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05/15/2026

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04/25/2026

For ordinary beings, when we make an aspiration, we do not have the ability to cause it to come about right away. Thus when we make aspirations, we request the attention and blessing of all buddhas and bodhisattvas to our aspiration in order for our aspiration to be accomplished. When we do that we are empowering our aspiration with the power of the aspirations of all buddhas and bodhisattvas, because they all share the aspiration to benefit beings as much as possible. If our aspiration is in line with that, then it becomes part of their aspiration and therefore is accomplished. When we have completed most of the path and have perfected aspiration, then our aspirations will automatically be accomplished simply through their being ours, but as ordinary beings we empower them through the blessings of buddhas and bodhisattvas. --From "A Teaching on the Tashi Prayer" by Ven. Bardor Tulku Rinpoche, p. 25

01/21/2026

Dissolve the Attitude That Things Exist
Posted on March 28, 2015
[From a teaching on The White Khechari by Lama Tashi Topgyal Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.]

Now in this practice [the White Khechari], as is in many of our practices, there’s the notion when we say the svabhava mantra that the things dissolve into emptiness as though they were substantially existent, and then they disappear, and then re-arise as something else. Of course, while we do say this – everything becomes empty, from emptiness arises whatever, and so forth — we don’t actually mean it that way.

It’s not that the things dissolve. It’s not that they were existent and then dissolve. What we are dissolving is our attitude that they exist. If the things really did exist substantially, we could not dissolve them by reciting a mantra. We dissolve our thought, however, of them existing substantially. For example, if I were to recite the svabhava mantra and so on in order to dissolve the table in front of me into emptiness, it’s not the case that the table now exists and then would dissolve and disappear. The table does not exist right now, while I perceive it. It never has exited, as is taught in the middle way school of reasoning. So, when we recite these mantras, in which it’s taught that things dissolve into emptiness, we are not trying to dissolve perceived physical reality, but to bring to mind the fact that the physical reality we perceive has no true existence from its own side.
https://kplblog.kunzang.org/?p=1186

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03/02/2024

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