Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness
The Great Perfection, Root Dzogchen Text
by Padmasambhava, Guru Rinpoche
By Guru Rinpoche, Padmasambhava
1. Here is contained “Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness,” this being a Direct Introduction to the State of Intrinsic Awareness, From “The Profound Teaching of Self-Liberation in the Primordial State of the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities.”
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Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness
October 3, 2008
like a tiny fish flashing about in a lucid pond … a Mahamudra Root Text by The First Panchen Lama
October 1, 2008
A ROOT TEXT FOR THE PRECIOUS GELUG/KAGYÜ TRADITION OF MAHAMUDRA The Main Road of the Triumphant Ones by The First Panchen Lama Lozang Chökyi Gyeltsen Namo mahamudraya: Homage to Mahamudra, the Great Seal of Reality.I respectfully bow at the feet of my […]
Learning to “See”
July 29, 2008
Nancy Langmuir, the leader of my Gurdjieff Work group taught me how to “See”. I know that now. She would constantly challenge me to face the Unknowable, the parts of myself hidden in shadow. Although I at first found this alien and terrifying, later I learned that it was the first step in developing […]
Secrets are hidden in plain sight!
June 11, 2008
When we start a sincere practice, if we must be honest with ourselves. Honest as in beyond any sort of self-deception. Honesty is the beginning of Objectivity. Most of us, are very rarely truly Objective. Objectivity is one of the hidden doorways to the Self. However the way is […]
Empower yourself!
April 27, 2008
Empower yourself!
Tell yourself this from time to time …
Right now, this moment, I confer upon myself the power to make decisions, right or wrong about what is right for me. No one else truly understands what I need!
The seeker has to perform the operations and look for the conditions that will further his growth. […]
Not Madness, but Freedom!
April 27, 2008
Recently I’ve been reading a fascinating book called “Buddhahood Without Meditation, by Dudjom Lingpa (about 1895) This book de-constructs the notion that we have a separate Self in a series of visions, dreamings. It uses a number of logical arguments to perform the deconstruction process. It’s different than anything else […]
Hurling oneself on the pyre. The Phoenix flies into the Unknown.
April 11, 2008
Today’s message is somewhat cryptic. Occasionally I find myself beset by information that I don’t fully understand.
Today I am doing Alchemy. We have two ideas, Fire and the Unknown, if we mix them properly we understand the metaphor of the Phoenix. Let’s just hope we don’t blow up the lab!
One of the […]
You can’t get Here from There!
March 19, 2008
You are probably familiar with the old saying originating in the song “The Arkansas Traveler”, “you can’t get there from here!”
A traveling salesman stops to ask a farmer for directions, and the farmer starts to try to help, and then becomes frustrated as he remembers the nooks, crannies and complexities of the local terrain.
I […]