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    Treasures from Juniper Ridge
    Treasures from Juniper Ridge
    Treasures from Juniper Ridge
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    Treasures from Juniper Ridge

    By Padmasambhava Guru Rinpoche, Yeshe Tsogyal and Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

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    Treasures from Juniper Ridge combines meditation and pith practice
    instructions in a way that is easy to apply and comprehend. It is a compilation
    of discovered teachings, termas, by the greatest master of Vajrayana
    Buddhism, Padmasambhava, hidden by his female disciple, Yeshe Tsogyal.
    Treasures is replete with pieces that are direct, profound, fresh, and pertinent
    to our times.
    These various revelations are for all levels of practitioners. They provide indepth explanations of assorted aspects of practice, including: deity, death
    and dying, non-conceptual meditation and recognizing mind nature. The
    book outlines ways to apply these teachings for the modern student, while
    remaining true to traditional principles.
    Padmasambhava’s pith instructions are extremely important because he
    is not just a legendary figure or an ancient myth. He is an actual person
    who continuously carries out spontaneous activities, including manifesting
    as treasure revealers, so that there is always a fresh, unimpaired teaching
    that people can practice. This also ensures that Padmasambhava’s spiritual
    influence and blessings are unceasing.
    The special quality of these terma teachings is that they provide a method
    for accomplishment that is appropriate for each specific generation, period
    of time, and individual person who meets them. The treasure teachings
    he gave on the Juniper Ridge of Crystal Pearls contain the essential meaning
    of hundreds of such instructions.”
    Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRangjung Yeshe Publications
    Release dateNov 30, 2013
    ISBN9789627341895
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      Treasures from Juniper Ridge - Padmasambhava Guru Rinpoche

      Advice on How to Practice the Profound Instructions

      The master gave the king this advice:

      Your Majesty, practice the meaning of these instructions.

      There is no ease within samsara’s realms;

      Ease is found in the awakened state.

      Through effort this awakened state is never gained;

      It is not achieved with effort, but by letting be and never striving.

      By rejection, samsara is not left behind;

      It is freed within itself by letting be.

      Your attempts to cure your miseries have brought no ease;

      You are at ease by loosely letting be.

      You find no happiness from craving;

      Only when you have let go of craving.

      Attachment is not cut by trying to avoid it;

      Only by revulsion is it truly stopped.

      Instructions are not found by wanting;

      You can gain them when you find a master.

      You never receive blessings just from asking;

      They come when you have gained devotion.

      King, you will find happiness when the Dharma is your regular companion.

      Give up distracting occupations and embrace the nature of the view and meditation.

      Remain in dharmakaya’s equal state that is beyond arising.

      The king was delighted, and he saluted and circumambulated the master with deep faith and respect.

      Self-Liberated Wakefulness

      DIRECT INSTRUCTIONS IN MAHAMUDRA

          Homage to the Lotus-Born of Uddiyana.

      HERE ARE THE ORAL INSTRUCTIONS IN MAHAMUDRA.

      The master of Uddiyana said: Listen, Tsogyal. When teaching the direct instructions of Mahamudra there are four points: the Mahamudra of the view, the Mahamudra of the meditation, the Mahamudra of the fruition, and the Mahamudra of the training.

      First, for the Mahamudra of the view, a tantra says:

      The Mahamudra of the view is the basic nature of the mind,

      With nothing to prove or dispel.

      In this way, Mahamudra has no support, no reference point, is by nature unborn, and does not perish through circumstances. Its play is unconfined and is the natural state, the basic nature of all that can be known.

      Moreover, its virtues need not be produced nor are there flaws to be eliminated, like the analogy of believing a rope to be a snake. It is the notion of the snake that is mistaken and not the rope; though upon first glance it appeared to be a snake, you realize that it was just a rope. Neither does the rope need to be proved nor the snake need to be dispelled, not even in the slightest. In the same way, the basic nature of all things that can be known is itself the nature of Mahamudra. So neither is there a need to produce thought-free wakefulness nor does thinking need to be eliminated. Thought-free wakefulness is directly present while thinking, and so—belonging to no category such as permanence or nothingness, the two types of identity, or to the perceiver or the perceived—it is known as original and perfect purity.

      Second, about the Mahamudra of the meditation, a tantra says:

      Let your basic nature settle without clinging;

      That is the Mahamudra of the meditation state.

      In this way, the Mahamudra of the meditation is to allow your original nature to let be without holding anything whatsoever in mind. So, it is not the result of thought, not indicated, not something that is or is not; it is without conflict and mental doing, and does not exclude anything whatsoever.

      Moreover, by letting be in naturalness, there is no need to modify with a remedy, just like the ocean and the waves. When a wave moves on the great ocean, it rises from and subsides back into the ocean. The wave is no other than the ocean, and the ocean is no other than the wave. Like the wave in the ocean, remain serenely as equal taste. Like this analogy, within the Mahamudra of your mind-essence, the original nature free of thought, let be completely in naturalness. Do not hold anything in mind. Whatever thought may arise is, at the very moment of arising, not separate from thought-free and unmistaken wakefulness. Thought arises from you, appears to you, and dissolves into you. At that moment, the natural state is not a thing you can think of, nor is it possible to indicate it through

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