The Hundred Verses of Advice of Padampa Sangye are utterly amazing for their clarity, depth, breadth and brevity.

Padampa Sangye (known in India as Paramabuddha) was from southern India, and traveled widely in India, Tibet and China, until his death around 1117 AD. It is widely believed that Padampa Sangye was an incarnation of the 8th century monk Kamalashîla, one of the early teachers of the Dharma in Tibet.

When the Indian sage Padampa Sangye arrived in Tibet, he found the people in... read more

A friend wondered if there is such thing as space; I answered that It is now known that what we called “vacuum” is really ‘dark matter” and that 90 percent of the universe is composed of this dark matter, of which we know nothing. There is no empty space, it appears.
Having said this.. all unenlightened mind states which function under the assumption of rupa and nama (form and name/conceptual categorization) cannot see that when we are still, we step out of the world. the world keeps moving,... read more

NAMO GURU PADMA SIDDHI HRI!
My sons you have met a sublime consort, the Great Mother,
And by virtue of your resources of accumulated merit,
Fortuitously, you have received the four empowerments.
Concentrate upon the evolution of the four levels of joy.

Immediately you set eyes upon my body-mandala,
Your mind was possessed by a lustful disposition,
And your confidence won you the Vase Initiation.
Apprehend the very essence of lust,
Identify it as your creative vision of the deity,... read more

TO purify our mind, we need to first broaden ourselves with activities of compassion so as to gradually get rid of the self-centered habits.

TO broaden ourselves, we should FIRST FILL OUR MIND with BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS:
WE should try to make our mind like land, because land has beautiful virtues: when animals shed their excrement on land, land never express anything angrily, because it is not swayed and is completely indifferent; when humans (the rich and famous, sages and saints, or perf... read more

V. The Stages

I have talked about how to become a Bodhisattva, but there are ten Bhumis or Stages of being a Bodhisattva. Now I will talk about these ten bhumis, their names and meaning, what the practices of each of the ten bhumis are and how to shorten the time of the ten bhumis by Vajrayana practice. I will begin with the names and brief description of each of the ten stages:
1. The first stage is called in Sanskrit Pramudita, or Very Happy. Bhumi means stage or ground. From the positi... read more