Mahamudra Teaching - Dharma Media

Do this meditation for perhaps one hour. First visualize Milarepa or the other great teachers, and
supplicate them, ask for their support and receive their blessings. Let them dissolve into you.
Meditate in Mahamudra, mixing, unifying your mind with this enlightened teacher, and experience
this and just relax there. And then, at the end of the meditation, do the dedication. So do these
practices, one hour, or half-an hour, or two hours, whatever time you have.
No matter how powerful the waves may be, still water is part of the ocean. Likewise, no matter how
powerful thoughts may be, they are still part of the mind. Without pushing or chasing thoughts, see
that nature. It is just like seeing that the waves are of the nature of the ocean. A wave is no other than
the ocean, the ocean no other than the wave. The wave arises from the ocean and dissolves into the
ocean. So, in the unchanging nature of the mind, within that clarity state, whatever different type of
thought arises, don’t separate these two, this inseparable nature. Just relax in that.
In the Hevajra Tantra it is said, “When you don’t realize the nature of thought, when you don’t know
thought, that thought becomes very independent and powerful, and is called samsara. When you
realize the nature of the thought, without any pushing or chasing and see its self-nature directly, that
is called nirvana.” So therefore there is no nirvana, which exists separately from samsara.
So in this context, realizing the conceptual thought as the Dharmakaya, as noted earlier, when we
recognize the thought as soon as the thought arises, and see that nature as emptiness and that it is no
different from the mind, that is called liberation. It is liberated. It has no power. Thought no longer
creates karma. On the other hand, when thought arises and you just follow into it and habitualize the
thought and the following, the seeds of the habitual tendencies are planted so deeply, and that is
called creating karma. That is called samsara. So this one thought, when you realize its nature, then
there is nirvana, and it is liberated. And that very thought, when it is not liberated and not seen by
Mahamudra, and we just follow that thought into duality, with attachment and hatred, it creates all
the karma and becomes samsara.
Mindfulness and Meditation Sessions
I would like to emphasize that when you meditate, practice mindfulness and awareness, and stay
with that. It becomes easier, and easier, and easier to do this kind of practice. So do those kinds of
sessions. For example, bring mindfulness, first, say, three or four times during a meditation session.
Doing a meditation session is the method by which to bring mindfulness repeatedly. Sometimes you
can write notes to yourself and place them in the rooms of your home, “mindfulness,”
“mindfulness,” you know, to remind yourself. You can write a piece of paper that says
“mindfulness” and put it in the bathroom. Like that!
Sometime some yogis had long hair on their head, they put something special there and then when it
shows up in front of their eyes, they remember “this is for mindfulness.” First design practice like
that. As soon as it comes in sight, “Oh, now comes back the mindfulness!” Or you could make a
difficult step to your door, instead of making it so comfortable. “When I come to this, I just bring my
mindfulness there. I designed this in the first place for reminding me like that.” So refreshing
mindfulness is very, very important.
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