#mahamudra

[tracetheradianceback]

"After the ecstasy, the laundry”

—Jack Kornfield

[getupinyouroriginalface]

[mountain-sage]

When we examine all the different elements of our experience, all the phenomena in the world around us, we can determine, both through intellectual analysis and through meditation, that not only does the individual personality lack any true self-nature, but in the same way each and every entity or phenomena we encounter lacks a self-nature.

And so we arrive at the conclusion that all phenomena are empty. Emptiness pervades not only our own individual ego or sense of self, but the whole of reality.

This is what is referred to as the Madhyamaka approach or philosophy of the Middle Way.

Above and beyond that, there is the understanding that not only are all phenomena in Samsara and Nirvana essentially empty or devoid of self-nature, but also the root of all these phenomena, the source from which they all spring, is the mind. This ties in more with the Mahamudra approach, and it is slightly more profound.

Madhyamaka and Mahamudra are examining the same thing from different points of view, and the Mahamudra approach tends to go one step further.

The next, and final step after that is to determine where that mind comes from, the ground of being from which ordinary, samsaric mind emerges, the mother that gives birth to the child of ordinary mind.

This discovery of a self-arising state of primordial awareness, one that goes beyond ordinary, conceptual thought is that with which the approach of Mahasandhi or Dzogchen is concerned. It is on this basis, the glimpse or realisation of this, that true Dzogchen practice takes place. This is why Dzogchen is often referred to as the consummate result, the ultimate fruition of practice.

Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje.

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[nondualcafe]

Mahamudra

[chodpa]

Savaripa on the Nature of Mind

"In the process of searching for all that manifests as mind and matter

There is neither anything to be found nor is there any seeker,

For to be unreal is to be unborn and unceasing

In the three periods of time.

That which is immutable

Is the state of great bliss." https://luminousemptiness.co.uk/savaripa-on-the-nature-of-mind/

[notasfilosoficas]

"Quien se aferra a la mente, no ve la verdad de lo que está más allá de la mente.

Quien se esfuerza en practicar el dharma, no encuentra la verdad que está más allá de la práctica.

Para conocer lo que está más allá de ambas, mente y práctica, uno debe cortar de raíz la mente y observarlo todo en total desnudez.

De esta forma, uno deja de lado toda distinción y permanece tranquilo"

Tilopa

Tilopa fue un gurú nacido en Bengala hoy Bangladesh en el año 988 de nuestra era. Llevó sus enseñanzas tántricas desde la India hasta el Tibet y se le atribuye el desarrollo de la doctrina mahamudra o método budista que conduce a la naturaleza propia de la mente estabilizada, no dual y sin apego.

Reconocido como fundador de una de las seis escuelas del Budismo Tibetano el denominado linaje Kagyu.

De acuerdo con algunas fuentes Tilopa nació en una familia real, la cual abandonó para adoptar una existencia errante de mendigo, recibiendo enseñanzas de diversos gurús a lo largo de su vida.

De acuerdo con una leyenda, se dice que recibió las enseñanzas del mahamudra directamente del Buda Vajradhara.

Se cuenta que Tilopa le dió seis consejos a su discípulo Naropa los cuales hablan de la mente liberada carente de tiempo, sin apegos ni juicios, como un medio para alcanzar el estado de Buda.

“Deja ir lo que ya pasó”, “Deja ir lo que pueda pasar”, “Deja ir lo que sucede ahora”, “No trates de interpretar nada”, “No trates de hacer que algo suceda”, “Relájate ahora y descansa”.

[wisdom-and-such]

“Don’t meditate! Don’t meditate! don't meditate on mind!  Meditating on the mind is the whirl of delusion of thoughts. Through your thoughts, you are fettered in samsara. Being free of the mind, there is nothing to meditate.”

--Doha by the yogini Mahasiddhi

in this lyrical poem, the composer describes the paradox of realization. The composers design is not to literally induce people to give up meditation, but to describe the realization gained through meditation that goes beyond meditation -- the realization which according to Master Dogens description, renders practice to be enlightenment and enlightenment to be practice.