Merry Christmas and happy 2010.

I wish your genuine practice

allows your mind to express

its own inherent

PEACE

LOVE

and CLARITY.

NAMASTE

Guru yoga: Guendun Rimpoche

Guru, the source of blessings

First yoga: One-pointedness

When the one-pointed stage dawns,
one realizes the intrinsic nature of one´s mind
to be an unceasing stream of clarity and emptiness,
devoid of any center and circumference,
like the expanse of space,
settled in serenity and lucidity.

This is absorptive equipoise
on the first stage of yoga.

Savari: One Taste

Watch, keep watching, but do not watch anything.

Meditate! Keep meditating!

But do not meditate on anything!

Maitripa: Sublimating afflictions

A deluded mind by its intrinsic nature
is great awareness;

It aids meditators greatly.

The way a forest fuels a great fire.

Ouroboros: Ordinary mind

The nondiscriminatory simplicity
of mind is described as wisdom.

That which fulfills the wishes of
sentient beings without exception,
the way a wish-granting gem does,
is described as compassion.

Longchenpa: Great Perfection

Let us cross the ocean of these
three worlds of samsara
within the vast ship of samadhi
where grasping is never found,
arriving at last in the nature
of the great perfection.
Along with the bliss of the ground
there is a constant well being.

Elevating dualistic thoughts to the path

A transient thought arises from the unborn emptiness.

It embodies the nature of all-embracing reality.

These two have been inseparable from the beginning.

I therefore proclaim the two to be of one flavour.

Virupa: Lada

Where the mind detaches itself from discrimination
there is neither defilement nor doubt;

Where mind perceives intrinsic reality directly,
there is no duality of knowledge and knower.

Savari: Non-meditation

In the discipline of quiescent mahamudra

there is nothing to meditate on, not even an atom.

Do not meditate,
for the perfect meditation

is to remain inseparable

from the state of non-meditation.

Secret offering: Compassion

BODHICHITTA

Inner offering: Bliss

Cosmic mind: Master Mind

Possessing a state of the art tool like the human brain

should be regarded as a very auspicious sign.

Learn to use it properly

and the mysteries of life will unfold.

You would never use a portable computer

just to crack nuts and decorate your room,

would you?

When ignorance, hate, pride, envy

and lust drag your mind, you are

behaving  just like an animal.

So learn from the ones who reached

mastery of their lives through the

mastery of their minds.

Demons: Self clinging

Hope and fear.

Our Self clings to pleasure

and rejects pain.

Clinging and craving:

The root of suffering.

Clinging turns pleasure into pain.

Do not fear pain.

Do not crave for pleasure.

Do not cling to sensations.

Do not crave for sensations.

Just let them flow.

Clinging wants to transform impermanent

objects or sensations into permanent.

Craving wants to escape the present feeling of unrest

hoping that the possession of  some objects

will give us happiness.

Both clinging and craving are the only

demons that keep mind fettered to suffering.

Pyramids: Atlantis

Just a few thousand years ago

there appeared a stirp of lucid minds

who mastered the secrets of pyramids.

They understood the essence of space-time,

and comprehended the relationship

between mind and matter.

They left a net of energy places,

so future generations could follow their steps

and join them in the NOW.

Geometry

architecture:

molding the mind.

Astronomy

physics:

stargate

Chamber of the queen

chamber of the king:

pyramidion.

Compassion

wisdom:

Orinary Mind

NOW