Top 32 Ponlop Quotes
#1. I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.
Christine Quinn
#2. I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.
Eliot Spitzer
#4. True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
#5. It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
Damian Woetzel
#6. You are not ashamed of our luuurve, are you, Jas?'
'Look, shut up, people might hear.'
'What do you mean, the people who live in the telephone?
Louise Rennison
#7. We must remember that the most powerful medicine we can offer for suffering of any kind is simply kindness. It says, "You're not alone. I see you; I hear you; I'm with you.
Ponlop
#8. That is the essence and mission of 'rebel buddha': to free us from the illusions we create by ourselves, about ourselves, and from those that masquerade as reality in our cultural and religious institutions.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
#9. A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.
Shakti Gawain
#10. What is drama, and what is dharma? I guess you could say drama is illusion that acts like truth, and dharma is truth itself - the way things are, the basic state of reality that does not change from day to day according to fashion or our mood or agenda.
Ponlop Rinpoche, Dzogchen
#11. The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women's intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn't realize it. I waited in silence
Elena Ferrante
#14. I have yet to meet a person whose favorite movie is 'Gigli', but I hope to meet them one day and give them a hug.
Justin Bartha
#15. In each meditation session, we gather knowledge about the mind through observation, questioning, and testing. We do this over and over, until we gradually develop a meaningful understanding of our own mind.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
#16. It is all up to us. We are the ones who have to keep looking at our thoughts, looking for the nature of our mind. there is nobody else in control of our lives, our experiences, our freedom or our bondage.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
#17. To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you're going or backward at where you've been. When you do stop, there's a sense of going nowhere. There's a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
#18. There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
#19. How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his own experience - free from the clouds of religiosity that often surround them Yet it's difficult to distinguish the tools themselves from their cultural packaging.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
#21. Organization. If you want big words to talk to intellectuals with, that's a fine big word, son, just as many syllables as imagination, and it has a lot more realism in it.
Robert Shea
#22. A man like that gets hold of a woman like you it automatically becomes exclusive.
Kristen Ashley
#23. When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
#24. I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt earlier with the empty rituals and institutionalized values of all religious traditions.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
#25. We actually need intelligent doubt and skepticism; they protect us against mistaken views and propaganda.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
#28. The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.
Arthur Smith
#32. Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.
Garrison Keillor
