Vajrayana Sutras & Teachings

I have realized that which is unborn;
It is what language cannot communicate;
It is free from all defilements;
It transcends causality.
I know that it is void like space,
I have gained the wisdom to see things as they really are.
I am free from all darkness;
I am the ultimately real and immaculate.
Mahavairocana Sutra, Taishou Tripitaka 18, p. 9b,
cited Hakeda, Kukai Major Works, 1972, p. 218. [Shingon Buddhism]

A mantra is supra-rational;
It eliminates ignorance when meditated upon and recited.
A single word contains a thousand truths;
One can realise Suchness here and now.
Kukai, Hakeda's edition of major works, p. 79. [Shingon Buddhism, Japan]

Inflamed is the world when we are greedy and deranged;
The sublime universe emerges if we with insight are egoless.
Alas! Miserable are those who in ignorance refuse to meditate.
Kukai, as above, p. 80. [Shingon Buddhism, Japan]

There being really no duality, pluralism is untrue.
Until duality is transcended and at-one-ness realised,
Enlightenment cannot be attained.
The Yoga of Knowing the Mind, in The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, Evans-Wentz edition, p. 206. [Tibetan Buddhism]

In this world unsubdued and crazed elephants
Are incapable of causing such harms
as the miseries of the deepest hell
Which can be caused by the unleashed elephant of my mind.
But if the elephant of my mind is firmly bound
On all sides by the rope of mindfulness,
All fears will cease to exist
And all virtues will come into my hand.
....
With the utmost effort I should check
To see that the crazed elephant of my mind
Is not wandering off but is bound
To the great pillar of the Dharma.
Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, chap. 5.
[Tibetan Buddhism]

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