#Tilopa

[mountain-sage]

The Truth Which Is Natural to Awareness

Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience.

~ Mahasiddha Tilopa

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Image: "Milarepa, the One Who Harkened", Nicholas Roerich

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“No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.”

~Tilopa

[Thanks Ian Sanders]

[kamala-laxman]

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. - Tilopa

[mahayanapilgrim]

"Child, it is not by appearances that you are bound, but by craving."

~Tilopa

[eelhound]

"In the Tibetan tradition, there is a well-known pith instruction spoken by the Indian master Tilopa to his disciple Naropa. He said,

The mind is not bound by appearances.

The mind is bound by grasping.

O Naropa, cut through grasping."

- Willa Blythe Baker, from "The Opposite of Attachment Is Intimacy." Lion's Roar, 31 August 2021.

[notasfilosoficas]

"Quien se aferra a la mente, no ve la verdad de lo que está más allá de la mente.

Quien se esfuerza en practicar el dharma, no encuentra la verdad que está más allá de la práctica.

Para conocer lo que está más allá de ambas, mente y práctica, uno debe cortar de raíz la mente y observarlo todo en total desnudez.

De esta forma, uno deja de lado toda distinción y permanece tranquilo"

Tilopa

Tilopa fue un gurú nacido en Bengala hoy Bangladesh en el año 988 de nuestra era. Llevó sus enseñanzas tántricas desde la India hasta el Tibet y se le atribuye el desarrollo de la doctrina mahamudra o método budista que conduce a la naturaleza propia de la mente estabilizada, no dual y sin apego.

Reconocido como fundador de una de las seis escuelas del Budismo Tibetano el denominado linaje Kagyu.

De acuerdo con algunas fuentes Tilopa nació en una familia real, la cual abandonó para adoptar una existencia errante de mendigo, recibiendo enseñanzas de diversos gurús a lo largo de su vida.

De acuerdo con una leyenda, se dice que recibió las enseñanzas del mahamudra directamente del Buda Vajradhara.

Se cuenta que Tilopa le dió seis consejos a su discípulo Naropa los cuales hablan de la mente liberada carente de tiempo, sin apegos ni juicios, como un medio para alcanzar el estado de Buda.

“Deja ir lo que ya pasó”, “Deja ir lo que pueda pasar”, “Deja ir lo que sucede ahora”, “No trates de interpretar nada”, “No trates de hacer que algo suceda”, “Relájate ahora y descansa”.

[bobowhipsblog]

https://www.thangkapaintings.com/tilopa-thangka.html

Tilopa was an Indian Buddhist monk in the tantric Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

988 - 1069

(Wikipedia)

[chodpa]

Severing the Bardo ‘Once and for All’ - ‘Question and answer’ oral instructions of the Wisdom Ḍākinī to Tilopa

Tilopa asked the wisdom Ḍākinī: what is awakening [Buddha]? The wisdom Ḍākinī responded: Tilopa! When the mind looks at mind, the ‘looker’ is mind, the ‘looked at’ is also mind. Like space gazing at space, both the ‘gazer’ and the ‘gazed at’, are naturally dissolved in purity.

What a truly wonderful teaching! When I first read it I felt the presence of the Dakini and Tilopa, as if I was there as it unfolded. What a marvelous display this nature of mind conjures up.

When Tilopa asks what is awakening, what is this Buddha state, the wisdom Dakini’s answer is so clear and direct. When you search for this nature of mind, this Rigpa, what is searching? Look at this that searches, and what is the nature of this looking, this looker? Don’t look with attention, that aspect of mind which focuses like a laser light, which looks one dharma at a time, and knows things conceptually. Instead, relax back into the spacious awareness, that which holds all simultaneously, which does not differentiate between them, and allow yourself to see from this wide open awareness that which searches for mind. Then know this that looks at mind, allow yourself to ‘see’ this that looks.

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You can read the full post for free including the full teaching of the Wisdom Dakini’s Oral Instructions on the Bardo to Tilopa at my Luminous Emptiness blog:

https://luminousemptiness.co.uk/severing-the-bardo-once-and-for-all/

[nicksalius]

Un'oscurità di secoli

La seguente frase di Tilopa, un antico saggio buddhista, tratta dal “Canto di Mahamudra”, è profondamente simbolica e ricca di significato spirituale. Leggiamola in dettaglio: “Un’oscurità di secoli non può impedire al sole di emettere luce; i lunghi eoni del ciclo di nascita e morte non possono mai nascondere la brillante luce della mente.” Continue reading Un’oscurità di secoli

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[pgoodnight]

Be Attentively Inattentive - Osho

This is what tantra says: the royal way – behave like a king, not like a soldier. There is nobody on top of you to force you and order you; there should not be really a style of life. That is the royal way. You should live moment to moment, enjoying moment to moment – spontaneity should be the way. And why bother about tomorrow? – This moment is enough. Live it! Live it in totality. Respond, but…

[mountain-sage]

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, No cultivation, no intention;

Let it settle itself.

~ Tilopa

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"At first a yogi feels his mind Is tumbling like a waterfall; In mid-course, like the Ganges It flows on slow and gentle; In the end, it is a great Vast ocean, where the Lights Of Son and Mother merge in one."

~ Tilopa

[Ian Sanders]

[kamala-laxman]

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. Tilopa

[mahayanapilgrim]

Pith Instruction on Mahamudra

(The Ganges Mahamudra)

~ Tilopa

Mind without projection is mahamudra.

Train and develop this and you will come to the deepest awakening.

You don't see mahamudra's sheer clarity

By means of classical texts or philosophical systems, Whether of the mantras, paramitas, Vinaya, sutras or other collections.

Ambition clouds sheer clarity and you don't see it.

Thinking about precepts undermines the point of commitment.

Do not think about anything; let all ambition drop.

Let what arises settle by itself, like patterns in water.

No place, no focus, no missing the point -

Do not break this commitment: it is the light in the dark.

When you are free from ambition and don't hold any position,

You will see all that the scriptures teach.

When you open to this, you are free from samsara's prison.

When you settle in this, all evil and distortion burn up.

This is called "The Light of the Teaching".

The foolish are not interested in this.

The currents of samsara constantly carry them away.

Oh, how pitiable, the foolish — their struggles never end.

Don't accept these struggles, long for freedom, and rely on a skilled teacher.

When his (her) energy enters your heart, your mind is freed.

What joy!

Samsaric ways are senseless: they are the seeds of suffering.

Conventional ways are pointless. Focus on what is sound and true.

Majestic outlook is beyond all fixation.

Majestic practice is no distraction.

Majestic behavior is no action or effort.

The fruition is there when you are free from hope and fear.

Beyond any frame of reference mind is naturally clear.

Where there is no path you begin the path of awakening.

Where there is nothing to work on you come to the deepest awakening.

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Tantra

Tantra The Supreme Understanding Tantra:  The Supreme Understanding Introduction Tilopa’s Song of Mahamudra A deep and insightful look into the underlying ideas of Tantra. Walking the road to enlightenment by embodying the full acceptance of all that is. A commentary on Tilopa’s marvelous song.    Tilopa, 988–1069,  was an Indian Buddhist monk in the tantric Kagyu lineage of Tibetan…