The Fullness of Human Experience by Dane Rudyhar 1895- 1985

“In the immeasurable cycle of the Movement of Wholeness, a moment of supreme experience comes when, at the ever-present "meeting of the ways," the greatest Lord of Darkness challenges the most radiant Presence of Light. From the deepest regions of obscurity, the python of negative emptiness rises to the light, uncoiling its devastating power. And the combat rages.

There can be no end to the crucial embrace, no limits to the battlefield. For, while in his supreme effort the Lord of Darkness finds his vision confused by his hateful desire to annihilate light, in the sublime love of the radiant Presence, even the deepest darkness is always included.

There is no annihilating victory. Light and Darkness are one in an encounter that has neither beginning nor end. For Darkness can never see, and Light never ceases to love. Meaning forever rises out of the ubiquitous battlefield of Space in the eonic experience that is reality — always.”

DANE RUDHYAR 1895 - 1985
The Epilogue: The Fullness of Human Experience 1986 Quest Books




Saturday, June 30, 2012

Advice on Abandoning the Eight Worldly Concerns

MAITREYA THE FUTURE BUDDHA 



Advice on Abandoning the Eight Worldly Concerns
OCTOBER 19 2013 
by Nyala Pema Dündul

A ho! Listen well, all you fortunate, supreme disciples of
excellent karma! 

Gain and loss, happiness and unhappiness,
Fame and insignificance, praise and blame—
These are what we call “the eight worldly concerns.”

Those who cling to the duality of good and bad, and
pleasure and frustration,
Can not even be called practitioners of non-dual self-liberation!

They are bound by the chains of attachment to the
eight worldly concerns.

Whatever happens, whether it appears good or bad,
pleasurable or painful,
Recognize it to be just like the ten similes of illusion!

And, in a state of perfection, transcending the ordinary mind,
and beyond words, thought and description,
Rest in the expanse of the view, beyond the limitations of
hope and fear!



This advice on abandoning the eight worldly concerns,
Was put together by the old beggar called Padma,
For a group of students who had requested it repeatedly.

Through this, may my followers, yogis intent upon enlightenment,
Be free from even so much as a single thought
That is deceived by the mara of the eight worldly concerns!
Translated by Gyurme Avertin and Adam Pearcey, Rigpa Translations, 2013

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I, Kyungpo Naljor,
Feel deep and intense fear
Toward life’s unbearable sufferings
Such an endless wheel of life
Entails immeasurable suffering in life and death
And inconceivable anguish in the miserable realms
I’m not afraid of death
I’m afraid of rebirth !

Khyungpo Naljor (990-1139) Tibet
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His Guru Preceptor: Indian Female Buddha NIGUMA

"When the ocean of samsara is turned over, when all attachment and ego-clinging are totally uprooted, then every place and every thing is covered with gold, forming a golden field of non-attachment. The actual nature of samsara, this phenomenal world, is like a play of dreams and illusion. When you have realized experientially that the play of the phenomenal world is nothing but a dream, or is like the illusion created by some magician, then you have gone beyond the ocean of samsara."