KOCOURMIKES: ...a řídíš se tím? ;-)

some time ago I read the autobiography of a Catholic monk in the 1930s that accidentally stumbled on what I call Mahamudra/Dzogchen type of meditation. It freaked him out so much he left the Church. Why? Because the understanding it imparted to him was contrary to Church doctrine. He realized that, contrary to the idea of the fall of Adam, we are never separated from the Truth, etc.

After he left the Vatican he made his way to L.A. Since he had experience being a monk he was cast as an extra in "Lost Horizon". Seems like a premonition of things to come for him, doesn't it?

He didn't say Mahamudra, or Dzogchen, or meditation or Buddhism. It happened in the 1930s after all. He didn't know what to make of it. Calling it those things is my take on it. But reading it from today's perspective was pretty funny .

The book was called "I Was a Monk" by John Tettemer.

Six Yogas of Naropa

http://selfdefinition.org/...0The%20Six%20Yogas%20of%20Naropa%20and%20Teachings%20on%20Mahamudra.pdf

If samsara were a place, it might seem selfish for one person to look for an escape, leaving others behind. But when you realize that it's a process, there's nothing selfish about stopping it at all.

The Buddha once asked his monks, "Which do you think is greater: the water in the oceans or the tears you've shed while wandering on?" His answer: the tears. Think of that the next time you gaze at the ocean or play in its waves.

D.: Cannot samsara be got rid of by any means other than making the mind still?

M.: Absolutely by no other means; neither the Vedas, nor the shastras nor austerities, nor karma, nor vows, nor gifts, nor recital of scriptures of mystic formulae (mantras), nor worship, nor anything else, can undo the samsara. Only stillness of mind can accomplish the end and nothing else.

D.: The scriptures declare that only Knowledge can do it. How then do you say that stillness of the mind puts an end to samsara?

M.: What is variously described as Knowledge, Liberation, etc., in the scriptures, is but stillness of mind.

D.: Has any one said so before?

M.: Sri Vasishta had said: When by practice the mind stands still, all illusions of samsara disappear, root and branch. Just as when the ocean of milk was churned for its nectar, it was all rough, but became still and clear after the churn (viz., mount Mandara) was taken out, so also the mind becoming still, the samsara falls to eternal rest.

When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my life turns.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination.

Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/author/17650-Sri_Nisargadatta_Maharaj

Ösel (yoga) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Om Tat Sat

Mysl je jasnym svetlem!

Absolute - ever abide in this Truth

Mysl je jasnym svetlem! Tenhle zakladni poznatek o meditaci je vysvobozujici.

TEDDYBEDDY: no ale to se vztahuje na zazen, na sezeni v meditaci. bez tuhe meditace (20-40 let praxe) tim neprojdes, bdelost v kazdodennim zivote nema zas takovou silu, ale samozrejme to musis aplikovat i tam.

Vědomí bez projekce. A vovovo tom to je.

One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.
Tilopa

The affairs of the world will go on forever, do not delay the practice of meditation.
Once you have met with the profound instructions from a meditation master,
with single pointed determination, set about realizing the Truth.

Milarepa

All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.

Milarepa

Mám experta po ruce. Správně namixovaný bílkoviny sou ok. Sacharidy sou problém. Otevřít jiný energetický kanály. Obrátit všechnu dostupnou energii na sebe. Maximalizace kvality, vibrace, koncentrace, atd. Ve vrcholný formě už žádnej mrd, žádný ženský. Zdržuje to prej od spojení s vlastním energetickým tělem, se sebou, s bohem, s nekonečnem.