We only care about ourselves and a few people and things in the extremely limited space around us. What happens outside this small circle is just another piece of news.
——Khenpo Si Arungbo's "The Flowers Bloom"
When you let go of your prejudices, pretense, and plans, and no longer worry, worry, and hope, your heart will truly open.
——Khenpo Si Arongbo’s "The Flowers Bloom"
Materials can indeed bring people a sense of satisfaction, but it is limited to sensory satisfaction, that is, eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body Meaning, color, sound, fragrance, and touch. The reason why humans are different from animals is that they not only need sensory satisfaction, but also spiritual satisfaction.
——Khenpo Si Arungbo, "The Flowers Bloom"
Sometimes, kind actions will attract doubts and even slander. If our goal is not liberation, if the path to liberation is not Staying away from greed, anger, and ignorance means refraining from doing all evil and practicing good deeds. We can easily get lost in the fear of poverty, contempt, blame, and humiliation and the yearning for wealth, respect, glory, and praise.
——Khenpo Si Arungbo, "The Flowers Bloom"
We can ask ourselves to aim at liberation and give up our hope for comfort in this life and the next, but we cannot disrespect others for this. The understanding of happiness and the pursuit of blessings in this world.
——Khenpo Si Arungbo, "The Flowers Bloom"
If we do not try hard to realize selflessness, but just regard the view of selflessness as a knowledge reserve. In my mind, it’s like a patient reading the doctor’s life-saving prescription as an article instead of taking the medicine according to the prescription and treating the disease to save life.
——Khenpo Xia Yongbo's "The Flowers Bloom"
Life is bittersweet. There is enough pain to make us yearn for liberation, but it is not too painful to I have no time and no time to work towards liberation. Birth, old age, illness and death, joys and sorrows, happiness, misery, success, failure, all kinds of experiences in life inspire us to awaken.
——Khenpo Si Arungbo, "The Flowers Bloom"
Suffering is ubiquitous, and life cannot be perfect or always satisfactory. Because of this view, we can finally relax and no longer rush to escape and blame, or even try to find ways to resolve it, because we know that as long as we have this body, we will definitely experience aging, illness, and death; as long as there is greed in our hearts If we have attachment, hatred, confusion, and arrogance, we will definitely feel pain.
——Khenpo Si Arongbo's "The Flowers Bloom"
Only people with high spiritual attainments can be at ease with death and life, and can independently decide where to go when death comes, while ordinary people When feeling the severe pain of death, they will panic and completely forget their daily practice. They will lose their ability to judge the state of the bardo and go astray, losing the precious opportunity for liberation. At this time, if someone is there to comfort, remind, and guide the deceased to overcome the fear after death, calm down, clearly and unmistakably realize the light of his own nature, or recognize the appearance of the pure land of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas that appear later, then the deceased can Get relief.
——"The Blooming of Flowers" by Khenpo Si Arongbo