes gsal ba chos kyi dbyings
The understanding that things exist is a total fantasy.
The wise do not believe in that logic.
It is the essence of our delusions,
And because we do not clarify it,
We are incorrect.
~ The Origin of Life: The Great King of the Tantras
The wise do not believe in that logic.
It is the essence of our delusions,
And because we do not clarify it,
We are incorrect.
~ The Origin of Life: The Great King of the Tantras
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The understanding that things exist is a total fantasy.
The wise do not believe in that logic.
It is the essence of our delusions,
And because we do not clarify it,
We are incorrect.
~ The Origin of Life: The Great King of the Tantras
The wise do not believe in that logic.
It is the essence of our delusions,
And because we do not clarify it,
We are incorrect.
~ The Origin of Life: The Great King of the Tantras
The understanding of the All Good Victorious One
Is the self-originating body of our own true essence.
It is not made of causes or conditions.
It is not compounded.
It pervades us all.
It is the body of the Dharma.
This is our own awareness.
It is a heart of wisdom.
~ Tantra on the Wheel of Wisdom
Is the self-originating body of our own true essence.
It is not made of causes or conditions.
It is not compounded.
It pervades us all.
It is the body of the Dharma.
This is our own awareness.
It is a heart of wisdom.
~ Tantra on the Wheel of Wisdom
November 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The understanding of the All Good Victorious One
Is the self-originating body of our own true essence.
It is not made of causes or conditions.
It is not compounded.
It pervades us all.
It is the body of the Dharma.
This is our own awareness.
It is a heart of wisdom.
~ Tantra on the Wheel of Wisdom
Is the self-originating body of our own true essence.
It is not made of causes or conditions.
It is not compounded.
It pervades us all.
It is the body of the Dharma.
This is our own awareness.
It is a heart of wisdom.
~ Tantra on the Wheel of Wisdom
The significant analogy for our natural base
Is the sky,
Which is not compounded.
It does not come from anywhere.
It has existed from the beginning.
It does not go anywhere.
~ Tantra on the Heart of the Secret Wheel Of the Wisdom of the Great Perfection
Is the sky,
Which is not compounded.
It does not come from anywhere.
It has existed from the beginning.
It does not go anywhere.
~ Tantra on the Heart of the Secret Wheel Of the Wisdom of the Great Perfection
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The significant analogy for our natural base
Is the sky,
Which is not compounded.
It does not come from anywhere.
It has existed from the beginning.
It does not go anywhere.
~ Tantra on the Heart of the Secret Wheel Of the Wisdom of the Great Perfection
Is the sky,
Which is not compounded.
It does not come from anywhere.
It has existed from the beginning.
It does not go anywhere.
~ Tantra on the Heart of the Secret Wheel Of the Wisdom of the Great Perfection
Every situation we are part of invites us to taste the plasticity of our identity, our capacity to be moulded and shaped by events since we too are but a series of events.
~ James Low
~ James Low
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Every situation we are part of invites us to taste the plasticity of our identity, our capacity to be moulded and shaped by events since we too are but a series of events.
~ James Low
~ James Low
