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InvisibleChronic7
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Tilopa
    #14162802 - 03/22/11 01:40 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Just came across this dude today, i like him a lot

The 6 precepts or words of advice he gave his student Naropa was...

Don't remember
Don't imagine
Don't think
Don't examine
Don't control
Rest

In short he was the living embodiment of a materialists (or spiritual practitioners) nightmare! :lol:


“The problem is not enjoyment, the problem is attachment.”

Tilopa


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Re: Tilopa [Re: Chronic7]
    #14162860 - 03/22/11 01:59 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Sweet. Now wouldn't that be nice to maintain that constant state of rest.

"The fool in his ignorance, disdaining Mahamudra,
Knows nothing but struggle in the flood of samsara.
Have compassion for those who suffer constant anxiety!
Sick of unrelenting pain and desiring release, adhere to a master,
For when his blessing touches your heart, the mind is liberated." wiki

I wonder if Tilopa suggested a master is required to adhere to that advice(?)

Meher -
"There are two kinds of experience: real and imitation. Just as it
is difficult to distinguish an imitation from a real pearl, so it is
difficult to distinguish between an imitation and a real spiritual
experience.

When finally the Real Experience is gained, worldly things and
circumstances cannot affect you. Once gained, the Real
Experience is never lost; it is permanent. To get this Experience
Hafiz has said, Become footless and headless.

What is meant by becoming footless and headless? It means
implicitly obeying the Perfect Master: following His orders
literally and not using your head to analyse their significance;
doing only what He wants you to do -- your feet moving at His
command and your life being lived in the way of His love." Meher


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Re: Tilopa [Re: soldatheero]
    #14168086 - 03/23/11 01:31 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Nowadays seekers can use intellectual understanding to pretend they don't need a master to awaken, even though it's been repeatedly said for thousands of years that it is necessary
People can be temporarily satisfied by their self created imitation experiences, but any imitation is a limitation, the Real is limitless



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Re: Tilopa [Re: Chronic7]
    #14168275 - 03/23/11 02:55 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

The Chronic said:
Nowadays seekers can use intellectual understanding to pretend they don't need a master to awaken, even though it's been repeatedly said for thousands of years that it is necessary
People can be temporarily satisfied by their self created imitation experiences, but any imitation is a limitation, the Real is limitless






:congrats:


paradoxically, this awakening occurs within yet is triggered externally. so is it there accessible all along or is it only available in the presence of another? whatever the answer to that is, love is the answer to the next question.


our truest nature is to serve. and to have someone who is humble to the nature of human existence and is aware of anothers openness to be led (instead of playing the unacknowledged social power tug and pull games) is an enormously valuable spiritual resource. its a state of honesty and openness that most NEVER experience.

i believe most are still stuck at the level of a bratty child (while not enjoying life like a child) merely behaving under an illusion of civility while not actually valuing peace and the idea of community.. because they can't humble themselves to their nature which they judge as being weak or pathetic they are not respectful of their true sensitivity so they starve their selves of love because they are too proud to let 'it' be so they instead by social games to try and take it from others. but if they had someone who was aware of all this and would gladly give 'it' to them while also keeping their pride in check then their spiritual progress would take off.


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Re: Tilopa [Re: Chronic7]
    #14168594 - 03/23/11 07:02 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

The Chronic said:
Nowadays seekers can use intellectual understanding to pretend they don't need a master to awaken, even though it's been repeatedly said for thousands of years that it is necessary
People can be temporarily satisfied by their self created imitation experiences, but any imitation is a limitation, the Real is limitless






so because masters have been saying for thousands of years they are necessary makes it true?

The Catholic church has been saying similar things about the necessity of the church and priests.


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Re: Tilopa [Re: Icelander]
    #14169899 - 03/23/11 12:58 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Some surrender is necessary, whether you surrender to a human Guru, a mountain, a statue, whatever, surrender is necessary.

Going to another human for help to find your own freedom is a beautiful thing, especially when that human is telling you that you have to do it yourself, it's the act of going to another human that can bring a suppleness into the mind that enables you to do it yourself. It's the intention, it's like telling the universe 'im ready, please show yourself, i need to know' and that desperation can lead you to one that does 'know', it's a common fact (?) that being around someone who has mastered meditation can enable your own meditation to be strong, its just so cliche with words like 'masters', 'gurus' & 'god' that peoples egos get turned off, and good, because then they aren't ready anyway.


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Re: Tilopa [Re: NastyDHL]
    #14169968 - 03/23/11 01:05 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

NastyDHL said:
so is it there accessible all along or is it only available in the presence of another?




Good point, it is there all along, ever present, but the minds rigidity keeps it from recognizing it's ever presence, loosening the minds rigidity is what is needed to recognize a subtle truth

Its a delicate balance, such a paradox, because there is time where surrender to a form happens & then consequently the mind gains strength to recognize its formlessness all alone

And it's all only ever the Self anyway, me surrendering to Ramana is just my mind surrendering to another form of myself, it's my ego submitting to something greater than itself, all the forms & disciple/master relationships is just on the surface, its just so one can get over his/her ego & dig deeper


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Re: Tilopa [Re: Chronic7]
    #14170059 - 03/23/11 01:17 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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it's a common fact (?) that being around someone who has mastered meditation can enable your own meditation to be strong




here are some nifty quotes from zen master rama about that:

If you are a student of an enlightened master, you can literally tap into his aura, anywhere and at anytime. All you have to do is meditate on your Buddhist master and the light will come into your mind.

No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many previous incarnations.

At times your entire body tingles with ecstasy as you feel the waves of psychic energy that emanate from the master's aura touching your own body.

If the teacher is truly enlightened, energy and light is always coming forth from them. To be in their physical presence is a great boon, not of the teacher but of that light which passes through them.

If you can develop a connection, what we call an inner connection with the teacher, then it is not even necessary to be in the physical presence of the teacher, although it will always be stronger.


http://ramaquotes.com/html/enlightened_teachers.html


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Re: Tilopa [Re: Chronic7]
    #14170310 - 03/23/11 01:58 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

so whos the master masters master ?
:smile:


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Re: Tilopa [Re: Chronic7]
    #14170370 - 03/23/11 02:06 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

i don't think my imagination is going anywhere :discorex:

but sometimes it is necessary to abandon the mind.  it'll always come back better.


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Re: Tilopa [Re: Chronic7]
    #14170740 - 03/23/11 03:10 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

The Chronic said:
Some surrender is necessary, whether you surrender to a human Guru, a mountain, a statue, whatever, surrender is necessary.

Going to another human for help to find your own freedom is a beautiful thing, especially when that human is telling you that you have to do it yourself, it's the act of going to another human that can bring a suppleness into the mind that enables you to do it yourself. It's the intention, it's like telling the universe 'im ready, please show yourself, i need to know' and that desperation can lead you to one that does 'know', it's a common fact (?) that being around someone who has mastered meditation can enable your own meditation to be strong, its just so cliche with words like 'masters', 'gurus' & 'god' that peoples egos get turned off, and good, because then they aren't ready anyway.




it's a common fact

Nice story.


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Re: Tilopa [Re: Icelander]
    #14171006 - 03/23/11 03:59 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Being around someone who's relaxed doesn't help you relax?


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Re: Tilopa [Re: Tony]
    #14173267 - 03/23/11 10:56 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

when i used to get really relaxed my roommate would start getting really antsy and try to bother me. some people don't like mirrors.


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Re: Tilopa [Re: Tony]
    #14175748 - 03/24/11 01:09 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

:lol: yeah it can go either way, a master can either open up your mind to the inner peace, or completely disturb your mind, apart from loving an environment that's 100% about the truth i go to satsang because its the one place that can still appear to disturb my mind, kindof like taking psychedelics to deepen meditation, you don't necessarily only take them because it's all blissfull but because they challenge you


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Re: Tilopa [Re: Chronic7]
    #14175931 - 03/24/11 01:46 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I greatly approve of this thread on all sides. Thanks all.


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Re: Tilopa [Re: Chronic7]
    #14175958 - 03/24/11 01:54 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

When I was in Mooji's satsang it was enough that he looked in the general direction where I was sitting to make me feel disturbed. In fact it was like getting hit on the forehead by an invisible bullet when he was first scanning the room, then I just sat there shaking. :crazy:


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    #14176232 - 03/24/11 02:38 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

omg you went to a physical satsang?! awesome dude. One day...


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Re: Tilopa [Re: g00ru]
    #14179347 - 03/24/11 11:15 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

It was just a two-hour one-evening satsang, but I still feel it was worth the "expenses". Just gotta tear yourself out of the matrix, even if that means some flesh will stick to the cables.. :grin:


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Re: Tilopa [Re: Tony]
    #14180558 - 03/25/11 05:54 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

Tony said:
When I was in Mooji's satsang it was enough that he looked in the general direction where I was sitting to make me feel disturbed. In fact it was like getting hit on the forehead by an invisible bullet when he was first scanning the room, then I just sat there shaking. :crazy:




odd.
i wonder how many other people have made you feel the same way.


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Re: Tilopa [Re: jivJaN]
    #14180881 - 03/25/11 08:24 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

No one recently. When I was a kid lots of people make me nervous, but I guess it takes a progressively more "advanced" being to bring up those deep insecurities about myself, "advanced" being also my own projection.


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