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Old 11-05-2019, 07:14 AM
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Old 11-05-2019, 06:14 PM
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Mahamudra
the 6 practices
don’t recall, don’t imagine, don’t think, don’t examine, don’t control, rest.
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Old 12-05-2019, 04:38 PM
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Did you relate to it?

Did you hear ImthatIm ……(((did you hear)))……… the flute with those deep, dark tones on the background and the occasional drum beat like a thunder-echo?

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(Ours is a mixture of indigenous European and Siberian Shamanism):
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/11...3323473877.jpg

Here is a video that I relate to.(10:12 min. long)
It describes much of my path. It brings tears of joy to my eyes and rushes of energies to my bones.
There is no narration so I had to read out load to narrate to myself, so I may have been hearing my own heart.But it was good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUv9URaeTzw
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Old 12-05-2019, 10:14 PM
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Using your device ….
https://www.leunig.com.au/images/gal...ons/device.jpg

Sky gazing:
https://www.thewayofmeditation.com.a...of-sky-gazing/

Not enough sky gazing:
https://www.noteworthy-collectibles....0-1500x700.JPG

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Old 14-05-2019, 02:31 PM
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Love sky meditation.
Day or night. It always expands the consciousness.
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Old 20-05-2019, 02:28 PM
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I have actually had an empowerment on Mahamudra.

If anyone is interested in the teachings I am more than willing to share.
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Old 20-05-2019, 10:17 PM
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https://garchen.net/annual-events/

http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/sh...d.php?t=128910

Follow teachers, authentic.
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Old 21-05-2019, 01:16 PM
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The Garchen Center is a little far north from Phoenix.

Here is one that I go to and much closer to the metroplex.

http://emahofoundation.org/index.phphttp:

This is also where I had the Mahamudra empowerment.
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Old 21-05-2019, 09:42 PM
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The Garchen Center is a little far north from Phoenix.

Here is one that I go to and much closer to the metroplex.

http://emahofoundation.org/index.phphttp:

This is also where I had the Mahamudra empowerment.
Do you mean empowerment to practice Ngöndro?

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Old 22-05-2019, 01:21 PM
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Do you mean empowerment to practice Ngöndro?

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No, it was a meditation practice.

If you watch this video.

https://youtu.be/8OEjEeki_Ms

The Rinpoche takes one through stages in his meditation. Same stages for mindfulness except at the end where in the Bodhicitta meditation you imagine a light. He stops at resting in awareness.

So, you relax your body, breath, mindfulness and then rest in awareness.

Now his big teaching was be like the sky. The Tibetans like to use that term but what does it mean?

If you think about the big blue sky, does it care what comes and goes? Does it focus on the plane, on the clouds, on the birds flying around?

No it doesn't.

When one gets to the stage of mindfulness they have developed a level of silence to be able to observe their thoughts.

When one is resting in awareness one tends to do the same thing. You feel, see.. a thought and you focus on it.

That is the mind going out of deeper levels of meditation. The mind focusing on what is happening is just a deeper level of thought, the focus is the mind trying to gain control again.

The goal of the teaching of MahaMudra that I was taught is to be like the sky. Let the thoughts or whatever arises, arise without the mind focusing on that which arises. Be the awareness, the sky.

When one is able to do this, it is very, very powerful.
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