A wonderful Mahamudra text, taught by a great teacher.


Teaching subjectClarifying the Natural State by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal

See http://www.rinpoche.com/boudha19.htm
6 Responses
  1. Anonymous Says:

    Wat happens to all the sheaths/bodies (im using advaita terminology,which makes much sense despite you repeatedly denying 'em ) when one realizes ones true nature?

    Well, u can just ignore dis post if feel it doesnt bring any benefits answering it ....

  2. Soh Says:

    The Koshas are taught so that the person doing self inquiry will be able to recognise and dissociate from all those sheaths as 'Not Me' and finally attain realization of the True Self, which is sat-chit-ananda. This is to get to the Thusness Stage 1, the I AMness realization.

    Once you get to Stage 4, it will be a different understanding. Phenomena is no longer dissociated but the taste of I AMness is present throughout. It will become like what David Carse wrote:



  3. Anonymous Says:

    If one suffers unnesessarily more dan ones bad karma(eg.. one may be destined to get cancer but mistreatment by doctors cause more suffering, or road accident due to reckless driving of others etc..)does ending life prematurely better(by ending unnessasarily suffering)?

  4. Soh Says:

    Unless one has become liberated, one should never end life prematurely but strive to attain liberation with every second remaining in one's life by practicing deligently.

    Buddha: "When someone lays down this body and takes up another body, I call them ‘blameworthy’."

  5. Anonymous Says:

    It depends on wat kind of body taken in d afterlife .... the fact is dat the astral body ,lacking dense physicality(body+brain),one can hv better perspective...Consciousness trapped by limitations of dis brain simply cannot hv higher knowledge,

    past lives recollection,for eg...(without remembrance of past lives, one simply groved in de dark,chasing ephemereal things of dis world...

    I believe those astral beings can hv better chance of seeing their past existence and many other knowledges ...

  6. Soh Says:

    You mentioned having a body means one cannot recollect past lives and have higher knowledge.

    This is not true. Thusness and one of his 'students' Sim Pern Chong has recollected plenty of their past lives in meditation and jhana. They have attained transcendental wisdom.

    And so have countless practitioners of the past as documented in the suttas.

    One the other hand, countless sages have warned that if you die without realizing your true nature, you will just end up being reborn uncontrollably into another realm, to endure more suffering, birth, sickness, ageing and death.