Rebirth is just another obdurate belief, like belief in the flat earth; like the belief in a substantial, weighty soul; like belief in the superiority of the white race; like belief that the sun encircles the earth; like belief in the big bang at the beginning of time; like belief in the internal combustion engine; and like belief in contemporary aerodynamics.

~ Keith Dowman

Don’t subsume self-knowing awareness,
the essence of the spontaneously present three kayas,
within the confines of fabrications that affirm or negate it.
Let it be as it is, and you will witness its meaning beyond thought
and seize the everlasting kingdom of great nondual primal wisdom.

~ Machig Lapdron

This approach is unlike that of the lower vehicles, which are not free from intellectual endeavors to negate existence and establish nonexistence.

Once you see the ultimate essence of emptiness just as it is, you will understand the crucial point that awareness is a great openness that has from the very beginning always been utterly pure.

~ Sera Khandro

Ah! All compounded things are impermanent.
Arising and perishing, they change.
Since they arise and then will be destroyed,
Those who swiftly wish for peace
Should view all things that are compounded
As like the stars, like visual aberrations, lamps,
Illusions, dew, and water bubbles,
Like dreams and lightning, and like clouds.

~ Chapters of Utterances on Specific Topics

The universe that contains us is impermanent, for it is destroyed by fire and water.
The sentient beings it contains are impermanent, for body and mind must part.
The seasons—summer and winter, autumn and spring—are impermanent.
Bless us that disenchantment may arise from the depth of our hearts.

~ Guru Padmasambhava

Life is extremely precious, but it’s not permanent, so don’t miss your opportunity to use it for its real purpose. Put the effort into your meditation and don’t get distracted by the small things.

~ Jigme Losel Wangpo

Son, the clear presence of this very moment
Is the dharmakaya: recognize it!
The variety of appearances of the outer world
Is the radiance of one’s [primordial] energy: recognize it!
Look at visions and mind as the single state of nonduality.
Remain in a state of nonduality beyond the conceptual mind.

~ Shense Lhaje

The river of our sentience
Does not have even the least part in any position.
We do not depend on any one thing.

Every position holds onto a position about this.
Those who have it do not get it.
For this reason we have no position,
And for this reason the infinite fields
Are the embodiments of our spirits.

As for the body of our spirit,
It is brilliantly visible
In the infinite fields
And in the bodies of the people.

~ Tantra on Bodhicitta Meditation

Not arising from ordinary mind,
self-knowing awareness is pure from the outset.
Never depending on the confused mind of dualism,
it is a vast expanse,
primordially liberated from the limitations
of mind and its thinking.
Cleansed of the veils of ignorance,
it expands as the experience of primordial wisdom.

~ Sera Khandro

How is it that our own minds are enlightened?
Our Bodhicitta is the enlightenment of our own minds.
Our sentience and our enlightenment are primordially indivisible.

All sentient beings,
None excepted,
Everyone with a human body,
And all the Dharmas of the three times:
These are all our own minds.

All of us,
With none excepted,
And all the Dharmas that may be counted
Are gathered into the indivisibility
Of sentience and enlightenment.

~ Tantra on Bodhicitta Meditation