Yeshe Lama Quotes

“To be freely resting like a mountain is a measure of view; To be freely resting like an ocean is a measure of meditation; To be freely resting in appearances is a measure of conduct; To be freely resting in pure presence is a measure of fruition. The being that knows these four modes in full measure Knows the definitive meaning of the Great Perfection.”
― Jigme Lingpa, The Yeshe Lama: Jigme Lingpa's Dzogchen Atiyoga Manual

“Nonfixation is generosity; Homelessness is moral discipline; Unguardedness is patience; Nonstriving is perseverance; Nonthought is concentrated absorption; Referencelessness is perfect insight.”
― Jigme Lingpa, The Yeshe Lama: Jigme Lingpa's Dzogchen Atiyoga Manual

“You can never experience a moment of divorce from this naturally disposed, indwelling vision in the now, but through a failure of recognition it has become reified, like a natural flow of water frozen solid as ice. With the internal grasping mind as the cause and an external fixated object as the condition, you wander constantly in samsara.”
― Jigme Lingpa, The Yeshe Lama: Jigme Lingpa's Dzogchen Atiyoga Manual

“Kye! In pure presence, in the here and now, do not try to change anything, or to add or subtract anything; but without elaborating or concentrating, just let it be. Neither”
― Jigme Lingpa, The Yeshe Lama: Jigme Lingpa's Dzogchen Atiyoga Manual