In such a state, the support or basis of ordinary reality is radically shifted in favor of the extraordinary and the nonlocal, which is also the undying spiritual substance of existence.

link: zennist

link: Google – Buddha Enlightenment Venus

Intention is very important in Buddhist practice. We take vows towards our intention. First, we promise to do good, or at least no harm. Second, we promise to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all. Then, we promise to maintain pure view or sacred outlook – all beings as buddhas, all sounds as mantras, all thoughts as wisdom, and all phenomena as a buddhafield.

link: saga dawa duchen

Mara is tired and cranky. The demon tempter has tried everything in his power to prevent this sitting man from attaining his goal, and now he’s finally out of tricks. In a desperate last hurrah to stop Siddhartha he sputters:

So you think you’re going to wake up, do you? Go on then, become a Buddha. Who cares? Who is here to vouch for your achievement? I demand to know, wise guy: who will be your witness?

Siddhartha—under the Bodhi tree, who at this very moment is becoming the Buddha—says nothing. In what has got to be the best possible response to Mara’s harassment (it gives me gooseflesh!), the Buddha silently reaches down and touches the earth with his fingertips.

Boom. Rivers roar, flowers bloom, and the mountains walk. The earth bears witness.

link: tricycle

In a dzogchen text it says, “From the beginning we are all Buddhas by nature, we only have to realize that fact.”

link: Tricycle