Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche’s Heart Advice

Cultivating View and Meditation

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

Do not meditate to arrive at a conclusion: “That’s it!” If you meditate in that way, it becomes intellectual activity. Here, there is no object of meditation whatsoever nor even an instant of distraction. Distraction from resting in awareness is true delusion. Don’t be distracted!

Whatever thoughts arise, let them arise. Do not follow after them and do not suppress them. If you ask “In that case, what should I do?” whatever objective phenomena arise, whatever appears, do not grasp phenomena’s
appearing aspect as you rest in a fresh state, like a small child looking inside a temple. When all phenomena are left as they are, their appearance is not modified, their color does not change, and their brilliance does not diminish. If you do not spoil phenomena with clinging and grasping thoughts, appearances and awareness will nakedly manifest as empty and luminous wisdom.

However, many teachings considered to be very deep or extremely vast have left individuals of lesser intelligence mystified. If I put my finger on the concise essential meaning, it is this: In the gap between the last
thought’s cessation and the next’s arising, isn’t there a fresh, present knowing (da lta’i shes pa) that has not been modified even in the slightest — luminous, naked awareness? That itself is awareness’s abiding state!

But one does not permanently abide within the nature of reality (de khona). Doesn’t a thought suddenly arise? That is the natural display of awareness. However, if you do not recognize thoughts as soon as they arise, they will naturally spread. This is called “the chain of delusion,” the root of samsara. Simple recognition of thoughts as they arise breaks their flow. Release thoughts within that recognition. When you remain in that state, arising thoughts will all be liberated equally within awareness, the expanse of dharmakaya. This is the main practice in which the view and meditation of Cutting through Solidity (khregs chod) are cultivated as one.

Dudjom Rinpoche
Wisdom Nectar Dudjom Rinpoché’s Heart Advice
The Tsadra Foundation Series
published by Snow Lion Publications
Copyright © 2005 Tsadra Foundation

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View, Meditation and Conduct

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

The realization that all phenomena of samsara and enlightenment are emptiness inseparable from naked awareness is the view. To release present awareness within the spacious natural state and then to sustain the self-liberation of thoughts without grasping is meditation. All post-meditative activity done harmoniously with the Dharma is the conduct. The complete manifestation of that abiding nature is the result.

I, Vajra Jnana, wrote this in response to the nun Jampa Chodron.

 

Wisdom Nectar
Dudjom Rinpoche’s Heart Advice
Photographer: Sonam Famarin

 

About the Photo:
HH Dudjom Rinpoche Kudung Stupa and Throne Seat
at the Shrineroom Pema Osel Ling
~ Santa Cruz Mountains

 

 

Generate compassion and the mind of awakening

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

Incomparable Lama, at your feet I pay homage.

Listen, fortunate one. Now that your spiritual connection has been forged, achieve your eternal goals. Strive on the sole path of all the victorious ones’ heirs:  Generate compassion and the mind of awakening.

The view is the great emptiness of samsara and enlightenment, concluding that your own awareness, the unformulated dharmakaya, is the sovereign view.
Meditation is to settle unconcerned within unfabricated present awareness, unfettered by grasping.
Take as the supreme kind of conduct not to fall under the negative influence of carelessness, but to have your acts accord with the Dharma.

Be diligent in undistracted practice.

I, a crazy, ragged tulku, wrote this spontaneously in response to Norbu Gyatso’s request.

 

Dudjom Rinpoche
Wisdom Nectar Dudjom Rinpoché’s Heart Advice
The Tsadra Foundation Series
published by Snow Lion Publications
Copyright © 2005 Tsadra Foundation

Photographer:  Unknown