Practice Material
Although mahamudra 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.
Practice Material
For giving, nothing to do
But stop privileging self.
For ethics, nothing to do
But stop being dishonest.
Practice Material
All beings who have taken a wrong way,
the powerful, the arrogant,
Those who could not be taught by buddhas
throughout all space and time,
May I teach each and every one of them
And lead them in an instant to buddhahood.
Practice Material
When someone close to us dies, our connection with that person is broken and cannot be restored. Yet the web of connections does not disintegrate right away. It gradually unravels — strands release one by one. Each strand is a memory, a recollection, or an association. The purpose of this ceremony is to complete our relationship with the person who has died and, in doing so, to allow the process of letting go to begin.
Practice Material
May we acquire all the abilities of the ground, path, and fruition. And clear away all disruptions in outlook, practice, and behavior. In the infinite expanse of the wonderful mind of Ever-present Good,
May we take hold of eternal being in the youthful vase body.
Practice Material
When you open and relax,
There is an emptiness that goes beyond true or false.
Here, if you know arising release, natural release and direct release,
You are no different from all the awakened ones.
You are awake and no different from me.
Practice Material
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.
Practice Material
Treasured teacher, I pray to you.
Grant me energy for belief in self to fall away.
Grant me energy to see through life’s illusions.
Practice Material
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.
Practice Material
Form is emptiness.
Emptiness is form.
Emptiness is not other than form
Form is not other than emptiness…
Practice Material
The essence of thought is what is, it is taught.
To this meditator who arises as an unceasing play,
Being nothing at all, but arising as anything,
Grant me energy to know that samsara and nirvana are not separate.
Practice Material
May the evil, confusion, and misery in other sentient beings
Come into me; may I experience the pain.
Because I experience that pain, may all sentient beings
Never again experience any misery, evil, or confusion.
Practice Material
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.
Practice Material
What joy!
Samsaric ways are senseless:
they are the seeds of suffering.
Conventional ways are pointless.
Focus on what is sound and true.
Majestic outlook is beyond all fixation.
Majestic practice is no distraction.
Majestic behavior is no action or effort.
The fruition is there when you are free from hope and fear.
