To all who have experienced a particularly rough year, may this turning point of Winter Solstice return the light and dispel the darkness.pic.twitter.com/jEHAlQmC8F
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To all who have experienced a particularly rough year, may this turning point of Winter Solstice return the light and dispel the darkness.pic.twitter.com/jEHAlQmC8F
"Now, illumination is obstruction caused to darkness. But since there is no darkness in fire nor where fire is, what is that darkness which is obstructed by fire, and by virtue of whose obstruction it illuminates both other things and itself?" Nāgārjuna, Vigrahavyāvartanīvṛtti
"Just as a sword cannot cut itself, so it is with the mind. 'It illuminates itself, as does a lamp.' A lamp does not illuminate itself, for it is not concealed by darkness." Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra
"The perfection of wisdom gives light. She is worthy of homage; I pay homage to the perfection of wisdom. She is unstained. She removes darkness from all in the triple world." Aṣṭadaśasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra
"With well-concentrated minds, the darkness of delusion dissolved." Avataṃsaka Sūtra
"Their minds have no stirring thoughts in the midst of all things; they acquire the illumination of knowledge and wisdom, and destroy the darkness of ignorance." Avataṃsaka Sūtra
"All buddhas are able to emanate countless beams of light, each beam of light accompanied by untold webs of light, illumining all buddha-lands, destroying the darkness in all worlds, revealing the emergence of innumerable buddhas, their bodies equal." Avataṃsaka Sūtra
"When the buddhas smile, zillions of rays of light radiate from their faces, each light having innumerable, inconceivably many hues of all kinds, lighting up all the worlds in the ten directions." Avataṃsaka Sūtra
"All buddhas have infinite constant subtle lights with untold colors of all kinds adorning them, forming a treasury of light producing infinite orbs of light illuminating the ten directions without obstruction." Avataṃsaka Sūtra
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