[From teaching on Essence of Wisdom: Stages of the Path, Part 4, by Lama Tashi Topgyal. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] It’s not helpful to scold ourselves or blame ourselves for what we perceive as lack of success in actually benefiting others because giving into disappointment about that can cause us to lose our resolve…
Teachings by Lama Tashi Topgyal
In this category we present selected fragments of transcribed teachings by Lama Tashi Topgyal (Lama Tratop).
Nature of Language No Different than the Nature of Mind
[From a teaching on Essence of Wisdom: Stages of the Path, Part 2, by Lama Tashi Topgyal. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] The character of language is the appearance of the character of the mind or the attributes of the mind, which fundamentally is the clear light, the cognition devoid of inherent existence. What in…
Dissolve the Attitude That Things Exist
[From a teaching on The White Khechari by Lama Tashi Topgyal Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] Now in this practice [the White Khechari], as is in many of our practices, there’s the notion when we say the svabhava mantra that the things dissolve into emptiness as though they were substantially existent, and then they disappear,…