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Mahamudra teaching and practice live on Zoom with Zasep Tulku Rinpoche on October 8th & 9th
October 9, 2022 @ 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Zasep Tulku Rinpoche explains Mahamudra practice, in his book “ Eloquent speech of Manjushri: Gelug Mahamudra“:
Mahamudra meditation is awareness and understanding of the true nature of mind; it is spacious, without beginning or end. It is like observing the sky without the trace of birds, or the crisscross of jet planes. You can merge your consciousness in the state of Mahamudra, beyond words and thoughts. The true nature of the mind is raw or naked awareness. It is an uncovered, untamed and unaltered state, without fabrication. As the great teacher Gampopa put it, “It cannot be explained intellectually, but follow the instructions of the Guru and practise according to the lineage.
Mahamudra is a practice that leads us to experience the true nature of our own mind, unmediated. The sources of the Mahamudra teaching go all the way back to the Buddha’s Prajnaparamita, or the Heart Sutra, and also to the Samadhi Raja, or the King of Concentration Sutra. In Tibetan it is known as Teng Nye Zin Gyalpoe Do. These Sutrasstate that the nature of all phenomena is Mahamudra. According to the Heart Sutra:
“Mind is emptiness and emptiness is also mind. There is no mind other than emptiness, no emptiness other than the mind”.
Mahamudra is the method of realizing the clear light wisdom of Shunyata and accomplishing directly and vividly what we call the ‘meaning clear light’. In its Tantric aspect, the clear light nature of the mind is called ‘ultimate short AH’. It means the uncultivated mind, the unspoiled and pure mind. As the Buddha himself said:
“Mind does not exist within the mind, but the true nature of the mind is clear light”
Date: Saturday October 8th and Sunday October 9th, 2022
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Time: Start time 8:00am *PDT (Nelson B.C. time)
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