Lama Gendun Rinpoche
Outside and inside,
The universe and what's in it,
Everything-my own apparition.
The apparition is mind,
Appearing yet empty, empty yet appearing,
Appearing and empty with no distinction,
Unreal, like a dream or a magical illusion :
Not there, but appearing nonetheless.
By understanding it as a moon in the water,
We disentangle ourselves completely
From the attachment and clinging of fixing on everything.
Then there's only giving ourselves up to relaxation
In an uncontrived release
On the fresh essence of awareness, self-aware.
Apart from this, there's no other thinking or meditating to do there.
Without thinking, acting, meditating or being distracted,
Please just sink naturally and "meditate" like that.
Tendrel 4, July 1983
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Friday, March 13, 2009
A Further Word of Advice
Friday, March 06, 2009
A Little Song about the completely pure essence that slipped out of my mouth
~ Lama Gendun Rinpoche
To be beyond all grasping at subject and object, is the king of views.
No action, no meditation, no distraction, is the king of meditations.
Absence of effort and strain, no rejecting, no keeping, is the king of actions.
When beyond all hope and fear, the fruit is obvious.
Beyond objective reference points, in the absence of mind, mind's nature is clear.
By not crossing levels and paths, we step on to the Buddha's path.
When meditating without an object of meditation, unsurpassable buddhahood is reached.
Date unknown - translated from the Tibetan by Lama Rinchen
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