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This is the destiny of most sentient minds…
Desire-Thought-Function. The creation of one enables the latter, ad-infinitum. From the first to the last and from the last back to the first. This is depicted in the image above showing the minds many, many ways and ability to manifest … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhadharma, Dharma, form, Karma, liberation, suffering, Tozen, Unborn, Zen
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The mind of 84,000 hooks.
This is the sole gospel of Mara, the Evil One, so pay careful attention; Within each seed granted your self, there is a promise of a beautiful flower. One of completeness and bliss or even vengeance and destruction. In the … Continue reading
Supplication and Vowed Fidelity
Thus have I heard. Once the Buddha was dwelling in the garden of Anāthapindada, in the Jeta Grove, near Śrāvastī. At that time, King Prasenajit and Queen Mallikā of Kosala had just had an initial realization of the Dharma. They … Continue reading
Posted in The Lion's Roar of Queen Śrīmālā
Tagged attainment, Buddha-land, Dharma, dharma-womb, form, King Prasenajit, Kosala, muni, Queen Mallikā, Queen Srīmālā, suffering, Ten Great Vows, Urna
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The Realm of Suchness
(Hakeda) THE ESSENCE ITSELF AND THE ATTRIUBUTES OF SUCHNESS, OR THE MEANING OF MAHĀ A.The Greatness of the Essence of Suchness [The essence of Suchness] knows no increase or decrease in ordinary men, the Hīnayānists, the bodhisattvas, or the buddhas. It … Continue reading
Posted in The Awakening of Faith
Tagged dharmakaya, form, light, Mind, Mind-only, Nirmanakaya, Sambhogakaya, samsara, Suchness, tathagata-garbha
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The Enlightenment Game
2013.globalgamejam.org/ Aspects of Enlightenment (Hakeda) (1) Original Enlightenment: The essence of the Mind is free from thoughts. The characteristic of that which is free from thoughts is analogous to that of the sphere of empty space that pervades everywhere. The one [without … Continue reading
The Worm of Attachment
Michael Page “There is not one among the good teachers from ancient times up to the present who hasn’t said that there is no Buddha existing outside of the mind. Though it is clear from this that all phenomena are … Continue reading
Posted in Mud and Water: Bassui Zen
Tagged attachment, delusion, dream, form, phenomena
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The Pure Lands
Bassui had the distinction of empowering others to see beyond their literal notions of the Buddha Pure Lands. However he would not make the attempt if the inquirers were exclusively attached to the phenomenal world and incapable of seeing beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged Amida, Buddha Pure Lands, form, Mind, Pure Land, Tathagata, Western Pure Land
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Notes from the Iron Stupa: Epilogue
Stupa Image from the Doog Diaries The Black Ngagspa lost all evil intent after witnessing Schäfer’s Vajrasattvic Empowerment—indeed, it was as if the Sacred Action had suctioned-off any and all residuals of malice—and his role in the scheme of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anuyoga, Atiyoga, form, Iron Stupa, Mahāyoga, Stupa, Vajra-Dhunga, White Ngagspa
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Flight of the Phoenix
The Tibetan monk-yogin who had led the group to the cave was in actuality a Bön wizard known as a ngagspa. But he was a Black Ngagspa, formed in the Dark and Forbidden Arts, and his intent upon this Nazi-financed … Continue reading
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Tagged Amitabha, egregore, form, ngagspa, Pandaravasini, Tulpas, Vril
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The Quest
Nearby Hitler’s bunker in late April of 1945, the advancing Russians were weaving their way through battered Berlin when they discovered in the deep cellar of an abandoned building six dead Tibetans lying together in a form of ritual circle; … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, Bon, Bonpos, Ernst Schäfer, form, phurba, sauvastika
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