C T

Unbeing will be A bee that finds a flower... On contact, bee-less

“I think for me, what it really comes down to is the realization that hell,” he paused for a moment, letting the full weight of the word fill the room, “hell is taking everything personally. And I know this is true because I used to take everything personally, and it     was hell." ~ Devendra Banhart, interviewed on Tricycle

There may be evil with evil agendas that reside way beyond the realms of all known human machinations, politics included.

"Dont worry about practicing to heal accumulated karma from the past; Practice instead to not create present negative karma so that future negative karma will not have ground to root. Doing this will also help heal past karma simultaneously. To begin practice in this way, one must first establish a refuge tree, or field of merit. This is important because it provides (1) shelter from the storm, and (2), an organic inner sanctum which, in times of need, can be accessed through proper visualizations. Within this safe space, the 3 Jewels are the primary support, followed by lineage blessings, dharma protectors, healing sutras & mantras, incense, nectar, divine music, pure visions of mahabodhisattvas, yidams, khandros, buddhas, and so on."

~ TRALEG KYABGON RINPOCHE ~ If we are honest with ourselves, we know from our own experience that the more we try to find solutions to our problems through thinking about them, the more we start going around in circles, sometimes interminably. Buddhism counsels us to resist being abused by our conflicting emotions and to let go of excessive thinking. Emotions can be expressed in an unhealthy, self-destructive manner or in a healthy and constructive fashion. Similarly, we can think in a self-destructive, confused way, which reinforces our negative habits, or we can think in a constructive way. Buddhism emphasizes that overindulgence in conflicting emotions and distorted forms of thinking only reinforces our old habits, which solidifies our karmic tendencies even further. (from Mind at Ease: Self Liberation through Mahamudra Meditation)

Not sure how you arrived at that time frame, but according to the light research I'd done, it should be made available much sooner than that. The 'haves' will make sure of that. They'd be worried about dirty pools and unkempt lawns. Not to mention being forced to face the reality of a whole other list of their own vulnerabilities. God forbid, they might even have to cook their own meals. Not exactly a bad thing.

External environment may lend a bit of support in your endeavour. Idk... maybe 5%, give or take. However, most of the work needs to originate and done from within, thereafter to be carefully tended, much like a gardener tending to a plot. In the wish for a good harvest, a gardener does not go sit endlessly amidst a bountiful plot in a neighbouring valley and wait for results, although he should visit now and then, to draw inspiration, reflect, learn, intimate, and dream.

From the website of Pharmaceutical Technology: "According to China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, Favilavir is one of the three drugs that showed encouraging profile for blocking the new coronavirus in early clinical trials. The remaining two drugs are anti-malaria drug chloroquine and Gilead’s experimental drug remdesivir."

3 of my former classmates are airline captains, and we have chatted about the subject of cabin ventilation. All the info they offered correlates with this article: https://www.askthepilot.com/questionanswers/cabin-air-quality/

For want of a name, it may be called The Great Leveller. When man becomes reckless, surely at some point a kind of Nature's audit takes place. It'd be naive to assume only man desires survival.

This 2014 gem from Goldisheavy - "Reality doesn't play itself. You play it. You're a player. If you stop all your playing, reality will stop playing too because without your input it has nothing to do of itself and for itself" - reminds me of Ryokan's poem, "Look Deeper"... You stop to point at the moon in the sky, but the finger's blind unless the moon is shining. One moon, one careless finger pointing - are these two things or one? The question is a pointer guiding a novice from ignorance thick as fog. Look deeper. The mystery calls and calls: No moon, no finger - nothing there at all. GiH... you are missed deeply. I pray that you are safe & well. _/\_

Been listening regularly to this the past couple of months. Not sure why though. Seems like some sort of corona virus premonition.

~ DZONGSAR JAMYANG KHYENTSE RINPOCHE ~ The quintessential teaching of the Buddha — the nature of mind — is difficult to understand, not because it is complicated but because of its unbearably naked quality. One common method for deciphering the truth is through commentaries, analysis, arguments, and research. But the more we try to decipher this simplicity through academic studies and intellectual analysis, the more we get sidetracked, deterred, or worse, we end up constructing very convincing concepts that we mistake for the simplicity itself. Therefore, one must work hard to accumulate merit. Accumulating merit is the one and only way to cultivate trust in simplicity. But many of us have to first convince ourselves that accumulation of merit works. What constitutes merit accumulation, and why is it essential on the path - Tsoknyi Rinpoche https://tsoknyirinpoche.org/2579/accumulation-of-merit-preparing-the-heart-for-bodhicitta/

How wonderful it is, this free and spacious no-thing-ness called mind. Free of worry, and free from hope and fear.

few and far between wind-blown early autumn leaves mild winter beckons....

~ Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche ~ What is meant by dependent origination? It means that nothing within inner and outer phenomena has arisen without a cause. Neither have they originated from what is not their causes - that is, non-causes such as a permanent creator, in the form of a self, time, or the Almighty. The fact that phenomena arise based on the interdependence of their respective causes and conditions coming together is called dependent origination. To proclaim this is the unique approach of the Buddha's teaching. In this way, the arising of all inner and outer phenomena require that their respective causes and conditions come together in the appropriate manner. When these factors are incomplete, phenomena do not arise, while when complete, they will definitely arise. That is the nature of dependent origination. Thus, dependent origination ranks as an essential and profound teaching among the treasuries of the Buddha's words. The one who perceives dependent origination with the eyes of discriminating knowledge will come to see the qualities that have the nature of the eightfold noble path, and with the wisdom gaze that comprehends all object of knowledge will perceive the dharmakaya of Buddhahood. Thus it has been taught.

to the OP: You seem quite self-assured about the path you've chosen, so all the best. In addition to the pitfalls wisely pointed out by others here, I'd just like to add something that you may want to consider as a pointer to keep in mind: Dreams don't lie. Take note of them, for the frequencies of patterns and particular types of dreams show to you whether your practice is progressive, stagnant, or in decline. Rather than offering more of the same kinds of advice, as so much seems being snubbed, all I'd like to remind is to just "listen" to your own dreams. For eg., if practice is leading you in the right direction, you could have dreams of forgiving enemies, healing damaged relationships, visiting god realms filled with blissful sounds, colours and lights, and so on. If stagnant, usually its dreams of routine stuff like eating breakfast, having a shower etc., and if in decline, there'd be dreams that usually revolve around fearful events, having sex with demons, being suffocated in a black box, stuck in a maze, consuming poison and so on. So whichever kind is dominant will reveal much about the general state of your practice.

~ Paramito Ladakh ~ While it cannot be located, in either the material or immaterial realms, it can nevertheless be known, by mere fact that it is knowing itself, which is beyond the conceptual framework of time and space.

They could have written thus, "From the voidness of the Mysterious Female emanates an eternal spirit that is inexhaustible."

Interesting that the term 'Valley Spirit' needs further explication. Do you know the reason for this?

Hi Steve I assure you none of whats been shared here can be classified as "restricted". As one of my teachers said, the only texts that are restricted are those passed directly from teacher to student with specific instructions not to expose said texts, either because they have been 'sealed' for private practice undertaken by said student, or because traditionally there's no precedent for exposing certain texts openly, bar those who have received specific empowerments to engage with sadhanas commensurate with those texts.

It does bear some semblance, doesn't it?

~ Dudjom Rinpoche ~ The Nature of Mind No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it worse Nirvana does not make it better It has never been born It has never ceased It has never been liberated It has never been deluded It has never existed It has never been nonexistent It has no limits at all It does not fall into any kind of category.

~ Longchenpa ~ Pure mind is like the empty sky, Without memory, supreme meditation; It is our own nature, unstirring, uncontrived, And wherever that abides is the superior mind, One in buddhahood without any sign, One in view free of limiting elaboration, One in meditation free of limiting ideation, One in conduct free of limiting endeavour, And one in fruition free of limiting attainment. Vast! spacious! Released as it stands! With neither realization nor non-realization; Experience consummate! No mind! It is open to infinity.

One way to suspend discursive mind is to learn how to wilfully generate states of inner bliss. Thats the mental equivalent of a full body orgasmic peak experience.