Longchenpa Maya Yoga
Longchenpa Maya Yoga
Maya Yoga
Longchenpa's Finding Comfort and
Ease in Enchantment
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Other Titles by Keith Dowman
Preface 9
Introduction 13
Finding Comfort and Ease in Enchantment 55
Dream: The First Analogy 56
Magic Show: The Second Analogy 63
Optical Illusion: The Third Analogy 69
Mirage: The Fourth Analogy 72
Reflection of the Moon in Water: The Fifth Analogy 74
Echo: The Sixth Analogy 78
The City of the Gandharvas: The Seventh Analogy 81
Apparition: The Eighth Analogy 84
Appendix I: Analogies for the z1sr century 95
Appendix II: Cave Culture 103
Selected Glossary of Dzogchen Terms 107
Selected Bibliography 111
PREFACE
Keith Dowman
At the Great Stupa of Boudhanath
Kathmandu
Iron Tiger New Year, February 2010
INTRODUCTION
Homage to Vajrasattva!
In the space where all experience remains in potential,
emerges a grand display of nondual awareness and illusion,
the original spontaneity of our sovereign nature of mind:
indivisible from that, unmoving, to that we bow down.
56 I MA y A y 0 GA
The Meditation
Utterly convinced of this view that all situations,
samsara and nirvana, are just like dream,
follow this instruction to experience it in meditation.
On the crown of the head, upon a lotus, sun and moon throne
clearly envision the root guru, embodying yidam and dakini,
inseparable from the lineage gurus.
Worship and praise him, aspiring to cultivate a sense of dream,
then allowing oneself and environment to dissolve into light,
which then vanishes into the guru,
hang loosely for a moment in sky-like space.
The blessings of realization rain down by themselves.
"" The sky, the earth and the subterranean worlds populated by
humans, gods, demons, animals, ghosts and devils.
t Desire, anger and sloth.
64 I MAYA YOGA
The actuality of the magic show is the clear light of mind's nature;
it is its spaciousness and it is the buddha-nature.
Undivided in terms of purity or impurity
Fi n d i n g Co m f o r t a n d Ease i n En c h a n t m e n t I 65
The Meditation
Behind the realization of this view of magical illusion
we cultivate enchanting illusion as the cosmic joke.
In preparation, as before, aspire to a sense of magical illusion.
The Meditation
To prepare, as before, and aspire to see all things as optical
illusion.
As the main praxis, gain familiarity with that insight.
See all colour and form as unreal, like optical illusion;
hear all sounds as empty, like figments of the ear,
all aromas, tastes, tactile sensations, as sensory figment,
all mental activity and internal experience as figments of mind.
Hang loosely in the space where everything is unreal,
free of the intellect's obsessive addictive beliefs.
Fi n ding Com fort and Ease in E n ch ant men t I 71
The Meditation
Now regarding the meditative process of familiarization,
in preparation, do as before:
aspire to intuit all experience as mirage.
But the main point is to let the mind settle,
without fluctuation, without hope or fear,
in the mirage-like spaciousness of all experience.
Past, present, future; early, earlier, earliest; late, later, latest; punctual,
unpunctual; directly, suddenly, gradually; timely, untimely; etc.
76 I MA y A y 0 GA
The apparent world and all our lives, samsara and nirvana,
are our pictured forms of emptiness, like the moon in water;
nothing in origin, nothing in their advent, nothing in the
moment,
duplicitously imputed by the intellect as true or false, real
or unreal,
why should we cling to opinions and preferences?
The Meditation
As before, in preparation, aspire to see every moment
as the reflection of the moon in water.
The main praxis is to settle in cognitive sameness,
allowing the mind to perceive what arises
as the reflection of the moon in water.
The Meditation
To become familiar with that realization, as before,
in preparation, aspire to recognize echo in all things.
In the main praxis take each experience as empty echo,
for it contains nothing to grasp in the moment it resounds
... .
Focus concentrated attention in every sensory impression.
The Meditation
Now to familiarize ourselves with this reality,
we prepare in the same way as before,
aspiring to recognize every situation as Gandharva City.
The main stance is to clearly identify all colour and form,
empty in appearance, as gandharva cities,
all sounds, smells, flavours, sensations and ideas as gandharva
cities,
all judgements occurring as gandharva cities.
As before, night and day, we accustom ourselves
to everything-whatever appears-as gandharva cities.
* Earth, water, fire, air, space; solidity, fluidity, heat, motility and
dimension.
t The sky, the earth and the subterranean realm populated by gods,
men and naga spirits respectively.
Fi n d i n g C o m f o r t a n d E a s e i n E n c h an t m en t I 87
The Meditation
To gain unswerving familiarity with the natural state of being,
as before thepreparation is guru-yoga
and aspiration to cultivate experience as apparition.
The main practice is to reinforce experiential conviction
that mind is like apparition,
that the nature of appearances in mind are also like apparition,
that everything is uncontrived, unoriginated, is like apparition.
Let it be in the nature of mind without the slightest agitation.
Concluding Verses
In order to demonstrate the teachings of the buddhas
upon the eight illustrations of magical illusion
I have collected 'the elixir of sutra, tantra and oral instruction
and expressed them as stainless sunbeams.
The Meditation
To prepare, as before, we aspire to see things as a movie
and the every-day praxis is to gain familiarity with it.
See the events of the waking state as unreal like a movie;
hear all sounds as the sound track of a movie;
hang loosely in the space where everything is unreal already,
free of belief in the reality of our perceptions and conceptions.
The Meditation
To prepare, as before, we aspire to see all things as a hologram
and the main practice is to gain familiarity with that insight.
imputation: brtags
intellectual projections: spros pa
labels, signs: brtags
light-form: snang ha
lucid dream: rmi lam zin
maya: sgyu ma
natural state of being: gnas lugs
nature, natural: gshis
no essence to grasp conceptually: ngo bo ngos gzung med
obsessive compulsion, compulsive attachment
identity: 'dzin zhen
passionate belief: zhen 'dzin
perfectly appropriate response: yon tan
phenomena: chos rnams
polluted: ma dag
potency: rtsal
pristine: dag
propositions: spros pa
pure mind: byang chub sems
realization: rtogs pa
reality: chos nyid
recognition: rtogs pa
self-envisionment: rang snang
self-imaged: rang snang
self-sprung: rang byung
simplicity: spros bral
spaciousness: dbyings
specific characteristic: mtshan nyid
spontaneity: lhun grub
synchronicity: rten 'brel
transparent, transparency: zang thal
uncreate: ma skyes
uncrystallized: ma dgag
GLOSSARY I 109
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