Tulku Urgyen > Quotes

“All sentient beings are buddhas, but they are covered by temporary obscurations. When these are removed, they are truly buddhas enlightened.”
― Tulku Urgyen, As It Is, Volume I: Essential Teachings from the Dzogchen Perspective

“No matter what we do in this life, all the information we gather and all the knowledge we accumulate and all the effort we make to amass wealth through work and business—when the time comes for us to leave this life, all of it is futile and in vain. It will not help us in any way whatsoever. I can easily say this since I am not educated at all! So I can smile and act big about this. Don’t be angry, please.”
― Tulku Urgyen, As It Is, Volume I: Essential Teachings from the Dzogchen Perspective

“There is no other way to reach enlightenment than by recognizing buddha nature and attaining stability in it. Buddhas of the past did that, and the present-day practitioners who will be the buddhas of the future will do so by recognizing their own nature and attaining stability in it. There is no other way. Nobody else can accomplish enlightenment for us or pull us into liberation. It is completely up to ourselves.”
― Tulku Urgyen, Repeating the Words of the Buddha

“May I quickly attain complete enlightenment, and having attained the state of a buddha, may I guide all sentient beings to liberation and the awakened state itself.”
― Tulku Urgyen, As It Is, Volume II

“You do not need to fabricate at all. Once you utterly let be, involvement in thoughts of past, present and future subside. By letting be, you are no longer involved in the thoughts of the three times. When utterly letting be, wakefulness is vividly present.”
― Tulku Urgyen, As It Is, Volume II

“In this present life, you can experience your enlightened essence, and if you do that, you can, before passing away, attain the perfectly and fully awakened state of a buddha.”
― Tulku Urgyen, Repeating the Words of the Buddha

“To get carried away by a thought is the state of a sentient being. Rather than that, recognize your basic state as being the essence, nature and capacity that are the three kayas of the buddhas. Remain in uncontrived naturalness for short moments, repeated many times. You can become accustomed to this. The short moments can grow longer. In one instant of remaining in unfabricated naturalness, a kalpa of negative karma is purified.”
― Tulku Urgyen, As It Is, Volume II

“The three poisons are exactly what creates the three realms of samsara. Attachment creates the realms of desire. Aversion creates the realms of form. Indifference creates the realms of formlessness.”
― Tulku Urgyen, As It Is, Volume I: Essential Teachings from the Dzogchen Perspective

“There is either being caught up in thinking, or there is a moment of rigpa.”
― Tulku Urgyen, As It Is, Volume II

“Bless me to sincerely be aware of death.”
― Tulku Urgyen, Blazing Splendor: The Memoirs of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

“Within complexity I discovered dharmakaya; within thought I discovered nonthought.”
― Tulku Urgyen, Rainbow Painting

“the kusulu, the simple meditator. “For this type of person, the main point of the Buddha’s teaching involves nothing more than understanding the difference between recognizing and not recognizing mind-essence. Not recognizing is samsara, while recognizing is nirvana or liberation.”
― Tulku Urgyen, Quintessential Dzogchen: Confusion Dawns as Wisdom