Transplanting the moon of wakefulness into your heart and the sun ofwisdom into your head can be natural and obvious. It is not so muchtrying to look for the bright side of life and using that side of thingsas a stepping stone, but it is discovering unconditional cheerfulness,which has no other side. It is just one side, one taste. From that, ( Read more... )

The recognition of sacredness comes from developing a basic sense of gentleness towards ourselves, so that the irritation of being stuck with oneself is taken away. When that kind of friendliness to oneself has occurred, then one also develops friendliness towards the rest of the world, at the same time. At that point, sadness, loneliness, and ( Read more... )

Vajra, or indestructible, pride is the sense that basic sanity does existin our state of being, so we don't particularly have to try to work itout logically. We don't have to prove that something is happening or nothappening. The basic dissatisfaction that causes us to look for somespiritual understanding is an expression of vajra pride: we are ( Read more... )

It is time to begin with the romantic approach, the sane romanticapproach, not the materialistic romantic approach. Our being heretogether happened purely by accident. It is a very precious accident thatwe are able to discuss such a topic as the life of Padmasambhava, thegreat Tibetan teacher. The opportunity to discuss such a subject is veryrare, ( Read more... )

A very important indication of the way the great Tibetan teacherPadmasambhava related with samsaric or confused mind is this: Let theconfusion come through, and then let the confusion correct itself. It islike the story about a particular Zen master who had a woman student. Thewoman became pregnant and bore a child. Her parents came to the ( Read more... )

Negative negativity refers to the philosophies and rationales we use tojustify avoiding our own pain. We would like to pretend that these"evil" and "foul-smelling" aspects of ourselves andour world are not really there, or that they should not be there, or eventhat they SHOULD be there. So negative negativity is usuallyself-justifying, self- ( Read more... )

The final stage of buddha, the experience of buddhahood or totalwakefulness, cannot exist without the background of shunyata, oremptiness. You cannot perceive form and you cannot attain enlightenmentunless you are able to see that form also contains space. And you cannotattain an ultimate understanding of energy or vibration or musical soundunless ( Read more... )

The concept of shunyata or emptiness is ceaseless space, like the analogyof outer space which never ends. In some sense, the shunyata principle,or the principle of emptiness and openness, could be called a goal. Inthe sense of going from imperfection to perfection it could be called agoal. But it is not really a definite goal in the sense of ( Read more... )

When there is doubt, don't regard that as an attack. Welcome your doubtand then wait for the answer...Whenever there is doubt, if you don'tactually feel it is an attack, or mismanagement on your part as apractitioner, then doubt becomes very clear and good on the spot, anddoubt produces a lot of questions. You can then begin to look into ( Read more... )

One must understand the basic usage of mantra, or sacred syllables, inthe teachings of Buddhism. Mantra is not at all a magical spell used inorder to gain psychic powers for selfish purposes, such as accumulationof wealth, power over others, and destruction of enemies. According tothe Buddhist teachings, all tantric practices, such as ( Read more... )