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DRAFT
October 2009
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by
Lama Surya Das
(Lama Kunzang Tenzin)
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Emaho!
First, find a comfortable seat.
Breathe, relax, center and smile.
Befriend yourself.
Relax and release
all the physical and mental tension.
Focus on your inhalation,
Relax with your exhalation.
Doff the straitjacket of habitual
neurotic tendencies and preoccupations,
And just let go, let come and go.
There is nirvanic peace in things left
Just as they are.
Let be, at home,
on the spot.
Awake and aware.
As it is,
KuntuZangpo!
You are the one
Youve been waiting for.
OM
Now, pray to the Buddha and/or your
Root Guru
From the heart, in your own words,
With whatever prayers and invocations
you know,
Or without words and concepts.
Rest inseparable
In meditative equipoise,
balanced and at ease
In the innate Buddhaness of ones
original nature,
KuntuZangpo!
You are the one.
Just sitting, just breathing, just being.
Enjoy the Three Naturals:
Natural body, natural breath & energy,
natural heart-mind.
Simply perceiving and experiencing,
Allowing and releasing,
Savor the natural state of just being.
All good,
KuntuZangpo!
AH
American Buddhas, awaken!
Cast off your mental fabrications and conceptual
imputations.
Why try to tie knots in the sky?
Take a break from self-improvement
and other projects.
Dont let your mind bother you.
Lighten up and enlighten up;
Keep your native sense of humor.
Dance in emptiness,
the last and best resort!
Be a wisdom pioneer, a Dzogchenaut
plumb inner space,
And let your limitless enlightenment potential
effortlessly unfold.
Buddhas not pretending
Ordinariness and naturalness is the Way.
Recognize the perfect equality and rightness of all
things, splendid KuntuZangpo!
HUNG
Now, with nothing more to do,
Enjoy the View
Nothing to adopt or abandon,
KuntuZangpo!
You are it.
Now, breathing freely.
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II. THE PATH: REFLECTING
THE COMMON PRELIMINARIES
To abandon the harmful and unwholesome,
To adopt the wholesome & helpful,
To purify the mindstream:
This is the Buddhas teaching.
-- Sakyamuni Buddha
A. BUDDHAS FACTS OF LIFE & THE FOUR
MIND CHANGERS
(Precious Joyous Life, Death and Impermanence,
Infallible Karmic Causation, and the Defects and
Sufferings of Samsara)
Which, when contemplated upon, further world-weariness,
re-orient and motivate us, and give rise to inner conviction
and freedom through nonattachment and renunciation.
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PHOWA
PASSING ON PRAYER
When the sunset of this life arrives
and its twilight shadows fade away,
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(Three alone-ish)
1. Daily-ish explicit spiritual practice sessions
2. Spiritual study, inquiry and self-observation
3. Inner growth work
(Three together-ish, involving others)
4. Group practice
5. Teacher practice
6. Selfless service and compassion in action
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SARVA MANGALAM
May all be well and happy!
Lama Surya Das, January 1, 2000
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COLOPHON:
To fulfill the repeated request of sincerely devoted
students of the Dzogchen Center, while remembering
always the kindness, support, inspiration and
encouragement of the venerable master Nyoshul Khen
Rinpoche from Khatok Monastery in Tibet and his
glorious Longchenpa lineage; following in the large
footsteps of his lineage teachers, this happily extroverted
hermit Kunzang Tenzin has dared to set down these
English words of foundational ngondro practice along the
Pedernales River in the Valley of the Dharma Kings at
Dzogchen Osel Ling outside Austin, Texas, in February of
2007.
May they be useful, effective and auspicious!
May beings be benefited and the sublime BuddhaDharma
flourish on these shores!
May the lineage teachers live long and strong, & the flag
of authentic study and practice always fly high and point
out the direction of free spirit!
Lha Gya-lo!
Homage to the invisible array
Which always accompanies, blesses, guides and protects
practitioners and upholders of the Buddha Way.
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