Per non farsi rubare energia

1- Lascia andare le persone che solo condividono lamentele, problemi, storie disastrose, paura e giudizio sugli altri. Se qualcuno cerca un cestino per buttare la sua immondizia, fa sì che non sia la tua mente.

2- Paga i tuoi debiti in tempo. Nel contempo fai pagare a chi ti deve o scegli di lasciarlo andare, se ormai non lo può fare.

3- Mantieni le tue promesse. Se non l’hai fatto, domandati perché fai fatica. Hai sempre il diritto di cambiare opinione, scusarti, compensare, rinegoziare e offrire un’alternativa ad una promessa non mantenuta; ma non farlo diventare un’abitudine. Il modo più semplice di evitare di non fare una cosa che prometti di fare e dire NO subito.

4- Elimina nel possibile e delega i compiti che preferisci non fare e dedica il tuo tempo a fare quelli che ti piacciono.

5- Permettiti di riposare quando ti serve e dati il permesso di agire se hai un’occasione buona.

6- Butta, raccogli e organizza, niente ti prende più energia di uno spazio disordinato e pieno di cose del passato che ormai non ti servono più.

7- Dà priorità alla tua salute, senza il macchinario del tuo corpo lavorando al massimo, non puoi fare molto. Fai delle pause.

8- Affronta le situazioni tossiche che stai tollerando, da riscattare un amico o un famigliare, fino a tollerare azioni negative di un compagno o un gruppo; prendi l’azione necessaria.

9- Accetta. Non per rassegnazione, ma niente ti fa perdere più energia di litigare con una situazione che non puoi cambiare.

10- Perdona, lascia andare una situazione che è causa di dolore, puoi sempre scegliere di lasciare il dolore del ricordo.

Accords sur l'absence de complications

“ La vie des êtres s'écoule comme une cascade de montagne ! ” […] “ Ne gâche pas ces conditions favorables ni ces libertés qui te sont accordées ; Ne laisse pas ta vie se dépenser en vain ! ” 
Chants de la vision pure
Patrul Rinpoché

Corps, énergie, esprit : les 3 portes de notre existence

Le corps, aussi impermanent que la brume printanière

L'esprit, aussi immatériel que le ciel vide

Les pensées, aussi évanescentes que la brise qui passe 

À ces trois choses songe continûment

 

Guialwa Godrakpa 1170-1249

Inner temple, is it an inner mandala ?

"I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body".

Saraha

Reincarnation

Concernant la réincarnation, les méprises sont fréquentes et nombreuses même parmi les bouddhistes. 

Tout d'abord, il faut bien comprendre que ce qu'on appelle réincarnation dans le bouddhisme n'a rien à voir avec la transmigration d'une "entité" quelconque, rien à voir avec la métempsycose. 

Tant que l'on raisonne en termes d'entités plutôt que de fonction, de continuité de l'expérience, le concept bouddhiste de renaissance ne peut pas être compris. 

Il est dit "qu'aucun fil ne passe au travers des perles du collier des renaissances." 

Il n'y a pas identité d'une "personne" au travers de renaissances successives, mais conditionnement d'un flot de conscience

Selon le bouddhisme, effectivement, il n’y a pas d’âme et il n’y a pas non plus de “personne” considérées comme des entités distinctes. 

Il n’y a qu’un flot dynamique d’expérience, instant après instant, que l’on appelle la conscience. 

Dans le monde de l’inanimé, il est admis que « rien ne se crée, rien de ne perd ». 

Il n’y a que des transformations. 

La matière ne peut naître ex nihilo. 

Selon le bouddhisme, il en va de même de la conscience, qui ne peut ni surgir de rien ni passer de l’existence phénoménale au néant. 

D’où l’idée d’un continuum de conscience qui se poursuit d’état d’être en état d’être.

Ce continuum n’implique nullement l’existence d’une âme ou d’un “moi”, pas plus qu’il n’existe une entité “Ganges” distincte du flot sans cesse changeant que l’on appelle le fleuve “Ganges”. 

On peut parler à juste titre du Gange à sa source et du Gange à Bénarès, car il s’agit du même continuum. 

Cela n’implique par pour autant qu’il existe une entité “Gange” autonome, qui sorte la tête de temps à la surface de l’eau pour proclamer « c’est moi le Gange ». 

Il y a donc bien un continuum, mais pas d’entité distincte.

L’histoire du Gange, avec ses diverses caractéristiques sans cesse changeantes, est différence de celle de la Seine. 

Cette différence justifie de lui associer un concept et un nom. 

Il en va de même de la notion de “personne”, qui reflète l’histoire de notre flot de conscience. 

Le “moi” existe bien, mais uniquement en tant que désignation conceptuelle qui permet de relier entre eux un ensemble de phénomènes. 

Le “moi” n’est qu’une “désignation conceptuelle”, dénuée d’existence propre, attachée au flot de conscience. 

La “personne” est l’histoire d’un flot de conscience particulier, le vôtre étant diffèrent du mien.

Les êtres ordinaires n’ont guère de maitrise sur le flot de leur conscience et ne comprennent pas la nature fondamentale de la conscience. 

De ce fait, cette conscience est emportée comme une plume au vent par le Karma, en direction de divers modes d’existence.

Celui qui a réalisé la nature de la conscience est libéré de l’ignorance et des toxines mentales (haine, désir, arrogance, jalousie, etc.) et n’accumule plus de karma négatif. 

Le flot de son esprit est à la fois limpide (grâce à la connaissance) et flexible (grâce à l’entraînement). 

Un tel être est libéré du samsara et n’est plus contraint de se réincarner en raison de ses actes karmiques. 

C’est mû par une compassion sans limite pour les êtres qui souffrent dans le samsara qu’il fait vœu de renaître volontairement pour accomplir le bien des êtres et les délivrer de la souffrance.  

Propos extraits librement à partir du blog de Matthieu Ricard : http://www.matthieuricard.org/

Mantras

Meaning “mind protection” are Sanskrit syllables, usually recited in conjunction with the practice of a particular meditational deity, and embody the qualities of the deity with which they are associated. They bring benefit to all who see, touch, hear or speak them. Further, when you recite mantras with the correct motivation, your speech becomes holy speech capable of offering blessings to others.

HUM by Lama Zopa

"Does Self-Realisation imply 'occult powers' also?"

20th December, 1938
597.

A Swiss lady, Mrs.J.C.S. Hick-Riddingh, asked, "Does Self-Realisation imply 'occult powers' also ?"

Sri Bhagavan : The SELF is the most intimate and eternal Being, whereas the siddhis are foreign. The one, requires effort to acquire and the other, does not.

The powers are sought by the mind which must be kept alert, whereas the SELF is realised when the mind is destroyed. The powers manifest only when there is the ego. The ego makes you aware of others and in its absence, there are no others to be seen. The SELF is beyond the ego and is realised after the ego is eliminated. The elimination of the ego makes one un-aware of others. How can the question of others arise and where is the use of occult powers for a Self-Realised Being ?

Self-Realisation may be accompanied by occult powers or it may not be. If the person had sought such powers before Realisation, he may get the powers after Realisation. There are others who had not sought such powers and had attempted only Self-Realisition. They do not manifest such powers.

These powers may also be gained even after Self-Realisation. But then, they are used for a definite purpose,i.e.,the benefit of others, as in the case of 'Queen Chudala'.

'Sikhidhvaja' was a pious King. His spouse was 'Chudala'. They received instructions from a Sage. The King, being busy with the administration of his kingdom, could not put the instruction into practice,whereas Chudala put them into practice and gained Self-Realisation. Consequently, she appeared more charming than before. The King was struck by her growing 'charm' and asked her about it. She said that all 'charm' was due to the SELF and he was only noting the 'charm of Self-Realisation' in her.He said that she was silly. There were great tapasvins who could not realise the SELF even after long periods of tapas and what about a silly woman who was all along in the family and in the worldly life ?

However, Chudala was not offended, because she was firm in the SELF and only wished that her husband should realise the SELF and be happy. She, then, thought that unless she could prove her worth by manifesting some extraordinary powers, he could not be convinced; and, she began to seek occult powers and gained them. But,she did not betray them just then.

Constant association with her, made the King dispassionate. He began to dislike the worldly life and desired to retire into the forest for performing tapasya. So, he told his wife that he wanted to leave the world for the forest. She was delighted at the development, but pretended to be very much concerned with his unkind decision. He hesitated out of consideration for her. In the meantime, his dispassion gained in force and he decided to leave home, even without her consent.

When the queen was sleeping, one night, he suddently left the palace by stealth and retired into the forest. He was seeking some solitary spot where he could perform his tapas. When the queen woke up, she did not find her husband and immediately found out by her occult powers, what had really happened. She rejoiced in her husband's determination. She called the ministers and said that the King had gone on some important business and that the administration should be carried on as efficiently as ever. She herself administered the state in the absence of the King.

Eighteen years passed. She then knew that the King was fit for Self-Realisation. So, she appeared to him disguised as Kumbha Muni and so on. He then reaslised the SELF and returned to rule the kingdom with the queen.

The point is that occult powers are sought and gained for the benefit of others by Self-Realised persons also. But, the Sages are not deluded by the possession of such powers.

D.: Does the Sage use occult powers for making others realise the SELF or is the mere fact of his Self-Realisation enough for it ?

Sri Bhagavan : The force of his Self-Realisation is far more powerful than the use of all other powers.

Inasmuch as there is no ego in him, there are not others for him. What is the highest benefit that can be conferred on others ? It is 'happiness'. 'Happiness' is born of Peace. Peace can reign only when there is no disturbance. Disturbance is due to thoughts which arise in the mind. When the mind itself is absent, there will be perfect Peace. Unless a person had annihilated his mind, he cannot gain Peace and be Happy. Unless he himself is 'happy', he cannot bestow 'happiness' on others.

When there is no mind, he cannot be aware of others. So, the mere fact of his Self-Realisation is itself enough to make all others 'happy'.

--- from " TALKS WITH SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI ", pp. 550--552.

OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM

Prophecies made by Guru Rinpoche more than a thousand years ago

-Many people are familiar with the prophecies of Nostradamus made more than seven hundred years ago, but few people are aware of the prophecies made by Padmasambhava (also known as Guru Rinpoche), the founder of Tibetan Buddhism, more than one thousand years ago.

When asked by his disciple when is the beginning of Dharma-ending age, Guru Rinpoche replied; “When the Iron Birds(1) are flying in the sky and the Iron Horses(1) are running on the roads, we know that dharma-ending age has arrived. At this time, Tibetan Buddhism shall flourish globally. When the iron bird flies and the horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the world, and the Dharma will come to the land of the red men (Western Countries).

In this Dharma-ending age, “Rulers do not act like Rulers, Subjects do not act like Subjects, Fathers do no act like Fathers, Sons do not act like Sons” (2), the relationships between Fathers and Sons are more like Playmates. Women do not honor and uphold chastity; men indulge in lust and unrestrained sexual misconducts.

Note:
1) Iron Birds and Iron Horses are known now as Airplanes, Cars and Trains.
2) This reminds me of Confucius’ Analects: “...ruler be a ruler, the subject a subject, the father a father, the son a son”, with regards to maintaining a world of order. What this means is that ruler shall uphold the duty as a ruler by serving the interests of the citizens. The citizens shall behave like citizens, by being law-abiding, respect the authorities and maintain law and order. Parents should act as parents by being providers, teachers and guardians to their children. Children shall be obedient and respect their parents.

Guru Rinpoche further prophesied that in that era (or rather now), carriages do not require horses to move, they self-propel (3). Youngsters in that era step on something that shaped like a bullhorn and there are wheels underneath that allow them to skate everywhere (4). It is even stranger that people in that era do not need to leave their houses to know things that happen around the world, just by sitting in front of a mirror (5）.

Note:
(3, 4, 5) Car, Skateboard, Roller Blades, TV and LCD panels, i.e. computer with internet connections.

Guru Rinpoche further said that in that era, many ordained monks are greedy and pursue wealth and fame. They travel everywhere to cheat on their followers. They plan and think of ways to get offerings and donations from followers and possess their own private wealth and properties, yet they do not engage in any Buddhist practices or chanting on their own. They indulge in music, dance and entertainments. They break precepts and vows without any remorse (6).

Note:
6) This is happening now. Bogus monks are everywhere especially in the Eastern countries. This prophecy coincides with Buddha’s prediction that “There is no disappearing of the true Dhamma until a counterfeit Dhamma arises in the world. Once a counterfeit Dhamma arises then there is a disappearing of the true Dhamma.”

When i read that The Buddha told his disciples the most important sutra of all, the Surangama Sutra, should be the first to be destroyed, i asked myself how could any teaching be destroyed at this digital age? I could print a thousands copies and bury them underground and someday someone would dig it up and revives the teachings again. Or i could upload copies of the sutra to all the available servers on the internet. How could it possibly be destroyed?

Then one day, while doing research and reading news regarding some Buddhist sect in Taiwan proclaiming that the Surangama Sutra is fake and that Buddha never taught that, do i realize what Buddha meant by "Destroy". This realization was brought to me by a renowned Buddhist master over a seminar that Sutras do not get destroyed physically, they are destroyed by being "discredited". In other words, by saying that Surangama Sutra is fake and that Buddha never taught it, nobody will ever read or touch that Sutra again and that is how it is "destroyed". And so this should also happen to Buddhism when the Dharma ends and nobody has faith or believe in it anymore.

With regards to mundane lives, Guru Rinpoche commented that in that era, husband and wife relationship shall be ruined and damaged by so-called “double-tongues” women, who instigate, provoke and create disharmony within families(7). Unfilial sons and daughters will chase their parents out from home. Brothers and sisters shall fight among themselves for inheritance, and violate the five precepts without remorse. Buddha’s teaching gradually faded and eventually lost. There shall be incest among the closest kin. Many people shall be addicted to gambling, drugs and alcohol. Buddhas’ statues and paintings, Buddhist ritual instruments are sold in flea markets on the streets (8). Vintage valuables passed down from generations to generations shall be sold and auctioned in international markets. Deforestation and over exploitation of nature causes ecological imbalances thereby resulting in frequent natural disasters. Thieves and robberies shall infest the entire city and paupers and beggars are seen everywhere.


7) The word “double-tongues” mentioned is what is known to us now as “double-headed”. He specifies women that include friends, relatives and kin. This means friends and kins deliberately giving bad advises and information to create disharmony between husbands and wives and eventually breaking up families.
It was mentioned that the karma for such phenomenon is the widespread of infectious diseases.

In the year of metal dragon (9), demons entered the water (10). In the year of Metal Snake(11）, demons entered the wind and thunder frost hail, wreaking havoc and creating disasters for many (12). In the year of Water Goat (13), here shall be widespread of infectious diseases (14).

Note:
9) Year 2000 is the year of Metal Dragon based on the Tibetan Calendar.
10) On August 12, 2000, the Russian Oscar II class submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea and exploded.
11) Year 2001 is the year of Metal Snake based on the Tibetan Calendar.
12) i) Tropical Storm Allison that devastated southeast Texas happened in June
2001.
ii) The 2001 Gujarat earthquake occurred in India, killing 20,000 people and causing injuries to 166,000 others.
13) Year 2003 is the year of Water Goat based on the Tibetan Calendar.
14) The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) happened in 2003.

These incidents might not "appear" to be catastrophic or on global scale. Similar to Chinese Calendar, the Tibetan Calender Year has a 60 years cycle. For instance, in year 2000 it was year of Metal Dragon and in the year of 2060 it should be another year of Metal Dragon. Should He could be referred to any year with that specific Element-Animal.

Alcoholics shall die of cerebrovascular diseases; gamblers shall die of stomach disorder; slander shall die of throat-related diseases; heavy smokers shall die of lungs diseases; over consumption of eggs, garlic and onion causes frequent nightmares resulting in mental disturbances and eventually related death; hunters and slaughter of animals shall die of liver and intestines related diseases, sinners and those with heavy bad karma shall die of many types of diseases that are painful and sufferings.

The year of Wood Rooster is when the strength of Buddhism is the weakest. Evil spirits and demons shall take opportunity at this time to wrench more havocs and creating more damages.
In the year of Earth Ox15, there shall be wars among countries and many people shall perish.

Note:
15) 2009 is the Year of Earth Ox based on the Tibetan Calendar. However it might not necessary be this year. It could be another cycle of Earth Ox which is 60 years from now. But for sure in 2009 we have encountered frequent natural disasters of different scale.


OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM

Amore fisico, amore cosmico

L'amore fisico se consapevole è un collegamento con l'amore cosmico, parte dall'alto (e non dal basso come il semplice sesso senza spiritualità), dunque sintonia di pensieri, attrazione mentale, settimo chakra: L'INTESA. La coppia ha un unico modo di vedere la realtà anche se da due punti di vista, due angolature, i loro occhi brillano come scintille, complicità, comprensione, sesto chakra: LA COMPLICITÀ. Questa loro intesa e complicità interiore crea un dialogo perfetto attraverso il confronto, quinto chackra: LA COMPRENSIONE. Con questi presupposti la coppia come un fiore si apre nel cuore, quarto chacka, attraverso un emozione consapevole e non soltanto istintiva ma intuitiva: L'AMORE. Questo amore non è soltanto solo passione effimera, cieca o vulnerabile, ma un vero e proprio cibo solido che scende allo stomaco (le cosiddette farfalle), terzo chacka, l'attrazione fisica dell'altro, la fame dell'amato, il desiderio fisico purificato perchè spirituale e nato dall'alto: LA VOGLIA. L'intesa fisica nasce da se, la forza del ventre è quella voglia di creare vivere condividere per e con l'altro, secondo chacka: L'EMPATIA. In fine, dopo questo percorso interiore dell'amore, il corpo è illuminato, l'unione genitale, primo chacka, non potrà che far vivere alla coppia un unica emozione fuori dal comune, si fondono nel corpo ATTRAVERSO L'ANIMA, è un'esperienza unica che tutti abbiamo vissuto nei 9 mesi quando eravamo nel grembo materno, ragione per cui quando troviamo il partner perfetto ci sentiamo rinascere e tornare a quello stato paradisiaco che è l'infanzia: pieni di gioia, felicità, pace, tranquillità, fantasie e vita.

Tilopa's Mahamudra Instruction to Naropa in Twenty Eight Verses

Homage to the Eighty Four Mahasiddhas!
Homage to Mahamudra!
Homage to the Vajra Dakini!

Mahamudra cannot be taught. But most intelligent Naropa,
Since you have undergone rigorous austerity,
With forbearance in suffering and with devotion to your Guru,
Blessed One, take this secret instruction to heart.

Is space anywhere supported? Upon what does it rest?
Like space, Mahamudra is dependant upon nothing;
Relax and settle in the continuum of unalloyed purity,
And, your bonds loosening, release is certain.

Gazing intently into the empty sky, vision ceases;
Likewise, when mind gazes into mind itself,
The train of discursive and conceptual thought ends
And supreme enlightenment is gained.

Like the morning mist that dissolves into thin air,
Going nowhere but ceasing to be,
Waves of conceptualization, all the mind's creation, dissolve,
When you behold your mind's true nature.

Pure space has neither colour nor shape
And it cannot be stained either black or white;
So also, mind's essence is beyond both colour and shape
And it cannot be sullied by black or white deeds.

The darkness of a thousand aeons is powerless
To dim the crystal clarity of the sun's heart;
And likewise, aeons of samsara have no power
To veil the clear light of the mind's essence.

Although space has been designated "empty",
In reality it is inexpressible;
Although the nature of mind is called "clear light",
Its every ascription is baseless verbal fiction.

The mind's original nature is like space;
It pervades and embraces all things under the sun.

Be still and stay relaxed in genuine ease,
Be quiet and let sound reverberate as an echo,
Keep your mind silent and watch the ending of all worlds.

The body is essentially empty like the stem of a reed,
And the mind, like pure space, utterly transcends
the world of thought:
Relax into your intrinsic nature with neither abandon nor control -
Mind with no objective is Mahamudra -
And, with practice perfected, supreme enlightenment is gained.

The clear light of Mahamudra cannot be revealed
By the canonical scriptures or metaphysical treatises
Of the Mantravada, the Paramitas or the Tripitaka;
The clear light is veiled by concepts and ideals.

By harbouring rigid precepts the true samaya is impaired,
But with cessation of mental activity all fixed notions subside;
When the swell of the ocean is at one with its peaceful depths,
When mind never strays from indeterminate, non-conceptual truth,
The unbroken samaya is a lamp lit in spiritual darkness.

Free of intellectual conceits, disavowing dogmatic principles,
The truth of every school and scripture is revealed.

Absorbed in Mahamudra, you are free from the prison of samsara;
Poised in Mahamudra, guilt and negativity are consumed;
And as master of Mahamudra you are the light of the Doctrine.

The fool in his ignorance, disdaining Mahamudra,
Knows nothing but struggle in the flood of samsara.
Have compassion for those who suffer constant anxiety!
Sick of unrelenting pain and desiring release, adhere to a master,
For when his blessing touches your heart, the mind is liberated.

KYE HO! Listen with joy!
Investment in samsara is futile; it is the cause of every anxiety.
Since worldly involvement is pointless, seek the heart of reality!

In the transcending of mind's dualities is Supreme vision;
In a still and silent mind is Supreme Meditation;
In spontaneity is Supreme Activity;
And when all hopes and fears have died, the Goal is reached.

Beyond all mental images the mind is naturally clear:
Follow no path to follow the path of the Buddhas;
Employ no technique to gain supreme enlightenment.

KYE MA! Listen with sympathy!
With insight into your sorry worldly predicament,
Realising that nothing can last, that all is as dreamlike illusion,
Meaningless illusion provoking frustration and boredom,
Turn around and abandon your mundane pursuits.

Cut away involvement with your homeland and friends
And meditate alone in a forest or mountain retreat;
Exist there in a state of non-meditation
And attaining no-attainment, you attain Mahamudra.

A tree spreads its branches and puts forth leaves,
But when its root is cut its foliage withers;
So too, when the root of the mind is severed,
The branches of the tree of samsara die.

A single lamp dispels the darkness of a thousand aeons;
Likewise, a single flash of the mind's clear light
Erases aeons of karmic conditioning and spiritual blindness.

KYE HO! Listen with joy!
The truth beyond mind cannot be grasped by any faculty of mind;
The meaning of non-action cannot be understood in compulsive activity;
To realise the meaning of non-action and beyond mind,
Cut the mind at its root and rest in naked awareness.

Allow the muddy waters of mental activity to clear;
Refrain from both positive and negative projection -
leave appearances alone:
The phenomenal world, without addition or subtraction, is Mahamudra.

The unborn omnipresent base dissolves your impulsions and delusions:
Do not be conceited or calculating but rest in the unborn essence
And let all conceptions of yourself and the universe melt away.

The highest vision opens every gate;
The highest meditation plumbs the infinite depths;
The highest activity is ungoverned yet decisive;
And the highest goal is ordinary being devoid of hope and fear.

At first your karma is like a river falling through a gorge;
In mid-course it flows like a gently meandering River Ganga;
And finally, as a river becomes one with the ocean,
It ends in consummation like the meeting of mother and son.

If the mind is dull and you are unable to practice these instructions,
Retaining essential breath and expelling the sap of awareness,
Practising fixed gazes - methods of focussing the mind,
Discipline yourself until the state of total awareness abides.

When serving a karmamudra, the pure awareness
of bliss and emptiness will arise:
Composed in a blessed union of insight and means,
Slowly send down, retain and draw back up the bodhichitta,
And conducting it to the source, saturate the entire body.
But only if lust and attachment are absent will that awareness arise.

Then gaining long-life and eternal youth, waxing like the moon,
Radiant and clear, with the strength of a lion,
You will quickly gain mundane power and suprem enlightenment.

May this pith instruction in Mahamudra
Remain in the hearts of fortunate beings.

Colophon

Tilopa's Mahamudra Instruction to Naropa in twenty Eight Verses was transmitted by the Great Guru and Mahasiddha Tilopa to the Kashmiri Pandit, Sage and Siddha, Naropa, near the banks of the River Ganga upon the completion of his Twelve Austerities. Naropa transmitted the teaching in Sanskrit in the form of twenty eight verses to the great Tibetan translator Mar pa Chos kyi blos gros, who made a free translation of it at his village of Pulahari on the Tibet - Bhutan border.

This text is contained in the collection of Mahamudra instruction called the Do ha mdzod brgyad ces bya ba Phyag rgya chen po'i man ngag gsal bar ston pa'i gzhung, which is printed at the Gyalwa Karmapa's monastery at Rumtek, Sikkim. The Tibetan title is Phyag rgya chen po'i man ngag, or Phyag rgya chen po rdo rje'i tsig rkang nyi shu rtsa brgyad pa.

This translation into English has been done by Kunzang Tenzin in 1977, after transmission of the oral teaching by Khamtrul Rinpoche in Tashi Jong, Kangra Valley, India. 
(translation by Keith Dowman - reproduced with kind permission)

The malignant male and female demons
Who create myriad troubles and obstructions
Seem real before one has reached enlightenment
But when one realizes their true nature,
They become Protectors, 
And through their help and assistance
One attains numerous accomplishments.
Jetsun Milarepa

Sukhasiddhi

L'esprit qui n'engage pas son activité
Dans le domaine des six sens
Est le chemin de la transcendance.
La non-pensée est l'espace universel.
Le non-mental est le grand sceau

Ne méditez pas ! Ne méditez pas ! Ne méditez pas avec l'intellect !
La méditation intellectuelle n'est que fabrication de pensées.
Les pensées vous attachent aux cycles des existences ;
Vous êtes libres d'intellect : il n'y a pas de méditation.

Dans l'espace, vacuité sans conscience,
Anéantissez la racine de l'esprit doué de conscience,
Anéantissez cette racine et restez serein.
Chant de réalisation

A Tender Heart

 Even if we try to be loving and kind persons most of the time our heart remains hard, like a stone that laying at the bottom of the lake does not become softer. We do not feel the suffering of others, nor do we participate in it. We just pursue our own self interest without any care for others.

 Certainly some conditions and circumstances can make our heart tender. For example when we fall in love with a woman or a man, we are willing to accept the other person in its entirety, with his or her faults and qualities. That total acceptance acts as a catalyst that opens our heart. Then our heart becomes tender, a feeling of compassion arises and we want to protect the other person from dangers and fears.

 It is like if all our being melts with the power of that feeling, we become less concerned with what happens around. It seems we are in the centre of the universe. We feel well and renewed, as if we were stripped ourselves of our habits, and new world opens to us. We think this wonderful feeling of well being has arisen because of the external presence of the woman or the man we like. 

Thus we start to desire that person more and more. When our thoughts recurs following the images of our beloved, attachment arises and with attachment comes a strong longing for that person and the desire of wanting to possess that person and make it “mine”. At that point we have fallen into the trap of “having” as opposed to “being”.

 What ensues, is common knowledge. Our desire to possess eventually come in the way of a good and healthy relationship with the other person and suffocate the space that breads the relationship. Jealousy comes to replace the feeling of affection for the other person. Suspicion comes to replace the sense of full trust in our beloved. Ownership comes to replace pure love. Anger comes to replace patient acceptance of the other. What was once a loving relation slowly becomes a series of quarrels, and misunderstandings. And our tender heart is lost.

 Having lived such experiences, many people close themselves up and do not allow that kind of love to emerge. They live always in the suspicion that the “other” man or woman is going to take advantage of them, so they shut the door to the possibility of even enjoying healthy worldly pleasures and become idealists. But this kind of reaction is similar to a person’s refusal to eat after food intoxication.   

 In any case, a real tender heart does not depend on an external condition, it is not something we acquire from outside, it is always part of our nature. It is part of the nature of every living being, it is the nature of every living being. Also a tender heart does not have only one focus, in fact it does not have any focus at all, it is aimless. A tender heart is the heart of one who does not defend himself or herself, it is the heart of one who accepts everything as part of himself or herself. It is a heart that can receive harm.

 Sometime in India we can see people with a curious genetic malformation begging on the street. Usually they are physically underdeveloped youths that have their ribs missing above the area of the heart So their heart can be seen beating under a thin layer of skin, almost nakedly exposed. The tender heart is like that, a heart that does not have any thick cover on it, it is vulnerable, it can feel easily as it is touched even slightly.       

 Then how do we descover this treasure which exist within oneself? Some say that we have to cultivate an altruistic intention through the methods of mind training. But such methods for developing altruism are mostly conceptual. And however much effort and struggle we can make in applying them, such a tender heart will never arise in a genuine way. A true tender heart is not the result of a training. What result from training is always within the domain of the working mind and of concepts, thus artificial.

 It is only when we come to understand one’s real nature, that is ineffable, beyond definitions and come to dwell in that nature, that a true tender heart can emerge. It emerges spontaneously, when one witness ordinary people’s ignorance of their authentic nature. At that point the tender heart is not artificial, it is not the result constructed by an effort of the mind. The tender heart itself is not different from the knowledge of one’s real nature, it is just an indistinguishable side of it.

 One’s real nature seems to pervade everything without distinction and similarly the tender heart pervades everything without any object or person to rest upon. It is beyond attachment and aversion, beyond feeling close to some and distant from others.

 When being with others, one is the tender heart. When being alone, one is the knowledge of one’s natural condition. Like butter added to fire, the tender heart makes one plunge into one’s real nature even more. And with the increase of the knowledge of one’s real nature, the tender heart waxes like the moon.           

Elio Guarisco

Princess Gomdevi

"The realization of the Collection of Precious Gemstones, the spontaneous meditation song about non-arising, was sung in these words by Princess Gomdevi at the Hermitage of Conquerors during the latter half of night.

HUNG
The mind of all the buddhas is the letter A.
The nature of this A is timeless, insubstantial.

This A, the source of all sugatas and the twofold truths
Also takes the form of what appears and what exists.

The substance of this A is timeless, the awakened mind.
By seeing its unchanging presence, beyond parting, I awakened.

In this awakened space transcending words and thoughts,
Awakened mind is nonarising like this A.

Stay composed and undistracted, uncontrived-
Realization I have found is simply this.

The stallion of wakeful knowing
Now gallops the plains of dharmata.
KAPALA KAMAPASHA A HOH"

from "Wellsprings of the Great Perfection", Rangjung Yeshe Publications.