How to Lose Your Mind

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[…] has no genesis, faith and devotion are its genesis. Although mahamudra has no conditions, excellent teachers are its conditions. Although mahamudra has no method, this unaffected mind is its method. Although mahamudra has no path, this undistracted mind is its path. Although mahamudra has no result, this mind free in pure being is its result.

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Revelations of Ever-Present Good

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[…] bow to the aware Ever-present Good. Eight conceptual approaches Once known, mind itself is like space.The nature of space is that there is nothing that is space. In the same way, examples cannot really point out awareness. Yet I rely on such methods to shed light on key points. What is it like when […]

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Taking and Sending: Pith Instructions

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As you grow accustomed to this exchange, and that may take a while, you come to rest in a different way, in a profound acceptance of the pain of the world and the struggles that comprise most people’s lives. In that acceptance, there is a quiet joy, a joy in the wonder of life itself.

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Ever-Present Good’s Prayer of Intention

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Through my awakened intention When strong aversion arises In any being in the six states, May they let it be, without doing anything with it. As awareness finds its own place, May they attain the pristine awareness of clarity.

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Recognizing Mind as the Guru

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Because of your great compassion, Every being is originally placed in full awakening. Because of your powerful actions, You engage and master everything in samsara and nirvana.

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A Light in the Dark: Dzogchen Pith Instructions from Ju Mipham

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Now, as you experience this vague knowing in which there is no thought or movement, look at what knows that this is happening, look at what is mentally or emotionally inert, and rest there. Then you experience an awareness that is free from thought and movement, has no sense of inside or outside, and […]

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Four Immeasurables – practice

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Verses for the practice of the four immeasurables (or the four brahmaviharas). These verses incorporate elements from Theravada, Mahayana, and Dzogchen approaches to the four immeasurables.

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