The Royal Seal of Mahamudra, Volume One: 1 by Khamtrul Rinpoche III

Author:Khamtrul Rinpoche III
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2015-01-20T00:00:00+00:00

EXPLANATION OF HOW TO REST WITHOUT SUPPORT

By means of the above divisions in regard to focusing the mind, you may have found some degree of stillness or of a core meaning. At that time, you should continue by training in the superior shamatha without attributes consisting of constantly fostering the nondistraction of the mind itself. As before, adopt the posture and practice guru yoga, make supplications, and take the four empowerments, after which the guru dissolves into you. Then, do not engage in fixations by focusing the mind on an outer object, the breath, or any other support. Without having any support whatsoever for the mind, and without stirring it up with thought processes, rest it directly in the continuity of its own nature. In other words, something so excellent called “mahamudra” is not to be accomplished from anywhere else than this intrinsic awareness itself. If without understanding the core meaning, you looked outwardly, wondering whether there is something to be seen that arises from somewhere other than your own mind, you would be, as the saying goes, “foregoing the door of what is and wandering instead in the alleys of what is not.” You would be walking toward the west while turning your back to the east, your actual destination—and even if you exerted yourself for an eon nothing would come of it. So we should not think that way, but rather understand that the myriad thoughts produced by our mind are themselves the body of meditation and the crucial point of practice. In fact, to rest this mind without modification and without distraction is what is meant by mahamudra meditation; there is no other meditation to be practiced.

With this understanding, rest loose, at ease in the continuity of mere nondistraction. Don’t bind yourself; instead throw away the burden. Be free from the many ideas about what you wish meditation to be, what meditation isn’t, and so on. Don’t bother your mind with activities that require effort, but rest in the natural flow of your unfabricated true nature. Other than simply not wandering from being aware of your basic nature, don’t be concerned with anything else; rest uninterruptedly in the continuity of letting be, free of grasping.

Otherwise, there are three techniques for resting: don’t engage in diversions with inner or outer objects and situations, but rest in natural freshness without wandering; don’t fetter yourself in any way by tightening the three doors too much, but rest loose in the natural effortless flow; and don’t hold mindful awareness and the essence of thoughts as being two unconnected, separate things as if you were applying an antidote, but rest in the natural lucidity of self-knowing awareness. These three are synonymous with nondistraction, nonmodification, and nonmeditation. The three gates to liberation taught in the common vehicles are also included here. That this essential mind does not follow after actions of the past, such as what was done or what happened, is what is called “the samadhi of the liberation gate of signlessness”;

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