Topic: Buddhist sayings

[erik]

The discovery of space reveals another way of relating to pain. We realise that if we do not tie our sensation of pain to the criteria of establishing our own existence, emotional pain dissolves.

[Michael]

You'll need to explain that one.

[erik]

There's no inherently existing pain and there's no inherently existing 'I'.
There's no 'I' involving continuous suffering.
It only has to be realised.
Realisation starts from patiently identifying the roots of statements such as 'Life is hard and then we die' in our own minds.
There is a state of mind where these 'valuable' thoughts do not matter...and do not survive.

[Michael]

Right. I get it now. Unfortunately, what may appear easy to some, is a bridge too far for most.

I have been fascinated by emotional pain for a long time. It is so easy to stop, and yet the hardest thing imaginable.

[erik]

I have been fascinated by emotional pain for a long time. It is so easy to stop, and yet the hardest thing imaginable.

Yes, isn't it? And it is rather indescribable sensation of lack of pain when one starts to reach and stay longer and longer in that special state of mind. As if rays of light appear in a twilight. Some parts of one's earlier life become irrelevant and are scrapped, some thoughts and thought patterns disappear from one's mind.

[erik]

The belief that liberation requires us to discover another concrete realm where everything is perfect will not help us discover the perfection of where we are. The experience of pure happiness is available to us in this life.

[erik]

There is no sudden breakthrough that remains forever-there are only sudden glimpses. But these glimpses encourage us to see more. And so, gradually, we develop the ability to integrate these experiences of unconditioned being into our lives.

[Michael]

There is no sudden breakthrough that remains forever-there are only sudden glimpses. But these glimpses encourage us to see more. And so, gradually, we develop the ability to integrate these experiences of unconditioned being into our lives.

But why? No matter how many glimpses we have, we will still die like the great unglimpsed, and probably sooner?

[erik]

But why? No matter how many glimpses we have, we will still die like the great unglimpsed, and probably sooner?

glimpsed, unglimpsed, glipsed and unglimpsed. why do we come to this heavy material world in the first place?

[erik]

We are not separate as beings. We are intimately and inextricably connected. This idea of connection is subtle, because our connection can take any form. Only our innate kindness-liberated through meditation-can guide us to respond accurately.

[erik]

Khandro and pawo are the female sky-dancing and male warrior aspects of the nondual state. We discover the khandro principle when we begin to discover our spaciousness. We discover the pawo principle when we begin to discover our innate compassion.

[erik]

Until you are completely freed from the delusion that your body validates your existence, dissatisfaction will continually colour your experience.

[erik]

From the view of Vajrayana, patience or Zopa (bZod pa – kshanti paramita) does not mean acceptance, forbearance, and suffering. According to Vajrayana, patience involves intelligent open-minded striving, in which the situation is propelled at its optimal velocity – neither forcing it, nor failing in the attempt to facilitate movement.

[erik]

From the point of view of Dzogchen we have to know how to practise essentially. We have to have some sense of how to maintain a stream of practice through our lives, through illness, and through each different circumstance that may arise.

[erik]

If one practises vision, meditation, and action with this knowledge—without stressful striving—one attains liberation in this lifetime. Failing that – one finds at the very least a restful and relaxed mind.