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[…] masters,Coming like flower petals swirling in the wind.All of them are absorbed into Only Mother’s body.3 Her left hand holds a silver bell.Its ringing fills the ten directions.The dakinis of the twenty-four places gather,Swirling like snowflakes in a storm.All of them are absorbed into the Great Mother’s4 body. Only Mother Labkyi Drönma, union of […]
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[…] each other or not. In this field of sensory, emotional, and cognitive experience, you naturally become aware of what is out of balance and move in the direction of balance, weighing one interpretation over another. But this direction is constantly changing. You end up resting, but resting nowhere, constantly opening to the complexity and […]
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[…] eliminating all choice. One posture. One object. Rest right there. No choice. And, as all of us know, it’s not easy. The lack of choice brings you directly into contact with the way you habitually ignore, shut down, manipulate or control your experience. When you have no choice, you have to learn how to […]
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[…] are going into to territory that is unknown or unfamiliar to you. Think of a river guide, or a mountain guide. Change comes from following your guide’s directions, not striking out on your own, but absorbing and learning from your guide until you know the territory and its challenges and can be guide yourself. […]
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[…] issues only in terms of right and wrong, this or that. Freedom is being awake, and being awake means not being passive with the tendencies that kill attention, intention, or will. What you experience is your life. To be free, meet experience directly, know it completely, and act without hesitation. First published August 6, 2004.
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[…] bring a traditional practice text to life for each of Vajrayana’s three pillars: Teacher — the world of faith, devotion, prayer, meditation that opens a door to direct awareness practices Deity — a realm of magic and mystery that radically shifts your understanding of life and self Protector — the power of the protectors […]
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[…] life is dynamic, imbalances inevitably arise and call for a response, even if the response is no action. The essential ethical obligation is to move in the direction of balance, responding to what arises in experience to the best of one’s abilities. Obligation arises out of a personal choice as to where one takes […]
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[…] the host of bodhisattvas.Repeat three times. Seven Section Prayer With complete faith I bowTo Buddha Shakyamuni andAll the victorious ones and their followersWho abide in the ten directions and three times. I offer flowers, incense, light,Perfume, food, music, and many other things,Both in substance and in my imagination.I ask this noble gathering to accept […]
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[…] money that indicates the true extent to which we have engaged this collective thought. What do we do? The answer, for me, seems to lie in the direction of becoming more mindful (have we heard that word before?) of the role money plays in our lives, to take money much more seriously than we […]
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[…] forms of human knowledge? For me, God, karma, rebirth, emptiness, Brahma, Atman, heaven, hell, all of these are stories that people use to understand, explain, or give direction to their lives. The same holds for scientific views, astronomy, biology, quantum mechanics, or neurology. If we wish to be free of suffering, to be free […]
