"If looking outwardly, there is nothing that cannot be done. If reflecting inwardly, there is nothing that lacks being done. If thinking with certainty, it is not a realm of intellect . New Melody (Yangchen Sarma)'s nature, who can fathom that?" --8th Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje ཕྱི་ནས་བལྟས་ན་མི་བྱ་ཅི་ཡང་མེད། ། ནང་ནས་གཞིགས་ན་ཅི་ཡང་བྱེད་པ་བྲལ། ། ངེས་པར་བསམས་ན་བློ་ཡི་ཡུལ་མ་ཡིན། ། དབྱངས་ཅན་གསར་མའི་རང་བཞིན་སུ་ཡིས་དཔོགས། ། Translator’s Introduction… Continue reading NEW TRANSLATION: No Regrets: “New Melody (Yangchen Sarma)”’s Reflections: Verses by the 8th Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje (tr. Adele Tomlin)
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ORIGINS OF SECRET MANTRA (DAY 4): ‘HUMAN NATURE’ AND VEDIC GODS: Fire, intoxicants, money, death and the Vedic ‘dark side’: Demi-Gods, Maras, Flesh-eaters, and the four priests required for sacrificial offerings (by 17th Karmapa)
With the years of my youth passing awayI have wandered all across the land of India, east and west.I have studied Sanskrit, most useful,And the useless language of the foreigners. --Gedun Chophel, Tibetan translator of the Upanishads and Dhammapada[i] We need to understand the background and history of Indian civilization. Only when we understand that,… Continue reading ORIGINS OF SECRET MANTRA (DAY 4): ‘HUMAN NATURE’ AND VEDIC GODS: Fire, intoxicants, money, death and the Vedic ‘dark side’: Demi-Gods, Maras, Flesh-eaters, and the four priests required for sacrificial offerings (by 17th Karmapa)
NEW TRANSLATION: ‘Gushing Flood of Melodious, Laughing Praise: Explanation of the Root Mantra of Lion of Speech, Mañjuśrī’ by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
"Seeing ultimate nature itself, and invincible, infinite knowledge, the way of profound understanding.From dharma clouds of courage and strength, a shower of peaceful, calm nectar descends.Chief of billions of victors and siblings, whom seeing, hearing, recalling and touching establishes enlightenment.May all beings continually enter into the liberating oceans of primordial-awareness beings!" ---Excerpt from Gushing Flood… Continue reading NEW TRANSLATION: ‘Gushing Flood of Melodious, Laughing Praise: Explanation of the Root Mantra of Lion of Speech, Mañjuśrī’ by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo