Top 35 Ponlop Rinpoche Quotes
#1. 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
#2. No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old age or accident took him. Either he found the answer or he ditched the whole mess, life included.
Richard Matheson
#3. God doesn't help those who help themselves; He helps those who can't help themselves!
Joyce Meyer
#4. He'd said when. Even in his beaten condition, he believed in whens and not ifs. She never should have doubted his strength
Veronica Rossi
#5. 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
#8. So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested.
Terry Zwigoff
#10. But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.
William H. Seward
#11. We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#12. 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
#13. Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything. - ROBERT RUBIN,
Susan Cain
#14. I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.
Lester Bangs
#15. I gave him everything from my lunches I hate, which is called Charity.
David James Duncan
#16. 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
#17. The maturity of man - that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house.
David Thewlis
#23. I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.
Soleil Moon Frye
#25. Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!
Ninon De L'Enclos
#26. Absence, the highest form of presence.
James Joyce
#28. 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
#29. We actually need intelligent doubt and skepticism; they protect us against mistaken views and propaganda.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
#30. 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
#31. 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
#33. 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
#34. There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
#35. 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
