tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229203872012-01-18T11:18:57.175-02:00"Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelled, felt or thought,expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear." - Nisargadatta Maharajlanuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898319041185360777noreply@blogger.comBlogger2011100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22920387.post-39014965561616831722012-01-08T17:40:00.002-02:002012-01-08T17:40:18.340-02:00

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche There are many people who are more learned than I and more elevated in their wisdom. However, I have never made a separation between the spiritual and the worldly. If you understand the ultimate aspect of the dharma, this is the ultimate aspect of the world. And if you should cultivate the ultimate aspect of the world, this should be in harmony with the dharma. Chogyam

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Patrul Rinpoche The famous nineteenth-century dzogchen master Paltrul Rinpoche explained self-liberation concretely and precisely: "The practitioner of self-liberation is like an ordinary person as far as the way in which the thoughts of pleasure and pain, hope and fear, manifest themselves as creative energy. However, the ordinary person, taking these really seriously and judging them as

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Sogyal Rinpoche Just as the ocean has waves, and the sun has rays, so the mind’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. The ocean has waves, yet the ocean is not particularly disturbed by them. The waves are the very nature of the ocean. Waves will rise, but where do they go? Back into the ocean. And where do the waves come from? The ocean.  In the same manner, thoughts and emotions are

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Milarepa For the mind that masters view the emptiness dawns In the content seen not even an atom exists A seer and seen refined until they're gone This way of realizing view, it works quite well When meditation is clear light river flow There is no need to confine it to sessions and breaks Meditator and object refined until they're gone This heart bone of meditation, it beats quite well

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Kalu Rinpoche The late Kalu Rinpoche of Kagyu lineage - taught in this meditation practice that we should allow all thoughts, feelings, and preceptions to settle like snow-flakes falling into a clear lake. We do not have to get rid of them or wash them away or stop them, but only to see how they settle and dissolve naturally by themselves without any effort on our parts, just as everything

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Ch'an Newsletter - No. 106, February 1995 - Lecture given by master Sheng-yen during the Dec. 1993 Ch'an retreat, edited by Linda Peer and Harry Miller The Japanese term "shikantaza" literally means "just sitting." Its original Chinese name, mo-chao, means "silent illumination." "Silent" refers to not using any specific method of meditation and having no thoughts in your mind. "Illumination"

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Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche  Holding to an ordinary notion of self, or ego, is the source of all our pain and confusion. The irony is that when we look for this "self" that we're cherishing and protecting, we can't even find it. The self is shifty and ungraspable. When we say "I'm old," we're referring to our body as self. When we say "my body," the self becomes the owner of the body. When we say

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"When I'm practicing with a group, I often compare myself with the people sitting around me. I wonder if they are more focused, if they're moving less frequently, if their posture is better. How can I stop feeling so competitive?" Q&A with Michael Wenger When comparing yourself with others, do you usually find that you compare favorably or unfavorably? If you compare favorably, do you feel proud

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Nisargadatta Maharaj "We are the creators and creatures of each other, causing and bearing each other's burden." ** I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give

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Sri Poonjaji - Papaji Sri Poonjaji Sri H.W.L. Poonjaji, endearingly known as Papaji, was a disciple of the greatest and most revered sage of India, Sri Ramana Maharshi. Papaji became enlightened through him almost 50 years ago. Ramana resided in Arunachala, The Holy Mountains and pilgramage centre of South India. The essence of Sri Ramana's message was to find out who you are. The device he

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The practice of Dharma should bring you to the point where you can maintain the same constant awareness whether in or out of practice sessions. This is the quintessential point of all spiritual instruction; without it, however many mantras and prayers you recite, however many thousands of prostrations and circumambulations you do, as long as your mind remains distracted none of it will help to

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Mingyur Rinpoche Dear friends, students, and fellow meditators, By the time you read this letter, I will have begun the long retreat that I announced last year. As you may know, I have felt a very strong connection with the tradition of retreat since I was a young boy growing up in the Himalayas. Even though I didn't really know how to meditate, I would often run away from home to a cave

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By Dzogchen Master The First Jamgon Kontrul Rinpoche  Homage to the Guru, the teacher. The View and Meditation of Dzogchen can be explained in many, many ways, but simply sustaining the essence of present awareness includes them all. Your mind won't be found elsewhere. It is the very nature of this moment-to-moment thinking. Regard nakedly the essence of this thinking and you find present

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Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche Om delek su gyur chik! The sun of wisdom shines in Dharmadhatu's sky, Light rays of love dispel the darkness of ignorance. To those who cause Dharma to flourish in the realms of wanderers— To the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the ten directions, I bow. (1) Genuine reality transcends "top," "bottom," and directions, But through dependent imputation, "Top," "

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By Lama Surya Das Truth telling is a rigorous spiritual practice. Buddha's not pretending. We can't just believe whatever we think. We think, therefore, we err. That which we call "I" is just impermanent, ownerless karma rolling along. Don't take it personally. Everyone is a little crazy. Remembering this helps us lighten up. We need a spiritual life, not just special experiences. Grasping

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Adyashanti What is it like to live an awakened life? While the world is trying to solve its problems and everyone around you is engaged in the same, you’re not. While everybody around you is trying to figure it out, trying to arrive, trying to “get there,” trying to be worthy, you’re not. While everyone thinks that awakening is a grand, noble, halo-enshrouded thing, for you it’s not. While

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Kalu Rinpoche A prática do Mahamudra em si é extremamente simples e fácil. Não há visualizações ou exercícios complicados. Não há nada a fazer. Basta deixar a mente em seu estado natural, como ele é, como ele vier, sem fabricação. É extremamente simples. Na tradição do relicário do Mahamudra, é dito que o Mahamudra é: Muito próximo para ser reconhecido, Muito profundo para ser agarrado, Muito

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Dipa Ma 1. Choose one meditation practice and stick with it. If you want to progress in meditation stay with one technique. 2. Meditate every day. Practice now. Don't think you will do more later. 3. Any situation is workable. Each of us has enormous power. It can be used to help ourselves and help others. 4. Practice patience. Patience is one of the most important virtues for developing

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J. Krishnamurti Answer: Is there a reason for being? Krishnamurti: Why do you want a reason for being? (Laughter). You are here. And because you are here and don't understand yourself, you want to invent a reason. You know, Sir, when you look at a tree or the clouds, the light on the water, when you know what it means to love, you will require no reason for being..... Then all the museums in

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Let go of things as separate existences and mind too vanishes. Likewise when the thinking subject vanishes so too do the objects created by mind. The arising of other gives rise to self; giving rise to self generates other. Know these seeming two as facets of the One Fundamental Reality. In this Emptiness, these two are really one - and each contains all phenomena. - Hsin Hsin Ming, Verses on

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By Huang po (d.850) Question: At the moment of Enlightenment, where is the Buddha? Answer: Whence does your question come? Whence does your consciousness arise? When speech is silenced, all movement stilled, every sight and sound vanished—then is the Buddha’s work of deliverance truly going forward! Then, where will you seek the Buddha? You cannot place a head upon your head, or lips

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A young novice asked Ch'an Master Hsing-kung, "What was the meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?" The Master replied, "Assume someone fell into a well that is one thousand feet deep. If you can rescue him without using even an inch of rope, then I will tell you." The novice said, "Ch'an Master Ch'ang of Hunan who passed away recently was just like you. Your style of speech is

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By Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche Once, Tilopa advised his disciple to go off to an isolated retreat and avoid any meditation. Now, this may seem a little unusual for a meditation retreat. He explains, however, that when you go to meditate, you normally take up something to meditate on, some thing. That thing, and therefore that meditation, is necessarily artificial. The practice of

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By Shakyamuni Buddha When I was a young person, at the beginning of my life, I looked at nature and saw that all things are subject to decay and death and thus to sorrow. The thought came to me that I myself was of such a nature. I was the same as all created things. I too would be subject to disease, decay, death, and sorrow. But what if I were to search for that which underlies all

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I the yogi, Milarepa, look nakedly and see the essenceWhat I see is beyond concept what I see resembles spaceFree from motion, resting still - I realize the true natureAll the things there are empty - their empty essence is what I realizeRelaxing loosely, letting go - original wisdom holds its groundIn the river of awareness the mud settles down and the brightness shinesI take my concepts and

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Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself. Do not suppress it—simply be aware of it. Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed. When you are aware that you are angry, your anger is transformed. If you destroy anger, you destroy the Buddha, for Buddha and Mara are of the same essence. Thich Nhat Hanh

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In Memory of Khandro Tsering Chödrön from khandrotseringchodron.org on Vimeo.

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Kwong-roshi on Chogyam Trungpa from Chronicles of Chogyam Trungpa on Vimeo.

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There are no conditions to fulfil. There is nothing to be done, nothing to be given up. Just look and remember, whatever you perceive is not you, nor yours. It is there in the field of consciousness, but you are not the field and its contents, not even the knower of the field. It is your idea that you have to do things that entangle you in the results of your efforts - the motive, the desire,

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By Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso RinpocheFor ordinary beings, mind is discursive. It moves. It moves towards objects. It moves towards the three times. It is constantly thinking about one thing or another. Mind is moved by thoughts of the five poisons. When mind encounters an object it likes, it moves towards that object with thoughts of attachment. When mind encounters an object it does not like, it

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By Chan Master Sheng YenChan is not the same as knowledge, yet knowledge is not completely apart from Chan. Chan is not just religion, yet the achievements of religion can be reached through Chan. Chan is not philosophy, yet philosophy can in no way exceed the scope of Chan. Chan is not science, yet the spirit of emphasizing reality and experience is also required in Chan.Therefore, please do

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By Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (Mudra, 1972)Translated by Chogyam Trungpa RinpocheMaha atiTHIS IS THE LION'S ROAR which subdues the rampant confusions and misunderstandings of those meditators who have abandoned materialistic attachments to meditate on the Innermost Essence.The maha ati [Tib.: dzogchen], which is beyond conceptions and transcends both grasping and letting go, is the essence of

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By H.E. Garchen Rinpoche There are two major systems in this world, the mundane and spiritual. These two systems are like two eyes, thus it is important to know them both. It is important to know the essence of these systems. Some people in this world refuse all spirituality, they only believe in the improvement of science. This is slightly mistaken. We do need science but at the same time must

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Shunryu Suzuki (1904-1971)  “People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems with constancy.” The message for us today is “Cultivate your own spirit.”  It means not to go seeking for something outside yourself.  This is a very important point, and it is the only way to practice Zen.  Of course, studying scriptures or reciting the sutras or sitting is Zen;

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By Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche Just suppose that we have been born in a cinema hall. We don’t know that what is going on in front of us is just a projection. We don’t know that it is just a film, just a movie, and that the events in the movie aren’t real, that they have no true existence. Everything we see on that screen—love, hate, violence, suspense, thrills—is in fact just the effect

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By Sokei-an Sasaki Teachers of Zen have a favorite saying, “Return to your original state!” To return to the original state means, in a word, “Go back home!” “Original state” signifies “original state of mind.” What is this original state of mind? Buddha spoke of the original state of mind, calling it avidya - original darkness. Of course Buddha did not say, “Return to your original darkness!”

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Gyalwa Götsangpas (1189 A.D. to 1258 A.D.) Tibetan Master of the Drukpa Kagyu Namo Ratna Guru! When thoughts that there is something, perceived and a perceiver, Lure my mind away and distract, I don't close off to try to meditate to be free of them, But plunge straight into their essential point. They're like clouds in the sky; there's this shimmer where they fly. Thoughts that arise, for me

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Buddahood does not happen by being made to happen. It is unsought and naturally indwelling, and so is spontaneously present. Rest nonconceptually in this effortless, naturally abiding state. Longchepa Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest. Tilopa

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A teaching on the nature of mind by the late Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche The great pandit Shantarakshita, who was instrumental in transplanting Buddhism from India to Tibet, promised that one of his students would come one day to complete his work. Kamalasila (Tib., Padampa Sangye) fulfilled this prophecy, making three trips to Tibet during the eleventh century. This was the time when the great yogi

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Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche Basically and fundamentally, our mind is utterly empty, sheer bliss, totally naked. We do not need to make it like this; we do not need to cultivate it by meditating, to create this state by meditating. Give up thinking of anything at all, about the past, the future or the present. Remain thought-free, like an infant. Innate suchness is unobscured the moment you are not

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By Osho LIFE WITHOUT IS A CYCLONE -- a constant conflict, turmoil, struggle. But it is only so on the surface -- just as on the surface of the ocean are waves, maddening noise, constant struggle. BUT THIS IS NOT ALL OF LIFE. Deep down there is also a center -- soundless, silent, no conflict, no struggle. In the center, life is a noiseless flow, relaxed, a river moving with no struggle, with no

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Zen Master Ejo - (1198-1282)  There is a chapter on light in the Shobogenzo; the reason for writing this essay now is just to bring out this essential substance, the fact that the countenance of Buddhism is absorption in the treasury of light. The so-called treasury of light is the root source of all Buddhas, the inherent being of all living creatures, the total substance of all phenomena, the

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Patrul Rinpoche (1808–1887) Vajrasattva, sole deity, Master, You sit on a full-moon lotus-cushion of white light In the hundred-petalled full bloom of youth. Think of me, Vajrasattva, You who remain unmoved within the manifest display That is Mahamudra, pure bliss-emptiness. Listen up, old bad-karma Patrul, You dweller-in-distraction. For ages now you've been Beguiled, entranced, and fooled

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By Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Buddha nature is continuously present in ourselves as well as in everyone else, without any exception whatsoever. It is in essence forever unobscured. It doesn’t increase or decrease. It is not sometimes covered or uncovered. It is totally beyond mental constructs. It does not change in size. It is not that someone has a big buddha nature and somebody else a small

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Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche had a unique way of expressing the most profound points of training the mind in simple language. Here are two excerpts from some of the chapters in Quintessential Dzogchen, a collection of that has many teachings by this extraordinary master. The traditional phrase is: cultivate shamatha; train in vipashyana. Buddhism never says that shamatha and vipashyana are

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By Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche ORDINARILY, our minds are like flags in the wind, fluttering this way and that, depending on which way the wind blows. Even if we don’t want to feel angry, jealous, lonely, or depressed, we’re carried away by such feelings and by the thoughts and physical sensations that accompany them. We’re not free; we can’t see other options, other possibilities. The goal of

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by Katsuki Sekida Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning. In ordinary daily life our consciousness works ceaselessly to protect and maintain our interests. It has acquired the habit of "utilitarian thinking" — looking upon the things in the world as

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By Shodo Harada Roshi In Buddhism, its often said that humans’ Original Mind, that Mind we have at birth, is like a clear mirror, pure and uncluttered, without shape, form, or color, with nothing in it whatsoever. If something comes before it, the mirror reflects it exactly, but the mirror itself gives birth to nothing. If what has been reflected leaves, its image disappears, but the mirror

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The Venerable Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche speaks with Pema Chodron. Pema Chödrön, an American nun in the Shambhala lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and the author of several books, including the best-selling When Things Fall Apart and The Places that Scare You, currently practices under the guidance of the Venerable Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, a teacher in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Dzigar

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This poem to me expresses the heart of Zen Master Seung Sahn's teaching: Your true self is always shining and free. Human beings make something and enter the ocean of suffering. Only without thinking can you return to your true self. The high mountain is always blue,white clouds coming and going. –Zen Master Seung Sahn When Shakyamuni Buddha had his big awakening, he was gazing at the Eastern

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Joshu (778-897) asked his teacher, Nansen (748-834), “What is the Tao?”Nansen replied, “Ordinary mind is the Tao.”Joshu asked, “Shall I try to seek it?”“If you try for it, you will become apart from it,” Nansen replied.“How can I know the Tao unless I try for it?” persisted Joshu.“The Tao is not a matter of knowing or not knowing. Knowing is delusion, not knowing is ignorance. When you have truly

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Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche was born in Tibet in 1951. He emigrated with his family shortly before the Chinese invasion in 1959. He was brought up by his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920-1995), considered one of the greatest Dzogchen masters of our time.Tulku Urgyen sent his son to study at the seat of the Sixteenth Karmapa, where he served as the Karmapa’s private attendant. Later, his father

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By Lama Surya DasI'd like to read something by the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, whose name means the self-existent diamond. This Karmapa was a Dzogchen master. He was the Dharma brother of Longchenpa, the enlightened fourteenth century Dzogchen patriarch. This is a very important pith-instruction from the secret, oral pith-instruction lineage of the Mahamudra and Dzogchen tradition. It's called

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By Lama YesheWHEN I TALK ABOUT MIND, I'm not just talking about my mind, my trip. I'm talking about the mind of each and every universal living being. The way we live, the way we think-everything is dedicated to material pleasure. We consider sense objects to be of utmost importance and materialistically devote ourselves to whatever makes us happy, famous, or popular. Even though all this comes

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Confused Practice cannot Help It is sad that people have been confused for so long.  They do not understand that their own minds are Buddha and that their own natures are Dharma.  They look for Dharma by searching for sages for a way.  They look for Buddha but do not observe their own minds. If they aspire to Buddhahood while clinging to their opinion that Buddha is outside the mind and that

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By Dudjom Rinpoche Since pure awareness of nowness is the real buddha, In openness and contentment I found the Lama in my heart. When we realize this unending natural mind is the very nature of the Lama, Then there is no need for attached, grasping, or weeping prayers or artificial complaints, By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state, We obtain the blessing of aimless

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By Sogyal Rinpoche The teaching of the Buddha is vast. Just the ‘Word of the Buddha’ alone fills over a hundred volumes. Then the commentaries and treatises by the great Indian scholars fill another two hundred and more, and this is not even counting all the works of the great Tibetan masters. Yet at the same time, the teaching of the Buddha can be essentialized in a very profound way. I

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“When you are sitting in meditation, watch carefully to know when your consciousness starts to move. Consciousness is always moving and flowing. According to its coming and going, we must all be aware of it. Use the wisdom of a diamond to control and rule it, since just like a plant, there is nothing to know. To know there is nothing to know is the wisdom to know everything. This is the

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By Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche To look into the nature of the mind we must understand how all its ordinary thoughts about anything and everything imaginable are just empty and insubstantial. Until now, we have been the slave of what we call ‘mind,’ forced to wander helplessly through samsaric existence. Now we must reverse the situation, and take control of our own mind. It will be easy to do this

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Dilgo Khyentse RinpocheThe nature of mindLike waves, all the activities of this life have rolled endless on, yet they have left us emptyhanded. Myriads of thoughts have run through our minds, but all they have done is increase our confusion and dissatisfaction.Normally we operate under the deluded assumption that everything has some sort of true, substantial reality. But when we look more

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One day in the remote hills of western China near the Tibetan frontier, a Dzogchen master was having a brief lunch in a roadside inn while on his journey returning to Tibet.  It so happened that a master of Chan (Zen) had just entered the inn looking to partake in some lunch as well.  As there was only one seat left at the table, the Dzogchen master offered the Chan master a seat at his table.  A

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In the Bon tradition, Dzogchen practice is the highest teaching of all. Through the practice of Dzogchen one can attain enlightenment in this very life. Dzogchen is a Tibetan term that is made up of two words. The first word is ‘Dzog’, the second word is ‘Chen’. ‘Dzog’ means complete, and ‘Chen’ means great. In the West, Dzogchen is known as The Great Perfection. Dzogchen practice is found in

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By Thich Nhat HanhMy desire for achievement has led to much suffering. No matter what I do, it never feels like it's enough. How can I make peace with myself? The quality of your action depends on the quality of your being. Suppose you’re eager to offer happiness, to make someone happy. That’s a good thing to do. But if you’re not happy, then you can’t do that. In order to make another person

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Namkhai Norbu RinpocheOne should relax the mind, maintaining only the awakened presence of one's own State, without allowing oneself to be dominated by any thought whatsoever. When one is truly relaxed, the mind finds itself in its natural condition. If out of this natural condition thoughts arise, whether good or bad, rather than trying to judge whether one is in the calm state or in the wave of

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When we’re watching a movie in the theatre, we can relax and enjoy the show because we know it’s an illusion. This magical display that we’re watching is the result of a projector, film, light, screen, and our own perceptions coming together. In separate momentary flashes of color, shapes, and sound, they create an illusion of continuity, which we perceive as characters, scenery, movement, and

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His Holiness the Twelfth Gyalwang DrukpaHis Holiness the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa is the head of the Drukpa School of Tibetan Buddhism, one of Tibet’s great practice lineages, and is a renowned master of the Mahamudra and Dzogchen lineages. He has monasteries and nunneries in India and Nepal, as well as centers in Europe and Mexico. This is his first interview in ten years. Lama Surya Das, a

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Huang-po (d. 850) The Mind is no mind of conceptual thought, and it is completely detached from form. So Buddhas and sentient beings do not differ at all. If you can only rid yourselves of conceptual thought, you will have accomplished everything. But if you students of the Way do not rid yourselves of conceptual thought in a flash, even though you strive for eon after eon, you will never

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Sogyal Rinpoche The teaching of the Buddha is vast. Just the ‘Word of the Buddha’ alone fills over a hundred volumes. Then the commentaries and treatises by the great Indian scholars fill another two hundred and more, and this is not even counting all the works of the great Tibetan masters. Yet at the same time, the teaching of the Buddha can be essentialized in a very profound way. I remember

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Huang-po (d. 850)When a sudden flash of thought occurs in your mind, and you recognize it for a dream or an illusion, then you can enter into the state reached by the Buddhas of the past-not that the Buddhas of the past really exist, or that the Buddhas of the future have not yet come into existence. Above all, have no longing to become a future Buddha; your sole concern should be, as thought

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When he became emancipated the sixth patriach received from the fifth patriach the bowl and robe given from the Buddha to his successors, generation after generation.A monk named E-myo out of envy pursued the patriach to take this great treasure away from him. The sixth patriach placed the bowl and robe on a stone in the road and told E-myo: `These objects just symbolize the faith. There is no

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OshoQuestion: I have always heard you say, "Stop doing; watch." Several times lately I've heard you say that the mind should be the servant instead of our Master. It feels that there is nothing to do except watch. But the question still arises: is there anything to do with this unruly servant but to watch?Prem Niren, there is nothing else to do with this unruly servant but just to watch.

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By Nyoshul Khenpo RinpocheLook inward at your own mind!It seems quite exciting, when not examined.But when examined, there is nothing to it.Appearing without being, it is nothing but empty.It cannot be identified saying, "That's it!"But is evanescent and elusive like mist. Look at whatever may appear In any of the ten directions.No matter how it may appear.The thing in itself, it's very nature,Is

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By Adyashanti "When you went to a Zen temple and you wanted to go to a retreat or become a monk or something, they would make you sit at the temple gate, like the gate outside here. Imagine you come to a retreat a Garrison, and they say "No! We don't really want you here, you don't want to be here. You're not serious. Forget about it. Go home. Go back to your life. You don't want this."

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By Dzigar Kongtrul RinpocheFor years Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche has painted as a form of contemplative meditation. What makes art a transformative practice, he explains, is getting ego out of the way and allowing the art to reflect a natural, uncontrived awareness.My interest in Western art has a lot to do with my own meditation practice. Though Buddhist meditation and abstract art may seem like an

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AdyaShantiLife moves, undulates, breathes in and out, contracting and expanding. This is its nature, the nature of what is. Whatever is, is on the move. Nothing remains the same for very long. The mind wants everything to stop so that it can get its foothold, find its position, so it can figure out how to control life. Through the pursuit of material things, knowledge, ideas, beliefs, opinions,

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Tulku Urgyen RinpocheThe following interview with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche was recorded on the 16th day of December, 1985, at Nagi Gompa, outside of Kathmandu.When Rinpoche was asked if he would grant an interview for the Vajradhatu Sun, his reply was, "What is the use of the tiny light of a firefly when the sun has already risen in the sky?" referring to Trungpa Rinpoche's presence in the West.Q:

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Chiyono said, “I have heard that the Buddha emits rays of light from a tuft of white hair between his eyebrows, illuminating all ten directions. Gazing at them is like looking at the palm of your hand. Can I point to my lowly self and say that I have Buddha nature or am I deluding myself?The nun replied, “Listen carefully. The teachers of the past have said that people are complete as they are

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In the village of Hiromi in the Mugi district there were three nuns who built a Zen temple and devoted themselves to practicing the Buddhist way. Together with other nuns who came from all parts, and, on some occasions, with numerous lay disciples, they assembled for communal Zen meditation and practice.At that time there was a servant woman about twenty-four or twenty-five years of age who had

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The Nun Miaoxin:Little is known of Miaoxin's early life, except that she was born about 840 CE. Her nickname, Huaizi, "child of the Huai River," suggests she was born on the banks of the Huai, which flows west to east in central China. The name Miaoxin means "wonderful belief."Her Place in the Lineage:Miaoxin was a disciple of Yangshan Huiji. Yangshan was a dharma heir of Guishan Lingyou, which

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Ramesh BalsekarThe universe is uncaused, like a net of jewels in which each is only the reflection of all the others in a fantastic interrelated harmony without end....Self-Realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are....Enlightenment is total emptiness of mind. There is nothing you can do to get it. Any effort you make can only be an obstruction to it....If you

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By Milarepa When I'm going, I take appearances to the pathGoing with six consciousnesses free all by themselvesWhen I'm resting, I rest in uncontrived naturalnessThis is the way to rest in the heart essenceWhen I'm eating, I eat within emptinessThis is the way to eat without perceiver or perceivedWhen I'm drinking, I drink from the river of mindfulnessThis is the way to drink that never, ever

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Mayu, Zen Master Baoche, was fanning himself. A monk approached and said, "Master, the nature of wind is permanent and there is no place it does not reach. Why then do you fan yourself?""Although you understand that the nature of the wind is permanent," Mayu replied, "you do not understand the meaning of its reaching everywhere.""What is the meaning of its reaching everywhere?" asked the monk

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Right & WrongWhen Bankei held his seclusion-weeks of meditation, pupils from many parts of Japan came to attend. During one of these gatherings a pupil was caught stealing. The matter was reported to Bankei with the request that the culprit be expelled. Bankei ignored the case. Later the pupil was caught in a similar act, and again Bankei disregarded the matter. This angered the other pupils, who

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By Maitripa I pay homage to and salute suchness,Bereft of any dealings with existence or nonexistence,Since its very stainlessnessIs the nature of enlightenment as realization.Those who wish to realize suchnessDo so neither with aspects nor without aspects.Not adorned with the guru's words,Even the middle is just middling. This entity is indeed enlightenment,Which is due to having the nature of

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By The Dzogchen Ponlop RinpocheWe can see awakening in the world around us, but we can also turn the telescope inward and look directly at our mind. In the Vajrayana school of Buddhism, we discover that this very mind is the mind of the Buddha, and what we’ve been searching for so long has been right in front of us all the time.Only when we have a genuine, abiding desire to free ourselves from

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By Ch'an Master Hsuan Chuen of Yung Chia. This Ancient Buddha was the Dharma Successor of Hui-Neng and also the Dharma Successor of Master T'ien Kung who was the 7th Patriarch of the T'ien T'ai Sect. Yung Chia is called the "Overnight Enlightened One" by those who dwell at Ts'ao Ch'i.Do you not know the ease of the man of the Way who has gone beyond learning, and whose state is "non-action"Who

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By Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche“If you believe there is a thing called mind, it is just a thought. If you believe there is no thing called mind, it’s just another thought. Your natural state, free of any kind of thought about it—that is buddhanature. Mind is similar to space, in that it is insubstantial, not material. Isn’t it quite amazing that something that is insubstantial is also able to experience

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By Khenpo Tsultrim GyamtsoNamo guru hasa vajraSamsara and nirvana are undifferentiableAnd even though you realize thisTo purify your thoughts of their attributesYou gained Buddhahood in just one lifeMighty hero, Shepa Dorje [Milarepa]At your feet, I bow with great respect. [Homage]Genuine reality transcends birth and deathFalse appearances, birth and death are like watermoonsKnowing this will

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Zen Master Seung SahnTricycle: You grew up in a Protestant family in Korea. I’m curious to know what made the Buddhist teachings so attractive to you.Seung Sahn: When North and South Korea separated, society became complicated. Everyone fighting. So I went to the mountains to study Confucianism. Then one day a monk asked me, “What are you doing?”“I’m studying Chinese philosophy,” I say.“Chinese

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By MInguyr RinpocheYou began to practice very seriously at an early age. Can you say something about that? I entered a three-year retreat at the age of thirteen. It was something I felt strongly about. I wanted to study with Tulku Saljey Rinpoche [1910-1991, an important Kagyu master], who was quite old at the time, at the Sherab Ling monastery, a couple of hours from Dharamsala.Isn’t it unusual

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Chogyam Trungpa RinpocheThe shamatha style of meditation is particularly recommended by the Buddha. It has been the way for beginning meditators for 2,500 years. To describe meditation we could use the phrase touch and go. You are in contact, you’re touching the experience of being there, actually being there-—and then you let go. That applies to awareness of your breath on the cushion and also

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By MilarepaSomeone who rests in the act of self-recognitionAnd is therefore in contact with basic realityThis is a yogi and happy at any timeSomeone like this is a yogi and always contentA dharma practitioner chasing after delusionCaught up in creating a welter of sufferingThis is a person unhappy at any timeThis is a person who's always miserableSomeone who rests in a state which is not

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By Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso RinpocheTo my students, wise, diligent and faithful:If you want to get rid of illness once and for allSince illness' real cause is clinging to "me" and "my"Meditate on true reality, where there is no "I".So much troubles your body, you want it to healBut the source of that trouble is thinking that the body's realThis body appears only when causes and conditions allow it

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By Milarepa By and large worldly activities tend to mislead youI choose what is genuine, that's what I'm living forDistractions that goes with possessions will tend to mislead youI make the non-dual my sphere of experienceServants and retinue, these also tend to mislead youI keep to mountain retreats where I stay all aloneWealth and material goods also tend to mislead youWhen I get things like

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Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche All these forms---appearance emptinessLike a rainbow with its shining glowIn the reaches of appearance emptinessJust let go and go where no mind goesEvery sound is sound and emptinessLike the sound of an echo's rollIn the reaches of sound and emptinessJust let go and go where no mind goes Every feeling is bliss and emptinessWay beyond what words can showIn the

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MilarepaThe support is the three precious jewelsThey're present primordiallyPerfect in natural awarenessI don't need to supplicate themI am the blissful yogiAin't doing no recitation!The yidams, bestowers of siddhisBoth common and supremeAre not something you can createThey're perfect within clear light mindSo I do not need to practiceThe deity's creation stageI am the blissful yogiMy own body is

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By Sri Nisargadatta MaharajMaharaj: Whatever appears has really no existence. And whatever has not appeared also drops away; what remains is That, the Absolute. "That" is like Bombay.Visitor: Bombay certainly seems to be appearing at the moment. We should sell him another city.M: But I normally ask you this kind of question, whether Bombay sleeps, whether it wakes up in the morning, whether it is

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By Ikkyu (1394-1481)These thin lines of India ink reveal all truth.Students, sit earnestly in zazen, and you will realize that everything born in this world is ultimately empty, including oneself and the original face of existence. All things indeed emerge out of emptiness. This original formlessness is “Buddha,” and all other similar terms-Buddha-nature, Buddhahood, Buddha-mind, Awakened One,

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