Mahamudra Teaching - Dharma Media

out!” We ask, “Lama, can you come to my shrine room and bless it?” Bringing blessing means asking
deities to come. We see things in that way on the outside. We have that duality.
Then, inside we also think we have deities and demons of the mind. When we experience a bit of
compassion, loving kindness, happiness, or peace, it is like a peaceful deity. We feel happy and
peaceful. And then, when along comes the anger, hatred, attachment, it is like a devil or demon. It
destroys our happiness and peace. So we have to recognize that. We have to see that.
One-Taste and Non-Meditation
In realization, we experience the nature of happiness as emptiness; we experience the nature of
suffering or hatred as emptiness. They are equalized. This morning I mentioned the four yogas of
Mahamudra, but we only covered the first two: the one-pointed nature and the free-from-elaboration
or unelaborated nature. I had not yet given instruction on one-taste and non-meditation. So it is when
you can meditate well, then both suffering and happiness are experienced as having the nature of
emptiness. They have one taste. Meditate on that. Not rejecting the suffering, not attaching to the
happiness. Whatever comes let it come. Just sustain the Mahamudra.
When that progresses or becomes enhanced, then it becomes effortless. Then there is no need to make
any effort. Then that is called “no more meditation.”
So when you have this kind of practice it is similar to the following: whether snow falls, it dissolves
in the ocean, whether hail falls, it dissolves into the ocean, whether rain falls, it just dissolves into the
ocean. It is all of just one nature. Even if you perceive that “ah, this is snow”, “ah, this is hail”, “ah,
this is rain”, yet they dissolve into the ocean. There is no separation. Or, in other words, in the
Mahamudra practice when any thought arises just see that Mahamudra nature. They are all equal.
When you have the fire of the Mahamudra, when you have any thoughts or if any complications of
the thoughts should arise, put them in the fire of the Mahamudra. It burns all. You throw clothes into
a fire and they burn. They become ashes. You throw trees or wood into a fire. They burn to ash. You
throw all your garbage in a fire and it burns and becomes ash. Even if you throw silk into a fire, it
burns. It becomes ash. When it becomes ash, there is no longer any difference. The silk is no longer
special and the garbage is longer revolting. They both have become ashes. So just meditate like that.
Therefore, when you meditate without grasping, without fixation, you free from the rope of fixation
and grasping. There is no bondage.
Otherwise, when we have things like hatred or resentment for somebody then we always have doubt.
“Oh, this person is thinking something bad about me, this person is doing something bad to me.”
Even if the person is not doing something like that, we have that kind of fear. That kind of doubt is
always there. And there is no peace of mind. Whether that person is actual doing something or not,
we always have that kind of thought. The suffering is there. So in Mahamudra, when you come to
Mahamudra practice, look at that nature. For example, if someone hurts you, we perceive that person
as an enemy. And when someone provokes you, then we regard this person as very provocative,
right? So for Mahamudra practice, the provocative is welcome! Through them you see the weakness
of your Mahamudra practice. You may say, “I know this, I understand this.” You just brag or boast
around here and there. Then when someone provokes you, your face is so wrenched up! You get so
upset. So right there is the chance to see. Remember your Mahamudra practice; see the illusory