Tara's Enlightened Activity Quotes

“For an even more elaborate inner tantra practice, we may construct an additional offering. Place a tripod in the center of the shrine and upon it a skull cup with its narrower end facing forward. In the skull cup place melted butter containing blessing materials of the lineage. When the butter is solid, write the Tibetan letter BAM on its surface, then add either an alcoholic beverage or pure spring water layered over the butter. Place a triangle made of wooden pieces on top of the tripod with one point facing front. It is covered with a red cloth folded into four layers, and on the cloth is placed a ritual
mirror, or melong, coated with red dust in which the syllable TAM is written. On top of all these, place a quartz crystal.”
― Khenchen Palden Sherab, Tara's Enlightened Activity: An Oral Commentary on the Twenty-One Praises to Tara

“Skillful means and wisdom, practiced with courage, commitment, and joy, will transform all emotional obscurations and habitual patterns into the mind's original state. Our habitual patterns cease to be habitual, our grasping becomes nongrasping, and our clinging becomes nonclinging. Then these are no longer obstacles for us. In fact, these phenomena become assistants to the growth of our realization, helping us to radiate love and compassion in every direction. At that point, we've actualized our own nature”
― Khenchen Palden Sherab, Tara's Enlightened Activity: An Oral Commentary on the Twenty-One Praises to Tara