Meditation With Drifting Yogi

བཟོ་རྩིས་སྨན་སོགས་ཡིག་སྣ་དཔག་མེད་པའི། །རྟེན་འབྲེལ་ཐབས་ཀུན་རྣམ་མཁྱེན་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་ཀྱང༌། །སྣ་ཚོགས་མང་པོས་བསམ་གཏན་གཅོག་པའི་རྒྱུ། །ཤེས་བྱ་བསྐྱུང་བ་ཁོ་བོའི་སྙིང་གཏམ་ཡིན། །

ནང་དུ་སྡོད་ཚེ་ཁང་པའི་བཀོད་སོགས་དང༌། །དབེན་པའི་ཁོང་ནས་ཕུན་ཚོགས་སྒྲུབ་པ་ཡང༌། །དོན་ཆུང་ངང་ལ་མི་ཚེ་འཛད་པའི་རྒྱུ། །བྱ་བྱེད་བཤོལ་བ་ཁོ་བོའི་སྙིང་གཏམ་ཡིན། །

There are many texts on craft, astrology and medicine,
All sources for understanding the methods of interdependence,
Yet to know too many things ruins one’s meditation.
‘To limit the objects of knowledge’ is my heart advice.

To replicate the arrangements of the home,
When venturing into solitude
Is to waste one’s life in a meaningless manner.
‘To give up too many activities’ is my heart advice.

གཞུང་དང་ཞལ་གདམས་ཟིན་བྲིས་ལ་སོགས་པ། ཟབ་མོའི་དཔེ་ཆ་དགོས་རྒུ་འཛོམ་ན་ཡང༌། ཉམས་ལེན་མ་བྱས་འཆི་ཚེ་དཔེས་མི་ཕན། སེམས་ལ་ལྟ་བ་ཁོ་བོའི་སྙིང་གཏམ་ཡིན། །

རྩེ་གཅིག་སྒྲུབ་ཚེ་ཉམས་དང་གོ་བསྡུར་དང༌། བསྟན་བཅོས་རྩོམ་དང་ཉམས་དབྱངས་ལེན་ལ་སོགས། རྩལ་སྣང་ཡིན་ཡང་རྣམ་རྟོག་འཕེལ་བའི་རྒྱུ། བློ་བྲལ་སྐྱོང་བ་ཁོ་བོའི་སྙིང་གཏམ་ཡིན། །

To amass a multitude of profound texts
Such as scriptures, commentaries and oral instructions,
Without practicing them, will be of no benefit at the time of death.
‘To watch your mind’ is my heart advice.

When we accomplish remaining one-pointedly, we can gain insights and understanding,
But to write spiritual texts and songs of realization about them,
Even though they are signs of experience, will give rise to conceptualization.
‘To maintain a non-conceptual frame of mind’ is my heart advice.
~ Longchenpa

~ After being back to Bhutan🧘‍♂️☸️

Just being grateful is enough dear...... Be grateful that u have an amazing human life, be grateful that you are breathing right now, be grateful for wonderful beings in ur environment.
Be grateful that the sun rises in the morning and the beauty of sunsets in the evening.
Be grateful to the clouds to the rains and trees and mountains.
Be grateful for the food you eat and water you drink.
Be grateful for the small things on your way and big things in your aspiration to benefit beings.

Be grateful to the Great Buddha, Guru rimpoche and all masters of the past and present.
Be grateful to ur emotions.... that drive you deeper into the mysteries of life, be grateful to ur healthy body and ur beautiful clothes.

With gratefulness u will never lose ur path and swiftly receive the grace you deserve without asking.

Regards,
Drifting Yogi

Hello all!

Although I don’t get to post very often, just to let you all know that meditation sessions in some schools and institutions are in full swing.

With great enthusiasm from students and random folks, I am dedicated to continue this initiative to make Bhutan a calmer and happier place to live in.

May meditation prevail in Bhutan🙏

If one just intellectually understands the view it will not help! One must actually experience it! There are many people who understand the view but don’t experience it. If the view were experienced, they wouldn’t act the way they do!

~Phadampa Sangye

ZEN (Japanese contribution to the world of meditation)

~Zazen, a form of seated meditation, migrated from ancient China and evolved in Japan, is widely known as meditation (only) school” of Buddhism. Zazen is the study of the self. Master Dogen said, “To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.” To be enlightened by the ten thousand things is to recognize the unity of the self and all things. The Buddha sat in meditation to realize his enlightenment, and for 2,500 years this meditation tradition has continued, passed down to us from generation to generation. Zen meditation practice spread from India to China, to Japan, to other parts of Asia, and then finally to the West. The essential aspects of zazen are fairly easy to communicate and are important for both beginning and mature practitioners. At the same time, a person’s experience of meditation can change profoundly if they practice consistently. With consistent practice, zazen transforms our mind, heart and life.

Zazen Posture

We tend to see body, breath, and mind as separate, but in zazen we begin to see how they are one inseparable reality. We first give our attention to the position of our body in zazen, establishing an awake and relaxed posture. Because the body and mind are one, our posture directly effects our breathing and state of mind. A stable, relaxed, wakeful posture helps us cultivate a mind that is stable, relaxed and wakeful. The most effective zazen posture is the position of the seated Buddha. Sitting on the floor is recommended because it is grounded and offers a more stable base. We use a small pillow (cushion) that raises the pelvis and hips just a little, so that the knees can touch the ground. This will form a tripod base that is natural, grounded and stable. --drifting yogi.

~The Photo below is the Zen master Shunryu Suzuki (1904 - 1971) Who popularised zen meditation in the west.

Anouncing a new platform for meditation @ WorkSpace Thimphu.

འདི་ལྟར་མིག་གི་ཡུལ་དུ་སྣང་བ་ཡི༔As it is, towards all you see:
ཕྱི་ནང་སྣོད་བཅུད་དངོས་པོ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀུན༔ Inner, outer environment and elemental beings
སྣང་ཡང་བདག་འཛིན་མེད་པའི་ངང་ལ་ཞོག༔ Even perceived; remain without grasping
གཟུང་འཛིན་དག་པ་གསལ་སྟོང་ལྷ་ཡི་སྐུ༔ freed from clinging, is that clear-light form of deity
འདོད་ཆགས་རང་གྲོལ་གྱི་བླ་མ་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས༔ To this guru of self-sublimated desire, I pray
ཨོ་རྒྱན་པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས༔ To the Lotus-born Guru of Orgyen, we pray
འདི་ལྟར་རྣ་བའི་ཡུལ་དུ་གྲགས་པ་ཡི༔ Like this towards all that you hear:
སྙན་དང་མི་སྙན་འཛིན་པའི་སྒྲ་རྣམས་ཀུན༔ All sounds, grasped as sweet or harsh
གྲགས་སྟོང་བསམ་མནོ་བྲལ་བའི་ངང་ལ་ཞོག༔ Empty and thoughtless like the echo you remain
གྲགས་སྟོང་སྐྱེ་འགག་མེད་པ་རྒྱལ་བའི་གསུང་༔ This victorious sound, beyond birth and demise
གྲགས་སྟོང་རྒྱལ་བའི་གསུང་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས༔ I pray to the victorious sound of emptiness
ཨོ་རྒྱན་པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས༔ To the Lotus-born Guru of Orgyen, we pray
འདི་ལྟར་ཡིད་ཀྱི་ཡུལ་དུ་འགྱུ་བ་ཡི༔ Like this towards all thoughts that stirs in the mind
ཉོན་མོངས་དུག་ལྔའི་རྟོག་པ་ཅི་ཤར་ཡང་༔ That thoughts and emotions of the five poisons arise
སྔོན་བསུ་རྗེས་དཔྱོད་བློ་ཡིས་བཅོས་མི་གཞུག༔ Neither inviting nor chasing, remain in non-action
འགྱུ་བ་རང་སར་བཞག་པས་ཆོས་སྐུར་གྲོལ༔ When the movements drop, dharmakaya is revealed
རིག་པ་རང་གྲོལ་གྱི་བླ་མ་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས༔ This self-liberated rigpa, is the guru I pray
ཨོ་རྒྱན་པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས༔ To the Lotus-born Guru of Orgyen, we pray
ཕྱི་ལྟར་གཟུང་བའི་ཡུལ་སྣང་དག་པ་དང་༔ Outward-clinging is purified from their allure
ནང་ལྟར་འཛིན་པའི་སེམས་ཉིད་གྲོལ་བ་དང་༔ Inward-grasping is freed, in the liberated mind
བར་དུ་འོད་གསལ་རང་ངོ་ཤེས་པ་རུ༔ In-between, the self-luminous clear light shines
དུས་གསུམ་བདེ་གཤེགས་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཡིས༔ By the compassionate sugatas of three times
བདག་འདྲའི་རང་རྒྱུད་གྲོལ་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས༔ Kindly bless to liberate the ignorant, like me.
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~Roughly translated on request from an online friend,
by the endless wanderer, Drifting Yogi
9th february 2023
Teresina, Brazil.

May all, reveal the Guru residing in themselves!

THE HEART SUTRA:
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With prolonged practice of meditation, glimpses of nature of mind occurs!, emptiness happens!.
And one can see, form and emptiness are one in truth🌈🙏

(Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, meditating deeply on Perfection of Wisdom, saw clearly that all aspects of human existence are empty, and so released himself from suffering.)

Answering the monk Sariputra, he said this:
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Form is nothing more than emptiness,
emptiness is nothing more than form.
The form is exactly empty,
and emptiness is exactly form.

The other four aspects of human existence -
feeling, thought, will, and consciousness -
are likewise nothing more than emptiness,
and emptiness nothing more than they.

All things are empty:
Nothing is born, nothing dies,
nothing is pure, nothing is stained,
nothing increases and nothing decreases.

So, in emptiness, there is no form,
no feeling, no thought,
no will, no consciousness.

There are no eyes, no ears,
no nose, no tongue,
no body, no mind.

There is no seeing, no hearing,
no smelling, no tasting,
no touching, no imagining.

There is nothing seen, nor heard,
nor smelled, nor tasted,
nor touched, nor imagined.

There is no ignorance,
and no end to ignorance.

There is no old age and death,
and no end to old age and death.

There is no suffering, no cause of suffering,
no end to suffering, no path to follow.

There is no attainment of wisdom,
and no wisdom to attain.

The Bodhisattvas rely on the Perfection of Wisdom,
and so with no delusions,
they feel no fear,
and have Nirvana here and now.

All the Buddhas,
past, present, and future,
rely on the Perfection of Wisdom,
and live in full enlightenment.

The Perfection of Wisdom is the greatest mantra.
It is the clearest mantra,
the highest mantra,
the mantra that removes all suffering.

This is truth that cannot be doubted.

Say it so:
Gaté,
gaté,
paragaté,
parasamgaté.
Bodhi!
Svaha!

Which means...
Gone,
gone,
gone over,
gone fully over.
Awakened!
So be it!

OM GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA

Translation of "Prajnaparamita". "The Heart of Prajnaparamita Sutra"
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Don't give up the practice of samatha just because you have tried it a few times and found that the mind doesn't get calm. That's the wrong way to go about it.

You really have to train yourself over a long period of time. Why does it take so long? Think about it. How many years have you let pass by without practicing?

When thoughts arise pulling the mind in one direction, you rush after them, when they start pulling it in another, you still rush after them with your mental proliferation.
If you are going to try and stop the flow of the mind and make it stay still, right there in the present moment, a couple of months is just not long enough. Contemplate this.
Think about what it might take to have a mind which is at peace with the flow of the different issues and events which affect it and is at peace with the mind-objects it experiences.
When you first start to practice, the mind has so little steadiness that as soon as it comes into contact with a mind-object, it gets agitated and confused. Why does it get agitated? Because it's under the influence of tanha.

You don't want it to think. You don't want to experience any mind-objects. This not wanting is a form of craving. It's vibhava-tanha (craving for non-existence).

The more you desire not to experience any agitation and confusion, the more you encourage and usher it in. 'I don't want this impingement, why does it come? I don't want the mind to be agitated, why is it like this?

That's it - there's craving for the mind to be in a peaceful state. It's because you don't know your own mind. That's all.

You persist in getting caught up with the mind and its craving, and yet it takes an incredibly long time before you realize where you are going wrong.

When you think about it clearly, you can see that all this distraction and agitation comes because you tell it to come! There is craving for it to be otherwise; there is craving for it to be peaceful; there is craving for the mind not to be restless and agitated. That's the point - it's all craving, the whole mass of it.

-- From the discourses of the great master Ajahn Chah (1918 -- 1992)
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I don’t believe in samsara. If I did, what “nirvana” could there be?

I don’t believe in mind itself. If I did, what “awareness” could there be?

I don’t believe in a view. If I did, what primordial emptiness
beyond all conceptual construct could there be?

I don’t believe in meditation. If I did, what ongoing flow of my innate nature could there be?

I don’t believe in conduct. If I did, what effortlessness could there be?

I don’t believe in the appearances of the ground. If I did, what primordially pure original ground could there be?

I don’t believe in the appearances of the path. If I did, what unity of luminosity and emptiness could there be?

I don’t believe in a result. If I did, what unimpeded state beyond expression could there be?

I don’t believe in relative reality. If I did, what unity of appearance and emptiness could there be?

Nothing truly exists.
Everything is empty.
Nothing is non-existent.
Everything is very clear.

When I just rest within empty lucidity,
the false cavern of all things of samsara and nirvana implodes,
and everything dawns as the ornamentation of ultimate reality.

Empty awareness free from conceptual elaboration
is a luminous glow beyond clarity or obscuration
that pervades all samsara and nirvana.

I don’t expect any result apart from primordial perfection.
Mingled with the expanse of great, blissful, self-knowing awareness,
I rest within the indivisibility of threefold space.

This is the fanciful writing of a beggar lady,
the unspiritual prattling of a parrot.
If seen by others, it will cause embarrassment.

In my spiritual tradition, that of a beggar lady,
all phenomena of samsara and nirvana appear as they are.
How can someone who practices samsara
understand the doings of nirvana?

These words are false, my divine friends!
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~Written by Sera Khandro Dewé Dorje.(1892-1940)
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.........In Jayul the Lama stayed in the house of the Governor, and enjoyed lavish hospitality in the company of several Scholars, Gomchens, and monks. They drank chung and conversed together.
'You don't wear Lamas', monks' or sages' apparel,' an elderly Scholar reproved him. 'You do whatsoever you please and set a bad example to the common people. You should find yourself a permanent home and settle down, instead of wandering around footloose and useless like a dog. You give all religious people a bad name. Why do you do it?'
'If I became a Lama I would be the slave of my attendant disciples, and I would lose my freedom of action. If I became an ordained monk I would be obliged to keep the discipline, and who can keep their vows unbroken constantly? If I became a sage I should engage myself in discovering the Nature of Mind -- as if that was not already self-evident! Whether or not I am a bad example to anyone depends totally upon the intelligence of the individual in question. Furthermore, if a man is destined to spend his time in hell, imitating a Buddha will not save him. And if a man is destined for Buddhahood, the kind of clothes he wears is irrelevant, and his activity, whatever that may be, is naturally and spontaneously pure. Wishing for a permanent home, or becoming fixated upon any single materialistic aim, deflects one from the Path because it strengthens the idea of "I" and "mine". In so far as monks are venerated, their potential for emotional attachment is to that extent greater than the layman's. Although it is usually true that in the first place the motivation for founding a monastery, the desire to establish a place where aspirants can meditate, is laudable, when the need for communal protection gives rise to contention within and friction without, what was originally a sacred fellowship becomes a den of thieves because everyone is overtaken by selfish motivation.'
The Scholars, impressed by this diatribe, approved of his words and thanked him.

From 'The Divine Madman'
The Sublime Life and Songs of Drukpa Kunley

....................Lama jang 'bod...........................
'Calling the lama from afar'

Spoken in natural spontaneity in the form of meaningless chatter by the unparalled Yogi of Dzogchen, Dudjom Rimpoche to his vajra
disciple Jigme Chhoying Norbu
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Translated by Drifting Yogi
(In Tsho Pema, August 2016)
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ངོ་བོ་གདོད་ནས་མི་འགྱུར་སྤྲོས་བྲལ་གྱི་གཤིས་ལུགས།།
The nature of perennial truth is devoid of action

ཀ་དག་གཏིང་གསལ་གཞོན་ནུའི་བུམ་སྐུ་རུ་བཞུགས་པ།
Depth of clear-space in the vase-like form of a child

ཆོས་སྐུའི་བླ་མ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་དེ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།།
I beseech you lama, the diamond-wisdom of dharmakaya

ལྟ་བའི་གདིང་ཆེན་ཐོབ་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རང་རློབས་ཤིག།།
Bless me, so I realise the depth of greatest 'view'

རང་བཞིན་མ་འགག་ཟུང་འཇུག་འོད་གསལ་གྱི་ཚོམ་བུ།།
The un-breaking nature of dual existence in union of clear light

ལྷུན་གྲུབ་ངེས་པ་ལྔ་ལྡན་རོལ་པ་རུ་བཞུགས་པ།།
Exists in the bliss of self-illumined display of five certainties

ལོང་སྐུའི་བླ་མ་བདེ་ཆེན་རྡོ་རྗེ་དེ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།།
I beseech you lama, embodiment of great bliss sambhogakaya

སྒོམ་པའི་རྩལ་ཆེན་རྫོགས་པར་བྱིན་གྱི་རང་རློབས་ཤིག།།
Bless me, so I perfect the skills of great meditation

ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཕྱོགས་ལྷུང་བྲལ་བ་མཐའ་གྲོལ་གྱི་ཡེ་ཤེས།།
Un-biased compassion is wisdom beyond duality

ཀུན་ཁྱབ་རིག་སྟོང་རྗེན་པའི་ངོ་བོ་རུ་བཞུགས་པ།།
Ever-present essence of rigpa in pervading space

སྤྲུལ་སྐུའི་བླ་མ་འགྲོ་འདུལ་གླིང་པ་དེ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།།
I beseech you lama, nirmanakaya tamer of beings

སྤྱོད་པའི་བོགས་ཆེན་འབྱོངས་པར་བྱིན་གྱི་རང་རློབས་ཤིག།།
Bless me, so I cultivate great skills on the path

རང་རིག་གདོད་མའི་གཤིས་ལ་འཕོ་འགྱུར་ན་མི་འདུག།
Of unwavering nature is the primordial self-awareness

གང་ཤར་ཆོས་སྐུའི་རྩལ་ལ་བཟང་ངན་ནི་མི་གདའ།།
Spontaneous arising darmakaya Is beyond good and bad

ད་ལྟའི་ཤེས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་མངོན་སུམ་དུ་འདུག་པས།།
Awareness of ‘now' is the very buddhahood in truth

གུ་ཡངས་བློ་བདེའི་བླ་མ་སྙིང་དབུས་ནས་རྙེད་འབྱུང།།
Benevolent lama i am appeased to find in the heart

སྙུག་མའི་སེམས་འདི་བླ་མའི་རང་བཞིན་དུ་རྟོག་ཚེ།།
When; innate awareness is found to be the nature of lama

འཛིན་ཞེན་གསོལ་འདེབས་གཅོས་མའི་སྡུག་ཡུས་ནི་མ་དགོས།།
Blind endeavour of grasping and letting go is no longer a need

མ་བཅོས་རིག་པ་རང་བབས་ཁ་ཡན་དུ་་ཀློད་པས།།
Being in the self-dwelling flow of pure awareness

གཏད་མེད་གང་ཤར་རང་གྲོལ་བྱིན་རླབས་དེ་ཐོབ་འབྱུང།།
I am blessed with the self-arising nature of liberation

བྱས་པའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སངས་རྒྱས་འགྲུབ་དུས་ནི་མི་གདའ།།
Contrived practices seldom lead to buddhahood

ཡིད་དཔྱོད་བློས་བྱས་སྒོམ་འདི་བསླུ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་དགྲ་རེད།།
Meditation induced by the mind is a deceitful enemy

ད་ནི་འཛིན་བསྟངས་ཞིག་པའི་དོན་མེད་ཀྱི་སྨྱོན་པ།།
Now devoid of grasping and letting-go is this useless madman

བྱུང་རྒྱལ་གཅེར་ཉལ་ངང་ལ་མི་ཚེ་སྐྱེལ་སྟོང།།
This naked human life flowing in idle sleep

གང་ལྟར་བྱས་ཀྱང་དགའོ་རྫོགས་ཆེན་གྱི་རྣལ་འབྱོར།།
Joyful, is the yogi of dzogchen in whatever he does

སུ་དང་གྲོགས་ཀྱང་སྐྱིདདོ་པད་འབྱུང་གི་བུ་་བརྒྱུད།།
Happy, is the son of Lotus-born with whoever he befriends

མགོན་ལ་འགྲན་ཟླ་མེད་དོ་གཏེར་ཆེན་གྱི་བླ་མ།།
Peerless is my refuge, the great terton lama

ཆོས་ལ་དོ་ཟླ་མེད་དོ་མཁའ་འགྲོའི་སྙིང་ཐིག།།
Peerless is his teaching, 'the heart of dakinis'

མོང་ཆེན་སྙིང་གི་མུན་པ་རང་མལ་དུ་སངས་ནས།།
Great clumsiness in my heart is self-liberated

འོད་གསལ་ཉི་མ་འགྲིབ་མེད་འཁོར་ཡུག་ཏུ་འཆར་བའི།།
Radiant clarity of the sun pervades day and night

སྐལ་བཟང་འདི་ཀོ་ཕ་གཅིག་བླ་མ་ཡི་སྐུ་་དྲིན།།
This great fortune is, the grace of my only father lama

དྲིན་ལན་འཁོར་མཐའ་མེད་དོ་བླ་མ་རང་དྲན་ནོ།།
Un-repayable is your kindness, lama i think of only you.

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~ (I seek forgiveness from the deities and realised beings for my seemingly broken translation. I did it only with what my deepest devotion could afford.)

*** May all beings realise the blessings of the Guru***

* Light a lamp to celebrate the light that came into our world as Gautama Buddha, the Enlightened One. November 15, 2022 — the 22nd day of the ninth lunar month — marks Lhabab Duchen, the day we celebrate Buddha’s “descent to earth from Heaven.”

* According to legend, the Buddha ascended the Trāyastriṃśa heaven temporarily at the age of 41, in order to teach meditation and benefit the gods in that desire realm, and to repay the kindness of his mother by liberating her from Samsara.

He was exhorted by his disciple and representative Maudgalyayana to return, and after a long debate and under a full moon agreed to return. He returned to earth a week later by a special triple ladder prepared by Viswakarma, the god of machines.

~ The rock inscribed image below, of Buddha descending from heaven is found in Nagarjuna Sagar museum in south india.

~ Zhiney meditation sessions happening continuously in some schools and the psychiatric unit of the national referral hospital, even though instructor Drifting Yogi is travelling outside country.

~ A pre-recorded meditation instruction is played on a speaker and the meditators simply sit silently following the guided meditation upto 45 minutes.

* Zhiney meditation develops intelligence in the students and heals mental afflictions.
*Its the ultimate path to discover 'Emptiness' the great truth of all phenomena.
* To clear doubts and clarifications, drifting yogi is available on messenger.

"May all beings discover 'truth' right under their nose!"

Poems by the great Patrul Rinpoché

Afflictions Are Wisdom
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the Skandhas Are Avalokitesvara

“Do not chase after the object of your hatred—
look at your angry mind.
The appearance of your anger, self-arising
and self-liberated, is luminous emptiness.
There is no luminous emptiness
separate from mirrorlike wisdom.
Right within hatred being self-liberated,
recite the six syllables.
ཨོྃ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ༔
Do not hold on to the object of your pride
look at your grasping mind.
Your fixation that you are supreme, self-arising and self-liberated, is primordially empty.
There is no primordial emptiness
separate from the wisdom of equality.
Right within pride being self-liberated,
recite the six syllables.
ཨོྃ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ༔
Do not cling to the object of your desire
look at your craving mind.
The appearance of your clinging, self-arising and self-liberated, is blissful emptiness.
There is no blissful emptiness separate
from the wisdom of equality.
Right within desire being self-liberated,
recite the six syllables.
ཨོྃ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ༔
Do not pursue the object of your envy
look at your assessing mind.
Your scanning and scrutinizing, self-arising
and self-liberated, are empty intelligence.
There is no empty intelligence separate
from the all accomplishing wisdom.
Right within envy being self-liberated,
recite the six syllables.
ཨོྃ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ༔
Do not get inflated by the object
of your ignorance—look at its own face.
Your hosts of thoughts, self-arising
and self-liberated, are awareness-emptiness.
There is no awareness-emptiness
separate from dharmadhatu wisdom.
Right within ignorance being self-liberated,
recite the six syllables.
ཨོྃ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ༔
The skandha of form is primordially empty,
unborn, the natural state of space.
The quintessential sphere of this awareness-emptiness is Avalokitesvara
It is not separate from
this noble “king of space.”
Right within beholding emptiness,
recite the six syllables.
ཨོྃ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ༔
Feeling is the lasso
that ties mind and object together.
When you realize nondual equality,
that is Avalokitesvara—
It is not separate
from this noble “fruitful lasso.”
Right within realizing equal taste,
recite the six syllables.
ཨོྃ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ༔
Discrimination—holding on to characteristics
is delusional mind.
If you hold all beings in your compassion,
that is Avalokitesvara
It is not separate from this noble
“one who dredges the depths of samsara.”
Right within nonreferential compassion,
recite the six syllables.
ཨོྃ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ༔
Formation—the karmas of samsara
keeps the six classes [of beings] circling.
When you realize the equality of samsara and nirvana,
that is Avalokitesvara—
It is not separate from this
“great compassionate one who guides beings.”
Right within the single flavor of benefiting others,
recite the six syllables.
ཨོྃ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ༔
Consciousness is the aspect of mind’s nature
that comes in eight collections.
When you realize mind as such as dharmakaya,
that is Avalokitesvara—
It is not separate from this noble
and supreme “ocean of victors.”
Knowing that your own mind is buddhahood,
recite the six syllables.
ཨོྃ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ༔ ཨོྃ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ༔ ཨོྃ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ༔ ཨོྃ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ༔ ཨོྃ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ༔ ཨོྃ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ༔.............
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-- Posted from Bir-North India, while watching the eclipsed full moon after receiving the nectars of wisdom from the most beloved Dzongsar Jamyang khentse Rimpoche.

8th november 2022.

* Day well spent with beautiful souls in happiness and correction centre phuntsholing while waiting for flight to Delhi.

***** May all find bliss through meditation as the only purpose of life.*****

25th september 2022.

*One more beautiful excerpt to support that meditation is the diamond path🙏🌻

*May all beings realize the magic of meditation*

Give children a taste of meditation, by creating a climate of joy, acceptance and silence.
Joining hands with GOKAB for the talented Bhutanese for the creative and contented future.

🍁May all children hear the word of meditation🍁

ལོ་ན་ནི་རྒས་ཤིང་ཁོག་པ།
སྤྱོད་པ་ནི་བྱིས་པའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ཅན།
སུའི་ཡང་ཁ་ལ་མི་ཉན་པ།
སྨྱོན་པ་གཅིག་ཀུན་བཟང་དབང་རྒྱལ་མཁྱེན་ནོ།།
Old and withered by age

childish play by action

One who dosen't listen to anyone

I suplicate, to the crazy Kunzang Wangyal.

--Translated by driftingyogi.

(May all beings grow old with ease....)

* Mr. C Yonten Yonten a psychiatric counsellor in JDWNRH trained in zhineyཞི་གནས།/Shamatha meditation by Drifting Yogi ,will conduct meditation classes every saturday in the psychiatric unit of national referral hospital Thimphu Bhutan.

* Zhiney ཞི་གནས། meditation is crucial to retain the basic sanity of being a human and progressively cultivate a sound and healthy mind for healthy society and high national security at large, through deep reconciliation of strong culture and wisdom attained from meditation.

MAY EVERY BEING HEAR THE WORD OF MEDITATION.

The Sūtra of the Wheel of Dharma.

Homage to the Omniscient One!

Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One, the Buddha, was residing in the Deer Park at Ṛṣivadana by Vārāṇasī. At that time the Blessed One spoke to the group of five monks:

“Monks, regarding things that I had not previously heard, as I reflected thoroughly, the vision arose, and the insight, knowledge, understanding, and realization arose: ‘This is suffering, the truth of noble beings.’

“Monks, regarding things that I had not previously heard, as I reflected thoroughly, the vision arose, and the insight, knowledge, understanding, and realization arose: ‘This is the origin of suffering, this is the cessation of suffering, and this is the path leading to the cessation of suffering.’

“Monks, regarding things that I had not previously heard, as I reflected thoroughly, the vision arose, and the insight, knowledge, understanding, and realization arose: ‘With higher knowledge I should comprehend suffering, that truth of noble beings.’

“Monks, regarding things that I had not previously heard, as I reflected thoroughly, the vision arose, and the insight, knowledge, understanding, and realization arose: ‘With higher knowledge I should relinquish the origin of suffering, that truth of noble beings.’

“Monks, regarding things that I had not previously heard, as I reflected thoroughly, the vision arose, and the insight, knowledge, understanding, and realization arose: ‘With higher knowledge I should actualize the cessation of suffering, that truth of noble beings.’

“Monks, regarding things that I had not previously heard, as I reflected thoroughly, the vision arose, and the insight, knowledge, understanding, and realization arose: ‘With higher knowledge I should cultivate the path leading to the cessation of suffering, that truth of noble beings.’

“Monks, regarding things that I had not previously heard, as I reflected thoroughly, the vision arose, and the insight, knowledge, understanding, and realization arose: ‘With higher knowledge I have comprehended suffering, that truth of noble beings.’

“Monks, regarding things that I had not previously heard, as I reflected thoroughly, the vision arose, and the insight, knowledge, understanding, and realization arose: ‘With higher knowledge I have relinquished the origin of suffering, that truth of noble beings.’

“Monks, regarding things that I had not previously heard, as I reflected thoroughly, the vision arose, and the insight, knowledge, understanding, and realization arose: ‘With higher knowledge I have actualized the cessation of suffering, that truth of noble beings.’

“Monks, regarding things that I had not previously heard, as I reflected thoroughly, the vision arose, and the insight, knowledge, understanding, and realization arose: ‘With higher knowledge I have cultivated the path leading to the cessation of suffering, that truth of noble beings.’

“Monks, until I had achieved the vision, insight, knowledge, understanding, and realization of these four truths of noble beings that are turned in three phases and comprise twelve aspects, I had not been freed from this world with its devas, from its living beings including māras and brahmās as well as mendicants and brahmins, from its gods and humans. I had not escaped from it, severed ties with it, or been delivered from it. Nor did I dwell extensively with a mind free from error. Monks, I did not have the knowledge that I had fully awakened to unsurpassed and perfect buddhahood.

“Monks, once I had achieved the vision, insight, knowledge, understanding, and realization of turning these four truths of noble beings in three phases with twelve aspects, I was freed from this world with its devas, from its living beings including māras and brahmās as well as mendicants and brahmins, from its gods and humans. I had escaped from it, severed ties with it, and been delivered from it. I dwelled extensively with a mind free from error. Monks, I then had the knowledge that I had fully awakened to unsurpassed and perfect buddhahood.”

When the Blessed One had given this Dharma discourse, venerable Kauṇḍinya, along with eighty thousand gods, achieved the Dharma vision that is free from dust and stainless with regard to phenomena.

The Blessed One now asked venerable Kauṇḍinya, “Kauṇḍinya, did you understand the Dharma?”

“Blessed One,” he replied, “I understood.”

“Kauṇḍinya, did you understand? Did you understand?”

“Blissful One,” he replied, “I understood. I understood.”

“Because venerable Kauṇḍinya has understood the Dharma, venerable Kauṇḍinya shall now be known as Ājñātakauṇḍinya.”

At that point the terrestrial yakṣas called out, “Venerable Kauṇḍinya has understood the Dharma!” And they continued, “Friends, in the Deer Park at Ṛṣivadana by Vārāṇasī, the Blessed One has turned the wheel of Dharma in three phases with twelve aspects. He has turned the wheel of Dharma in a way that no mendicant or brahmin, and no god, māra, or Brahmā in the world could ever do in accord with the Dharma. He has done so for the benefit of many beings, for the happiness of many beings, out of love for the world, and for the welfare, benefit, and happiness of gods and humans. Hence, the gods will flourish and the demigods will be on the wane.”

As the voices of the terrestrial yakṣas rang out‍—at that very moment, in that very instant, and at that very time‍—the news passed to the celestial yakṣas, as well as to the gods in the Heaven of the Four Great Kings, the Heaven of the Thirty-Three, the Heaven Free from Strife, the Heaven of Joy, the Heaven of Delighting in Emanations, the Heaven of Making Use of Others’ Emanations, and all the way to the Brahmā realm. Thus, also the gods in the Brahmā realm announced, “Friends, in the Deer Park at Ṛṣivadana by Vārāṇasī, the Blessed One has turned the wheel of Dharma in three phases with twelve aspects. He has turned the wheel of Dharma in a way that no mendicant or brahmin, and no god, māra, or Brahmā in the world could ever do in accord with the Dharma. He has done so for the benefit of many beings, for the happiness of many beings, out of love for the world, and for the welfare, benefit, and happiness of gods and humans. Hence, the gods will flourish and the demigods will be on the wane.”

In the Deer Park at Ṛṣivadana by Vārāṇasī, the Blessed One turned the wheel of Dharma in three phases with twelve aspects. Therefore, this Dharma teaching was named Turning the Wheel of Dharma.

This completes “The Sūtra of the Wheel