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Clear Light Yoga
- Commitment
- Purification
- Focus
- Cutting through
- Absorption
"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." – John 1:5
Richard Rose: Transcriptions, Monitor Papers, Articles, Writings, Biography
Richard Rose, the Man Who Was a Mirror by Michael Casari
Alfred Pulyan: Letters from a Zen Master, or Why You're Still Suffering
Retreat from Untruth: The Teachings of Richard Rose, American Zen Master
J.J. van der Leeuw: Conquest of Illusion
Anonymous, 14th Century England: The Cloud of Unknowing
The Surest Path To Mental Clarity
Franz Hartmann: Magic White and Black
H.P. Blavatsky: Voice of the Silence
H.P. Blavatsky: La Voz del Silencio [español]
Éliphas Lévi: Paradox VII: The Will Accomplishes Everything, Which It Does not Desire
Kybalion: Teachings of Hermes Trismegistus
El Kybalion: Los Misterios de Hermes
Mabel Collins: Light on the Path
Zen Teachings of Huang Po - The Dharma of Mind Transmission
La enseñanza zen de Huang Po en la transmisión de la mente
Techniques of Transmission in Kashmir Saivism
Clara Llum: If Buddha Gets In Your Way, Kill 'Em
Dried Shit Zen Roshi: What Is Shingon Magic?
Kukai: Principle Of Attaining Buddhahood With the Present Body
Chuang Tzu: Discussion On Making All Things Equal
Sivananda Saraswati: Celibacy-Bramacharya
The starry night sky, a massive bonfire of uncreated wisdom, blazes unceasingly between your ears. (Dried Shit Zen Roshi)
Kill Everything In You
When you've killed everything in you
that might interfere with the Clear Sky (the Dark Expanse)
light and darkness are just the same nothing.
How could anything be different?
It's clearly the same.
How could anything be the same?
It's clearly different.
How could anyone suffer?
Who exists to have a mind
or to become a Buddha?
Cure yourself of sick thinking,
and the un-ease of life is gone.
Gone beyond, utterly beyond,
bo-ji so wa-ka!
Hearing all day long you hear nothing.
Seeing all day long you see nothing.
Laughing you don't laugh.
Crying you don't cry.
You're liberated, and can live as you want
and you don't understand the idea of "bondage"
or getting "caught up in something."
You're always a golden buddha.
You're always a temple in calm starlight.
A demon playing the bamboo flute,
a samurai hiding in the long grass --
whatever! you're always just THAT.
If the darkness comes cut it down.
If the brightness comes cut it away.
If people come don't answer them.
If the Clear Sky comes shatter it completely.
If the Void ever comes, slash it with your sword.
Destroy all thinking, let it go
and both objects and subjects disappear.
What's left can't even be imagined,
so how do you expect me to give it to you?
There isn't any one or any body left anywhere
to experience this,
to pretend or deny IT alone "exists"
or to ever say a single word about anything.
– D.S.Z. Roshi
The Six Bardos
- The bardo of the realm of life
- The bardo of the dream state
- The bardo of meditation
- The bardo of the experience of death
- The bardo of the experience of reality
- The bardo of seeking rebirth
Six Doctrines of Naropa
- The mystical heat (tummo)
- The illusory body (mahamaya)
- The dream state (svapnadarsana)
- The clear light (abhasvara)
- The intermediate state (antarabhava)
- The transmission of consciousness (samkranti)
Knowledge required for the path through the six intermediate realms
- Knowledge of the former place of birth or realm of existence
- Knowledge of dying, of the crossing over of awareness, and new rebirth
- Knowledge of transcending spirit
- Knowledge of all hidden appearances, in the realm of the non-visible
- Knowledge of the six realms of existence
- Knowledge of all liberating capabilities
The Six Perfections
- Dāna pāramitā: generosity, giving of oneself
- Śīla pāramitā: virtue, morality, discipline
- Kṣānti pāramitā: patience, tolerance
- Vīrya pāramitā: energy, diligence, vigor
- Dhyāna pāramitā: one-pointed concentration, contemplation
- Prajñā pāramitā: wisdom, insight
The Four Noble Truths
- Dukkha: The truth of suffering
- Samudaya: The truth of the cause of suffering
- Nirodha: The truth of the cessation of suffering
- Magga: The truth of the path leading to the cessation of suffering
The Eightfold Path
- Right Understanding
- Right Intent
- Right Speech
- Right Action
- Right Livelihood
- Right Effort
- Right Mindfulness
- Right Concentration (Samadhi)
Doctrine of Trikaya - three bodies
- Dharmakaya
- Sambhogakaya
- Nirmanakaya
- Vajrayana's "fourth body" = The indivisibility of the Trikaya
Sambhogakaya's Five Manifestations
- Vajrasattva:
mirror-like awareness - Ratnasambhava:
awareness of equanimity - Amitaba:
discriminating awareness - Amoghasiddhi:
spontaneously fulfilling action - Vairocana:
all-encompassing emptiness
The Five Tathagatas
(Shingon Magic)
- Vairocana, sovereignty (center, white)
- Aksobhya, steadfastness, reflection (faces east, blue)
- Ratnasambhava, equanimity and equality (faces south, yellow)
- Amitabha, light, observation (faces west, red)
- Amoghasiddhi, perfect practice, fearlessness (faces north, green)
The Five Pure Lights, pañca-jñāna
- Ādarśa-jñāna
Melong, mirror-like awareness - Samatā-jñāna
Awareness of sameness, the non-dual method of upāya and prajñā - Pratyavekṣaṇa-jñāna
Investigative awareness - Kṛty-anuṣṭhāna-jñāna
Accomplishing activities, spontaneously - Tathatā-jñāna
Suchness, dharmadātu, universal substrate
Nine designs of the Supreme Energy
- Vama
Energy flowing in ida nadi - Ambika
Energy flowing in pingala nadi - Jyestha
The supreme flow of energy in sushumna nadi - Raudri
Protectress of space - Iccha
Energy of will - Jnana
Energy of knowledge - Kriya
Energy of action - Shanti
Energy of tranquility - Para
Transcendental energy