Phil Servedio's gems of spiritual traditions..the hairy hands of joy

Lead me from dreaming to waking.

Lead me from opacity to clarity. Lead me from the complicated to the simple. Lead me from the obscure to the obvious. Lead me from intention to attention. Lead me from what I'm told I am to what I see I am. Lead me from confrontation to wide openness. Lead me to the place I never left, Where there is peace, and peace -from the Upanishads- Unless you know the emptiness and bliss inside yourself..you'll be a robot forced by the same emptiness and bliss trying to know itself..by pain.. ...inside your self also..trust me!..said the mahayogi!
*note*..lovely site from Phil..worthy of examining his hairy wisdom muscles,indeed...
check out his hairy hands ..formidable black hairs of wisdom he grew on his intensive 10 fingers buddhist meditation insight non-dual practice,indeed...kisses to him for his site..lots of useful links there,and if you time read his journal too..his main site is  Phil Servedio..I am always fascinated and pay my mahayogi respects to people who actually write about the way of HOW they meditate...because these days,it seems to me that everybody is some nutcase non-dualist...everybody knows the truth,and they have grabbed the truth by it's balls,it seems..if you ask them ,,how you meditate,,??..you get the response ,,I watch the breath,,...or worse..,,I pray to my local Shiva gold lingam..since Shiva's penis would save my ass,,..or,,I bow down to Allah the Mighty 5 times a day..then in my spare time I am a suicidal terrorist ,since by dying I go to heaven..or even worse...,,I pray to my guru forever,since he was the only ONE..ever...he was god,and I am the fruitcake whom begs god for mercy...or even wayyyyy much worse...Jesus died for my sins..so I can sin freely since he saved my ass..and he is my personal savior,since I talk to him daily,and I have a personal jesus ..yes..I have a personal jesus out there..and if I pray to him,he'll fulfill all my wishes,since he is a good jesus,and he obeys my fruitcake's wishes,and he does as I command..all I have to do is pray to the sucker and say,,Thank you Jesus,,..thank you ..you were a good Jesus for fulfilling my wishes..thank you again,praise the Lord you Jesus in my large BOTTLE..YOU'RE my genie in a bottle,if I rub(pray to you)  the right way...you''ll do it,no?..then rub the mahayogi good..maybe he'll be your genie too..and you won't have to do any spiritual work,no meditation..all you have to do is to rub my overgrown 12 inches wisdom brain muscles..methinks ..maybe I'll do it,indeed..you numb-nuts!

In any case..asking people about how they meditate is a no-no these days...trust the mahayogi(loved in the 3 realms,respected in 10..celebrated in the 18th also by himself)
They always tell you HOW it is..everything is set up in stones for them...the universe is this..the reincarnation is that..the bliss is this..the truth is that...the mystery of creation is the Shiva Lingam...Jehovah is the best and the only one if you're a good jew..Krishna is good also....there are no shortcuts to their insanity..
This is what bothers me mostly..their self assurance that there is nothing left for them to discover...
They got the truth of the universe by it's balls..and that's it...REALLY???
This is when the universe and the KRIPTO spirit within them will give them so much pain,I wonder how they'll avoid it by just watching the breath,or by saying..I am that...or.I am happy...and I am the only one whom knows best..
Only time will tell..kiss from the mahayogi:)
-added by danny-
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The View, Concisely Put

by Naropa
translated by Erik Pema Kunsang

Homage to the Vajra Dakini!

To the omniscient Lord of Refuge,
The protector of beings, I pay homage! After pursuing statements and reasoning
I have condensed and established the true meaning. 

All these apparent and existing phenomena
Are nowhere apart from mind, your own awareness.
Since it perceives and is cognizant,
It is like experience that is self-known. 

If this mind was not like that
There would be no link and therefore no experience.
This is how I have established the relative:
"Understand that all phenomena are based on mind," as it is said. 

The very basis of phenomena, which is mind essence,
Can be analyzed, dissected with reasoning, and so forth,
But this naturally luminous mind
And the momentary defilement of thought these two,

Whether they are one or different Is a topic of extreme profundity .
Because of this depth, scholars analyze.
Though they explain, I shall not write about it here.

This mind that knows emptiness

Is itself the awakened mind, bodhicitta.
The buddha potential is just this.
The sugata essence is just this.

Because of tasting what is,

It is also the great bliss.
The understanding of secret mantra is just this.
Means and knowledge is just this.

The vast and profound is just this.

Samantabhadra with consort is just this.
This space and wisdom, perceiving while being empty ,
Is what is called "knowing original enlightenment."

This self-knowing, while one is still defiled,

Does not depend on other things,
So self-existing wakefulness is just this.

Being aware, it is cognizance.
A natural knowing that is free of thought.

This self-knowing cannot possibly form thoughts.

Without conceptualizing a 'mind,'
Since it is not something to be conceived,
This original wakefulness, cognizant yet thought-free,

Is like the wisdom of the Tathagata.

Therefore, it is taught, "Realize that luminous mind
Is the mind of original wakefulness,
And don't seek an enlightenment separate from that."

Nevertheless, this mind does become disturbed
By the defilement of momentary thoughts,
Like water, like gold, like the sky,
It may be either pure or impure. 

But the naturally luminous mind
Is free from even a hair-tip of concrete substance,
Like the analogy of a sky flower .

It does not exist as it seems to be,

Therefore, it cannot be established to be non-existent.
As everything is mutually dependent,
When one side is invalid, the other side does not exist.

Mind is neither existent nor nonexistent.

Since each of these [ constructs ] is negated.
It is also not both,
Since existing and not existing are a contradiction.
It is not a living being Nor other than living beings. 

Therefore, it is free from all constructs.
This is how I have established the ultimate:
"Mind is based on space," as it is said.

This unconstructed self-knowing

Perceives while empty , and while empty it perceives.
Experience and emptiness are therefore indivisible,
Like the analogy of the moon in water.
This is how I have established non duality:

"Space is not based on anything," as it is said.

This unconstructed self-knowing
Is itself the very basis of samsara.
Nirvana as well is also just this.

The Great Middle Way is also just this.
That to be seen is also just this.
That to train is also just this.
That to attain is also just this.

The valid truth is also just this.

The renowned threefold tantras
Of basic cause, method, and result,
And what is known as ground, path, and fruition,

Are just different situations of this.

The basic consciousness, the all-ground,
And all possible aggregates in samsara,
Are known as the' dependent,' and so forth. 

Emaho!
The creations of this mind essence, while one is still defiled,
The six classes of beings, and so forth,
Extending to the bounds of space,
Are the magical machinery of suffering,

Which surpasses the grasp of thought.

This unconstructed self-knowing itself
Which is free from the defilement of thought,
Is the non dwelling nirvana. 

The Vajra Being is also just this.
The Sixth Buddha is also just this.
The six families are also just this.
Manjusri Kumara is just this.

Vairochana is just this.
Dharmakaya, the great bliss,
And the state of unity are also just this.

This itself is the fourth empowerment.

Innate joy is also just this.
Natural purity is also just this.

All these and other different indicators
Known from the sutras and tantras,

Are for the most part based on this;
Simply combined with this in whichever way is suitable.

Emaho!
The creations of this undefiled mind essence,

What comprises the kayas of form:
The buddha fields of utter purity ,
The magically created mandalas, and so forth-
All these creations of great wonder-

Appear, extending to the bounds of space.

The non-Buddhist Tirthikas,
In their ignorance of mind itself,
Are submerged in an ocean of erroneous philosophy

Involving a self, a supreme godhead, and the like.

The schools of Buddhism, such as the shravakas,
The pratyekabuddhas, and the followers of Mind Only,
Maintain the duality of perceiver and perceived,

And conceptualize non duality as being the true,
Moreover, they get caught in the web of concepts
Such as whether the perceived is real or false.

By not mistaking the view in this way,

You attain enlightenment through the meditation training and conduct,
That are in harmony with the real,
Just like a well-trained race horse. 

Unless you are in harmony with the real view,
Your meditation training and conduct will be mistaken
And you will not attain fruition,
Like a blind man without a guide.

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The student asked: “A sage's response to changing conditions

is unlimited. Does he have to study beforehand?”

He should worry only about his mind's not being

clear, and not about the inability to respond to all changing conditions.”

— Wang Yang Ming (1472-1529)

To nourish the vital energy, keep watch in silence;

In order to subdue the mind, act with non-action.

Of movement and stillness, be aware of their origin;

There is no work to do, much less someone to seek.

The true and constant must respond to phenomena;

Responding to phenomena, you must be unconfused.

When unconfused, the nature will stabilize by itself;

When the nature stabilizes, energy returns by itself.

When energy returns, the elixir crystallizes by itself;

Within the pot, the trigrams of kǎn and lí(heaven and earth) are joined.

Yīn and yáng arise, alternating over and over again;

Every transformation comes like a clap of thunder.

White clouds form and come to assemble at the peak;

The sweet nectar sprinkles down Mount Sumeru.

Swallow for yourself this wine of immortality;

You wander so freely—who is able to know you?

Sit and listen to the tune played without strings;

Clearly understand the mechanism of creation.

It comes entirely from these twenty lines;

A true ladder going straight to Heaven.-Daoist text -

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To us all towns are one, all men our kin. Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill. Man's pains and pains' relief are from within. Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !." - Tamil Poem-

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"The center of the cyclone is that rising quiet central low-pressure place in which one can learn to live eternally. Just outside of this Center is the rotating storm of one's own ego, competing with other egos in a furious high-velocity circular dance. As one leaves center, the roar of rotating wind deafens on more and more as one joins this dance. One's centered thinking-feeling-being, one's own Satoris, are in the center only, not outside. One's pushed-pulled driven states, one's anti-Satori modes of functioning, one's self-created hells, are outside the center. In the center of the cyclone one is off the wheel of Karma, of life, rising to join the Creators of the Universe, the Creators of us.

Here we find that we have created Them who are Us...

Lilly's Law

"In the province of the mind, what is believed to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the(true mind..added by danny) mind, there are no limits."" -- John C. Lilly -

Unless you know the emptiness and bliss inside yourself..you'll be a robot forced by the same emptiness and bliss trying to know itself..by pain..inside your self also..trust me!..said the mahayogi!

In silence there must be movement, and in motion,

There must be silence.
A small movement is better than a big,
no movement is better than a small
silence is all the movement's mother.
In Movement you should be like a dragon or a tiger.
In non Movement you should be like a Buddha.  
-- Wang Xiangzhai(November 26, 1885 - July 12, 1963}

Those whom have ears to hear,let them see..those whom have eyes to see..let them hear good...Kripto Yoga  2.12