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Illusion

Posted on March 12, 2023 by Vajragoni

CHAPTER II

ILLUSION (Vaitathya)

The Lord (Ātman), with his mind turned outward, variously imagines the diverse objects (such as sound, etc.), which are already in his mind (in the form of Vāsanas or Sankalpas or desires). The Ātman again (with his mind turned within), imagines in his mind various (objects of) ideas. read more

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(24) Vibration

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Vajragoni

The basis for the sanskrit language is that sound, made up by vibrations, equals energy.

Once a practitioner connects with the energy-field regulating breath (prāṇa), a heightened awareness power arises which then makes it possible to expand with the “body” of this field (riding the wave of spirit) hence sensing the constitution of the room, surrounding people, plants and even spirits. This then leads towards realization that it (samsara) is all of One Energy, one vibration, originating from the One Mind, e.g. your true nature before your parents were born. read more

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The short treatise on spiritual misidentification

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Tozen

That [Spirit] which considers itself human, sees itself as human, identifies it´s true self [Buddha nature] with the human body, or the given and accepted name-form of such a collection of impermanent faculties which are re-enforced by the arisen five folded skandhic consciousness, is not enlightened and can never be enlightened as long as this illusion persists. read more

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(1) The Hidden Light of Zen

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Vajragoni

 

               

Life is nothing but a vision, a dream; a synthetic overflow of form-shifting drops filling a self-empty void as conditioned ideations. These ideations, seen through the tainted Mind of the bewitched as a Universe of certain qualities, are indeed nothing but divided transformations of the Uncreated and hence galvanized into a myriad glimmering reflections…all representing the Mind’s ignorant re-genesis of innumerable desires, fears and hopes. read more

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The last great gap of Hakuin´s log bridge

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Tozen

There is only Unborn Mind. In Zen, as originally taught by the shining ones, this Mind is everything in terms of absolute reality, and no-thing in terms of illusion. It is people who believe the opposite that suffers. read more

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Songs of Renunciation

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Vajragoni

From the Songs of Milarepa (Dover Thrift Editions):

The way of the world is illusion:
I strive after true reality.
To be moved by earthly possessions is illusion :
I endeavour to rise above duality.
To be the world’s servant is illusion:
I wander in the mountains alone.
Wealth and possessions are illusion:
I renounce for the sake of the faith any I may have.
External things are illusion:
I contemplate the mind.
Distinctive thought is illusion:
I follow after sapience.
Conditional truth is illusion:
I dispose the absolute truth.
The printed book is illusion:
I meditate upon the counsels of the ear-whispered tradition.
Philosophical argument is illusion:
I study at length that which is unfeigned.
Both birth and death are illusion:
I contemplate the deathless truth.
Ordinary knowledge is illusion:
I exercise myself in wisdom.
The delight of mental thought is illusion:
I dwell in the state of reality. read more

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Tozen: What is it about?

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Tozen

[snips a tiny branch from a bonsai tree]

“When this world ends, where will you go?”

“But Master, surely this world is not about to end and I will probably go before it goes?” read more

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