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  • Seiryu
    Member
    • Sep 2010
    • 620

    Wisdom from an old lady

    This is from one of the Tibetan lineages but I find that there so direct pointing going on here so I would like to share.

    Wisdom from an Old Lady

    For ninety-nine years,
    I have worked for the benefit of beings.
    now this work is almost complete.

    I will not take birth again
    in this human realm in a physical form,
    nor will I leave behind any remains or relics.

    But my emanations in the world will be innumerable;
    and many will recognize them.
    They will be perceived in different ways,
    depending on karma, pure or impure.

    In the same way, mind itself has no support, has no object:
    let it rest in its natural expanse without any fabrication.
    When the bonds (of negative thoughts) are released,
    you will be free, there is no doubt.

    As when gazing into space, all other visual objects disappear,
    so it is for mind itself.
    When mind is looking at mind,
    all discursive thoughts cease and
    enlightenment is attained.

    As in the sky all clouds disappear into sky itself:
    wherever they go, they go nowhere,
    wherever they are, they are nowhere.

    This is the same for thoughts in the mind:
    when the mind looks at mind,
    the waves of conceptual thought disappear.

    This body of ours is impermanent,
    like a feather on a high mountain pass.
    This mind of ours is empty and
    clear like the depth of space.

    Relax in that natural state, free of fabrication.
    When mind is without any support, that is mahamudra.
    Becoming familiar with this, blending your mind with it
    -- that is buddhahood.

    Supreme view is beyond all duality of subject and object.
    Supreme meditation is without distraction.
    Supreme activity is action without effort.
    Supreme fruition is without hope and fear.

    This old lady has no instructions more profound
    than this to give you."

    - Machig Labdron
    11th century



    Gassho

    Seiryu
    Humbly,
    清竜 Seiryu
  • Stephanie

    #2
    Re: Wisdom from an old lady

    Thank you for posting this

    Gassho

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    • Taigu
      Blue Mountain White Clouds Hermitage Priest
      • Aug 2008
      • 2710

      #3
      Re: Wisdom from an old lady

      Seiryu,


      Increbile text that was written for everyone here.

      Thank you for this Dharma song. By the way, where did yo find it? Who translated it?

      gassho

      Taigu

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      • Taylor
        Member
        • May 2010
        • 388

        #4
        Re: Wisdom from an old lady

        Originally posted by Taigu
        Seiryu,


        Increbile text that was written for everyone here.

        Thank you for this Dharma song. By the way, where did yo find it? Who translated it?

        gassho

        Taigu
        If I may intrude :P

        I read this song back when I was into Kagyu full-tilt. I read it in Jerome Edou's "Machig Labdron and the Foundations of Chod"
        Machig Labdron is popularly considered to be both a dakini and a deity, an emanation of Yum Chenmo, or Prajnaparamita, the embodiment of the wisdom of the buddhas. Historically, this Tibetan woman, a contemporary of Milarepa, was an adept and outstanding teacher, a mother, and a founder of a unique transmission lineage known as the Chöd of Mahamudra. This translation of the most famous biography of Machig Labdron, founder of the unique Mahamudra Chöd tradition, is presented together with a comprehensive overview of Chöd's historical and doctrinal origins in Indian Buddhism and its subsequent transmission to Tibet. Chöd refers to cutting through the grasping at a self and its attendant emotional afflictions. Most famous for its teaching on transforming the aggregates into an offering of food for demons as a compassionate act of self-sacrifice, Chöd aims to free the mind from all fear and to arouse realization of its true nature, primordially clear bliss and emptiness.


        Loved the book, love the practice.

        Gassho,
        Myoken
        Gassho,
        Myoken
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        • Seiryu
          Member
          • Sep 2010
          • 620

          #5
          Re: Wisdom from an old lady

          Thank you for the link Myoken! there is also some videos on youtube on Pema chodron talking about chod...

          and to answer Taigu's question; a Rinpoche posted it on his facebook page and I took it from there...

          Gassho

          Seiryu
          Humbly,
          清竜 Seiryu

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