THE JEWEL OF THE HEART OF THE LUCKY
Dudjom Council staff Rinpoche on the practice of Dzogchen
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Tribute to my teacher!
Oddiyana Grand Master once said:
not investigate the root of things,
investigates the root of the mind.
Once you've found the root of the mind,
know one thing and yet,
be able to release everything.
But if you can not find the root of the mind,
you know everything, but do not know anything.
When you begin to meditate on your mind, sit down flat, allowing the breath to flow naturally. Look at the space before you with eyes neither fully closed nor too open. Think, for the sake of all beings who have been your mothers, you will contemplate the conscience, the face of Samantabhadra. Pray fervently to your root teacher, which is inseparable from Padmasambhava, the Guru of Oddiyana, and mix your mind with it. Settle into a meditative state balanced.
However, once you've settled your mind, will not stay too long in this empty, clear state of awareness like. Your mind will start to move and shake. So concerned, shall, as a monkey, here and there, everywhere. What you're experiencing at the moment is not the nature of mind, but merely thoughts. If you stick to them and follow them, you'll find remembering all sorts of things, thinking about all kinds of needs, planning all sorts of activities. It is precisely this kind of mental activity that has thrown you into the dark ocean of samsara in the past, and there is no doubt that it will continue in the future. It would be much better that would reduce the continued proliferation of misleading your thoughts.
What would happen if you could break free from the chain of thoughts? What is the awareness like? It is empty, clear, light, free, joyful! It is not even limited or conditioned by their own attributes. There is nothing that does not embrace the whole of samsara and nirvana. Since beginningless time, innately resides within. But while we have never lacked it, is totally beyond the scope of our work, effort and imagination.
But how is recognized, you ask, the awareness like the face of rigpa ? Although experience it simply can not describe. It's like a mute trying to describe their dreams! It is impossible to distinguish between self rested on pure and pristine awareness and consciousness that one experiences. When you're lying naturally and without artifice in the boundless state of consciousness pure and pristine, all angry and quick thoughts that do not stay quiet for a moment, all those memories and all those plans that will cause many problems, lose their power, diluted in the spacious and sunny sky of consciousness. They shatter, crumble and disappear. All his strength disappears in the pure and pristine awareness.
really pure and pristine that consciousness resides within. Wisdom is clear and naked dharmakaya . But who can introduce you to her? What you get settled? What is the confidence that you hold? To begin with, is the teacher who shows you the state of pure and clear conscience. And once you recognize it for yourself, then has been introduced to your own nature . All appearances of samsara and nirvana are nothing more than the deployment of your own consciousness. put your trust only in the clear and pure conscience . Like the waves that emerge from the sea sink back into it, all the thoughts that appear in consciousness pure and pristine disappear back into it. Be certain of their dissolution , so you will find yourself in a state totally free from both the meditator as an object of meditation entirely beyond the mind that meditates.
"Ah, in that case, you might think," there is no need to meditate. " Well, I can assure you that meditation is essential! The mere recognition of the awareness like not set you free. Throughout all your lives since time without beginning, you have been involved in false beliefs and habits misleading. Since then so far have wasted any time as a miserable and pathetic slave to your thoughts! And when you die, no one knows for sure where they'll head. Go your karma and suffer accordingly. This is why you must meditate, continuously preserving the pure and clear state of consciousness that has been introduced. The omniscient Longchenpa said: "You can recognize your own nature, but if you do not meditate and get used to it you will be like a newborn baby abandoned in a battlefield. You'll be swept away by the enemy, the hostile army of your own thoughts! "Overall, meditation means familiar with the state in which we rest in the primordial nature and freedom of working through spontaneous attention, steady and natural. Means used to stay in the naked state of pure consciousness and primal, stripped of all distractions and attachment.
But how we get used to dwell on the nature of mind? When thoughts come while you are meditating, let them come, there is no need to consider them enemies. If they do, relax in your emergency. On the other hand, when there are no thoughts, no if you keep waiting to appear or not. Simply lies in the absence of thought. During meditation, when thoughts are suddenly clear and well defined, easy to recognize. But if thoughts are subtle, it is difficult to notice its presence until much later. This is called in Tibetan, namtok wogyu undercurrent or mental distraction. Is the thief of your meditation, so it is important to keep a close watch on the matter. If you can remain constantly alert, both in meditation and after her, while eating, sleeping, walking or sitting, "it is just that. You're in the right spot.
The great master, Guru Rinpoche, said
hundred things can be explained, a thousand can say,
but only you must understand:
Meet one thing and release it all.
Stay in your inner nature,
your awareness like!
also said that if you do not meditate, find no certainty, and if you do, you will. But what kind of certainty? If you meditate with a determined effort and joyful signs that they will have you used to stay in your own nature. It gradually loosen clinging fiercely to the phenomena that dual experience, and your obsession with happiness and suffering, hopes and fears, will gradually weaken, while grow your devotion to the teacher and your sincere confidence in his instructions . After a while, it will evaporate your tense dualistic attitude and reach a point where gold and stones, food and dirt, gods and demons, under and non-virtue, will be the same for you, unable to decide between heaven and hell. But until you get to that point (while you're still stuck on the experiences of dual perception), virtue and non-virtue, Buddhist paradise and hell, happiness and pain, actions and results: all that is real to you. As the Great Guru: "My vision is higher than the sky, but my attention to actions and results is finer than flour."
So do not go around bragging that you are a great meditator dzogchen when, in fact, are nothing but a flatulent oaf that stinks alcohol and desire!
is essential that you have a stable of pure devotion and samaya , together with a constant effort, joyful and well balanced, neither too tight nor too loose. If you are able to meditate fully apartándote activities and concerns of this life, no doubt you will achieve the extraordinary qualities of the profound path of Dzogchen. Why wait for future lives? You can conquer the main citadel now, at this very moment.
This advice is the blood of my heart. Keep you and never forget.
Dudjom Rinpoche
Extracted Counsels from My Heart ,
Dudjom Rinpoche,
Shambhala: Boston, 2001.
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