By Shabkar Tsokdrug Rangdrol.
E-ma-ho!
Listen again, fortunate heart-children!
That which is widely renowned as mind, does anyone have it? No one has it!
What is it the source of? It is the source of samsara and nirvana and their myriad joys and sorrows.
What is it believed to be? There are many beliefs according to the various vehicles.
What is it called? It is named in countless different ways.
All ordinary people call it I.
Some non-Buddhists call it Self.
Shravakas call it "individual egolessness."
The Mind Only School label it Mind.
Some call it Prajnaparamita, [that is,] "transcendent knowledge."
Some label it Sugatagarbha, [that is,] Buddha-nature.
Some name it Mahamudra.
Some give it the name Madhyamika.
Some say "the single sphere."
Some name it Dharmadhatu, [that is,] realm of phenomena.
Some call it the name alaya, "ground of all."
Some call it "ordinary mind."
Despite the innumerable names that are tagged onto it,
Know that the real meaning is as follows:
Let your mind spontaneously relax and rest.
When left to itself, ordinary mind is fresh and naked.
If observed, it is a vivid clarity without anything to see,
A direct awareness, sharp and awake.
Possessing no existence, it is empty and pure,
A clear openness of non-dual luminosity and emptiness.
It is not permanent, since it does not exist at all.
It is not nothingness, since it is vividly clear and awake.
It is not oneness, since many things are cognised and known.
It is not plurality, since the many things known are inseparable in one taste.
It is not somewhere else; it is your own awareness itself.
The face of this Primordial Protector, dwelling in your heart,
Can be directly perceived in this very instant.
Never be separated from it, children of my heart!
If you want to find something greater than this in another place,
It’s like going off searching for footprints although the elephant is right there.
You may scan the entire three-thousand-fold universe,
But it is impossible that you will find more than the mere name of Buddha.
Flight of the Garuda.
Flight of the Garuda.
There is no wisdom in thoughts.
What are your thoughts about?
What are your thoughts about?
Re: Flight of the Garuda.
Mind boggling!
I think you have saved me a very great deal of work here. It feels like my understanding of mind has just been fast-forwarded through months of logic chopping. How astonishing that the "pros" have come up with such a picture of mind. It's way beyond what I expected to find.
I think you have saved me a very great deal of work here. It feels like my understanding of mind has just been fast-forwarded through months of logic chopping. How astonishing that the "pros" have come up with such a picture of mind. It's way beyond what I expected to find.
Sergeant Schultz knew everything there was to know.
Re: Flight of the Garuda.
And I'm sure the actual experience of realizing the true nature of mind far surpasses any description of it.catmoon wrote:Mind boggling!
I think you have saved me a very great deal of work here. It feels like my understanding of mind has just been fast-forwarded through months of logic chopping. How astonishing that the "pros" have come up with such a picture of mind. It's way beyond what I expected to find.
Re: Flight of the Garuda.
Really? I was sorta guessing that it would be like "Oh. That's empty too. Dang."
Sergeant Schultz knew everything there was to know.
Re: Flight of the Garuda.
Just suffering. Drop mind.
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Re: Flight of the Garuda.
Any opinions on which of EPK's, Dowman's and Duff's translations is the better?
Lacking mindfulness, we commit every wrong. - Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche
འ༔ ཨ༔ ཧ༔ ཤ༔ ས༔ མ༔
ཨོཾ་ཧ་ནུ་པྷ་ཤ་བྷ་ར་ཧེ་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།།
ཨཱོཾ་མ་ཏྲི་མུ་ཡེ་སལེ་འདུ།།
འ༔ ཨ༔ ཧ༔ ཤ༔ ས༔ མ༔
ཨོཾ་ཧ་ནུ་པྷ་ཤ་བྷ་ར་ཧེ་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།།
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Re: Flight of the Garuda.
EPK, no doubt.Mother's Lap wrote:Any opinions on which of EPK's, Dowman's and Duff's translations is the better?
/magnus
"We are all here to help each other go through this thing, whatever it is."
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
Re: Flight of the Garuda.
I think we should add a like button to the forum, no?catmoon wrote:Really? I was sorta guessing that it would be like "Oh. That's empty too. Dang."
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Re: Flight of the Garuda.
I see there are already replies. Thank you.Mother's Lap wrote:Any opinions on which of EPK's, Dowman's and Duff's translations is the better?
Translations their importance is much appreciated, important tool to point to, making it available for all.
While of course it should be selfish to say this is the best, the one written on water works for me.
Its teaching-practice "in one".
There is no wisdom in thoughts.
What are your thoughts about?
What are your thoughts about?