Archive for ‘mahamudra’

each

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Each form, each particle, is a Buddha. One form is all Buddhas. All forms, all particles, are all Buddhas. All forms, sounds, scents, feelings, and phenomena are also like this, each filling all fields.

link: Pai-chang

doubt

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Let what binds you let go and freedom is not in doubt.

link: unfettered mind

strives

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

If you wish to move in the One Way do not dislike even the world of senses and ideas. Indeed, to accept them fully is identical with true Enlightenment. The wise man strives to no goals but the foolish man fetters himself. There is one Dharma, not many; distinctions arise from the clinging needs of the ignorant. To seek Mind with the [discriminating] mind is the greatest of all mistakes.

- Seng-ts’an

link: Seng-ts’an

Remain

Thursday, May 13th, 2010
One should not give and take but remain natural, for Mahamudra is beyond
all acceptance and rejection.
One should not give and take but remain natural, for Mahamudra is beyond
all acceptance and rejection.
link: Tilopa

mist

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Gazing intently into the empty sky, vision ceases;
Likewise, when mind gazes into mind itself,
The train of discursive and conceptual thought ends
And supreme enlightenment is gained.

Like the morning mist that dissolves into thin air,
Going nowhere but ceasing to be,
Waves of conceptualization, all the mind’s creation, dissolve,
When you behold your mind’s true nature.

Pure space has neither colour nor shape
And it cannot be stained either black or white;
So also, mind’s essence is beyond both colour and shape
And it cannot be sullied by black or white deeds.

link: Tilopa’s Mahamudra Instruction to Naropa in Twenty Eight Verses