#longchenpa

[ammonitetestpatterns]

[vajra-ares]

"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

[mountain-sage]

"One does not arrive at the state of Ilberation just by recognizing awareness.

During beginningless lifetimes, we have been confined within a structure of deluded habitual patterns. From then until now, we have spent our human existence as the servant of our worthless thoughts.

At the time of death, we do not know where we will go, but we follow our karma and inevitably suffer.

Therefore, now it is necessary to meditate, sustaining the continuity of awareness that was introduced.

The great omniscient Longchenpa said: 'Although you have been introduced to your nature, if you do not become familiar with it, You will be carried away by the enemy of thought like an infant in battle!

One hence familiarizes through meditation."

@dzongsar_khenpo

[improvisedliturgy]

He who sees the meaning of the equality of all phenomena and realizes the mind as unborn like the sky is perfecting [realizing] the phenomena of the world and beings as the naturally pure Buddha-field, the state of equanimity of unborn spontaneous accomplishment. The essence of appearances and mind is emptiness, and that is the meaning of Dharmakaya; their nature is unceasing, and that is the appearance of Sambhogakaya; their characteristics are various and that is the Nirmanakaya.

Longchen Rabjam, "Naturally Liberated Mind, the Great Perfection"

[chodpa]

Luminous Emptiness

a Dzogchen / Mahamudra blog

Luminous Emptiness - a Dzogchen / Mahamudra meditation blog, exploring in-depth Tibetan Buddhism, Nondualism, Vajrayana, Zen, Advaita Vedanta, Bhakti and beyond.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Perfect alignment of the Moon Saturn & Jupiter. Photographed by Picabuzz

[Exploring The Whole Universe]

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The fourteenth-century Tibetan master Longchenpa said there are five characteristics we should cultivate in order to practice the four immeasurables:

 (1) a fundamental attitude as vast as space; (2) a mind as constant as the depths of the ocean; (3) seeing all occurrences, inner and outer, as mist floating in the sky; (4) a compassionate attitude as even as the rays of the sun; (5) sensing negativities to be like specks of dust in our eyes.

The Four Immeasurables Leave Nothing Untouched →

[alive on all channels]

[lovesinistra]

[greenjudy]

I live

I got about 18 hours of sleep this week! 

It’s not time for me to be human yet. 

Next week, maybe. :)