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My breath don't live here no more
I've been reflecting more on my experience of Mahamudra Shamatha ... resting with the breath.Continuing from where I got to in my last post ... the breath isn't anywhere ... and it's not a thing. There...
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Autumn Haiku
Sitting in meditation today,After the Autumn rain;The smell of wet leaves lingers.
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Nobody is running this show
One thing that's been coming into view lately in meditation is how my common sense notions that 'I' am somehow taking the decisions and choices and thereby the active agent of my life is not actually...
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Reflections on Niguma - Vajra Verses of Self-Liberating Mahamudra - Reflections
The wisdom dakini known as Nigupta, illustrious Narotapa's sister, was a self-manifest yogini, a powerful lord bodhisattva on awakening's tenth stage, who received direct instruction from Conqueror...
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Reflections on Naropa - The Summary of Mahamudra
Homage to the state of great bliss!Concerning what is called MahamudraAll things are your own mind.Seeing objects as external is a mistaken concept;Like a dream, they are empty of concreteness.This...
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Using an Object as a Support - Concentration or Awakening
From a reply on a Dharma list, where someone asked:"I have an object such as watching the breath but I am constantly distracted. Please elaborate on "In order to keep from being distracted, that object...
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Reflections on Niutou Farong - Song of Mind (Xin Ming)
Some sleepy reflections when unable to sleep whilst ill ...The nature of the mind is non-arising,What need is there of knowledge and views?Originally there is not a single dharma;Why discuss...
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What's it all about?
... it's about opening to what is, every moment ... and being able to fully open to whatever arises. That's all.It ain't about getting somewhere, having any particular sort of experience rather than...
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All Experience is Mind
All experience is mind is probably a misleading title for this post. It seems to suggest that experiences are ‘something’, and that this something is ‘mind’ – a thing. It’s as if there is this thing...
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Nothing Special
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.Shunryu SuzukiI love this quote. It's not about having special experience. No experience with 'save you', or give you...
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Today is a Good Day to Die
Today is a good day to die!Tasunka Witko, Crazy HorseIf you are truly prepared for death like this, then you are truly prepared for life too.
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Reflection on Khakhyab Dorje - Melody of Buzzing Bees
I began this post a couple of months ago and wasn't able to finish it. I thought I'd just publish what was there, as the teaching from Khakhyab Dorje is extraordinarily rich ...Last night I dreamt of...
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One Who Is Awake
I came across this today, apparently an excerpt from Karen Armstrong's upcoming book - The Case for God. It was such a beautiful piece of writing, and sentiment, that I thought I'd reproduce it...
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Rehearsing my life
I was just reflecting on just how much time I spend rehearsing my life, rather than, in a sense, just living it directly.By this I mean .... how much time do I spend thinking about what I should do in...
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Simply Wait - Franz Kafka
You do not need to leave your room.Remain sitting at the table and listen.Do not even listen, simply wait.Do not even wait, be still and solitary.The world will freely offer itself to you to be...
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Dharma Song (excerpt) from Kalu Rinpoche
E Ma Ho!How wonderful!Remain relaxed, without clinging or contrivanceWithin mind's nature, like space,Free from any reference pointAnd with the vigor of vivid, mindful awareness.Whatever outward or...
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Savaripa on the Nature of Mind
In the process of searching for all that manifests as mind and matterThere is neither anything to be found nor is there any seeker,For to be unreal is to be unborn and unceasingIn the three periods of...
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Eight Extremes - Nagarjuna
Based on dependent origination something occurs, yetThere is no arising nor passing away.There is no nihilism nor eternalism.There is no coming nor going.There are not many nor one event(s).Whatever...
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The Tao is a Silent Flower
The Tao is a silent flower which blooms through the night,But the night through which it blooms is the flower itself.No Tao, no flower, no bloomer, no night.And for this reason, it blooms.
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