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The Biggest Demon Is Our Ego

“the idea that a higher power is a construct of the ego takes the ego to a whole new level. Do you really believe that we are biological beings floating through some aimless ocean of personal responsibility? The idea there is no higher power -- whatever name one calls it -- is the ultimate ego.”

I found that in group that look over and found that very interesting I am yogi who got his background in high psychology and when see that we could found lot of answers.

According to Freud psychoanalytic theory, the id is the primitive and instinctual part of the mind that contains sexual and aggressive drives and hidden memories, the super-ego operates as a moral conscience, and the ego is the realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego.

To put it short: ego is who you tell yourself you are. ... Buddhist scholars agree that the ego is a mental construct we need to navigate the world. While in the Buddhist context you may more often run into the phrase “the sense of separate self,” its core meaning is very similar to the Western concept of ego.

Both Buddha Dharma and Science agree on things ego is mental construction, that mental construction become stronger with trauma we can see that in our society with the massive rise of narcissistic personality, that just mean we got more cause of trauma in our society.

What the Buddha and Mahasiddhas told us about that happiness is selfless, come back to my lama again Garchen Rinpoche is a pure example of selfless he’s give everything to others.

What create ego in very first beginning, karma is our taught felling that had no end and beginning what causes from past lives.

Results of ego grasping well if we look in world just in that moment we can see the results of ego, very cold world, cold heart, rude world we live in raising our kids in same standards ever and ever again. In our questions do samsara will stop only if ego grasping stop, to stop ego grasping we need to train like past masters did in love and compassion.

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10th century, the movement of mahasiddhas is coming to its end. Arrow has been released.

Goddess Kurukulle 

Bihar, India

Black Stone

72.5 cm

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Power Of Virtue

Results of Doing the Ten Non-Virtues

1. Killing any living being. It includes abortion, suicide (ruining a body that could have reached nirvana in this life), and participating in the military (even being a cook, it is as if you shot the gun yourself).

Personal Result: Your life is short; and you get sick easily, have little energy.

Environmental Result: Food, drink, medicine, crops, have very little effect, are always inferior, are not nutritious, are hard to digest, and cause disease in you. Most beings around you die before reaching the end of a full life.

2. Stealing anything of value: includes shady business deals, cheating on rent, taxes, or bills, underpaying what is due to local government or society, etc.

Personal Result: You do not have enough to live on or to make ends meet; and what you do have is all just common property with others.

Environmental Result: The crops are few and far between, they have no power to remove hunger, they spoil or never come up; dry spells stay on too long; it rains too much; the crops dry up or die off.

3. Sexual Misconduct. It mainly means adultery — cheating on your partner, a person to whom you are exclusively committed. It also includes some specific secondary behaviors.

Personal Result: The people who work around you are “inconsistent” (unreliable); and you find yourself having a lot of competition for your partner.

Environmental Result: You live in a place where there is urine and feces all around, and mud, dirt, filth; everything stinks and everywhere seems unpleasant and distasteful.

4. Lying, giving someone else a wrong impression about what you have seen, believe, or know; unless it would save someone’s life or prevent real suffering. If you lie and get something, the benefit comes from past good deeds, not from the lie.

Personal Result: No one believes what you say; even when you are speaking the truth, others are always deceiving you.

Environmental Result: Your work in cooperation with others fails to prosper and people around you do not work well together; everyone generally is cheating one another and is afraid, and there are many things to be afraid of.

5. Divisive Talk, splitting people up with your talk; saying things to alienate or separate two different people, (regardless of whether or not your words are true); causing one person to like another person less; it is usually subtle, like in your tone of voice.

Personal Result: You lose friends easily; people around you are always fighting one another; and people around you have an undesirable character.

Environmental Result: The ground you live in is split up, uneven, covered with crags and gullies, highs and lows, so travel is difficult and you are always afraid and there are many things to be afraid of.

6. Harsh Talk, with bad intent and effect; it includes sarcastic “nice” words and swearing.

Personal Result: You hear many unpleasant things, you hear things as bad sounds; and when others talk to you it always seems to you as if they want to start a fight.

Environmental Result: The ground where you live is covered with obstacles like fallen tree trunks, thorns, stones, sharp broken glass; it is rough, dreary, no streams or water springs; the ground is parched and poisoned, burning hot and threatening; there are many things to fear.

7. Idle Talk, meaningless chatter, criticism, disputes, useless joking, whining, complaining, speaking out of the motive of attachment or craving; gossiping about politics, sports, etc., or about people engaged in wrong livelihood; reciting prayers while not thinking about their meaning. Gossiping about others’ values or spiritual practice. Dharma is sacred and should be discussed in holy private whispers on special nights, not casually — talk in hushed tones, very beautiful sacred speech, talk about inspiring things. As an aspiring bodhisattva, you may need to discuss mundane topics with others for their benefit, but keep the ultimate goal in mind, and do not be drawn into worldly conversations.

Personal Result: No one listens to you; no one respects what you say — no one thinks that what you say has any particular value; and you are afflicted with a lack of confidence and self-esteem.

Environmental Result:Fruits refuse to grow, or grow at the wrong times, seem ripe when they are not, have frail roots; there are no leisure places around like parks, or pools of cool water; many things around make you afraid.

8. Craving/Coveting, is similar to coveting in the Ten Commandments. Wanting others’ possessions and personal qualities like their intelligence, health, fame, youth, or spiritual achievements. It comes in five stages: you are attached to your own possessions, desire to accumulate more than you have, discover another’s possessions, like to make them your own, and the desire becomes unmanageable and you “lose shame” (then you act).

Personal Result: Your personality is dominated by desire; and you are never satisfied with what you have.

Environmental Result: Every good thing you manage to find starts to get worse, decrease as days, months, and seasons pass.

9. Ill-Will, is to wish bad things upon others; being pleased when others fail or have misfortune; competitiveness, like “Oh, how did they mess up? Tell me more…” not feeling as bad for an unfortunate person as you would feel for yourself if you were them.

Personal Result: Your personality is dominated by anger; you are always finding yourself without help, or never find the help you need; and you are always hurting others, or always being hurt by others.

Environmental Result: You live in a world of chaos, diseases spread, evil is everywhere, plague, conflict, fear of harm from the military, dangerous animals, you are surrounded by harmful spirits, thieves or muggers, etc.

10. Wrong View, “Incorrect world view” means not regarding karma as being the direct cause of every microsecond of experience we have. This leads to doing misdeeds #1–9.

Personal Result: Your personality is dominated by stupidity; you are a person who keeps harmful views; and you are a deceitful person.

Environmental Result: You live in a world where the single highest source of happiness is steadily disappearing from the earth; where people think that unclean and suffering things are actually nice and happy; where there is no place to go, no one to help you, nothing to protect you.

THE TEN VIRTUES

Any actions we do that cause both oneself and others to experience happiness as a result are known as virtuous actions. The classification of virtuous actions is:

Not taking the life of living beings

Not taking what is not freely given

Abstaining from sexual misconduct

Speaking truthfully

Not engaging in divisive speech

Speaking gentle words

Not gossiping

Not coveting the wealth of others

Giving up holding ill-will towards others

Right view

Contrary at what we think virtues wasn't here before the Buddha teaching, we can find on vedic and pte hindu text the notion of virtues very similar, now when we come to Buddha teaching Shakyamuni stress on those virtues because he realised that without that nothing happened.

Virtues is rightous act made in selfless action, without thinking “ gonna get good karma doing this “ , virtues are made in selfless mind to.

How do we do virtues by practicing the Dharma ? So we do virtues because first we renounce to samsara, second we want to practice for sake of all sentient beings and last we generate bodhichitta. Without those we won’t make any virtues, now virtues applications so yes we will mess up in today world full of extreme yes we will do non vitues to cancel them we need to confess fault and hiden fault by the body, speach and mind.

There's a zen proverb that say that the zen master made more mistakes than the students. So making mistakes well it’s normal our day will be more grey tham pure with or dark. What we mistaken to be like Garchen Rinpoche for example that years of work, Garchen Rinpoche himself said himself if we look to his karma he didn't had much virtues but he didn't give up on Dharma not even for a day.

That same attitude we need to have, yes we will face hardship someday we will make just non virtues and that ok because we will regret transform and carry on its part of learning Dharma to the deep.

It’s very easy to see if we got virtues and on what we use those virtues, in past I was worried about money because I was very poor, till I notice well I am not so poor because I met Karmapa, Shamarpa, took refuge very high vows with Garchen Rinpoche, recived empowerments that Milarepa himself had, wasn't poor was extremely ritch I just noticed that virtues was in Dharma there for I focus on those and left the rest. So we maybe poor, ritch or whatever but we can see on what way go our virtues for example in our life there's an area that very grow that where is our virtues, after that area maybe not Dharma mean we actually burning virtues and if we want to practice we need to develop bodhi mind .

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Tilopa Life Early Childhood

the most revered of all the Tibetan Masters, was born to an affluent family in east Bengal in India. He was a Bengali poet, a saint and a Yogi and lived in the tenth century. Some scholars believe that he was born to a Brahmin family, while the others are of the opinion that he was born to one of the royal families of Bengal. Brahmins are the highest order conferred on an individual under the Indian caste system. Tilopa is said to have been born in the highest caste of that time. However, there is also a difference of opinion regarding the place of Tilopa’s birth. It is speculated that he was either born in Chativavo, now Chittagong, or in Jagora. Both places are now located in Bengal. Tilopa’s uncommon identity was recognised much before his birth. Tilopa stayed unborn for thirteen months in his mother’s womb. After thirteen months in the womb, Tilopa was born on the second day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, at dawn. The year when Tilopa was born was the year of the Rat, of the earth element. There is a popular custom followed in the Indian tradition, particularly among the Brahmins at the time of birth of a baby. The family invites experts on palmistry, astrology and numerology to foretell the future and fortune of the new born. The experts are often joined by wise men, who, based on their experience and spiritual knowledge express the potential and abilities of the child. This is also a way to identify the potential threats and hurdles in the life of the child and eliminate them by conducting religious ceremonies and making offerings as directed by the priest. Thus, as he hailed from a highly respected Brahmin family, the same custom was followed at the birth of Tilopa. But, the story that followed is very interesting. When the first palmist was invited to the household, it was in a flicker of moment that he exclaimed, “The child is blessed with extraordinary capabilities that are not within my expertise to explain. He has divine characteristics that no human can ever conceive in words. As a humble palmist, I request you not to put me through the task of reading the child’s future.” Thus, begging pardon, the palmist rushed out of the house in haste. This reaction of the palmist left Tilopa’s parents confused and confounded. However, his parents did not stop there. They called for a second palmist. This person saw Tilopa and immediately reacted in the exact same way as the first palmist had. He, too, begged for pardon and left the house in a hurry. Thus followed many wise men and fortune-tellers, but none could explain the magnificent characteristics of Tilopa to his parents. Despite all the cloaked reactions by the palmists and the wise men, Tilopa’s parents successfully surmised that their child was blessed by Gods and was gifted with extraordinary capabilities and an appealing personality. They believed that it was only right for them to bring up their son with great Early Years and Childhood 3 care under vigilant guardianship. So, Tilopa’s childhood was always flooded with love, care and affection by his parents. Besides such display of affection, Tilopa’s parents watched over him attentively. He was not permitted to mix or play with other children of his age. Thus, for a long time, his mother and his sister were his only playmates. Soon, Tilopa grew up to be a young boy. It was time for him to attend school to practise Dharma. While his parents were trying to protect him, a strange incident happened that changed how Tilopa’s parents behaved towards him. One bright afternoon, Tilopa was sitting in the garden of his house, playing with his toys. Suddenly, his mother saw from the window that a big dark shadow was cast upon him. There stood next to Tilopa an ugly old woman, who was terrifying to look at. Tilopa’s mother shook with trepidation and screamed at the old woman to move away from Tilopa. In truth, the old woman was a mystical being, a Dakini, and had come to guide Tilopa onto the path of Dharma.

Seeing Tilopa’s mother scream out in fury, the old lady said to her, “Your screaming at me is worthless. No matter how hard you try and protect your son, you cannot protect him from the untimate death that is written in his destiny. All your love and care will fail in front of death and your son will be taken away from you.” These words of the old lady shocked Tilopa’s mother. She became desperate to find a solution for this ill fate of her son. So, she prostrated in front of the old lady and begged her to give her a solution that would save Tilopa’s life. The old lady told Tilopa’s mother, “If you wish to protect your son from dying, then send him to school to receive education. He has to cross the boundaries of the house and join the outer world, if he is to live.” Saying this, the old lady vanished. While this incident took place, Tilopa’s father had been out of the house for a few days for his business. When he returned home, his wife narrated the entire incident to him and told him about the prophecy of the old lady. Now, in all Brahmin families, it is a strictly followed tradition that all their children attend school to receive the best of education and learn about the Holy Scriptures. Tilopa was to be put on the same path, and thus, it was required for him to attend school. Thus, considering that Tilopa would in any case attend school, they did not ponder much over the old lady’s prophecy.

Soon, Tilopa was sent to school. He was a diligent and enthusiastic student. Over time, he completed his education and became a master in the practices and cultural traditions of the Brahmins. He was the greatest Brahmin scholar ever to be found

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A New Biggining

If you are beyond all grasping at an object and at a subject,

that is the monarch of all views.

If there is no distraction,

it is the monarch of all meditations.

If there is no effort,

it is the monarch among all conducts.

When there is no hope and no fear,

that is the final result,

and the fruition has been attained or revealed.

-- Tilopa

Welcome to Acala Vidyaraja rebirth or should I say awakening, Journey of enlightenment was very good adventure but even the 6000 visits perday I had that drive for better.

I notice the dark side of Tibetan Buddhism and understood why Milarepa just leave those up to theirs actions because that not the path.

This one well I found in love long ago with Tilopa to Milarepa teachings and those teachings and techniques that I apply myself in daily life can be learm from everyone who wants to.

This blog got full mahamudra view and sorry I won’t talk about the basics.

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The Innate Purity

“The innate purity that is the nature of mind… exists within, so do not look elsewhere.”

~ Virupa

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From Rituals To Simplicity

The two traditions work together and for one who want be yogi in our modern time well we need understand that we don’t neee to run to cave to be yogi we got 84 plus more examples including Marpa Lotsawa who was practicing with their life.

Now when we come to the sadhana themself well first before be a yogi path the recommendation is finished ngandro the preliminary but even having finished that recommendation is to have a very strong practice base.

In my own experience I learm from Tilopa and Milarepa the way, Milarepa learn his practice by heart from refuge to seed syllable to visualization. Tilopa him practice in the simple way but very efficient.

For one who want be a modernsiddha need to learn few skill, first one there's two way the way to have no ritual and focus only on one practice that what did Milarepa and enlightenment in one life is good option. Second way Naropa was mix because he came from the high Nalanda he was mixing simplicity with ritual but yet wasn't in early stage.

The skills what siddhas has well siddhas know themselves very well whatever they practice the dream yoga or 6 yoga of Naropa they will know what’s happening inside.

Ritual and simplicity work togethers again when we practice like siddhas well rituals are gone, very simple but very efficient.

Milarepa say the shrine of your heart got all the buddhas you need, so been a siddhas we don't have shrine, we are the shrine, we dont have ritual we are the practice.

Difference between path

Sadhana : for normal practioners we got Sadhana and pencha for siddhas like Milarepa we got memories and are paper less.

Yoga: 9 breath and tsa long and tummo that essential techniques to learns, from my personal experience he took me long time to receive the transmission of each techniques, yes in our time we don't becomes siddhas in a day.

Do like the past masters did : social media show us that comfortable Tibetan monk playing siddhas in cushions in cave. That the very wrong way Milarepa was miles away from that picture he had sites on rock or whatever he was able to meditate that is ass was full of scares. That mean for modern yogi drop the confort and learn to meditate everywhere, before on my experience I had sacred space now I am the sacred space meam noise are mantra doesn’t bother a yogi to meditate in town or in cave that the same.

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Medhina Teaching

Medhina was a low-caste man from Saliputra. One day while laboring in the field, he suddenly stopped and stood there. A yogin came along and asked if he would like to get away from this pain and suffering through Dharma. Medhina showed much interest and so the yogin gave him instructions on the Developing Stage and the Perfecting Stage, and then set him to meditating. But the thought of plowing the fields interrupted him, making Medhina lose his desire to meditate. He went back to his guru and expressed his concern, where upon his guru gave him instructions that were more consistent with his thoughts.

Mendhipa continued meditating accordingly to his guru’s instructions for 12 years, and having stopped various kinds of worldly conceptions, he obtained siddhi. He ascended a tree which grew 7 talas up into the sky.

Mendhipa worked for the benefit of beings in Saliputra and then went to the realm of the Dakas in this very body.