Padmasambhava Quotes on Knowledge
Padmasambhava, the Lotus-Born, was an eighth-century Buddhist tantric master from the kingdom of Uddiyana in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, who, according to Tibetan tradition, was invited by the king Trisong Detsen to assist in the establishment of Buddhism in Tibet. This page collects quotes attributed to Padmasambhava on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Padmasambhava:
“I conceal these teachings in the rocks and lakes of Tibet; in their proper time the right treasure-finder will recover them.”
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“My father is the wisdom of spontaneous awareness. My mother is the Ever-Excellent Lady, the space of all things. ...I sustain myself by consuming the concepts of duality. My purpose is the act of killing disturbing emotions.”
Quoted in The Lotus-Born: The Life Story of Padmasambhava, (a book review) by Rebecca Radner , Tricycle: The Buddhist Review , Fall 1993 -
“If one does not recognize the Dasein as one’s own face, But were to search for it for aeons, one would merely become disheartened. If self-originatedness is not separated from its prop, It is (like a) hermit with his hut becoming destroyed by an avalanche. If one does not understand that (Dasein) can (unlike a totality) neither be summed up (by its parts) nor be taken apart(by separating its parts), But (expects to) find it somewhere else (than in one’s self), one is on the wrong track.”
The teachings of Padmasambhava, Herbert Guenther , ISBN 90 04 10542 5 , 1996 -
“The teachings of Padmasambhava, Herbert Guenther , ISBN 90 04 10542 5 , 1996”
If one does not recognize the Dasein as one’s own face, But were to search for it for aeons, one would merely become disheartened. If self-originatedness is not separated from its prop, It is (like a) hermit with his hut becoming destroyed by an avalanche. If one does not understand that (Dasein) can (unlike a totality) neither be summed up (by its parts) nor be taken apart(by separating its parts -
“The teachings of Padmasambhava, Herbert Guenther , ISBN 90 04 10542 5 , 1996”
If a person’s vision, imaginative cultivation of the vision, and the enactment of this vision (as his life style) is grounded, (This person) does not become the playground for spiritual death; But as long as he is not grounded, He will be the playground for the eighteen kinds of spiritual death. When vision falters and becomes ungrounded the subject-object dichotomy with its five poisons of emotio