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How Can I Recognize the Nature of Mind When I’ve Never Seen It?

By matt | Published: August 24, 2015

[From a teaching on Songs of Barway Dorje by Bardor Tulku Rinpoche. Translator Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] Question: Concerning the recognition of the nature of mind, how can you find something when you don’t know what you’re looking for? If I’m looking for a pencil I know what it looks like, so I recognize it when […]

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Pure Realms Complete Within Your Own Mind

By matt | Published: July 21, 2015

[From a Teaching on the White Khechari Sadhana, Part 3 of 3,  by Lama Tashi Topgyal. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] …sometimes we talk about a pure realm, for example the celestial realm of Vajrayogini, as though it were an external place—somewhere else; but then in this context we talk about it as something that […]

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Cultivate Without Fixation

By matt | Published: June 26, 2015

[From a teaching on the Songs of Barway Dorje, Part 3, by Bardor Tulku Rinpoche given at Kunzang Palchen Ling in March 2015. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] How do you rest the mind in this immediate or present awareness? By not being distracted from the continuity of mere presence. Distraction from the continuity of mere […]

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