In dzogchen and in mahamudra we are encouraged to “take Gods and Demons” into the path. This meditation practice is one of the more advanced stages of the great perfection and it calls forth considerable skill and fortitude from the practitioner. “Gods and Demons” are classed as one of the “adversities”: we may experience hallucinations [...]
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July 26, 2008 – 9:41 pm
A couple of days ago, J. sent me a dissertation that I take to be about the sensory domination of sight over the other senses. I’ve started reading it, and it locks into some ideas I have been forming about language. I think our main experience of language has gone from being aural and time [...]
white
July 25, 2008 – 8:02 am
From: yoniversum
The Tibetan word sngags refers to mantra (incantation, magical spell), and the syllables pa (male) and mo (female) are linguistic denominators for someone’s gender.
However, nothing is ever as simple as that - in Tibetan - and the syllable pa can also be found in names such as Nyingma pa, Kagyud pa, Geluk pa - [...]
raw
July 25, 2008 – 7:50 am
Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö wrote:
BODY free of walking, sitting movements REMAIN
SPEECH natural to the flow of breath REMAIN
MIND free of afterthoughts REMAIN
This unborn dharmakaya’s rigpa
Uncreated by cause and circumstances, naturally arose
Raw, fresh, nakedly naked
Unstained by thoughts of “I”, and “mine”, “this” and “that”
Unspoiled by understanding
In the silence of its natural samadhi - REMAIN
Remain is only [...]
mountains
July 19, 2008 – 1:27 pm
Dogen Zenji’s Mountains and Waters Sutra, from his compendium “Shobogenzo”, Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma, book 29.
These mountains and waters of the present are the expression of the old buddhas. Each, abiding in its own dharma state, fulfills exhaustive virtues. Because they are the circumstances “prior to the kalpa of emptiness”, they [...]
source
July 17, 2008 – 8:36 pm
“we can no longer afford to have petty, controlling, abusive, relationships in which denial is supported. We do this to ourselves, we do it to our families, our neighbors and we do it to nature.”
F. gave me a valuable lesson in “doing what it takes” in order to liberate sentient beings. I’ve always said, [...]
cotton
July 16, 2008 – 11:40 pm
I bow at the feet of Marpa the Translator.
While meditating at other mountain retreats,
I found a confidence in nonarising.
My clinging to former and future lives as two has dissolved.
The six types of experiences have turned to lies.
Doubts about birth and death are now cleared.
I found a confidence in equality.
My clinging to pleasure and pain as [...]
once
July 15, 2008 – 9:53 pm
Once, Patrul Rinpoche was traveling with a servant to Central Tibet. They had a lot of money with them. The reason they were carrying so much money was that they were going to Central Tibet to offer butter lamps, make statues, and do many other virtuous things. The two were traveling alone across the Chang [...]
precious
July 15, 2008 – 12:03 am
In the intermediate state that is this life, the present moment,
one does not realize one’s own mind and is distracted by deluded activities,
does not remember impermanence and death,
pursues only the goals of’ this life and is bound
by the suffering of birth, old age, sickness, and death.
When this present illusory body suddenly meets its final illness,
may [...]
