Sources of authority

• "work hard to gain your own liberation"
• pure land buddhism 


  focus is on devotion to amitabha

  "I dedicate my life to the buddha of infinite light"
• "dont mistake the finger for the moon" : sugggests that while gautama buddha showed one way to reach nirvana , this does not rule out the possibility of other paths.
• tathagatagarbha

  "all beings are Buddhas, but obscured by incidental stains. when those have been removed, there is Buddhahood"
• tathagatagarbha sutra

  • buddha nature (pure honey)
  • pure honey (buddha nature) in a tree covered with a swarm of bees (kleshas), keep one from getting to it
  • "with my buddha eye i see it clearly and with appropiate skilful techniques I destroy the kleshas and reveal the Buddha vision"
• teachings on sunyata

  "form is not different from emptiness

  and emptiness is not from form

  form is emptiness , emptiness is form"
• dependent origination

  "one who sees dependent origination sees the dharma. one who sees the dharma sees dependent origination"
• dukkha

  "birth is suffering , aging is suffering, death is suffering; sorrow, regret, pain,grief + despair are suffering" - The Buddha
• Dukkha

  "All conditioned things are suffering. When one sees this with wisdom , one turns away from suffering" - Buddha
• "all life is impermanent, strive hard for your own liberation"