A Gift of Dharma for 7.9.10
Today’s quote comes from His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991), whom I previously quoted and wrote a short biography for in the very first “A Gift of Dharma” post. Were he alive, he would be 100 years old day. This is it:
Before entering the spiritual path, we dwell in the supposedly impure state of samsara, which is governed, in relative terms, by ignorance. When we are engaged on the path, we pass through a state where ignorance and knowledge are mixed, and at the end of the path, at the moment of awakening, nothing remains but pure awareness. But throughout the entire course, though it appears that a transformation has taken place, the nature of the mind itself has never changed; not corrupted at the beginning of the path, it is not improved at the end.
