*
Samantabhadra
*************
***************Vajrasattva
*

*
"...eventually we come to see that the beauty and wonder of Being is not a something that resides in someone else or even that it is a thing inside of us somewhere, but rather is the nature of everything and so is everywhere. From this perspective, we see that there is in fact nothing but Being--it is not something we need to acquire or, at a certain point, even connect with. The Journey, then, transforms into something else when there is no longer the sense of it as a movement from here to there and when we recognize and abide in the goodness and splendor of Being."

Sandra Maitri
*

*
Check out Don's new blog: Conscious Communities
*

*
A blog: Take a look at Meditation Air
*
And speaking of meditation:

So stay right here, you lucky people,
let go and be happy in the natural state.
Let your complicated life and everyday confusion alone
and out of quietude, doing nothing, watch the nature of mind.
This piece of advice is from the bottom of my heart:
fully engage in contemplation and understanding is born;
cherish non-attachment and delusion dissolves;
and forming no agenda at all reality dawns.
Whatever occurs, whatever it may be, that itself is the key,
and without stopping it or nourishing it, in an even flow,
freely resting, surrendering to ultimate contemplation,
in naked pristine purity we reach consummation.

Longchenpa
*

*

Is this True?
*

*
Kathleen and I are taking a little Valentine's vacation. Be back in about a week...
*

*
"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

Nathaniel Hawthorne
*

*
the Buddha spoke of himself as the Tathagata, the "Thus Come/Thus Gone One." In other words, he was able to operate both in the realm of conventional reality in order to teach and impart liberation as the "one who comes from the realm of Truth" and in the realm of freedom from the fixed, independent and finite self as the "one who goes to the realm of Truth." The Tathagata, therefore, did not think of himself in terms of existence or non-existence, both, neither, or any other form of classification. Again and again, he pointed his disciples back to his pragmatic teachings concerning suffering and the end of suffering and away from idle speculation as to the nature of his existence...
*

*
Feeling deep yearning to know the essential nature, he requested the meaning of the realized state from Princess Gomadevi who then bestowed it in full and condensed the meaning for him in song:

To yearn for freedom and the levels delays enlightenment.
To yearn for gaining happiness is deeply painful.
To yearn for reaching nonthought is itself a thought.
Gain this insight and remain devoid of seeking.

from Realization Songs of Awakened Mind
*

*
You should not assume you have a mind; then there is no need to pacify it.
That is called pacifying the mind.

from The Ceasing of Notions
*

*
Nobody is perfect.
I am nobody.
*

*
You know you are. How do you know it? And with what did you know it? This is the sum total of my teaching needed to put you on the right track, its very quintessence.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
*

*
A sign of real progress:
I actually forgot to post anything here yesterday...
*

*
Forget the words. Just rest.

(Click here)
*

*
Thus, phenomena are equally existent, equally nonexistent,
equally apparent, equally empty, equally true, and equally false,
so cast aside all antidotes that involve renunciation,
all concerted effort, all binding fixation.

Longchenpa
*

*
Intangible and without parallel, timeless awareness is
the actuality of everything.

The Great Garuda
*