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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Now, even at death, I will have no regrets...

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 -
The Upanishads It is written..shape clay into a vessel
It is the space within that gives it value
Place doors and windows in a house
It is the opening that brings light within
Set spokes within a wheel
It is the emptiness of the hub
That makes them useful
Therefore,be the space at the center
Be nothing
And you will have everything
To give to others...
*note* lovely talk from this guy..
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-added by danny-
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Buddha at Gampo Abbey Seven Points of Training the Mind:
The Root Text from Chekawa(1102-1176), the author, opens The Seven Points with this homage.


Translated by the Nalanda Translation Committee under the direction of Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche.


ONE: The preliminaries, which are the basis for dharma practice


First, train in the preliminaries.




TWO: The main practice, which is training
in bodhicitta


Absolute Bodhicitta
Regard all dharmas as dreams.
Examine the nature of unborn awareness.
Self-liberate even the antidote.
Rest in the nature of alaya, the essence.
In postmeditation, be a child of illusion.


Relative Bodhicitta
Sending and taking should be practiced alternately. These two should ride
the breath.
Three objects, three poisons, three roots of virtue.
In all activities, train with slogans.
Begin the sequence of sending and taking with yourself.




THREE: Transformation of Bad Circumstances into the Way of Enlightenment


When the world is filled with evil, transform all mishaps into the path of bodhi.
Drive all blames into one.
Be grateful to everyone.
Seeing confusion as the four kayas is unsurpassable shunyata protection.
Four practices are the best of methods.
Whatever you meet unexpectedly, join with meditation.




FOUR: Showing the Utilization of Practice in One's Whole Life


Practice the five strengths, the condensed heart instructions.
The mahayana instruction for ejection of consciousness at death is the five strengths: how you conduct yourself is important.




FIVE: Evaluation of Mind Training


All dharma agrees at one point.
Of the two witnesses, hold the principal one.
Always maintain only a joyful mind.
If you can practice even when distracted, you are well trained.




SIX: Disciplines of Mind Training


Always abide by the three basic principles.
Change you attitude, but remain natural.
Don't talk about injured limbs.
Don't ponder others.
Work with the greatest defilements first.
Abandon any hope of fruition.
Abandon poisonous food.
Don't be so predictable.
Don't malign others.
Don't wait in ambush.
Don't bring things to a painful point.
Don't transfer the ox's load to the cow.
Don't try to be the fastest.
Don't act with a twist.
Don't make gods into demons.
Don't seek others' pain as the limbs of your own happiness.




SEVEN: Guidelines of Mind Training


All activities should be done with one intention.
Correct all wrongs with one intention.
Two activities: one at the beginning, one at the end.
Whichever of the two occurs, be patient.
Observe these two, even at the risk of your life.
Train in the three difficulties.
Take on the three principal causes.
Pay heed that the three never wane.
Keep the three inseparable.
Train without bias in all areas. It is crucial always to do this pervasively
and wholeheartedly.
Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment.
Don't be swayed by external circumstances.
This time, practice the main points.
Don't misinterpret.
Don't vacillate.
Train wholeheartedly.
Liberate yourself by examining and analyzing.
Don't wallow in self-pity.
Don't be jealous.
Don't be frivolous.
Don't expect applause.




When the five dark ages occur,
This is the way to transform them into the path of bodhi.
This is the essence of the amrita of the oral instructions,
Which were handed down from the tradition of the sage Suvarnadvipa.
Having awoken the karma of previous training
And being urged on by my intense dedication,
I disregarded misfortune and slander
And received oral instruction on taming ego-fixation.
Now, even at death, I will have no regrets.


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

1.1.1


2.1 Awakening to what is ultimately true
2.1.1
2.1.2
2.1.3
2.1.4
2.1.5

2.2 Awakening to what is apparently true
2.2.1
2.2.2
2.2.3
2.2.4


3.1 General
3.1.1

3.2 Awakening to what is apparently true
3.2.1
3.2.2

3.3 Awakening to what is ultimately true
3.3.1

3.4 Special Methods
3.4.1
3.4.2


4.1 What to do while living
4.1.1

4.2 What to do while dying
4.2.1

5.1.1
5.1.2
5.1.3
5.1.4


6.1 General
6.1.1

6.2 Body, speech, mind
6.2.1
6.2.2
6.2.3

6.3 General reactivity
6.3.1
6.3.2
6.3.3

6.4 Anger
6.4.1
6.4.2
6.4.3
6.4.4

6.5 Envy
6.5.1
6.5.2
6.5.3

6.6 Pride
6.6.1
6.6.2


7.1 General
7.1.1
7.1.2

7.2 Reminders
7.2.1
7.2.2
7.2.3

7.3 Maintenance
7.3.1
7.3.2
7.3.3
7.3.4

7.4 Extension
7.4.1
7.4.2
7.4.3

7.5 Addressing imbalance
7.5.1
7.5.2
7.5.3

7.6 Maintaining balance
7.6.1
7.6.2
7.6.3
7.6.4
7.6.5
7.6.6
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 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 -



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-


Hakuin does not sketch himself in the idealized form of an enlightened one, or even in the realistic image of an austere zenji, but as a bald, fat, cross-eyed and hunch-backed old man...but then he kissed you:)...Lovely story of the creation purpose...shakti means manifestation,and shiva means the origin of it..the kiss is the joy of emptiness knowing itself...kisses from the mahayogi to you,grasshoppers from heaven!