Guru Rinpoche Quotes and Drawings

You don’t have to be a philosopher, you just have to want to know who you are.
Padmasambhava
Guru Rinpoche smiling face

You never receive blessings just from asking. They come when you have gained devotion.
~ Guru Rinpoche
Guru Rinpoche Lianhuasheng Dashi

Know the one thing that liberates everything – Awareness itself,
your true nature. – Guru Padmasambhava

Guru Padmasambhava also widely known as Gugu Rinpoche was the important figure in Tibetan Buddhism and in Vajrayana Buddhism. Guru Rinpoche is depicted perfectly, he sits on a moon disc on a lotus on a royal posture with the piercing gaze. Guru Padmasambhava wears a beautiful crafted colorful robe and a tantric hat. His right hand holds a Vajra, and his left-hand holds a skull vase filled with immortality nectar.In the curve of his left hand, he holds the Khatvang trident.

For most Himalayan Buddhists, Guru Rinpoche is the second Buddha, the Buddha of all enlightenment forms and teachings, with a focus on the tantras. Tantra teaches us to first see our teachers as Guru Rinpoche, just as the Great Way leads us to see and name our enlightened nature as Buddha-nature.

Excerpts from page 159, Nityananda is the divine presence

I am present in front of anyone who has faith in me, just as the moon casts its reflection, effortlessly, in any vessel filled with water. – Guru Rinpoche

Guru Rinpoche with Consorts, Mandaravas and Yehse Tsogyal

Regularly working with the psoas (muscle of the soul) through the 5 Tibetan Rites can help transition from a state of chronic stress (tight) to a state of ease and “soulful” connection (released).