… In meditation
Actualizing refuge practice,
Infinite time behind,
Infinite time before,
Infinite space in radiance
Sat I,
Voice silent,
Mind, and Form
Reposed…
Möbius Dub
Numbers
Five Perfections of Dharma: the perfect… place; teacher; assembly; teaching; time
Three Defects of The Pot: the pot… upside-down; cracked; tainted
Six Stains: pride, lack of faith, lack of effort, outward distractions, inward tension, discouragement
Five Wrong Ways of Remembering:
- remembering the words, forgetting their meaning
- remembering their meaning, forgetting the words
- remembering both, without understanding
- remembering out of order
- remembering incorrectly
Four Metaphors: Ill, the Dharma my remedy, the teacher a skillful doctor, and diligent practice the way to recovery
Six Transcendent Perfections: generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, wisdom
Eight States Without Freedom to Attain Liberation: born in hellish state, born in a ghoulish state, born as an animal, a long-lived God, born as a barbarian, deaf and mute, born when there has been no Buddha, having wrong views
Five Individual Advantages: born a human, in a central place, with one’s faculties, without conflicting lifestyle, with faith in Dharma
Five Circumstantial Advantages: a Buddha has appeared, has preached the Dharma, his teachings still exist and can be followed, there are those who are kind-hearted
Eight Incidental Circumstances (that leave no freedom to practice): misled by corrupting influences, possessed by five poisons (anger/hate, ignorance/delusion, desire/grasping, jealousy, pride/arrogance), overtaken by karmic forces, laziness, under the control of another, practicing out of insecurity or fear, pretending to practice, senseless stupidity
Eight Incompatible Propensities (that leave no freedom to practice): not fully committed to renunciation, without faith in Dharma or teacher, too attached to wealth and/or family, engaged in degenerate behavior, not avoiding non-virtuous acts, not interested in the Dharma, breaking Sutrayana vows, breaking Tantrayana samaya commitments
“If at this time I am unable to attain the essence, in the future it will be even more difficult to have the fortune to obtain a human life, so I must practice well in this life time.”
“Thus having found the freedoms of a human life, if now I fail to train myself in virtue, what greater folly could there ever be? How more could I betray myself?” -Bodhicharyavatara
From “Words Of My Perfect Teacher” Chapter 1, The Difficulty Of Finding The Freedoms and Advantages.
Beyond the Shore…
“… suppose that this great earth were to be an ocean upon which a single yoke were being tossed about by the wind and thus being moved from here to there. And suppose if under that ocean there were a blind turtle, do you think it would be easy for it to insert its head into that yoke when it rises to the surface only once every hundred years? In a similar fashion it is extremely hard to obtain the human state.” -Bodhicharyavatara
Ele-mental
Sky
Earth
Sea
Cornerstone
In the house of my father…
I find,
Blessings of my mother,
A memory from eve
of Christ’s Mass antecedent,
And comfort in namesake,
Child from Lebanon’s waters,
“Words are too poor and too
Scant to express the innermost
Feeling in the heart of man.”
Private: Antimatter
Ultimately all that matters,
What done spiritually.
What temporally done, materially,
Matters naught aside infinity.
Base of a Mediation Practice
ti-sarana saranagamana saranagamana saranagamana
om vajrasattva hum
ohm ah hum
with full heart
empty hands
thus motivated I and I meditate on emptiness
and liberation of
all sentient beings
may all find refuge on the path of liberation
may all be without hate, greed, illusion
may I be of any means to such end
for as long as space remains
for as long as beings endure
so too may I abide to dispel suffering in samsara
om ah hum vajra guru padma siddhi hung
Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse (audio supplement)
Translating Buddhism from Tibetan
By Joe B. Wilson. Shamballa Publications.
Audio supplement (and guide):
Related: The Tibetan Alphabet
Bardo Thödol (crux)
Recognize the arising of the intermediate states.
Take sense perception and the nature of the mind as the path.
Practice the divine teaching:
Renounce all attachments and meditate on the spiritual teacher with his consort.