Sublime

As one of my main teachers, Lama Thubten Yeshe, often said, “Think big, act big, without getting caught in the magical, superstitious mind.”

We develop not only a sense of confidence in the Buddha that we think is outside of ourselves, somewhere else, but we recognize the qualities that we call “Buddha” within ourselves. We develop confidence right where we are at this moment.

Instead of crystallizing views of the self, the past, or ‘Life’, we can – based on profound insight and compassion – exercise a far-reaching pliability of view, and so open up the possibility of a lightness, a tenderness and blessedness to existence.

O Lord of Loving Kindness, through the blessing of your compassion, Purify the obscurations generated by my past actions and dissonant mental states, And secure me in the presence of your mother-like loving kindness!

Zen Master Linji

But they also betray the concerns of a follower of the Lesser Path. Subhuti seeks the way to restrict karma-producing actions and thoughts rather than the way to transform them.

It is by means of such wisdom that tathagatas practice a formless practice. Thus, tathagatas consider knowledge as their real body. And because they consider knowledge as their real body, they are free from projection or anything that projects, such as a self, a life, or a person or any kind of consciousness that gives rise to forms dependent on an