MAHASIDDHAS, MAHAMUDRA & DZOGCHEN 👹

Hell is Dharmakaya "Even the suffering of beings in hell is secret Wisdom. For the wise, there is no suffering, no hell. For the wise, hell is Dharmakaya." "Even those sentient beings who experience the obscurity and dullness of the animal realm are the light of self-aware Wisdom where there is no obscuration. It is manifestly clear, in the light of Wisdom, that obscurity is itself Wisdom." "It is said that the gods fall from their magnificence and suffer. But they only fall into the All Good, the Dharmakaya. Within the All-Good, there is no place to fall." "In the light of secret Wisdom, misery and suffering cause joy and suffering." Gospel of Garab Dorje

The PBD makes this very clear: "The essential Dharmakaya of awareness, or what is called "self-arising wisdom" (rang-rig ye-shes), is, from the essence of self-awareness, the Dharmakaya without samsara and without nirvana; without the Base (gzhi), without the path, without the result; without vehicles and without individuals; without any Dharma or non-Dharma whatever; without the cause and result of samsara; without any cause, which is taught to be the two ignorances and such things as the four conditions, whatever; without the result which is attraction, aversion, ignorance, pride, and jealousy; without defilements such as the five poisons; without the six classes of samsara's sentient beings; also without the five external elements, i.e. without earth, without water, without fire and wind; even the pure sky is mere designation. Thus there is no vessel [of the world] or contents [of sentient beings] whatever. Samsara is merely designated through delusion. There is no samsara and no nirvana. Buddha (sangs-rgyas) is designated through realization, but in the essence of meaning, the Dharmakaya, there is no removing (sangs) and no increasing (rgyas). There is no defeat (bcom), no possessing (ldan), no transcendence ('das), [and hence no Blessed One (bcom-ldan-'das)]. There is no purity, no accomplishment, no being. There is no Thus (de-bzhin), no Gone One (gshegs-pa). There is no Arahat who has removed the defilements. There is no abandoning to be abandoned, or attaining to be attained. There is not even an atom of the name that is called "Buddha." There is not the path he preaches or the vehicles. There are no nine vehicles, cause and result, outer and inner. There is no path of means and path of liberation. There is no gradual [enlightenment], nor instantaneous [enlightenment]. There is no meditation and non-meditation, practice and non-practice. There is no god, mandala, meditative absorption, expansion or contraction. In the very pure view of self-aware wisdom there is no Buddha, so even the name of a Buddha does not exist. There are no sentient beings, so there are no realms or elements. Our own spirits are pure, like the body of a crystal, so the purity of pristine filthlessness is the Dharmakaya. Earth, water, fire, wind, and sky do appear, and to the intellects that do not understand them they certainly do appear to be demarcated, but there is no true nature to their appearance. They shine in the radiance of wisdom. We are free from the two extremes of karma and compassion (las-dang snying-rje'i mtha'-gnyis-las grol). Our earth and our personal stories are far from supreme enlightenment. There is nowhere to travel to. Reality is supreme enlightenment. If we believe in traveling, our wisdom will be far away. There is no existence, non-existence, appearance, empty, single, plural, permanence, cessation, like, dislike, fame, infamy, finding, not finding, accomplishment, non-accomplishment, removing, non-removing, expanding, non-expanding, action, non-action, and so on whatever."

"The practice which is without recollection must not be contrived as the way of yoga. It acts like a mad elephant. Yoga acts in what is bliss, without desire for a single thing, just as a bee relishes a flower." ~ PBD

"The Auditors, Pratyekabuddhas, Bodhisattvas, the three classes of Kriya, Upa and Yoga [Tantras], and both generation [the Mahayoga,] and perfection [the Anuyoga] grasp the truth from a single direction. They are the eight views which go together with astrological divination. The mind holds to dualistic extremes. They do not speak of the wisdom of self-awareness. Thus, they are perverted, for they fail and err in the meaning. They are views which hold to an attitude of attached posturing." ~ PBD

"Therefore the approaches,---ranging from those who are content with listening and preaching to those who practice the supreme method of transformation---are merely a means for approaching the gateway to self-refreshing awareness, the pure fact of being aware. Aside from that they do not, in fact, thoroughly comprehend that Awareness because they do not transcend the fundamental pitfalls and obstacles." "Oh listen Great Beings The three revolutions announced by the three teachers Of the three times have pitfalls and obstacles. You may wonder how that could be? The six approaches which lead to definite attainments Are pitfalls to the state of total completeness." "Even though you may familiarize yourself with the point of the lower approaches in this life, you will not see the reality of that which fashions everything, the pure fact of awareness, which those approaches contradict." Longchenpa

Longchenpa, the Jeweled Ship An excerpt from the text: "The state of pure and total presence is the clear light, the pure fact of awareness, non-conceptual ever-fresh awareness; whereas mind is the motivating factor of samsara: pervasive conceptualization. As "The Two Truths" says: Mind and mental events are concepts, mere postulations within the three realms of samsara. Whenever the state of pure and total presence is recognized, mind and mental events cease. Mind is objectification; pure and total presence does not objectify. Therefore, even the subject who is held to be mental is also seen to be the originally pure state of being."

Chogyam Trungpa wrote: "In daily life we don’t have to try to create the experience of letting go, of being free, or anything like that at all. We can just acknowledge the freedom that is already there. Just by the memory or the idea of it, there is a quick glimpse. A sudden glimpse. That sudden glimpse of awareness that occurs in everyday life becomes the act of compassion. It is just a quick glimpse, which goes on always, a sense of experience without time to label anything, without time to feel good or bad or compassionate or empty or whatever. Just that happens constantly. We could create that situation right now, at this very moment—a quick glimpse—just to see that there is awareness that is not watched or confirmed. Just awareness. A quick glimpse."

From the Dzogchen “Precious Heap Tantra”: the 12 Great Vajra Laughs: 1. “The view depends on self-originating primordial wisdom and is beyond virtue and non-virtue, view and meditation, amazing, the basis is never disturbed no matter what actions the body may take, free from virtue and misdeeds, benefit and harm, ha ha!” 2. “Look at the way things are, and without changing the pelt or color of these appearances, amazing, no matter what happiness or suffering there is, there is no change in the ultimate, ha ha!” 3. “Look at the primordial wisdom of all-pervading great emptiness and the diverse activities of thoughts arose as play, amazing, no matter what is done, it is liberated as non-arising in the ceaseless expanse, ha ha!” 4. “Look at the primordial wisdom of the all-pervading dharmakaya, and abiding innately as primordially non-arising, amazing, although a living being was executed from weapons at one time, the mind stream is free from benefit and harm, ha ha!” 5. “Look at the primordial wisdom of all appearances being empty awareness, and whatever appears arising as one’s companion, amazing, whatever appears never moves from one’s own basis, ha ha!” 6. “Look at the vision of completely liberated empty awareness, conceit as its own antidote is amazing, the afflictions are naturally self-liberated, ha ha!” 7. “Look at the completely pure essence of primordially empty awareness, and acquiring the result without any effort, amazing, by seizing one, all samsara and nirvana are pure in non-duality, ha ha!” 8. “Look at the natural essence of the all basis of the empty essence and the six destinies appearing as the three kayas, amazing, sentient beings are Buddhas all at once without even an atom of meditation, ha ha!” 9. “Look at the primordially complete result of the empty three kayas and the ultimate reality never united or divided from the three times, amazing, the two accumulations are completed at one time without engaging in the six perfections, ha ha!” 10. “Look at uniform primordial wisdom resting directly in awareness, and all agents and actions arising as ornament, amazing, everything to give up or accept is liberated by the view, ha ha!” 11. “Look at the great emptiness empty of emptiness, and all buddhas remaining in an abyss, amazing, samsara is not purified by an agent meditating, ha ha!” 12. “Look at empty things’ non-emptiness and the vehicles perceiving a self in the non-existent, amazing, attaining the non-arising by the arisen ha ha!”

"Freedom Attends Reality" — Longchenpa, freedom attends reality: free at the core, any effort is wasted; timelessly free, no release is needed; free in itself, no corrective is possible; directly free, released in seeing; completely free, pure in nature; constantly free, familiarization is redundant; and naturally free, freedom cannot be contrived. yet 'freedom' is just a verbal convention, and who is 'realized' and who is not? how could anyone be 'liberated'? how could anyone be lost in samsara? reality is free of all delimitation! freedom is timeless, so constantly present; freedom is natural, so unconditional; freedom is direct, so pure vision obtains; freedom is unbounded, so no identity possible; freedom is unitary, so multiplicity is consumed. conduct changes nothing — our lives are already free! meditation achieves nothing — our minds are already free! the view realizes nothing — all dogma is freedom! fruition demands nothing — we are free as we are!

The present volume offers a dozen studies of manuscripts of the Tibetan Bon and Naxi Dongba traditions across time and space.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche wrote regarding Dzogchen recognition of Rigpa: "Without any in or any out - utter openness. How is it that ‘openness’? It’s empty, awake, luminous and simple. Here we have mainly been talking about the wisdom technique and not about the two accumulations, the five practices of a Bodhisattva, generosity, meditation etc. The way to do this is just to turn your attention slightly inward, not to look deeply inside, just to turn your focus from outward to inward in a very light way. The moment of recognizing this state is the blessings of the lineage. Sogyal Rinpoche says: “Don’t stay too close and don’t stay too far”. Don’t try to look into it or to meditate ‘upon’ it, just leave it as it is." Remain natural without doing anything that is the practice of non-meditation. Remain immovable like a mountain, let all your senses be open completely, but without any focusing or grasping. When you allow things to happen naturally with compassion and devotion, then all the good states of clarity, bliss and emptiness will come by themselves. So the practice is many small glimpses of recognition until it all kind of opens up or falls apart. Let your practice be ‘juicy' and be happy without a reason."

"In the Natural State, everything is already present in its full potential; nothing is lacking, and there is nothing more to add or acquire. There is no separate 'side of the practitioner' that requires gradual steps, contrived rules, or staged practices. Dzogchen, in its own terms, has no rules; it is open to everything. Unbound by dualistic morality and free of all convention, the adept may act like a mad elephant, entirely unchained from the anxieties of what one 'should' or 'should not' do. In the Natural State itself, there are absolutely no restrictions or limitations. All appearances are manifestations of mind (sems kyi snang-ba), like reflections seen in a mirror, possessing no inherent negativity or impurity. Everything is perfectly complete just as it is, arising as the unbounded energy (rtsal) of the Nature of Mind in manifestation. It is like white and black clouds passing overhead in the vast sky; they do not truly obscure the sun, for they are nothing but the sky's own display. As they arise and self-liberate, no traces are left behind."