Meditations of a Yogi

"Once you recognize that Buddha nature is inherent in you to the point where you actually believe that; inherent, already present, the sense of relief is overwhelming. That's how you can know if you've got this. A feeling of relief and joy, and that you don't have to keep scrambling; trying to get something that always seems to be a step ahead of you. You can relax, it's right there. Relax again and again.

'Mind-mind seeing'. Without trying to figure out whether you are one or many, whether we are all one or many, simply follow your own thoughts home. And that; the not finding; the finding of the not finding; ineffable open awareness where all thoughts come and go, arise and vanish; without ever leaving or becoming.

Relax. There is nothing to stabilise because it is never going away. Your distraction by the minutiae of daily life and your emotions, is just a surface layer that will fall away the more you notice. So find your mind; the thinker of the thoughts, the feeler of the feelings, the perceiver of the perceptions; and relax. Don't try to keep it, don't try to push everything away. It's a subtle change of focus from focusing on the minutiae of this's, and that's, and the other thing, and the letters in the book you are reading, and the video game, and the "what do I have here?" That's your minutiae of daily life that you obsess with all the time."

From Lama Lena's teachings on "The Flight Of The Garuda."

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"Once you recognize that Buddha nature is inherent in you to the point where you actually believe that; inherent, already present, the sense of relief is overwhelming. That's how you can know if you've got this. A feeling of relief and joy, and that you don't have to keep scrambling; trying to get something that always seems to be a step ahead of you. You can relax, it's right there. Relax again and again.

'Mind-mind seeing'. Without trying to figure out whether you are one or many, whether we are all one or many, simply follow your own thoughts home. And that; the not finding; the finding of the not finding; ineffable open awareness where all thoughts come and go, arise and vanish; without ever leaving or becoming.

Relax. There is nothing to stabilise because it is never going away. Your distraction by the minutiae of daily life and your emotions, is just a surface layer that will fall away the more you notice. So find your mind; the thinker of the thoughts, the feeler of the feelings, the perceiver of the perceptions; and relax. Don't try to keep it, don't try to push everything away. It's a subtle change of focus from focusing on the minutiae of this's, and that's, and the other thing, and the letters in the book you are reading, and the video game, and the "what do I have here?" That's your minutiae of daily life that you obsess with all the time."

From Lama Lena's teachings on "The Flight Of The Garuda."

BY Meditations of a Yogi