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Tag Archives: Noble Wisdom
Know your true nature
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
Transcendent Modes of Action
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
Posted in The Bhagavad Gita
Tagged action, gunas, Meister Eckhart, Noble Wisdom, Sacred Actions, Swami Satchidananda, Wisdom
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Divine Incarnations
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
Zen
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
Posted in Tozen Teaching, Zen
Tagged Buddhadharma, dharmakaya, Dhyana, imageless, Jhana Skt, Mind, Noble Wisdom, Spirit, Zen
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Coming Soon: The Tathāgatagarbhatārā Tantra
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
Posted in Spirituality, The Tathāgatagarbhatārā Tantra
Tagged Element of Truth, Mahāyoga, Noble Wisdom, Tantra, Tara, Tathāgatagarbha, Unborn, Vajrayana, Yoga, yogin
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Go Beyond the Beyond
“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
Posted in The Heart Sutra
Tagged Bodhisattvas, dharani, Heart Sutra Manta, Noble Wisdom, Sacred Protection, suffering, Truth, Wisdom
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The Light Warrior
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
Posted in The Heart Sutra
Tagged Bodhisattva, Light Warrior, Lord Avalokiteshvara, Noble Wisdom, Shariputra, Wisdom
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Dharma Tools for Silencing the Skandhic Demons
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
Posted in Spirituality, The Śūrańgama Sūtra
Tagged Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, Noble Wisdom, prajna-paramita, suffering
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Preliminary Reflection: The Surangama Sutra
Cultivation of the Bodhi-mind is impossible without having a Sambodhic-Spirit that is first nurtured through Deep Samadhis; likewise Samadhis never reaches maturity without determined penetration through layers of accumulated habit energy leaking incessantly from the Alaya-receptacle. The Surangama Sutra is … Continue reading
The Choicest Wine: Bardo 3, The Ariyan Mind
Before undertaking a breakdown of the Ten Stages of Mind Development it is best to posit their impact in Light of the Unborn. Above all, of course, the Lankavatarian Book of the Dead is a Lankavatarian interpretation; all references to … Continue reading
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Tagged Ariyan Mind, arya-jnana, Bardo 3, Lankavatarian, Noble Wisdom
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