Moonbeams of Mahamudra by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal & Elizabeth Callahan

Author:Dakpo Tashi Namgyal & Elizabeth Callahan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2019-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

The mahāsiddha Zhang teaches:

When, on your own, you are proficient with the oral instructions, are unaffected by the hordes of external and internal māras, and can maintain pure ethical conduct without hypocrisy, then wander alone in mountain retreats.1337

The actual conduct has five modes:

1. Conduct like that of a wounded deer. Wounded deer don’t associate with others in their herd and withdraw their minds, remaining apart. Similarly, you should act alone, having given up close companions and withdrawing your mind from the concerns of this life—such as subjugating your enemies, caring for your friends, and keeping up good relations with your patrons.

2. Lionlike conduct. Lions are untroubled by other groups of animals, be they wild herbivores or carnivores. Similarly, do not be afraid of the obstacles presented by any situation, whether they be external ones created by humans or nonhumans, or internal ones, such as the movements of thoughts.

3. Conduct like the wind blowing through open space. Just as the wind blows through open space fluidly, transparently, and without being obstructed by objects, let your mind be transparent and open without any attachment or clinging to your body, possessions, pleasures, gain, or fame.

4. Spacelike conduct. Just as space is without support, you should not hold onto any reference point (such as thinking, “I will do this,” or “I am doing that”) and should not have any object of meditation, such as those with characteristics or those without characteristics. [453]

5. Conduct like that of a crazy person. In the same way that someone insane has no fixed reference points, you should have no fixations—no affirming or adopting something positive and no negating or rejecting what is unwholesome.

It is taught that those five modes of conduct are the means by which we can take whatever situations and appearances occur as the path and enhance our practice of the abiding state.

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