“The experience commonly called 'entering Nirvana' is, in fact, an intuitive realization of that Self-nature which is the true Nature of all things. The Absolute, or Reality, is regarded as having for sentient beings two aspects. The only aspect perceptible to the unenlightened is the one in which individual phenomena have a separate though purely transitory existence within the limits of space-time.
The other aspect is spaceless and timeless; moreover all opposites, all distinctions and 'entities' of every kind, are here seen to be One. Yet neither is this second aspect, alone, the highest fruit of Enlightenment, as many contemplatives suppose; it is only when both aspects are perceived and reconciled that the beholder may be regarded as truly Enlightened.
Yet, from that moment, he ceases to be the beholder, for he is conscious of no division between beholding and beheld. This leads to further paradoxes, unless the use of words is abandoned altogether. It is incorrect to employ such mystical terminology as 'I dwell in the Absolute', 'The Absolute dwells in me', or 'I am penetrated by the Absolute, etc.; for, when space is transcended, the concepts of whole and part are no longer valid; the part is the whole — I am the Absolute, except that I am no longer I. What I behold then is my real Self, which is the true nature of all things; seer and seen are one and the same, yet there is no seeing, just as the eye cannot behold itself.”
John Blofeld
The other aspect is spaceless and timeless; moreover all opposites, all distinctions and 'entities' of every kind, are here seen to be One. Yet neither is this second aspect, alone, the highest fruit of Enlightenment, as many contemplatives suppose; it is only when both aspects are perceived and reconciled that the beholder may be regarded as truly Enlightened.
Yet, from that moment, he ceases to be the beholder, for he is conscious of no division between beholding and beheld. This leads to further paradoxes, unless the use of words is abandoned altogether. It is incorrect to employ such mystical terminology as 'I dwell in the Absolute', 'The Absolute dwells in me', or 'I am penetrated by the Absolute, etc.; for, when space is transcended, the concepts of whole and part are no longer valid; the part is the whole — I am the Absolute, except that I am no longer I. What I behold then is my real Self, which is the true nature of all things; seer and seen are one and the same, yet there is no seeing, just as the eye cannot behold itself.”
John Blofeld
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“The Master said to me: All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind, beside which nothing exists. This Mind, which is without beginning, is unborn and indestructible. It is not green nor yellow, and has neither form nor appearance.
It does not belong to the categories of things which exist or do not exist, nor can it be thought of in terms of new or old. It is neither long nor short, big nor small, for it transcends all limits, measures, names, traces and comparisons. It is that which you seek before you — begin to reason about it and you at once fall into error.
It is like the boundless void which cannot be fathomed or measured. The One Mind alone is the Buddha, and there is no distinction between the Buddha and sentient things, but that sentient beings are attached to forms and so seek externally for Buddhahood.”
Huángbò Xīyùn
It does not belong to the categories of things which exist or do not exist, nor can it be thought of in terms of new or old. It is neither long nor short, big nor small, for it transcends all limits, measures, names, traces and comparisons. It is that which you seek before you — begin to reason about it and you at once fall into error.
It is like the boundless void which cannot be fathomed or measured. The One Mind alone is the Buddha, and there is no distinction between the Buddha and sentient things, but that sentient beings are attached to forms and so seek externally for Buddhahood.”
Huángbò Xīyùn
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“The substance of the Absolute is inwardly like wood or stone, in that it is motionless, and outwardly like the void, in that it is without bounds or obstructions. It is neither subjective nor objective, has no specific location, is formless, and cannot vanish. Those who hasten towards it dare not enter, fearing to hurtle down through the void with nothing to cling to or to stay their fall. So they look to the brink and retreat.
This refers to all those who seek such a goal through cognition. Thus, those who seek the goal through cognition are like the fur (many), while those who obtain intuitive knowledge of the Way are like the horns (few).”
Huángbò Xīyùn
This refers to all those who seek such a goal through cognition. Thus, those who seek the goal through cognition are like the fur (many), while those who obtain intuitive knowledge of the Way are like the horns (few).”
Huángbò Xīyùn
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Forwarded from MAHASIDDHAS, MAHAMUDRA & DZOGCHEN 👹
“in the universal womb that is boundless space
all forms of matter and energy occur
as flux of the four elements,
but all are empty forms, absent in reality:
all phenomena, arising in pure mind, are like that.
just as dream is a part of sleep,
unreal in its arising,
so all and everything is pure mind,
never separated from it,
and without substance or attribute.
experience is neither mind nor anything but mind;
it is a vivid display of emptiness, like magical illusion,
in the very moment inconceivable and unutterable.
all experience arising in the mind,
at its inception, know it as emptiness!”
― Longchenpa
all forms of matter and energy occur
as flux of the four elements,
but all are empty forms, absent in reality:
all phenomena, arising in pure mind, are like that.
just as dream is a part of sleep,
unreal in its arising,
so all and everything is pure mind,
never separated from it,
and without substance or attribute.
experience is neither mind nor anything but mind;
it is a vivid display of emptiness, like magical illusion,
in the very moment inconceivable and unutterable.
all experience arising in the mind,
at its inception, know it as emptiness!”
― Longchenpa
Forwarded from MahaYog - Yoga 🔱 and Buddhism ☸️
An important aspect of our practice is our confidence in the law of karma: we are well aware that there is a cause-and-effect relationship between our actions and experiences. With this conviction, we have a basis for decision-making: we can distinguish which actions are beneficial and which are harmful.
Kalu Rinpoche
Kalu Rinpoche
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“If an ordinary man, when he is about to die, could only see the five elements of consciousness as void; the four physical elements as not constituting an I; the real Mind as formless and neither coming nor going; his nature as something neither commencing at his birth nor perishing at his death, but as whole and motionless in its very depths; his Mind and environmental objects as one – if he could really accomplish this, he would receive Enlightenment in a flash.
He would no longer be entangled by the Triple World; he would be a World-Transcendor. He would be without even the faintest tendency towards rebirth. If he should behold the glorious sight of all the Buddhas coming to welcome him, surrounded by every kind of gorgeous manifestation, he would feel no desire to approach them.
If he should behold all sorts of horrific forms surrounding him, he would experience no terror. He would just be himself oblivious of conceptual thought and one with the Absolute. He would have attained the state of unconditioned being. This, then, is the fundamental principle.”
Huángbò Xīyùn
He would no longer be entangled by the Triple World; he would be a World-Transcendor. He would be without even the faintest tendency towards rebirth. If he should behold the glorious sight of all the Buddhas coming to welcome him, surrounded by every kind of gorgeous manifestation, he would feel no desire to approach them.
If he should behold all sorts of horrific forms surrounding him, he would experience no terror. He would just be himself oblivious of conceptual thought and one with the Absolute. He would have attained the state of unconditioned being. This, then, is the fundamental principle.”
Huángbò Xīyùn
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“Mind is the Buddha, while the cessation of conceptual thought is the Way. Once you stop arousing concepts and thinking in terms of existence and non-existence, long and short, other and self, active and passive, and suchlike, you will find that your Mind is intrinsically the Buddha, that the Buddha is intrinsically Mind, and that Mind resembles a void. Therefore is it written that 'the true Dharmakaya resembles a void'. Seek for naught besides this... Only come to know the nature of your own Mind, in which there is no self and no other, and you will in fact be a Buddha!”
Huángbò Xīyùn
Huángbò Xīyùn
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“Since Mind knows no divisions into separate entities, phenomena must be equally undifferentiated. Since Mind is above all activities, so must it be with phenomena. Every phenomenon that exists is a creation of thought; therefore I need but empty my mind to discover that all of them are void.
It is the same with all sense-objects, to whichever of the myriads of categories they belong. The entire void stretching out in all directions is of one substance with Mind; and, since Mind is fundamentally undifferentiated, so must it be with everything else.
Different entities appear to you only because your perceptions differ — just as the colours of the precious delicacies eaten by the Devas are said to differ in accordance with the individual merits of the Devas eating them!”
Huángbò Xīyùn
It is the same with all sense-objects, to whichever of the myriads of categories they belong. The entire void stretching out in all directions is of one substance with Mind; and, since Mind is fundamentally undifferentiated, so must it be with everything else.
Different entities appear to you only because your perceptions differ — just as the colours of the precious delicacies eaten by the Devas are said to differ in accordance with the individual merits of the Devas eating them!”
Huángbò Xīyùn
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Forwarded from Meditations of a Yogin
Acinta - The Avaricious Hermit
"Mahamudra is imageless, objectless.
Within it all phenomenon become
Knowledge and pure awareness.
Within it the ten thousand delusive thoughts
Are empty. All reality
Is Mahamudra."
Long ago in Dhanirupa, there lived a man so poor that he was never certain of his next meal. But his fantasy life was very rich indeed. In fact, all his thoughts were centered on one unobtainable goal, - to be rich. So tormented was he by his obsession, that he couldn't bear to have others interfere with dreaming. To this end, he moved away from civilization and went to live alone with his fantasies in a little hut he built in the forest.
One day, the Yogin Kambala chanced upon his hermits retreat. As they were sharing a frugal meal, Acinta poured his heart out to his visitor.
"Well, I see you've managed to escape from men and their chattering said Kabala. But tell me this, has your thinking improved since you've been here?"
"Unfortunately no," the hermit confessed with a sigh. "I'm still possessed by the desire for riches. But I do know this, if I could just get rid of this one thought my mind would be perfectly empty, for it's all I think about. Do you know of any way I could free myself from this foolishness?"
"As a matter of fact, I do," replied the yogin. "If you will promise to practice what I teach you, I'll give you instruction."
The hermit vowed to practice faithfully, and the guru gave him the Samvara initiation. Then he sang him this song of instruction:
"Desire is like the child
Of a barren woman,
To free your mind of it,
Visualize your body as the heavens,
And each of your thoughts
As the stars of the sky.
In time, the God of wealth will himself appear,
and all your desires will be fulfilled."
In the solitude of the forest, the hermit meditated according to his guru's instruction. When the glittering radiance of the stars filled this mind, there was no room left for thoughts of gold. His obsession vanished, as did the stars themselves, into the boundless expanse of the heavens, and he became thought free.
He sought out his guru to tell him that his mind had become empty, and Kambala sang him another song:
"What is the nature of the sky?
Can you make something of it?
How can you desire it?
How can you think about it at all?"
When the hermit realized the deep meaning within this verse, he achieved, "Mahamudra-siddhi" and became known as the guru Acintapa, "The Thought-Free Guru".
For three hundred years he selflessly taught his countless disciples how to realize the ultimate nature of being. And when the time came, they all accompanied him as rose bodily into the Paradise of the Dakinis.
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From: "Buddhist Masters of Enchantment. The Lives and Legends of the Mahasiddhas."
Translated by Keith Dowman
Illustrated by Robert Beer
Image: Acinta - painting by Robert Beer
"Mahamudra is imageless, objectless.
Within it all phenomenon become
Knowledge and pure awareness.
Within it the ten thousand delusive thoughts
Are empty. All reality
Is Mahamudra."
Long ago in Dhanirupa, there lived a man so poor that he was never certain of his next meal. But his fantasy life was very rich indeed. In fact, all his thoughts were centered on one unobtainable goal, - to be rich. So tormented was he by his obsession, that he couldn't bear to have others interfere with dreaming. To this end, he moved away from civilization and went to live alone with his fantasies in a little hut he built in the forest.
One day, the Yogin Kambala chanced upon his hermits retreat. As they were sharing a frugal meal, Acinta poured his heart out to his visitor.
"Well, I see you've managed to escape from men and their chattering said Kabala. But tell me this, has your thinking improved since you've been here?"
"Unfortunately no," the hermit confessed with a sigh. "I'm still possessed by the desire for riches. But I do know this, if I could just get rid of this one thought my mind would be perfectly empty, for it's all I think about. Do you know of any way I could free myself from this foolishness?"
"As a matter of fact, I do," replied the yogin. "If you will promise to practice what I teach you, I'll give you instruction."
The hermit vowed to practice faithfully, and the guru gave him the Samvara initiation. Then he sang him this song of instruction:
"Desire is like the child
Of a barren woman,
To free your mind of it,
Visualize your body as the heavens,
And each of your thoughts
As the stars of the sky.
In time, the God of wealth will himself appear,
and all your desires will be fulfilled."
In the solitude of the forest, the hermit meditated according to his guru's instruction. When the glittering radiance of the stars filled this mind, there was no room left for thoughts of gold. His obsession vanished, as did the stars themselves, into the boundless expanse of the heavens, and he became thought free.
He sought out his guru to tell him that his mind had become empty, and Kambala sang him another song:
"What is the nature of the sky?
Can you make something of it?
How can you desire it?
How can you think about it at all?"
When the hermit realized the deep meaning within this verse, he achieved, "Mahamudra-siddhi" and became known as the guru Acintapa, "The Thought-Free Guru".
For three hundred years he selflessly taught his countless disciples how to realize the ultimate nature of being. And when the time came, they all accompanied him as rose bodily into the Paradise of the Dakinis.
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From: "Buddhist Masters of Enchantment. The Lives and Legends of the Mahasiddhas."
Translated by Keith Dowman
Illustrated by Robert Beer
Image: Acinta - painting by Robert Beer
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“When all the Buddhas manifest themselves in the world, they proclaim nothing but the One Mind. Thus, Gautama Buddha silently transmitted to Mahakasyapa the doctrine that the One Mind, which is the substance of all things, is co-extensive with the Void and fills the entire world of phenomena. This is called the Law of All the Buddhas. Discuss it as you may, how can you even hope to approach the truth through words? Nor can it be perceived either subjectively or objectively. So full understanding can come to you only through an inexpressible mystery.
The approach to it is called the Gateway of the Stillness beyond all Activity — If you wish to understand, know that a sudden comprehension comes when the mind has been purged of all the clutter of conceptual and discriminatory thought-activity.
Those who seek the truth by means of intellect and learning only get further and further away from it. Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.”
Huángbò Xīyùn
The approach to it is called the Gateway of the Stillness beyond all Activity — If you wish to understand, know that a sudden comprehension comes when the mind has been purged of all the clutter of conceptual and discriminatory thought-activity.
Those who seek the truth by means of intellect and learning only get further and further away from it. Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.”
Huángbò Xīyùn
“Error has no substance; it is entirely the product of your own thinking. If you know that Mind is the Buddha and that Mind is fundamentally without error, whenever thoughts arise, you will be fully convinced that they are responsible for errors. If you could prevent all conceptual movements of thought and still your thinking-processes, naturally there would be no error left in you. Therefore is it said: 'When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.'”
Huángbò Xīyùn
Huángbò Xīyùn
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“Were you now to practise keeping your minds motionless at all times, whether walking, standing, sitting or lying;
concentrating entirely upon the goal of no thought-creation, no duality, no reliance on others and no attachments; just allowing all things to take their course the whole day long, as though you were too ill to bother; unknown to the world; innocent of any urge to be known or unknown to others; with your minds like blocks of stone that mend no holes — then all the Dharmas would penetrate your understanding through and through.
In a little while you would find yourselves firmly unattached. Thus, for the first time in your lives, you would discover your reactions to phenomena decreasing and, ultimately, you would pass beyond the Triple World; and people would say that a Buddha had appeared in the world. Pure and passionless knowledge implies putting an end to the ceaseless flow of thoughts and images, for in that way you stop creating the karma that leads to rebirth — whether as gods or men or as sufferers in hell.
Once every sort of mental process has ceased, not a particle of karma is formed. Then, even in this life, your minds and bodies become those of a being completely liberated. Supposing that this does not result in freeing you immediately from further rebirths, at the very least you will be assured of rebirth in accordance with your own wishes.
The sutra declares: 'Bodhisattvas are re-embodied into whatsoever forms they desire'. But were they suddenly to lose the power of keeping their minds free from conceptual thought, attachment to form would drag them back into the phenomenal world, and each of those forms would create for them a demon's karma!”
Huángbò Xīyùn
concentrating entirely upon the goal of no thought-creation, no duality, no reliance on others and no attachments; just allowing all things to take their course the whole day long, as though you were too ill to bother; unknown to the world; innocent of any urge to be known or unknown to others; with your minds like blocks of stone that mend no holes — then all the Dharmas would penetrate your understanding through and through.
In a little while you would find yourselves firmly unattached. Thus, for the first time in your lives, you would discover your reactions to phenomena decreasing and, ultimately, you would pass beyond the Triple World; and people would say that a Buddha had appeared in the world. Pure and passionless knowledge implies putting an end to the ceaseless flow of thoughts and images, for in that way you stop creating the karma that leads to rebirth — whether as gods or men or as sufferers in hell.
Once every sort of mental process has ceased, not a particle of karma is formed. Then, even in this life, your minds and bodies become those of a being completely liberated. Supposing that this does not result in freeing you immediately from further rebirths, at the very least you will be assured of rebirth in accordance with your own wishes.
The sutra declares: 'Bodhisattvas are re-embodied into whatsoever forms they desire'. But were they suddenly to lose the power of keeping their minds free from conceptual thought, attachment to form would drag them back into the phenomenal world, and each of those forms would create for them a demon's karma!”
Huángbò Xīyùn
“The Void is fundamentally without spacial dimensions, passions, activities, delusions or right understanding. You must clearly understand that in it there are no things, no men and no Buddhas; for this Void contains not the smallest hairsbreadth of anything that can be viewed spacially; it depends on nothing and is attached to nothing. It is all-pervading, spotless beauty; it is the self-existent and uncreated Absolute.”
Huángbò Xīyùn
Huángbò Xīyùn
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Forwarded from Yogācāra 🕉 Buddhism
True reality is beyond the path of speech and beyond mundane knowledge.
— Asvabhāva
— Asvabhāva
Forwarded from Words of the Buddha
August 1
Thag 6.3 Mahānāgattheragāthā: Mahānāga
Whoever has no respect
for their spiritual companions
falls away from the true teaching,
like a fish in a little puddle.
Whoever has no respect
for their spiritual companions
doesn’t thrive in the true teaching,
like a rotten seed in a field.
Whoever has no respect
for their spiritual companions
is far from quenching,
in the teaching of the Dhamma king.
Whoever does have respect
for their spiritual companions
doesn’t fall away from the true teaching,
like a fish in plenty of water.
Whoever does have respect
for their spiritual companions
thrives in the true teaching,
like a fine seed in a field.
Whoever does have respect
for their spiritual companions
is close to quenching
in the teaching of the Dhamma king.
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Thag 6.3 Mahānāgattheragāthā: Mahānāga
Whoever has no respect
for their spiritual companions
falls away from the true teaching,
like a fish in a little puddle.
Whoever has no respect
for their spiritual companions
doesn’t thrive in the true teaching,
like a rotten seed in a field.
Whoever has no respect
for their spiritual companions
is far from quenching,
in the teaching of the Dhamma king.
Whoever does have respect
for their spiritual companions
doesn’t fall away from the true teaching,
like a fish in plenty of water.
Whoever does have respect
for their spiritual companions
thrives in the true teaching,
like a fine seed in a field.
Whoever does have respect
for their spiritual companions
is close to quenching
in the teaching of the Dhamma king.
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https://news.1rj.ru/str/dhammapadas
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Forwarded from 𝖳𝖱𝖨𝖪𝖠 𝖲𝖧𝖠𝖨𝖵𝖨𝖲𝖬
Namaskar everyone,
So many of my followers were asking me to update things about Kali Krama and Ma Kalasamkarsini Kali.
I am happy to announce that @animesh_nagar_official who has done tremendous work for the Kali Krama Tradition.
On August 9 I'll Telecast the session on My youtube channel.
It is requested to ask your questions regarding the Kali Krama.
Stay tuned till 9 August 🙏
Namah Shivay, Jai Ma Kali.
So many of my followers were asking me to update things about Kali Krama and Ma Kalasamkarsini Kali.
I am happy to announce that @animesh_nagar_official who has done tremendous work for the Kali Krama Tradition.
On August 9 I'll Telecast the session on My youtube channel.
It is requested to ask your questions regarding the Kali Krama.
Stay tuned till 9 August 🙏
Namah Shivay, Jai Ma Kali.
“The whole point of receiving and practicing the teachings is to understand your buddha nature, which is the very essence of your being. This understanding comes through practice. If we lacked the buddha nature, what would be the point of the practices? Why would we practice these complicated techniques, and learn the symbolism, if the buddha nature was not already within us, waiting to be revealed? It would be ridiculous to practice if our true nature were not what it is. It would be like pressing a rock to get oil. The effort would be fruitless.
Yet, we must make efforts to realize our buddha nature, even though we all possess it. Just as you would not know that butter is the essence of milk unless you churned the milk—and not just a few churns will do; you really must churn with effort—in the same way, you must practice with effort and diligence to understand your own true nature.
Nevertheless, you must remember that practice only reveals what is already present. If you churn water hoping to get butter, it will not happen, will it? We undergo the hardships of the spiritual path because our essence is already Buddha. It is already perfectly realized. If it were not, practice would be pointless. The process is like refining ore that you know has gold in it. You work long and hard to extract the gold from the rock, but if you knew the rock had no gold in it, why would you try to extract it?”
Gyatrul Rinpoche
Yet, we must make efforts to realize our buddha nature, even though we all possess it. Just as you would not know that butter is the essence of milk unless you churned the milk—and not just a few churns will do; you really must churn with effort—in the same way, you must practice with effort and diligence to understand your own true nature.
Nevertheless, you must remember that practice only reveals what is already present. If you churn water hoping to get butter, it will not happen, will it? We undergo the hardships of the spiritual path because our essence is already Buddha. It is already perfectly realized. If it were not, practice would be pointless. The process is like refining ore that you know has gold in it. You work long and hard to extract the gold from the rock, but if you knew the rock had no gold in it, why would you try to extract it?”
Gyatrul Rinpoche
“Samantabhadra (Tib. Kuntuzangpo), the primordial Buddha, and Buddha Shakyamuni both said that the tathagatagarbha, the buddha essence, is intrinsically present in all animate beings. It is not that some have it and some do not. Every creature that lives has the buddha essence.
If this is so, is there any difference between buddhas and sentient beings? There is one difference, but it is not in their true nature. Every being is Buddha. Buddhas, however, have applied the methods and realized their true nature. They have become buddhas by purifying all their obscurations and karmic afflictions. They have removed all negative habits through joyous effort (Tib. brtson ‘grus, pronounced “tsondru”) and by applying different techniques and practices.
Although sentient beings desire happiness and the state of freedom and bliss, they continue accumulating negative causes, obscurations and karmic afflictions. They just sink deeper into ignorance which is the lack of awareness of their true nature. That is the only difference between buddhas and sentient beings.”
Gyatrul Rinpoche
If this is so, is there any difference between buddhas and sentient beings? There is one difference, but it is not in their true nature. Every being is Buddha. Buddhas, however, have applied the methods and realized their true nature. They have become buddhas by purifying all their obscurations and karmic afflictions. They have removed all negative habits through joyous effort (Tib. brtson ‘grus, pronounced “tsondru”) and by applying different techniques and practices.
Although sentient beings desire happiness and the state of freedom and bliss, they continue accumulating negative causes, obscurations and karmic afflictions. They just sink deeper into ignorance which is the lack of awareness of their true nature. That is the only difference between buddhas and sentient beings.”
Gyatrul Rinpoche
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Forwarded from Egbert Moray-Falls
I have not written much here of late because I have very little I want to say. My time and thoughts are more and more spent on practice.
I have never wished for Telegram clout, and I only really started this channel to dialogue with my friends. I certainly have no desire to present my own ideas or project anymore.
Realising how little I know has created in me the firm determination to look inwards. As such, things like politics have become much less interesting to me.
However, for those who are politically minded, I think it is important to realise that we deserve everything we go through. There is not a single thing happening to our countries, or ourselves, that we did not create the causes for in the past.
It's your fault. You made this for yourself.
That is the inviolable Law of Karma manifesting through dependent origination.
When Shariputra asked Ashvajit what it was the Buddha taught, Ashvajit said:
ye dharmā hetu-prabhavā hetuṃ teṣāṃ tathāgato hy avadat
teṣāṃ ca yo nirodha evaṃ vādī mahāśramaṇaḥ
"All phenomena arise from causes, the Tathagata has taught these causes, and the means of their cessation, thus teaches the great ascetic."
This is so profound that it became a mantra used by all Buddhist schools to understand the essence of the Buddha's teaching.
Therefore, if you wish to put an end to the suffering of yourself, your family, nation and the world, you have no choice but to work on your own mind.
If you try to get retribution without cultivating universal love within yourself, you simply perpetuate the cycle of samsara. When you understand that all beings are seeking happiness, you can successfully forgive them for the horrific mistakes they make, and therefore overcome the delusion of inherent self that causes suffering for yourself and everyone around you.
To rise above the cycle is the only way to end it.
This is true for you, as well as everyone you wish to protect.
I have never wished for Telegram clout, and I only really started this channel to dialogue with my friends. I certainly have no desire to present my own ideas or project anymore.
Realising how little I know has created in me the firm determination to look inwards. As such, things like politics have become much less interesting to me.
However, for those who are politically minded, I think it is important to realise that we deserve everything we go through. There is not a single thing happening to our countries, or ourselves, that we did not create the causes for in the past.
It's your fault. You made this for yourself.
That is the inviolable Law of Karma manifesting through dependent origination.
When Shariputra asked Ashvajit what it was the Buddha taught, Ashvajit said:
ye dharmā hetu-prabhavā hetuṃ teṣāṃ tathāgato hy avadat
teṣāṃ ca yo nirodha evaṃ vādī mahāśramaṇaḥ
"All phenomena arise from causes, the Tathagata has taught these causes, and the means of their cessation, thus teaches the great ascetic."
This is so profound that it became a mantra used by all Buddhist schools to understand the essence of the Buddha's teaching.
Therefore, if you wish to put an end to the suffering of yourself, your family, nation and the world, you have no choice but to work on your own mind.
If you try to get retribution without cultivating universal love within yourself, you simply perpetuate the cycle of samsara. When you understand that all beings are seeking happiness, you can successfully forgive them for the horrific mistakes they make, and therefore overcome the delusion of inherent self that causes suffering for yourself and everyone around you.
To rise above the cycle is the only way to end it.
This is true for you, as well as everyone you wish to protect.
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