meditation

The Essence of Practice

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

Pray to your Lama and, while praying, blend your mind inseparably with your Lama’s wisdom mind.
Having merged inseparably, settle in the state of naturalness, the nature of mind.
To be settled in the state of naturalness, this fresh knowing
Uncontrived and unaltered, is luminous naked awareness.
When thoughts arise within that nature,
Recognize them on arising, and relax within that recognition.
Their arising and liberation occur simultaneously, like a drawing on the water’s surface.
When thoughts do not arise, that is non-meditation free from thoughts.
Emptiness, beyond meditator and object of meditation,
Is called ultimate wisdom present from the beginning.
Give up hope and fear; hold to the natural state of awareness.
Thoughts are delusion; stop following after them.
Hope and fear are obstacles; don’t go to greet them.
If you can rest within the nature that is beyond intellect and activity,
You will definitely discover the dharmakaya in your own heart.

Dudjom Rinpoche, Wisdom Nectar

Three Excellences of Guidance

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

How amazing! Listen, woman diligent in virtue!

In any virtue you accomplish, large and small,
the key is to have the three excellences’ guide you.

In generating compassion and the mind of awakening (bodhicitta) in your mind,
stable mindfulness is important.

Within samsara and enlightenment’s space-like nature, recognition of awareness’s essential nature as the unfabricated, dharmakaya is the view.

To settle naturally in unfabricated present awareness is meditation.

Take as the key of conduct that all your activity should accord with the sacred Dharma and practice diligently as I’ve described.

I, Jnana, spontaneously wrote this as a woman named Jnana requested.

Dudjom Rinpoche, Wisdom Nectar

Dudjom Rinpoche on Guru Yoga and the Essence of Practice

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

Pray to your Lama and, while praying, blend your mind inseparably with your Lama’s wisdom mind. Having merged inseparably, settle in the state of naturalness, the nature of mind.

This is the essence of practice:
To be settled in the state of naturalness, this fresh knowing, uncontrived and unaltered, is luminous naked awareness. When thoughts arise within that nature, recognize them on arising, and relax within that recognition. Their arising and liberation occur simultaneously, like a drawing on the water’s surface.

When thoughts do not arise, that is non-meditation free from thoughts. Emptiness beyond meditator and object of meditation is called ultimate wisdom, present from the beginning. Give up hope and fear, hold to the natural state of awareness.

Thoughts are delusion. Stop following after them. Hope and fear are obstacles, don’t go to greet them. If you can rest within the nature that is beyond intellect and activity, you will definitely discover the dharmakaya in your own heart.

~ Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdral Yeshé Dorjé
Wisdom Nectar ~ Shambhala Publications