Top 54 Tulku Quotes
#1. Our perception of space alters the space. It is consciousness that finds meanings in all spaces
Tarthang Tulku
#2. Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters.
Tarthang Tulku
#3. A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma
Tsem Tulku
#4. What you are today is the choice you made yesterday.
Tsem Tulku
#6. Reality is all-encompassing: the absolute nature is one. Although we may feel separate from the original uncreated reality - whether we call it 'God,' 'peak experience,' or 'enlightened mind' - through awareness we can contact this essential part of ourselves.
Tarthang Tulku
#7. Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike,
we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.
Tarthang Tulku
#8. The minute you say "I can't", it is another wrong affirmation to your subconscious that you choose to lose.
Tsem Tulku
#9. Don't burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
#10. If we do not create inner peace, outer peace is not possible.
Tsem Tulku
#11. Consistency in life is so important for success. It stems from taking what we are doing seriously.
Tsem Tulku
#12. Praying is not about asking; it's about listening ...
It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
#13. Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.
Tsem Tulku
#14. Once our hearts are open, all existence appears naturally beautiful and harmonious.
Tarthang Tulku
#15. Know that however difficult experiences may be,
they are part of the truth you seek.
Tarthang Tulku
#16. Always we should appreciate what we are able to do, and not feel bad about what we haven't done.
Tulku Thondup
#17. May I quickly attain complete enlightenment, and having attained the state of a buddha, may I guide all sentient beings to liberation and the awakened state itself.
Tulku Urgyen
#18. When remaining in awareness itself, every thought movement, no matter what kind, is like a drawing in air.
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
#20. Don't call for a revolution, but look at yourself honestly and create an evolution.
Tsem Tulku
#21. Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is.
Tsem Tulku
#22. Our human awareness is so powerful that even if we tap only a small part of it we can accomplish more that we ever thought possible. Using our complete potential, we can soar to the height where our accomplishments have great and lasting value for both ourselves and for future generations.
Tarthang Tulku
#23. Find yourself. Be with yourself. Fail and then achieve.
Tsem Tulku
#24. When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties, romanticized ideas about the spiritual path are no longer meaningful. We see that what is important is to take responsibility for ourselves, and to always be aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Tarthang Tulku
#25. Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
#26. Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.
Tsem Tulku
#27. We must be open to our mistakes and grow. Growth isn't based on being perfect, but moving toward the best we can be by being honest.
Tsem Tulku
#29. Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away.
Then only LOVE remains ...
Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
#30. Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment.
Tarthang Tulku
#31. Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!
When it comes, never be inert and take your time, TIME TO MOVE!
Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
#32. A persons outer action reflects their inner mind.
Tsem Tulku
#33. Being humble doesn't mean you lose; it means you have won. Give the victory to others.
Tsem Tulku
#34. The balanced energy of patience radiates a friendly and productive attitude
from our hearts into every aspect of our existence.
Tarthang Tulku
#35. Karma isn't fate. Nor is it a punishment imposed on us by some external agent. We create our own karma. Karma is the result of the choices that we make every moment of every day.
Tulku Thondup
#36. When you give in to aversion and anger, it's as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
#37. Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving!
And then taking that experience to help others ...
Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
#38. The basis of the spiritual path is the development in ourselves of what is truly balanced, natural, and meaningful.
Tarthang Tulku
#39. You are your dreams. Your dreams are what you can become, so don't stop dreaming and believing. Just Do It!
Tsem Tulku
#40. When others put you down for who you are or what you're doing, it just means that you're going in the right direction.
Tsem Tulku
#41. If being me offends you, maybe I'm not the problem.
Tsem Tulku
#42. As we respond with caring and vision to all work, we develop our capacity to respond fully to all of life. Every action generates positive energy which can be shared with others.
Tarthang Tulku
#43. Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda.
Tsem Tulku
#44. Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden.
Tulku Thondup Rinpoche
#45. The gross elements are earth, water, air and fire, with the fifth being space. Each particle of the body is made up of these five elements, which are manifested in different colors. In their true quality, space is blue light, water is white, earth is yellow, fire is red, and air is green.
Tulku Thondup
#46. Energy is our most precious resource, for it is the means by which we transform our creative potential into meaningful action.
Tarthang Tulku
#47. Not everyone can see things the way you see it, so let go. You can't see everything the way they see it either, so let go again.
Tsem Tulku
#48. The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure.
Tsem Tulku
#50. Complaining is another way of saying to others, YOU SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
Tsem Tulku
#51. If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.
Tarthang Tulku
#52. If you say you don't have money to help a animal shelter, why then do you have money to buy meat?
Tsem Tulku
#54. Feeling sorry for yourself for one single minute is okay, but spend all your remaining time on solutions.
Tsem Tulku
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