Let me tell you about my personal experience with smoking Marlboros... I don't find it particularly detrimental to my health. When I do smoke, I do it. The cigarette ends, I put it down, and watch throughout the process. And you have accomplished another occupation in your life, as much as your toilet flushing down.
Chogyam Trungpa
Chogyam Trungpa
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Adonis of Arkaim
Eternity is in love with the productions of time William Blake
I'll be elaborating on this quote a lot in the near future
[Dharmadhatu] is the unimpeded mutual solution of all particularities, where each particularity, besides being itself, penetrates all other particularities and is in turn penetrated by them. This harmonious interplay between particularities and also between each particularity and universality creates a luminous universe, free from spatial and temporal limitations and yet no less the world of daily affairs. This is called dharmadhatu. In it, the boundaries of each particularity melt away, and the reality of each becomes infinitely interfused with every other being.
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Adonis of Arkaim
Let me tell you about my personal experience with smoking Marlboros... I don't find it particularly detrimental to my health. When I do smoke, I do it. The cigarette ends, I put it down, and watch throughout the process. And you have accomplished another occupation…
Everything in your life can be a meditation. Be eternally present. Don’t live unconsciously and let the moments slip by unattended.
Every moment contains the whole of eternity.
Every moment contains the whole of eternity.
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Just so, although obscured behind afflictions,
The dharmadhatu has no trace of flaw.
While samsara blocks its light, it does not illuminate;
Nirvana gained, its light will brilliantly shine.
…
The dharmadhatu is not the self.
It is neither man nor woman either;
And being beyond everything perceivable,
Just how could it be thought of as oneself?
Nagarjuna (Praise of Dharmadhatu)
The dharmadhatu has no trace of flaw.
While samsara blocks its light, it does not illuminate;
Nirvana gained, its light will brilliantly shine.
…
The dharmadhatu is not the self.
It is neither man nor woman either;
And being beyond everything perceivable,
Just how could it be thought of as oneself?
Nagarjuna (Praise of Dharmadhatu)
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I’m a little torn on what to do with this page, honestly. Im not a teacher, and even if I was, I can’t teach you anything here. None of these quotes really make sense until you practice, it’s just words on a screen. So I’m not really sure what it’s for.
I’ve gotten very tired of conceptualizing lately.
I’ve gotten very tired of conceptualizing lately.
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Adonis of Arkaim
I’m a little torn on what to do with this page, honestly. Im not a teacher, and even if I was, I can’t teach you anything here. None of these quotes really make sense until you practice, it’s just words on a screen. So I’m not really sure what it’s for. …
Just remember to meditate, and that concepts are gay
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Joan Miro; Horse, Pipe and Red Flower; 1920
Student: One thing I'm tying to understand is that at the earlier stages things are mortal and you are cutting through that.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche: You are cutting through that, yes.
S: And at some point, you cut through and you realize that everything is indestructible, or the sword breaks the suffering?
CTR: Yes. It is the same thing. At the tantric level, it doesn't prove anything: the cup breaks, okay, that's fine. The cup is broken, but it is still the activity of vajra. And the cup is still there: in its absence, it is also very much a cup, a vajra cup, as much as it is. It doesn't say anything very much. So what?
S: Do all things contain a glimpse of vajra in them, at whatever level of the path?
CTR: That is what tantric practitioners would say: that even at the early level, there is a vajra element. That element at the mahayana level is seen as impermanence and shunyata. Seeing the indestructibility is tantric-complete tantric practitioners' world.
Student: One thing I'm tying to understand is that at the earlier stages things are mortal and you are cutting through that.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche: You are cutting through that, yes.
S: And at some point, you cut through and you realize that everything is indestructible, or the sword breaks the suffering?
CTR: Yes. It is the same thing. At the tantric level, it doesn't prove anything: the cup breaks, okay, that's fine. The cup is broken, but it is still the activity of vajra. And the cup is still there: in its absence, it is also very much a cup, a vajra cup, as much as it is. It doesn't say anything very much. So what?
S: Do all things contain a glimpse of vajra in them, at whatever level of the path?
CTR: That is what tantric practitioners would say: that even at the early level, there is a vajra element. That element at the mahayana level is seen as impermanence and shunyata. Seeing the indestructibility is tantric-complete tantric practitioners' world.
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Adonis of Arkaim
Joan Miro; Horse, Pipe and Red Flower; 1920 Student: One thing I'm tying to understand is that at the earlier stages things are mortal and you are cutting through that. Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche: You are cutting through that, yes. S: And at some point, you…
Keep in mind this is not referring to an eternal essence or form, there is no such thing.
How can something with no essence be destroyed?
How can something with no essence be destroyed?
Forwarded from Lion Ov Apollo
Blazing with fires bright as the end of an eon ...
Laughing with enlightened ecstasy . .
We press forward into this age...
Laughing with enlightened ecstasy . .
We press forward into this age...
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The Contingent within the Essential
At the beginning of the third watch, before moonrise, don't be surprised if there is meeting without recognition; one still vaguely harbors the elegance of former days.
The Essential within the Contingent
Having overslept, an old woman encounters the ancient mirror. This is clearly meeting face-to-face only then is it genuine. Don't lose your head by validating shadows.
At the beginning of the third watch, before moonrise, don't be surprised if there is meeting without recognition; one still vaguely harbors the elegance of former days.
The Essential within the Contingent
Having overslept, an old woman encounters the ancient mirror. This is clearly meeting face-to-face only then is it genuine. Don't lose your head by validating shadows.
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“Both of the first two modes, the Contingent within Essential and the Essential within Contingent, are about our encounter with the ancient mirror of our essential nature in its differing aspects. In the first mode we encountered the darkened mirror: an encounter with our timeless, vast, and undifferentiated nature, which is none other than the nature of Buddha. In the second mode, we encountered the clear, bright mirror of reality and experienced intimacy with the universe, in the guise of a star, a bell, or a flight of birds.”
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