Tilopa's Six Essential Points of Meditation - Mahamudra - Kagyu Tibetan Buddhism
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- Tilopa's classic 6 words of advice for meditation - translated by Ken McLeod. Ken McLeod has translated the text in two ways: a version that’s as concise and literal as possible, and a version that’s slightly more elaborate but does a better job of unpacking the meaning embedded in those six Tibetan words.
You can find the text written out here: www.rootlesswanderer.com/budd...
The commentary is by Lama Tashi Namgyal - Shenpen Ösel Magazine - Volume 1 - Issue 2
Tilopa (988-1069) was born in Bengal in India. He was a tantric practitioner and mahasiddha. He practised Anuttarayoga Tantra, a set of spiritual practices intended to accelerate the process of attaining Buddhahood. Naropa is considered his main student. It is believed Tilopa received Mahamudra teachings from primordial Buddha Vajradhara himself - the primordial essence of all things, the absolute Wisdom and Compassion.
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Samaneri Jayasara please answer a question that has troubled me for a few years now, I know of no one else to ask. Am I to simply accept those negative aspects of my own character which I have battled for years? Are those seemingly inherited faults my dharma? I do not act on them but those thoughts still arise. What is their origin? Are there any truly original thoughts? Are they my own? I listen to your words daily and I am thankful for your wisdom, your efforts and your beautiful voice which delivers a message in such a calm yet wise manner. Thank you 🙏
@@markrudis4419 Hi Mark, in regards to your question, the challenge that faces you is to really investigate the nature and so called 'reality' of this character or personality that you think you are. The personality and character traits are merely conditioned phenomena - we all have aspects of this 'person' which we like or do not like. However, we must see through its illusory nature if we are to be free and transcend suffering. As the Buddha taught, all conditions, including and especially this personality, is impermanent and not-self. What a relief huh when you realise this deeply in your heart? You have to stop taking yourself and this personality personally. It will always be faulty and imperfect - it can be no other way. We are a conglomeration of conditioning process that we have inherited over innumerable lifetimes, not just this one. So...challenge this view you hold of yourself. It is not truly you. What you are in Reality is none of these conditioned phenomena - thoughts, feelings, emotions, views, character traits, etc... We must practice to let go of the falsity of them and to rest in our true Nature of the Unconditioned Awareness - the pure mindfulness. This is the portal to the Deathless (our true nature); our ticket to freedom, and the pathway to the end of all suffering. This particular teaching from Tilopa offers one of the most direct and clear pointers to that path to freedom. I wish you much peace. 💜🌈🌺✌
Of all the teachings I have listened to this one is the hardest. This requires an unparalleled vigilance and personal honesty. This is soul work that will take a lot of discipline. Deep bow to you, Venerable Jayasara for your patience in rendering this and many good works. May all beings find rest. Thank you 🙏🏾
@@SamaneriJayasaraI don't know you before, here today I gazed down your comments, I urge myself to write few words,the suffering we are holding since many years as you said its might not be in reality is us, it might be our thoughts, character or traits, yes, its really useful to practice letting go techniques of Buddhism to falsify them. Here in conscious levels, it's really good way as Buddha teaching bringing back to true nature of basic goodness but in subconscious levels our mind to wish to bringing back to true nature or free to fly as our wish in in my cases, ( esp in dreams suffering or depper levels of many years mund suffering) buddhism techniques lacks somehow to governance in unconditioned phenomenon of ourselves. Here always a battle like phenomenon comes as vedic hindu consciousness of wisdom is best for unconditional suffering to heal or to governance to ourselves. In conditional situations or day to day realistic world the Buddhism way to practice is often best to overcome this.
Thankyou
Gratitude to the Kagyu Lineage!
Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa and Gampopa...
and Karmapas.
And Niguma and Sukhasiddhi.
&the drukpas
A reflection on the teaching:
The first nail, don't recall
even the moment before this moment
let mind be an open palm
never gasping, ever letting go
The second, don't imagine
let go of what may come
even if Buddha approaches
or death knocks at your door
be the mouth of a river
Third, don't think
waves on the ocean
rise and fall on their own
replying to an echo
we remain in conversation
Rest like a cloud in the sky
Soon, only sky remains.
Fourth, don't examine
analysing keeps mind online
drop like an anchor
into your self
Fifth, don't control
let the river go
it knows the way
to the ocean
and finally,
rest
effortless is the mantra
ease into the moment
in the moment
you are free
Sorry but this sounds just like you are a narcissistic egotistical delusional self glorification hunter to me ✨🎭✨
@@cosmicsprings8690It's generally not very kind to project like that. You need more Samaneri in your life, just subscribe and enable notifications! Cheers!
@ David. So beautifully reflected upon in your poetry 👌👏
Very nice reflection. Thanks 💓
@@cosmicsprings8690 Oh well, there's a little bit of the narcissist in us all really - don't you think? Until our minds are completely purified Number 7 on this list might be: "Don't Judge."
Best channel in CZcams ❤️❤️🙏❤️❤️
what did i say: the internet was invented for this powerful source to burst into this world and en-lighten it!
This is where the state of consciousness inline with the hidden energy of the universe .
Simple but not eazy
00:44 - Intro
02:48 - Don't recall
04:35 - Don't imagine
05:53 - Don't think
07:06 - Don't examine
09:36 - Don't control
11:52 - Rest
14:30 - Outro
Ahh! There it is! Thank you very much!
Straight to the (coreless) core. An amazingly beautiful reading...a real masterpiece which brought tears to my eyes. Pure gratitude. 🙏🏻
Samaneri, this was very helpful in today's meditation. The long pauses were particularly effective. I am so grateful to you. Thank you! 🙏🌸
Priceless advice. I realized that I do the exact opposite of the 6 points mentioned at the beginning and consequently suffer immensely. This happens everyday - infact several times per day. Thanks for posting this gem.
I just stumbled across your channel recently and I'm really getting a lot from your content. Thank you.
I just love how these videos come smack dab just at the right time. The answer to the thing I am struggling with most at the current moment. Shining light in darkness. Lifting. Freeing. Liberating. 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️✨✨✨ Thank you Samaneri Jayasara! I listen on a daily basis! Most grateful!
Six precious drops of nectar from the Mahasiddha, so beautifully elucidated by you, profound gratitude!
Listened to this after I meditated this morning and point 5 (as do all the others) fairly shouted out at me - it appears my work ethic follows me into meditation 😏. Thank you, hugely, for sharing! Kind thoughts and my deep appreciation for all your work.
Buddha Tilopa is very much like the Ahgori. His advise is the exact opposite of the other esoteric schools. Help us through this Buddhist Kali Yuga we are in.
advice in gold what else needed just practice to rest
So simple, so complete. No-more learning.
Very effective and many thanks for this simple and easy technique
Couldn't be any clearer! Really appreciate your work with all these meditations. Particularly enjoy these dzogchen/Mahamudra ones 🙏❤
Thank you Beautiful Master Tilopa for teaching Acharya Naropa........our Guru
Sound advice, simplicity is hard to master and very easy to forget!
I have problems with sleep and I’ve been listening to your videos for a few weeks, I listen to the zen playlist and now it’s the only way I can fall asleep and stay asleep. I just want to say thank you.
You're most welcome Leroy. May you continue to sleep peacefully 😴😴😴
Love you Leroy love you
@@Ashish-nd3xj Hi Ashish, I'm doing ok thanks. Sorry to read you suffer with anxiety, I too suffer with same thing and with a side order of depression. I try meditating myself but find it very difficult. Anyway, hope you're well and stay strong.
@@leroybrown7059 try walking meditation Thich Nhat Hahn style great antidote to anxiety 👍
Hope you’re sleeping well, Leroy.
Oh, how wonderful is this. So few words followed by profound internal silence! Thank you.
The last instruction, rest, been missing it. Thank you for spreading knowledge
Primordially perfect.
Infinite blessings to you Jayasara.
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Thank you for doing all this. I use these in my meditations. Blessings to you dear one for sharing the great teachings.
"Resting in the Freshness of whatever arises" 😆👍
As it is.
Simple, yet so profound. Thank you Samaneri.
Exquisite drops of nectar, that nourishes my soul
I am so lucky few to listen to such a precious teachings
Thank you so much ani
I was waiting for this one! 🙏
Gratitude 🙏
Such a powerful meditation. Came across this in the Waking Up App - and of all the meditation practices for a novice like me - this was most powerful. Thank you Jayasara Ji, really grateful. Vimala
Tilopa rocks!😉🖖🏼🤙🙏👍🌈💕
indeed! and his 6 nails really nail it! haha!
Vanishing in favor of whatever presents itself in the mind!
Thank you 🌹💖🌈🗝️☝🏾🔱
Rest in the freshness of awareness. How amazing!
having heard this,- what more is there to hear?
Exactly what I was going to say! 😅
Hearing, analyzing, meditating, threefold Tantric system which did lead many into liberation.
The Herald Angels sing. 🙏
@Dean Miller hey, i've been on Your utube. maybe u like this. to read the discription might be good...
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@Dean Miller ... and let go of :)
The most glorious voice 🗿
This was peaceful and wonderfully spoken. Thanks Samaneri ❤
This could also be applied to Nisargadatta's instruction to "rest in the sense-knowledge "I AM".
Thank you Samaneri .🙏🏽
Thank you for bringing him here:)
Big fan of concise and literal.
Inner peace ☮️ stillness , meditation for mind , beautiful delivery
Thank you Sister.
Nice sound
Beautiful. Thank you.🙏
Dear Friend, im making progress with these teachings. Sharing to say your efforts are bearing fruit. Maybe not all at once, but gently and persistently and I Am grateful. Knowing you and cat are well.
Sublime 🙏🏻
Just Be
Present and Aware
Nothing has to change in order to Be.
Whether the flower is blooming or wilting, It Is !!
Thank you for sharing 🙏🙏🙏
Simply superb job
Amazing! Just discovered your page. Perfectly curated for one looking to realize their true nature. Thank you! 🙏🏽
This is too good 🙏
I like it. He has put it for me. It reminds me of Atishas "Seven points of mind training" and the comments of Osho in his "Book of wisdom" .
Beautifull 🌼 Thanks 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you.
I love this
Cleansing by letting go. Simple but very hard to do. Tilopa is right. ❤ thank you 🙏
Amazing. As always.
💎💎 💎 thank you!
Magnificent!
This is THE Recipe...and in one breath the easiest thing in the world... however a few breaths later ...seemingly impossible...and so the practice continues!
Perfect❤🎉
Very Good, Thank you
The age of Aquarius begins, great mastery is coming back, finally we see how the mind should be a servant to the master ( soul) and not the master itself as 20th century been a dark period for humanity...it will be a long process though from a mind perspective ...
Gracias
🙏🙏🎉grateful to you.
Cheers 🍻 ears, God bless 🙌 🙏 ❤️ 😊 all, wake up reader and be free now 😊😅😮😢🎉😂❤❤❤❤❤ all is SHIVA
WOW!
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The second turning is said to have taken place at Vulture Peak Mountain in Rajagriha, in Bihar, India. The audience comprised bodhisattvas; in some telling there were also shravaka arhats there as well. In the second turning, the emphasis is on emptiness (Skt: śūnyatā) as epitomized in the Prajnaparamita sutras, and on compassion (Skt: karuṇā). These two elements form bodhicitta, the epitome of the second turning. The Madhyamika school that Nagarjuna founded arose from his exegesis of the early texts and is included under the second turning. Nagarjuna attacked the metaphysics of the Sarvastivada school and a school which broke away from it called Sautrantika, and promoted, among other things, the classical emphasis on the dependent arising of phenomena of the early texts.[4] (This is teaching of buddha in second turning of wheel to meditation on pure emptiness)
Thanks for all. Please can you tell me what program do yo use and what exactly do for the profound of your Voice (reverberation). Thanks si much. With love
Hi there, I use the free Audacity program which you can download here:
www.audacityteam.org/
I don't do that much with my voice except the basic compressing and EQ's, noise reduction and a standard reverb.
Rest thank you relax
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I have listened to all of these profound offerings. But this one more than others. does anyone know what this music is?
let it flow .... .
Here are another excellent 6 words: Face. Accept. Float. Let time pass.
Thabks for sharing! An you tell me please, what is the first background music ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
Awareness of the freshness what ever airsies
Can chance of doing a podcast of all these amazing recordings? Be great to hear without CZcams !
What's wrong with CZcams Jack?
@@SamaneriJayasara so you have to pay for the premium version of youtube to listen to the video without watching it (play with you phone screen off). in addition, podcasts are more available on many more devices so one can listen in the car and etc.
Hello @SamaneriJayasara. I would like to add transcription subtitles and brazilian portuguese subtitles to this video. Could you pleas enable the add subtitles feature so that I can add them? Thanks!
Closed captions/subtitles are already turned on for this video and people can simply go into the Settings options at the bottom right hand of the screen and select "auto translate". It will then translate into the language of your choice.
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Amazingly beautiful the text, and the reading..
May I ask which school do you belong to, and/or who is your teacher?
Many thanks
Hi there Hoku, I am ordained in the Theravadin Forest tradition - the lineage of Ajahn Chah. My Western teacher is/was Ajahn Sumedho. With all good wishes
@@SamaneriJayasara So you are not directly involved in the dzogchen/mahamudra tradition... Your videos are really beqautiful, though :-)
@@hokubluesky4989 Well, I am most directly 'involved' with Dzogchen! It just depends on how you understand this most profound of teachings. Ajahn Chah and Sumedho are quintessential Dzogchen teachers as well, but if one only looks at the surface of things people fail to see this.
@@SamaneriJayasara Yeah, sure, most of us get caught on names and schools and on almost useless classificsations, while the practice of many techings could be pretty similar...
At least, at the level most practitioners (including me) are in ;-)
I got the chance to look after your school and I found that this is part of the message of the teaching you are following.
Thanks for your reply (I was just curious, I didn't mean to make any judgement), and for your videos that are really beeeaaaautifuul, the most inspiring I have found.
May you have success in your path :-)
@@hokubluesky4989 Likewise Hoku - all the best to you.
So many don'ts together remind me of my ex-wife. :)
Tilopa is not your wife. 😊
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@@kyushubabe9700 lol
Hahahah I laughed out loud
Love it HAHAHAHAHA
And I continued to laugh. Aaaah ooooooh brilliant.
Do you have one reading called the “ song of Mahamudra “ ? Thank you 🙏
Are you referring to Naropa's Mahamudra song to Tilopa? If so , then yes i have done 2 versions of it. You can find them under the Dzogchen/Mahamudra playlist on my channel. Navigate to my Homepage to find the Playlist tab and you can find the folder there and scroll through. It is an outstanding teaching. All the best
@@SamaneriJayasara oh great i will check it out thank you 🙏
There is nothing I can say, but...
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I find this one so good but for me to short to loose my sens of self completely I wished it was a litle longer so...
There is a 50 minute version available on her channel just search Six Words of Advice and you’ll see it. Good luck.
Who would do this? Know One!
Please clear a doubt..
One should not fixate on either outer or inner phenomenon, does that mean letting go of impulses,, bodily urges
And if it is so,, then how we have to let them go..
Yes, one should let go of impulses and bodily urges. The way to do that is in the six words. Do not recall, imagine, think. examine or control them. They appear as a form of energy only, to which you do not react mentally in any way other than observe, even that passes. They will die of their own accord and all that is left is the radiant nature of mind, empty of self-existence.
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Do not identify your true self with thoughts, they are not yours, although they give that impression.
Like the one who "thinks", it is nothing more than a bunch of thoughts that your ego interprets as its own.
Whos here listening this with moldavite 👽
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Of all the teachings I have heard you share, this is the hardest practice! It requires vigilance and honesty with self a real soul work.May you be blessed. May you be at peace and may all beings find rest! Deep bow for your contributions Sister Jayasara and may the eternal flame continue to warm your heart.
Nothing to do!
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