Here we are continuing with Padma’s, The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation. It is a book that calls out the experience of your own Mind. If you go into a book store and look in the spiritual book section you will find hundreds of books with millions of pages. But you will find very little on the secret nature of your Mind.
And yet if you could see your Mind for what it really is, you will have found the essence of every spiritual tradition. You will not know this essence as an intellectual study in a comparative religion class. Rather you will know this by your own direct and immediate experience.
These verses point to the most valuable thing in the universe
Hidden in the piles of books is this one book, The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation that points directly to the essence of all religions. Hardly anybody knows about these teachings, but when they find them and begin to experience the place that they point to, they are amazed by how simple and direct spirituality really is. These verses are saying, “Don’t overlook these verses; they point to the most valuable thing in the universe.”
Here are a few words that will make these verses clearer:
The Three Times are past, present, and future.
‘The Door of the Dharma’, is the place of entry into your direct experience of The Nature of Mind. For some people the word Dharma is confusing. That’s because in Hinduism the word dharma means your purpose in life or profession, which is based on the profession of your parents. In Buddhism however, Dharma still means your purpose in life, but the Buddhist feel that your purpose is to wake up to the truth of your own existence by finding the nature of your own Mind. So that’s why they spell Dharma with a capital ‘D’.
The Conquerors are the ones who conquered limitation and woke up to the nature of their own Mind. With this introduction, let’s get onto the next verses in Padma’s The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation.
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Step by step, Making Your Wisdom Come Alive points you to the source
of
timeless Wisdom, the place of enlightenment; this is Bliss that does
not depend on what you do or what you think; it is your natural freedom.
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http://www.light-up-your-life.com/wisdom.html
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These teachings are for the purpose of enabling one to know this Mind.
All that has been taught heretofore by the Buddhas of the Three Times, in virtue of Their having known this Mind, as recorded in ‘The Door of the Dharma’, consisting of the Eighty-Four Thousand Verses, and elsewhere, remains incomprehensible.
The Conquerors have not elsewhere taught anything concerning the One Mind.
Although as vast as the illimitable sky, the Sacred Scriptures contain but a few words relating to knowledge of the Mind.
This, the true explanation of these eternal teachings of the Conquerors, constitutes the correct method of their practical application.
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
By Padma-Sambhava
Translated by Evans-Wentz
Oxford University Press
Beyond old age, disease, and death
Did you know that in this lifetime you can discover something so vast that it has no birth and no death; that is not affected by old age and disease; that it swallows you up as a limited thing and leaves you as you really are, the reality behind the whole universe, The One Mind?
If you carefully read and reflect on the verses that follow in the next blogs, you will have the opportunity to find that which was always hidden right inside of you. You will not find another mental state. Rather you will find your natural state which, while supporting all mental states, is free of them all. You find this by looking to the essence of your thoughts. So stay tuned until next week.
Feel free to ask questions
Please
feel free to continue asking questions. I’m always glad to hear your
reactions and clarify my answers. Unlike the path of faith, on the path
of Self-Knowledge it is curiosity that destroys limitation and allows
you to abide in your natural freedom.
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Michael Gluckman
