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Session Eight | Buddha Dharma 1

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4:29 min. French Pigeonshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X7pwsDWRJM

The Red Button 0:45 min.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VnguFhuefo&NR=1&feature=fvwp Buddha’s Thoughts 2:46 min.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=CiHbXLAZ9xk | Compassion, Nature of Mind, Relative Truth & Absolute Truth | Sogyal Rinpoche 2:42 min.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZXyiDI6e26o#! “States and Stages of Consciousness,” Ken Wilbur | 10:43 min.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=lVpAuiGgw1kTranscending the Layers of Consciousness by Adyashanti | 4:46 min.

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QUINTESSENTIAL BUDDHA DHARMA

The Nature the MindExperiential Understanding

of the Aware Mind

Session Eight


The teaching of the Buddha

is primarily about mind….

May all sentient beings

dwell in the great equanimity that is free from passion, aggression, and prejudice.

May the entire earth and contents fully awaken as the sole mandala of this Magical Manifestation Matrix.


Scientific Symbol for Consciousness


…self-generated meditation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VnguFhuefo&NR=1&feature=fvwp Buddha’s Thoughts 2:46 min.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VnguFhuefo&NR=1&feature=fvwp


Compassion & the Nature of Mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=CiHbXLAZ9xk | Compassion, Nature of Mind, Relative Truth & Absolute Truth | Sogyal Rinpoche 2:42 min.

http://www.thinkingallowed.com/topics.html



http://www.thinkingallowed.com/topics.html


All Waves are Truly “One Vehicle”

All teachings lead all beings to the state of Buddhahood. It seems like there are three different teachings.

However, they are only skillful means of the Shakyamuni Buddha to guide people according to their level of understanding.


Reviewing | Our ConditionFor a human being, life in the present is always oblivious to its perfect state because themind is full of craving or desirein a world of delusion in which things are pleasant and unpleasant.

Sensation arises and flows according to impulses.


Review of Vajra Speecho We are what we think. o All things are preceded by the mind,

led by the mind, created by the mind.

o All thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

o Once we wake up from the delusion of impure phenomena, they disappear.

o Cause and effect are you. That is why

what you do and what happens to you are the same thing.


Vajra Speecho Enlightenment can and does use all

available emotions

o Nonattachment is not avoidance of attachment, for it is another form of clinging to the denial of your human attachment needs out of trust that love is not reliable

o Chaos is inherent in all compounded things

o Concentrate the mind on the present


Vajra Speech

All such notions as causation, succession, atoms, primary elements…are all figments of

the imagination and manifestations of the mind.


Vajra SpeechWe are the change that we seek.

Once that I know I am responsible for my thoughts, I also know that I can drop it at any

moment I decide to drop it.

My ego-clinging, selfish mind (creator or my world of fear and suffering), I shall destroy you.


Vajra Speech The water of compassion courses thought the

canal of loving kindness. Even with chains on your feet you can dance;

then even the sound of chains will have a melody to it.

As the source of both inner and external peace, compassion and love are not mere luxuries but also fundamental to the survival of our species.


Vajra Speech Do not project space as being there. Do not

grasp awareness as being here! This is because space and awareness are a primordial unity.

The mind, though free from arising and ceasing, manifests in various ways so that the

Nirmanakaya (mind’s awareness and clarity) is the unceasing appearances of the expressive

power of mind.

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Vajra Speech

The world is regarded as a phenomena originating in the mind. And the mind, untamed, remains confused with hope

(attachment) and fear (aversion), and ensnared by the eight worldly concerns.

Emptiness is form, form is emptiness.Mind is empty.


Vajra Speech

Mind’s nature has neither birth nor cessation, like space.

When you realize the real meaning of the equal nature of all things, to remain in that

state, without searching, is meditation.

Garab Dorje

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Buddha nature in essence is mind itself. Once it's recognized as such -- then you are a buddha.

As long as it's not recognized, there is suffering. A scriptural reference says,

The mind of a sentient being is buddha itself; it just happens to be clouded and bewildered. When this bewilderment and misunderstanding are removed, buddha is present.

This is to say that, in a sense, we are each a buddha and yet don't realize it; only our blindness, our emotionality and ignorance prevent us from realizing this.


DzogchenIt represents the highest system of spiritual

practice which leads to the recognition of the state of absolute knowledge—

the Natural State

—that exists in all sentient beings.


“The Diamond Sutra”Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream

Is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world.

Chapter 32. All Phenomena are Illusions…that cuts through illusion

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DzogchenAccording to Tibetan Buddhism and New Bön—

Dzogchen (Rdzogs chen or Atiyoga) is the natural, primordial state or natural condition, and is also a body of teachings and meditation practices aimed at realizing that condition.

According to Dzogchen literature, Dzogchen is the highest and most definitive path to enlightenment in one’s lifetime.

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“The mind itself is the perfect

Buddha. Do not search for

the Buddha anywhere else.”

The Three Words that

Strike to the Heart of the

Essential PointGarab Dorje

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Manjushrimitra Direct

Introductionto the primordial state

(one’s own true nature) is transmitted straight away by

the master to the disciple. The master always remains in the primordial state, and

the presence of that state communicates itself to the

disciple in whatever situation or activity he/she

may share.Session Eight | Buddha Dharma


Shri Singha Not Remaining in

doubt about this unique state—

By entering into this unique state of non-dual

contemplation and by experiencing the

primordial state, the disciple no longer

remains in any doubt as to what it is.


JnanasutraThe Disciple continues in the state of non-dual contemplation,bringing contemplation into every action, until that which is every individual’s true condition from the beginning (the Dharmakaya) is made real, or realized. One continues right up to Total Realization.

As for directly continuing with confidence in liberation: Whatever gross or subtle thoughts may arise, by merely recognizing their nature, they arise and (self-) liberate simultaneously in the vast expanse of the Dharmakaya, where Emptiness and Awareness (are inseparable). Therefore, one should continue directly with confidence in their liberation.

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VimalamitraRainbow Body of

masters who dissolve in light and live for

centuries to benefit other beings—

Vimalamitra, Nyang Tingdzin Zangpo,

Chetsun Senge Wangchuk, and

Padmasambhava



Dzogpachenpo


SamanthabhdraSanskrit for

DzogpachenpoThe Primordial

Buddha


The Three Precepts

of DzogchenGarab Dorje’s Three

Precepts of Dzogchen are known as the "Three

Words that Strike to the Heart of the Essential

Point“

They summarize the whole of the Dzogchen

teachings

DIRECT INTRODUCTION. One is introduced directly to one's true nature. This is why Garab Dorje is often portrayed pointing his finger at the viewer.

REMAINING WITHOUT DOUBT. One attains certainty about this natural state

CONTINUING TO REMAIN IN THIS STATE. One continues with confidence in liberation or continuing in the non-dual state.

When the practitioner experiences the natural state, other practices are given so that this natural state can be regained, maintained, and integrated.


The Upadeshas There are many

Upadesha instructions a practitioner can employ to realize the nature of mind, the natural state, the buddha nature.

Often referred to as pith instructions

The ultimate nature of all sentient beings is said to be pure, all-encompassing, primordial activity (naturally occurring timeless clarity which has no form of its own and yet is capable of perceiving, experiencing, reflecting, or expressing all form.

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གདོ ད་ནས་དག་པ་དབིྱངས་ཀིྱ་ངང་ཉི ད་ལས། ། རིག་པ་ཐོ ལ་སེྐྱས་སྐད་ཅིག་དྲན་པ་དེ། ། རྒྱ་མཚོའི་གཏི ང་ནས་ནོ ར་བུ་རེྙད་པ་འདྲ། ། སུས་ཀྱང་མ་བཅོ ས་མ་བྱས་ཆོ ས་ཀིྱ་སྐུ། །

"When, from out of the primordially pure Dharmadhatu, suddenly Rigpa arises; and with it, there is an instantaneous recognition—

It is like finding a precious jewel in the depths of the ocean. No-one has created it. It is just the Dharmakaya".

Garab Dorje

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To Fully Understandit is to be experienced and recognized.

In accordance with the three precepts of Garab Dorje, the teachings were classified into three series—

Semde: the Mind series that focuses on the introduction to one’s primordial nature

Longde: the Space series that focuses on developing the capacity to gain familiarity with the sate and remove doubts;

Menngagde: the Secret Oral Instructions on the practices in which one engages after gaining confident in the knowledge of the state.

Session Eight | Buddha Dharma MIND IS RADIANTLY PURE….

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The Heart of the TeachingsWhen we conquer

our own minds, we become master of our perceptions—

Sogyal Rinpoche

Don’t seek to cut the root of phenomena (e.g., world problems and our thoughts and emotions).

Cut the root of mind.

If you cut the root of mind, you’ll know one thing which resolves all.

If you don’t cut the root of the mind, you can know everything but be forever stuck on one.

Padhmasambhava



Buddha Tonpa Sherab MiwocheTaught the path of self-liberation (or Dzogchen teachings) in the Land of

Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring, the region of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kashmir…..about 7th-6th century B.C.E. or 18,000 years ago. The larger

country was called Tazig.


“First a thing; and, in the end, a non-thing—neither

is established. Likewise, there is nothing other than these two.

There is no place to abide in the beginning, middle, or end.

For those whose minds are obscured by continual concepts,

emptiness and compassion are expressed in words.

”


Hui-jen in Search of His Successor

Head Monk Shen Hsiu’sResponse—

The body is the bodhi tree.The mind is like a bright

mirror’s stand.At all times we must strive to polish itAnd must not let the dust collect.

Hui-neng’s response—

Bodhi originally has no tree.The mirror also has no stand.The Buddha nature is always clear and pure.Where is there room for dust?


Nature of MindCH’AN TEXT DZOGCHEN TEXT

The instantaneous approach has no method.

One cultivates the nature of reality in this way—all phenomena are mind, and mind is uncreated. In that it is uncreated, it is emptiness.

Since it is like the sky, it is not a field of activity for the six sense-faculties. This emptiness is what we call vivid awareness. Yet within that vivid awareness there is no such thing as vivid awareness. Therefore without remaining in the insights gained from studying, cultivate the essential sameness of all phenomena.

The mind itself, which is without basis or root,is not to be found through effort; it is like the sky.Enlightenment, which is uncreated, is enlightenment free from cause and effect.

For Ch’an (Middle Chinese, Dzyen) and “Dzogs-chen,” the intrinsic awareness is spontaneous


“The clear light of mind is mutual arising

at the same time, mutual entering at the same time,

mutual depending at the same time, and mutual comprising at the same time.

It is ever present.

”

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Clear light is the Most Subtle Level of MindClear light is a state of mind which becomes fully manifest only as a consequence of certain sequences or stages of dissolution (devoid of certain types of obstacles and obscuration). All consciousness or all cognitive mental events are said to be in the nature of clarity and

luminosity.


The energy of infinite consciousness (without

abandoning its true nature) manifests this creation.

First…the notion of creation, then

light, and the division of the universe.

As a particle of

consciousness moves in space,

it does ‘there’ what it did ‘here’ earlier; thus, the sequence of time

arises, as well as spatial distinctions. Then, one

after the other, thediverse beings are created.

–

– from The Yoga Vasistha

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A good way of becoming aware of it is to look directly at clouds on a humid day. When one looks at it, one can see these tiny sparks of light jumping around all over the place. These particles of light can sometimes be seen to be strung together in strands or at other times form parts of large spiraling discs.

The trick is to realize that this is the true nature of reality, emptiness containing moving bits of energy. Once one experiences this, it is important to remember that everything is made of the same substance, including ones own body.

It is also imperative to remember that it is, in fact, a projection from your heart and exiting through your eyes, playing out ‘out there’.

Ah sound


Self-arising Wisdom is the Base The five negative

emotions are manifested energy.

Seeing emotions as mistaken is an error.

Letting them be in their nature is the method

to find the non-dual state of Liberation, Overcoming hope and

fear is the result.

Recognizing that all thoughts arise in our inner space and arise from emptiness—o The essence of the

base is called the mother (ma),

o the awakened awareness (rigpa) is called the son (bu), and

o the inseparability of mother and son is the flow of energy (rtsal).


PHI


The Nature of Mind?MIND, FIRST…. DUALITY OF MIND

In ancient texts, mind is a composite of heart/mind. Recent studies shows that even the heart is composed of “mind,” having memories. It emphasizes the emotive side of mind.

Mind also is the intellect or mind-sense in the sense of what grasps mental objects.

Citta is the term used to refer to the quality o f mental processes as a whole and is not a process or an entity.

There is the thinking aspect of when, for example, an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action—

“I will this…I will do this….” Consciousness: Mind consisting of

eight consciousness; life force; discernment

Illustration of dualism by René Descartes.

Inputs are passed by the sensory organs to the pineal gland and from there to the “immaterial spirit.” It objectifies.

“I think, therefore, I am; and I do accordingly.”


From Cognitive to Super Mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZXyiDI6e26o#! “States and Stages of Consciousness,” Ken Wilbur | 10:43 min.





SUBTLE DIMENSION OF INTERIOR VISION OF LUMINOSITY….CONTINUE IDENTIFYING ONWARD TO CAUSAL, UNMANIFEST ABSORBTION, INTO AN AWAKENING TO EVER-PRESENT WITNESS (OR BIG MIND) TO REALIZATION OF THE NON-DUAL SUCHNESS OF BIG MIND/BIG HEART….

When Ken Wilbur talks about stages and growth and development, he has devised a chart….a growth sequence of consciousness and the nature of mind….a freedom and a fullness of actualized existence…..not having been realized by the many.

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The Interrelationship of Our Relational Approach

"Not only a shift in consciousness, but also a shift toward consciousness, or toward mind -- a mindful universe, a universe of consciousness, of spirit, a spiritual, conscious universe. "--Fritjof Capra


Self-Realization is a moment that is brief and yet timeless and eternal.

There is the immediate direct knowledge of "I AM THAT I AM" or the knowing that "I always was, always am, and always will be!"

There is no question or doubt, given that it is directly perceived as an irrefutable fact. One knows that "This is Who and What I Really Am, Love, Light, Bliss, Just Pure, Clear Space, Eternally Free!"

This is a sense of what Self-Realization is but...it happens in Awareness, not in thought.


Self-knowingThe wisdom of self-knowing does not arise from without.

It arises by itself in itself.


Dzogchen & The Nature of Mind

Potentiality is Here & NowPotential Being is Here &

Now


REMEMBER TO CATCH THINGS BEFORE THINGS CATCH YOU.

—LAMA SURYA DAS

“To express one hundred essential points with one sentence: It is

undistracted non-meditation....Once we become distracted,

the continuity is lost. —Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

”


“You lack nothing. You lack nothing, therefore you practice.

Therefore you must realize and manifest this no-lack, this realized life, this awakened life that you are.

Manifest the wisdom compassion functioning that you are. If you want to be such a person, as you are such, you must do

such.

You must do this person that you are, then you will be this person that you are.

”

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“Mind in its insubstantiality is like the sky." This true or false, my children?

Confirm it by relaxing completely and looking directly at the mind, gazing with your entire mind, free of all tension.

“The emptiness of the mind is not just a blank nothingness, for without doubt it is the primal awareness of intrinsic knowledge, radiant from the first. Self-existent, natural radiance is like sun-

light.” Is this indeed true?

To confirm it, relax completely, looking directly at the nature of your mind. There is no doubt that it is impossible to objectify

or grasp thought or the movement of memory. This capricious, changeable movement is like “the cosmic wind!"

Is this indeed so?

To confirm it, relax completely, looking

directly at the nature of your mind.

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Without doubt all appearances whatsoever are our own manifestation. All phenomena, whatsoever manifests, is like reflection in a mirror." Is this indeed so? To confirm it, relax completely, looking directly at the nature of mind.

No experience is possible anywhere but in the mind, so there is nothing to see other than that seen at the moment of vision. No experience is possible anywhere but in the mind, so there is nothing to meditate upon other than mind. No experience is possible anywhere but in the mind. So there is nothing to do other than what is done in the mind.

No experience is possible anywhere but in the mind, so there is no samaya to be sustained outside the mind. No experience is possible anywhere but in the mind. So there is no goal to be reached that is not in the mind.

Look, look, and look again. Look at your own mind!—

The Flight of the Garuda, Song 8 of 23 Songs

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The Flower

Sermon

I possess the true Dharma eye, the

marvelous mind of Nirvāṇa, the true form of the formless, the subtle Dharma gate that does

not rest on words or letters but is a special

transmission outside of the scriptures.

This I entrust to Mahākāśyapa.

It is said that Gautama Buddha gathered his disciples one day for a talk, but he remained was completely silent. Some thought he was tired; others thought he was ill.Silently, the Buddha held up and twirled a flower as his eyes twinkled. Some tried to interpret what this meant, but none of them were correct, except for one who silently gazed at the flower and broke into a broad smile.

Noticing him, the Buddha acknowledge Mahākāśyapa's insight by saying in essence—

Mahakasyapa, you have the true dharma eye, the marvelous mind of the true form of the formless, the subtle Dharma gate that does not rest on words or letters but on a special transmission outside of the scriptures.



Even at the level of initial experiences,

symbolism can have a powerful effect in

sparking our innate ability to comprehend ourselves beyond our

habitual conceptual frameworks.

The purpose of symbolism is to effect the dissolution of our

habitual conceptual frameworks.

The character and circumstances of our lives are symbolic of our enlightenment. They remain symbolic as long as we do not know we are enlightened. When we recognize that we are enlightened, symbolism (the memes) and the enlightened state become indivisible. When symbolism and the state of enlightenment dissolve into each other, we recognize the primal purity of our own condition.

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When you realize

how perfect

everything is,

you tilt your head back and laugh at

the sky!—

Buddha

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Homage to My Exiled Tibetan Masters


Through this merit, may all sentient beings obtain the omniscient state of enlightenment. May they conquer the

enemy of faults and delusion.May they all be liberated from this

ocean of samsara and from its pounding waves of birth, old age, sickness, and

death.

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Music at Endhttp

://www.youtube.com/watch?v=100jyoCAC9g&feature=related

Canto dell’ Om, 432 Hz | At end 1:02:59

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-6q8_nrTUAENIGMA, MCMXC A.D.


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-6q8_nrTUA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-6q8_nrTUA


As review, the Buddha said—First, rely on the spirit

and meaning of the teachings, not on the

words;

Second, rely on the teachings, not on the

personality of the teacher;

Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial

interpretation;

And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on

judgmental

perceptions.


Extra….

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Transcending the Layers of Consciousness

by Adyashanti | 4:46 min.

The clear simple perception of the waythings are….

I am what I have been looking for….





The Wheel of Joy

“Though the different forms are perceived, they are in essence empty; yet

in the emptiness, one perceives form.

“Though different sounds are heard, they are

empty; yet, in the emptiness, one perceives

sound.

“Also different thoughts arise. They are empty;

yet in the emptiness, one perceives thoughts.”

Dudjom Rinpoche


Dharma

There are two kinds of Dharma—(1) of precepts and (2) of realization

Precepts always fail. In some sense, that’s their purpose — like pie-crusts — made to be broken. “Don’t fall into

confusion”? Better start with abandoning faith and magical thinking forever. Then, notice that confusion is co-emergent with

our clarity-nature. Confusion isn’t something you can avoid falling into….

But we can discover our real condition. And if we abide in that state, that’s the Dharma of realization.—Lucjan Shila


“It is this very realization that the reality of your own mind is completely pure that is known as

“the Buddha.” Your own mind is primordial purity and buddhahood.

To comprehend that mind is primordial purity and buddhahood is (1) to be accomplished as a

Buddha, (2) to see the face of a Buddha, and

(3) to hold a Buddha in your hand. Therefore, it is sufficient to realize mind’s reality.

It is not necessary to seek buddhahood anywhere

other than in the mind.—

from The Lamp for the Eyes of Contemplation, Dunhuang manuscript.

”


Thinking Allowedhttp://thinkingallowed.com/topics-sy.html#TibetanBrief videos on Buddhist thought and other theories and hypotheses

http://thinkingallowed.com/topics-sy.html#Tibetan

http://thinkingallowed.com/topics-sy.html#Tibetan


Integration Elevate your experience and

remain wide-open like the sky.

Expand your mindfulness and remain pervasive like the earth.

Steady your attention and remain unshakable like a mountain.

Brighten your awareness and remain shining like a flame.

Clear your thought-free wakefulness and remain like a crystal.


Chogyal Namkai Norbu, Dzogchen Masterhttp://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e_DijCSRvM&feature=relmfu |6:34 min. | On Dzogchen Teachings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e_DijCSRvM&feature=relmfu

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Video on the “I AM-ness”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA8tDzK_kPI&feature=related | “I am Big Mind” | Ken Wilbur | 7:47 min.

"I AM-ness", i.e., our essential self as pure awareness

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—only those who have experienced it can understand it….being introduced to the nature of

mind

Although one speaks of the nature of reality having many facets, pristine awareness has three. In this ground, neither delusion or non-delusion can be found. Since lack of pure awareness does not exist in the pristine awareness of the

primordial purity of the ground’s essence, it is beyond enumerations of one and two. Indivisible, in its being it

cannot even be found as pristine awareness. Its spontaneous actuality is called pristine awareness. It is unborn, unceasing,

and inconceivable, since there is no determining it is an object….


Resource | The Nature of Mindhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7RQi55asY&feature=related | Nature of Mind 2:05:07

His Holiness the Dalai Lama talks on the "Nature of the Mind" at the University of California Santa Barbara Events

Center on April 24th, 2009.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7RQi55asY&feature=related




Evaluate Your Spiritual Teacher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH8TjPDUhKg&feature=relmfu | Jetsumma Ahkon Lhamo | 9:23 min.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH8TjPDUhKg&feature=relmfu




First Woman Tulku in the United States

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-N6D5P7yPY&feature=player_embedded | The Enthronement of Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo “ 8:03 min.

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In Removing the Four VeilsIgnorance (Avijja) is

ignorance of the real nature of suffering

in the mind, its cause.

IGNORANCE IS CHOOSING TO IGNORE.

Ignorance—We posit that our world is real, permanent, and unchanging. We further posit that we are a permanent and unchanging self.

Emotionality—our reactivity to stimuli Habitual tendencies—doing things

over and over again, not recognizing patterns that become difficult to break.

Karmic tendencies—our proclivity to take action in certain ways as a cause, building up of all of the above, devoid of awareness, are imputed and labeled in our consciousness, and then having an effect.


Meditate, Meditate, Meditate

(Jhana)& Reflection


Gnostic | Similar Knowinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=orPuzjxU9gE#!

| Spirituality/Gnostic author Timothy Freke in-depth interview | 28:51 min.

OPTIONAL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=orPuzjxU9gE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=orPuzjxU9gE


The Nature of MindBeing Aware of One’s Pure Awareness

The Buddha’s Awakening was to His Pure

Primordial Awareness

From General, to Specific, to Deepest Awareness

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