Dharma Wheel

Another book source is Chang's Buddhist Teaching of Totality which has comments and a complete translation.

Video that gives text and recitation of benefits of this powerful mantra, from the Shurangama Sutra. At around 18 minutes the recitation of the mantra, with text, starts.

There are at least 12 more in this series of commentaries. English translation follows his Tibetan remarks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvDXT_c_bic

More from Atisha... 8. [Reality is] devoid of entity and nonentity, free from conceptions, free from objects, without support, without basis, without coming or going, unexemplified, 9. ineffable, invisible, unchanging, and unconditioned. If a yogi realizes that, the afflictive and cognitive obstruct...

Homage to the Great Compassionate One 1. The Dharma taught by Buddhas perfectly relies on two realities: the conventional reality of the world and ultimate reality. 2. The conventional has two aspects: one that is mistaken and one that is correct. The former is twofold: the moon [reflected on] wate...

Though one may conquer many times a thousand men in battle, yet he is the noblest victor who conquers himself. Self-conquest is far better than the conquest of others. No god or devil can defeat a person who is self-subdued & ever restrained. Dhammapada

Another recent one: https://read.84000.co/translation/toh54.html This chapter of the Lotus Sutra is chanted by many lay practitioners of chinese buddhism daily. It's known for making a lot of merit, fulfilling wishes and creating a positive connection with Avalokiteshvara. The chapter is about how ...

Another recent one:

https://read.84000.co/translation/toh54.html

Politics, however they make the intellect active, sagacious, and inventive, within a certain sphere, generally extinguish its thirst for universal truth, paralyze sentiment and imagination, corrupt the simplicity of the mind, destroy that confidence in human virtue which lies at the foundation of p...

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who to...

Also from the Chinese is this draft translation:

It is through the perfection of the dharmas of pristine purity
that one becomes entirely replete in all of the meritorious qualities.
such a person focuses his unrelenting mindfulness
on the acquisition of all-knowledge.

I've just found a text called "The Teaching in Seventeen Chapters for Great Being Bhadrapala". Do you know what the relationship is between this text and this Sutra? It seems similar in some aspects, and different in others. No, but the PS Sutra is very old and exists in differing recensions and tr...

Not that many images if I recall, but many great sages are covered:

Masters of Meditation and Miracles by Tulku Thondup

Twice in Khunu Lama's Praise of Bodhicitta - verses 29 & 271 - these words appear. What do they refer to - buddhahood or great compassion or ??? It is a mistranslation of BodhimaNDa (byang chub snying po) which actually refers to the seat (maNDa) of awakening. Thank you Malcolm :bow: So bodhimanda ...

From now until the heart of enlightenment I pray to the Guru Triple Gem to have such an aspiration as "may I not be separated from bodhicitta," and to be blessed [to make such a prayer]. I think I this context, “heart” means “core” in the sense of “ultimate”, like in the expression “getting to the ...

Cannot get the Tibetan to display here nor is the Attachment function available. Here is the English for verse 29: 29 From now until the heart of enlightenment, I pray to the Guru Triple Gem to have such an aspiration as "may I not be separated from bodhicitta," and to be blessed [to make such a pra...

Twice in Khunu Lama's Praise of Bodhicitta - verses 29 & 271 - these words appear.

What do they refer to - buddhahood or great compassion or ???

When a noble disciple contemplates upon the Enlightened One, at that time his mind is not enwrapped in lust, nor in hatred, nor in delusion. At such a time his mind is rightly directed towards the Perfect One (Tathāgata). And with a rightly directed mind the noble disciple gains enthusiasm for the ...

Malcolm wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 5:29 pm

Nicholas Weeks wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 3:07 pm

Therefore, Ānanda, do not be judgmental regarding people. Do not pass judgment on people. Those who pass judgment on people harm themselves. I alone, or one like me, may pass judgment on people.

AN 6:44

Great advice, you should follow it.

Of course. All Buddhists should try to follow it.

Therefore, Ānanda, do not be judgmental regarding people. Do not pass judgment on people. Those who pass judgment on people harm themselves. I alone, or one like me, may pass judgment on people. AN 6:44 As for the places to which someone else’s mind proceeds, one may be mistaken about them, for the...