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Longchenpa Quotes on Mind

Longchen Rabjam, known as Longchenpa, was a fourteenth-century Tibetan Buddhist philosopher and the most systematic exponent of the Dzogchen, or Great Perfection, teachings of the Nyingma school. This page collects quotes attributed to Longchenpa on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Longchenpa:

    “The natural state of awareness is primordially pure and spontaneously present.”

  • Attributed to Longchenpa:

    “What you seek is what is already looking.”

  • Attributed to Longchenpa:

    “There is nothing to obtain, only what was never lost to recognize.”

  • Attributed to Longchenpa:

    “The mind is like the sky; thoughts are like passing clouds.”