Tag Archives: Noble Wisdom

The Mind is a Beautiful Thing

Posted on April 7, 2023 by Vajragoni

No ritual, no sound, no form, no prayer, no scripture, can ultimately free the mind from ignorance and suffering. Only the Unborn Mind recognizes its own becomings (divisions of self) and re-attunes to its true self nature, like an ocean … Continue reading →

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Recognize the difference between Spirit and Soul.

Posted on February 13, 2022 by Tozen

  The soul is Spirit´s “cognitive” power and knower of all things. Where it needs to perceive and know as a demon, it perceives and knows as a demon. Where it needs to perceive and know as a man, it … Continue reading →

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Know your true nature

Posted on July 3, 2016 by Tozen

  As an inexhaustible producer of form and emptiness, the great Mind Essence remains permanently  imageless. As long as certainty and the true nature of this Mind is not assured,  ignorance reigns, death is certain and the painful womb of rebirth,  into most uncertain … Continue reading →

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Transcendent Modes of Action

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Vajragoni

4.13 Through the distribution of the gunas and karmic action in humanities fold, the mental tendencies formed in caste-like structure. Even though I animated all of this into motion, know also that I am within my own nature immovable. Sri … Continue reading →

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Divine Incarnations

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Vajragoni

4.4 Arjuna inquired from the Blessed One: “But you were born long after Vivasvat. How could it be possible that you taught this Yoga in the very beginning?” Arjuna is judging Krishna only by his present incarnation. The Blessed One … Continue reading →

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Zen

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Tozen

Zen [1] is the name of [unborn]Mind, and only through the purifying power of Zen can the mind [of a potential Buddha] fully recall itself, its true nature; which is Mind Unborn and no-thing else. The first mistake all beginners … Continue reading →

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Coming Soon: The Tathāgatagarbhatārā Tantra

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Vajragoni

Hello all. Blogging resumes again here at Unborn Mind Zen. Last year at this time work was begun presenting “The Lankavatarian Book of the Dead”, a work that essentially was an exercise in Atiyoga as the vehicle in which the … Continue reading →

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Go Beyond the Beyond

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Vajragoni

  “Therefore, Shariputra, because there is no attainment, Bodhisattvas abide relying on the Perfection of Wisdom, without obscuration of thought, and so they are unafraid. Transcending perverted views, they attain the end, Nirvana.” “All Buddhas existing in the three times, … Continue reading →

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The Light Warrior

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Vajragoni

  THE NOBLE AVALOKITEŚHVARA BODHISATTVA At that time also the noble Lord Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva and Mahasattva, in the practice of the profound Perfection of Wisdom looked down; he beheld but five skandhas and that in their own being they … Continue reading →

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Dharma Tools for Silencing the Skandhic Demons

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Vajragoni

Of course the most meritorious means for dispelling the effects of the Skandhic Demons is The Heart Sutra. Chanted daily by millions in the Buddhist milieu it serves as a mantra that diurnally reminds one of the efficaciousness of the … Continue reading →

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