From Heart of Buddha: Mandalas and Longchen, Longchen Rabjam’s Notions of Mandalas (Oxford 2015) Longchen Rabjam talks about the mandala of reality, the mandala of the deities themselves that are—and I love to use this phrase that comes from a Guru Rinpoche text—“like the rays of the sun, distinct and yet the same. They are […]
Is following this path difficult? It’s not necessarily difficult but you have to be persistent. You have to not give up. The not giving up is more important than having tremendous energy, because tremendous energy often arises strongly, carries you on for a bit, and then it drops. Whereas really you have to persist. In […]
The experience of love and compassion means a love and compassion that reaches out to all beings equally. You will perceive that. And you will perceive that that embodiment of love and compassion reaches out to the most malevolent and malignant individual you can imagine in the world. Try and imagine somebody as bad as you […]
The most important thing in a Dharma mandala is that the central principle should be what is called Bodhicitta, the awakened heart, which is wisdom and compassion in union. And what you want to send out, as it were, through the gates of the mandala is what is associated with love, compassion, wisdom - and […]
