The Nature of Mind

We are like lightning bugs circling a field in the summer. Without clear goals and the knowledge to implement them, the energy we expend has little value and few results. Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche Time, Space, and Knowledge A New Vision of Reality

Space and the awareness of space. This is the basic message. -Yeshe Tsogyal

This may also describe those days in the early 70s when Dharma was seeded in Boulder by Trungpa Rinpoche. But not the even earlier arrival in Berkeley, and the vast activity of Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche.

The mind's own nature is emptiness, luminosity, and bliss. It is free from all thought, yet embraces all things. - Naropa

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Thinking is the combination of -Conditioning -Recall -Inferential Cognition

As the Buddha Nature pervades all beings; Not a single being is unsuitable. Uttaratantra

Look naturally at the essence of your own mind, Free from arising, abiding, & ceasing. By looking this way, you see Awareness/Emptiness, free of clinging and fixation, the naked Dharmatā. This is the true Guru Rinpoche of definitive meaning. - Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Life is a bumpy ride

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Losar arrived during a rare Planetary alignment Chotrul Duchen arrives on a Lunar eclipse

Timeless wisdom...

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Let go of the one having thoughts; And you become the one witnessing thoughts.

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A teacher once told me, regarding karma, one thing to avoid is ever allowing someone to kill a living being for you. This could happen in your kitchen or in a restaurant. Regret (not guilt nor shame) begins the purification process for past karmic actions.

I prostrate to my own mind, That eliminates mind's ignorance, By dispelling the web of mental events, Through this very mind. -Nagarjuna

It is not appearances that bind you Naro. It is your clinging to appearances that binds you. - Tilopa to his student Naropa

Appearance/Emptiness

Shamatha

If you tighten the string too much it will snap; And if you leave it too slack, it won't play.

The difference between a trained mind and an untrained mind lies in the ability of pausing, looking at that, and sensing whether it is necessary or not. An untrained mind doesn't think at all; everything just happens. That is simply called habitual patterns. - Khandro Rinpoche

Nature of Mind

Here we are

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. -Jung 🧘

Just recognizing this nature of awareness is not enough. The aspect of abidance, becoming acquainted with that state, must be stabilized. So it is important to sustain undistractedly the constant mindfulness of letting your mind rest in the natural state. -Lama Mipham

Buddha described the experience of anger as holding onto a hot coal while waiting to throw it at an enemy.