Everything is naturally perfect just as it is.
All phenomena appear in their uniqueness as part of the continually changing pattern. These patterns are vibrant with meaning and significance at every moment; yet there is no
significance to attach to such meanings beyond the moment in which they
present themselves.
This is the dance of the five elements in which matter is
a symbol of energy and energy a symbol of emptiness. We are a symbol of
our own enlightenment.
With no effort or practice whatsoever, liberation or enlightenment is already
here.
The everyday practice of Dzogchen is just everyday life itself.
Since the undeveloped state does not exist, there is no need to behave in any special
way or attempt to attain anything above and beyond what you actually are.
There should be no feeling of striving to reach some ‘amazing goal’ or
‘advanced state.’ To strive for such a state is a neurosis which only
conditions us and serves to obstruct the free flow of Mind.
We should also avoid thinking of ourselves as worthless persons – we are naturally free and
unconditioned. We are intrinsically enlightened and lack nothing. When
engaging in meditation practice, we should feel it to be as natural as eating,
breathing and defecating. It should not become a specialized or formal event,
bloated with seriousness and solemnity.
We should realize that meditation transcends effort, practice, aims, goals and the duality of liberation and nonliberation.
Meditation is always ideal; there is no need to correct anything.
Since everything that arises is simply the play of the mind as such, there is
no unsatisfactory meditation and no need to judge thoughts as good or bad.
Therefore we should simply sit. Simply stay in your own place, in your own
condition just as it is.
Forgetting self-conscious feelings, we do not have to
think ‘I am meditating’
Our practice should be without effort, without strain,
without attempts to control or force and without trying to become ‘peaceful’. If
we find that we are disturbing ourselves in any of these ways, we stop
meditating and simply rest or relax for a while. Then we resume our
meditation.
If we have ‘interesting experiences’ either during or after
meditation we should avoid making anything special of them. To spend time
thinking about experiences is simply a distraction and an attempt to become
unnatural. These experiences are simply signs of practice and should be
regarded as transient events. We should not attempt to re-experience them
because to do so only serves to distort the natural spontaneity of Mind.
All phenomena are completely new and fresh, absolutely unique and entirely
free from all concepts of past, present and future. They are experienced in
timelessness.
The continual stream of new discovery, revelation and
inspiration which arises at every moment is the manifestation of our clarity.
We should learn to see everyday life as mandala – the luminous fringes of
experience, which radiate spontaneously from the empty nature of our being.
The aspects of our mandala are the day-to-day objects of our life experience
moving in the dance or play of the universe. By this symbolism the inner
teacher reveals the profound and ultimate significance of being.
Therefore we should be natural and spontaneous, accepting and learning from everything.
This enables us to see the ironic and amusing side of events that usually
irritate us. In meditation we can see through the illusion of past, present and
future – our experience becomes the continuity of nowness. The past is only
an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of
our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to
grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid
ground? We should free ourselves from our present memories and
preconceptions of meditation. Each moment of meditation is completely
unique and full of potentiality. In such moments, we will be incapable of
judging our meditation in terms of past experience, dry theory of hollow
rhetoric. Simply plunging directly into meditation in the moment now, with our
whole being, free from hesitation, boredom or excitement, is – Enlightenment
May all beings receiving this note also receive happiness and the causes of happiness;
May they all be free of suffering, and the causes of suffering;
May they not be seperated from the bliss that is without suffering;
May they dwell in equanimity, free from attachment, hate, and aversion.
Any merit accumulated from this note is instantly dedicated to all sentient beings liberation.
Tsoru Dechen Chokhor Ling Vajrayana Buddhist Center
3239 West Trade Avenue # 10
Miami, Fl. 33133
Meditations every Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 8:00 p.m.
Sundays at 2:00 p.m.
Our root guru is His Eminence Tulku Tsori Rinpoche
For more information call Daniel 305-775-7541 or Jorge 786-556-3040
http://ytdr.org/en/
www.childrensmonastery.org
