If you can maintain awareness in the states of agitation and meditative equipoise, the pollution of disturbing thoughts will clear automatically, just like a pond that is left undisturbed. Do not consider certain mental experiences as good and worth cultivating and other experiences as hindrances that need to be abandoned. If you can develop this […]
We cannot identify the nature of space As having this or that attribute Or as having this or that empirical characteristic. It has no color, shape, or form And cannot be contaminated by anything that occurs within it. In the same way, emptiness — Which is inexorably bound with the mind — Is free from […]
Allow the mind to relax in an unconditional state, Because when the mind is relaxed, you will achieve liberation. Tilopa
Naropa, you should strive For Samsara and Nirvana’s unity. Look into the mirror of your mind, which is delight eternal, The mysterious home of the Dakini. Tilopa
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. Tilopa
Wishing to attain liberation from intolerable suffering, rely upon a wise guru. When the guru’s blessings enter your heart, your mind will be liberated. These things of samsara are meaningless or pointless, the causes of suffering. And since all of these things that have been done or made are pointless, look at that which is […]
My son Naropa, for phenomena that come from interdependence, Until you realize all these are unborn, You must not separate From the wheels of merit and wisdom. Tilopa
Hey! This is self-knowing primordial wisdom. It is beyond articulation and it is not an experienced object of the mind. It is nothing that can be demonstrated by me, Tilopa. Know it by letting your own self-awareness indicate itself. Tilopa
At first a yogi feels his mind Is tumbling like a waterfall; In mid-course, like the Ganges It flows on slow and gentle; In the end, it is a great Vast ocean, where the Lights Of Son and Mother merge in one. Tilopa
If you are beyond all grasping at an object and at a subject, that is the monarch of all views. If there is no distraction, it is the monarch of all meditations. If there is no effort, it is the monarch among all conducts. When there is no hope and no fear, that is the […]
Lo! This is self-awareness! It surpasses all avenues of speech and thought. I, Tilopa, have nothing to reveal. You should know it yourself through inward examination. Tilopa
Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience. Tilopa
Samsara is to see fault in others. Tilopa
The clouds that wander through the sky have no roots, no home, Nor do the distinctive thoughts floating through the mind. Once the self-mind is seen, Discrimination stops. Tilopa
Like the state of space, the mind transcends thought. Set it at ease in its own nature, without rejecting it or maintaining it. When the mind is without objective content, it is Mahamudra. Through familiarisation with that, supreme enlightenment is achieved. Tilopa
Is space anywhere supported? Upon what does it rest? Like space, mahamudra is dependent upon nothing; Relax and settle in the continuum of unalloyed purity, And, your bonds loosening, release is certain. Tilopa
Sesame oil is the essence. Although the ignorant know that it is in the sesame seed, they do not understand the way of cause, effect and becoming, and therefore are not able to extract the essence, the sesame oil. Although innate coemergent wisdom abides in the heart of all beings, if it is not shown […]
Child, it is not by appearances that you are fettered but by craving. Tilopa