Dudjom Rinpoche
That moment is like taking a hood off your head. What boundless spaciousness and relief! This is the supreme seeing: seeing what was not seen before.” When you “see what was not seen before,” everything opens, expands, and b...
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The practitioner of self-liberation is like an ordinary person as far as the way in which the thoughts of pleasure and pain, hope and fear, manifest themselves as creative energy. However, the ordinary person, taking these really ...
]]>Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Mind and its projections are innocent.
They are very ordinary, very natural, and very simple.
Red is not evil, and white is not divine; blue is not evil, and green is not divine.
Sky is sky; rock is rock; earth is earth;...
]]>Maitripa (1007-1078?)
Homage to Great Bliss!
Mahamudra is knowing that
all things are one's own mind.
Seeing objects as external is just noetic projection.
The whole of "appearance" is as empty as a dream.
The mind as such is merely a flow of awareness,
without self-nature, moving where it will like the wind.
Empty of an identity, it is like space.
All phenomena, like space, are the same.
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
Sustaining the Nature of Mind
Our nature does not go or stay anywhere since it is always with us. It does not become more present by going to the mountains and living in a hermitage. Our nature does not change according to...
]]>Beloved Naropa, this treasure of Buddhahood belongs to you and to all beings. Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores […]
]]>If you want to study Mahamudra here is a list of books to get started. I can recommend nummer 3, 5 & 22. 1 Wild Awakening: The Heart o… Wild Awakening: The Heart of Mahamudra and Dzogchen by Dzogchen Ponlop 2 Mind at Ease: Self-Liberati… Mind at Ease: Self-Liberation through Mahamudra Meditation by Traleg Kyabgon […]
]]>Thrangu Rinpoche
The Mahamudra sense of Vipassana does not mean to examine concepts, but to look into what the mind actually is, namely a sense of being awake and conscious, continuously present and very clear.
Whenever we do look, no matter when, we cannot help but discover that mind has no form, color or shape—none at all. Then we may wonder, "Does that mean that there is no mind? Does the
]]>Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
The real buddha is the nature of our mind. Right now, our buddha nature is covered by obscurations that we need to purify. We also need to gather the two accumulations of merit and wisdom. A practice in which we think that the ...
]]>The First Panchen Lama Lozang Chokyi Gyeltsen Namo mahamudraya: Homage to mahamudra, the great seal of reality. I respectfully bow at the feet of my peerless guru, lord of that which pervades everywhere, master of those with actual attainment, who expounds the all-pervasive nature of everything, the great seal of reality, mahamudra, inseparable from the […]
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