Month: February 2016

accomplish enlightenment

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

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To accomplish enlightenment during your lifetime Lama, Buddha Vajradhara incarnate, to you I pay sincere homage: Grant me your blessings!

To accomplish enlightenment during your lifetime, pray to your Lama with devotion, have love, affection, and veneration for tantric companions.

Inspire yourself with compassion and the mind of awakening toward beings and with renunciation and the contemplation of impermanence.

Exert yourself without distraction in spiritual practice!

The view is samsara and enlightenment’s all-pervasive evenness.

Meditation is to settle within it, in the uncontrived natural state.

Conduct is to live free of activity and effort.

Take these words as the essential keys to practice. The result will awaken within you.

I, by the name of Jnana, wrote this in response to Gyurme Wangchuk’s request.

 

Thoughts in Meditation

~ DudjomTersarNgondro
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HH Dudjom Rinpoche

“When thoughts come while you are meditating, let them come;
there’s no need to regard them as your enemies.

When they arise, relax in their arising.

On the other hand, if they don’t arise, don’t be nervously wondering whether or not they will. Just rest in their absence.

If big, well-defined thoughts suddenly appear during your meditation, it is easy to recognize them. But when slight, subtle movements occur, it is hard to realize that they are there until much later.

This is what we call namtok wogyu, the undercurrent of mental wandering. This is the thief of your meditation, so it is important for you to keep a close watch. If you can be constantly mindful, both in meditation and afterward, when you are eating, sleeping, walking, or sitting, that’s it – you’ve got it right!”

 ~ Dudjom Rinpoche