In meditation practice

In meditation practice, you might experience a muddy, semiconscious, drifting state, like having a hood over your head: a dreamy dullness. This is really nothing more than a kind of blurred and mindless stagnation. How do you get out of this state? Alert yourself, straighten your back, breathe the stale air out of your lungs, and direct your awareness into clear space to freshen your mind. If you remain in this stagnant state you will not evolve, so whenever this setback arises, clear it again and again. It is important to be as watchful as possible, and to stay as vigilant as you can. ~ Dudjom Rinpoche

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Fresh present knowing

This fresh present knowing, unbound by the intellect that clings to meditation, is naked unobstructed non-meditation.
Relax at ease and settle in the state of naturalness. This is the meaning of realization of meditation.

When thoughts move, let them. Movement arises and is liberated without a trace.
When there is no movement, don’t search for it. This is empty luminosity, naked empty awareness.

Tantric practice without suppression or cultivation of thoughts brings the accomplishment of the destruction of hope and fear. There is nothing more to add to this.

Madman Dudjom said this: Let it remain like this in your heart.

I, Jnana wrote this.

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When you have a human body so difficult to achieve

Alas!  Listen, intelligent woman!

When you have a human body so difficult to achieve,
Do not get involved in many distractions and busy-ness:
Achieve your lasting goals.

In whatever virtue you accomplish, great or small, Three stages-preparation, main practice, and conclusion-must must be complete.
At all times, compassionately accomplish whatever you can to help others.

To recognize samsara and enlightenment as great emptiness
And one’s own unformulated awareness as primordial wisdom:
These are the sovereign view.

To settle in this view evenly within the natural state is meditation.

Not to allow your actions and behavior to slip into carelessness
And to align them with the Dharma is the supreme form of conduct.
Place these instructions in the center of your heart.

I, Vajra Jnana, wrote this in response to Vakapasham’s request.

Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche’s Heart Advice
translated by Ron Garry
© Tsadra Foundation, 2005
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