Thusness wrote in the comments section of the LuminousEmptiness blog in 2009:
http://luminousemptiness.blogspot.com/2008/07/where-did-my-breath-go.html
http://luminousemptiness.blogspot.com/2008/12/reflections-on-naropa-summary-of.html
Great and wonderful insight!
Just a 2 cents from a PasserBy, nothing intense.
It is pointless to know the nature of mind is luminous and empty,
If there is no insight that this innate nature is the direct seal of Great Bliss.
After insight of anatta, emptiness and non-dual luminosity,
It is advisable not to retract to practices that made mind contrive.
Never underestimate this direct path of great ease,
Even aeons lives of practices cannot touch the depth of its profundity.
Deeply experience this luminous yet empty nature, its thorough effortlessness and spontaneity.
It is the heart of Mahamudra, the great art that simply be.
Deep bow and reverent to Naropa for this view concisely put and,
Homage to the ground, this natural state of Great Bliss.
Happy Journey!
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"I don't personally find it pointless - rather, a step along the way ;-)..."
Indeed and thanks for pointing out. :)
The degree of “un-contrivance” is the degree of how unreserved and fearless we open to whatever is.
For whatever arises is mind, always seen, heard, tasted and experienced.
What that is not seen, not heard and not experienced is our conceptual idea of mind.
Whenever we objectify the “brilliance, the pristine-ness” into an entity that is formless,
It becomes an object of grasp that prevents the seeing of the “forms”, the texture and the fabric of awareness.
The tendency to objectify is subtle, even ‘nowness’ and ‘hereness’ are as ‘selfness’. :)
Whatever arises merely dependently originates, needless of who, where and when.
All experiences are equal, luminous yet empty of self-nature.
Though empty it has not in anyway denied its vivid luminosity.
Liberation is experiencing mind as it is.
Self-Liberation is the thorough insight that this liberation is always and already is;
Spontaneously present, naturally perfected!
Just a sharing.
Happy new year to you!
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http://luminousemptiness.blogspot.com/2009/03/all-experience-is-mind.html
http://luminousemptiness.blogspot.com/2008/07/where-did-my-breath-go.html
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What expressed is truly wonderful!
It is so much to my liking that I have to say something.
Always only an asumption collating together and called 'something'.
Be it breath, anger, fear or anything manifesting;
Always only sensations or heart beats or coldness or an arising thought of something.
Exactly like what Buddha taught in anatta,
Merely aggregates and 18 dhatus playing;
With no agent anywhere found hiding.
When experience matures in the practice of great ease,
The experience is maha! Great, miraculous and bliss.
In mumdane acitivies of seeing, eating and tasting,
When expressed poetically is asif the entire universe meditating.
Whatever said and expressed are really all different flavours,
Of this everything of everything dependently originating,
As this moment of vivid shimmering.
May Buddha blessed you full enlightenment,
good luck and forgive my busy-bodying!
Gone!
http://luminousemptiness.blogspot.com/2008/12/reflections-on-naropa-summary-of.html
Great and wonderful insight!
Just a 2 cents from a PasserBy, nothing intense.
It is pointless to know the nature of mind is luminous and empty,
If there is no insight that this innate nature is the direct seal of Great Bliss.
After insight of anatta, emptiness and non-dual luminosity,
It is advisable not to retract to practices that made mind contrive.
Never underestimate this direct path of great ease,
Even aeons lives of practices cannot touch the depth of its profundity.
Deeply experience this luminous yet empty nature, its thorough effortlessness and spontaneity.
It is the heart of Mahamudra, the great art that simply be.
Deep bow and reverent to Naropa for this view concisely put and,
Homage to the ground, this natural state of Great Bliss.
Happy Journey!
...
"I don't personally find it pointless - rather, a step along the way ;-)..."
Indeed and thanks for pointing out. :)
The degree of “un-contrivance” is the degree of how unreserved and fearless we open to whatever is.
For whatever arises is mind, always seen, heard, tasted and experienced.
What that is not seen, not heard and not experienced is our conceptual idea of mind.
Whenever we objectify the “brilliance, the pristine-ness” into an entity that is formless,
It becomes an object of grasp that prevents the seeing of the “forms”, the texture and the fabric of awareness.
The tendency to objectify is subtle, even ‘nowness’ and ‘hereness’ are as ‘selfness’. :)
Whatever arises merely dependently originates, needless of who, where and when.
All experiences are equal, luminous yet empty of self-nature.
Though empty it has not in anyway denied its vivid luminosity.
Liberation is experiencing mind as it is.
Self-Liberation is the thorough insight that this liberation is always and already is;
Spontaneously present, naturally perfected!
Just a sharing.
Happy new year to you!
....
http://luminousemptiness.blogspot.com/2009/03/all-experience-is-mind.html
- Yes indeed. From the perspective of awareness, there is no way to point
to a moment of experience and say this is ‘in’ and this is ‘out’. All
‘in’ are as ‘out’; to awareness seamless experience is all there is.
Yet in addition to this ‘ungraspability and unlocatabilty’ nature, emptiness is also about this maha sensation when a moment of luminous experience comes into being due to the inter-being and interdependency of everything asif the universe is doing the work and nothing ‘me’. When there is no sense of self, ‘Tong!’, the sound, the person, the stick, the bell, hitting, vibration of the air, ears...all come together as the moment of experience called 'sound'. The universe is giving its very best for this moment of experience to arise.
Also when experience is seen as the manifestation of dependent origination, there is a sensation of always right wherever and whenever is. A sensation of home everywhere yet no place can be called home.
Just a sharing.