 Today , a beautiful gentle spring day of March, 15, 2012, in Palo Alto, California in USA, a glimpse appeared at something so profound…that in the past pieces of it had showed up , but not so complete and whole…
The move that feels so right… is to bow to my teachers who are teaching this glimpsing… and the view that is present in this glimpsing, and perhaps by practice the glimpse can stabilize?!…
So in the spirit of bowing in deep appreciation, I am moved to type this note to express…
Is there any gift above and higher than freedom from my own limit setting/ignorance?  I feel, not…
Thank you beloved lineage teachers…(Guru Rinpoche, Long Chen Pa, Milarepa, Tartang Tulku Rinpoche, Jack Petranker… and the inner illuminating awareness…) who continue to expound how to glimpse, and through practice embody this freedom…
As I read a story last night before bed, it echoed and facilitated this morning’s glimpsing… so I re-read it this morning, after practicing exercise 5 (Abiding, in DTS) in a meditative manner… and oh my … the glimpse appeared…
Here is the part of the story or the song that gets sung by the major character in the story…
The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, Volume IÂ (P 212)
Because I see the self-face of the View,
The thought of contrast by itself dissolves;
How then can I have the Idea-of-Two-
the self and others?
The View is void of limit and discrimination.
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When in the Practice I become absorbed,
Good and evil are reduced to self-liberation;
How then can I have the Idea-of-Two-
happiness and suffering?
The Practice is devoid of limitary feelings and experience.Â
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When I adhere to the self-continuance of Action,
Dislike is reduced to self-liberation;
How then can I have the Impulse-of-Two-
craving, and aversion?
The Action is free from limitary attachment.
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Since self-liberation is the Fruit,
Both Nirvana and Samsara are reduced to it.
How then can I have the Idea-of-Two-
getting and abandoning?
Absence of fear and hope is
The Fruit of this great Practice.Â
In appreciation,
Soudi
Good morning, Soudi,
Thank you for sharing your experience and the song of Milarepa. The refrain–that there are not two–reminds me of something I read in a book by Eckhart Tolle. He is describing waking up with unbearable dread and alienation within his own being. Then he realizes something.
“I cannot live with myself any longer.” This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was. “Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the “I” and the “self” that “I cannot live with.” “Maybe,” I thought, “only one of them is real.”
So maybe it’s not only “self and others” that are not two. Perhaps when we judge ourselves, as if we could stand outside the circumstances and impulses with which we live out our lives, that is also a false separation, and one which obscures the greater whole in which we are swimming. –Michael
Hello Michael:
How true… Ekhart has been one of the peaople who I used to listen to all the time… some how my favorite album of him the power of now ( in a retreat slow format) just disappeared!!!!
I wonder if I lend it to someone and never got it back! I have lend that album to a few!! He is a very articulate teacher…
now daring to experiment within me and my experience is refreshing and new… instad of just hearing conceptually… I wonder what has shifted!? It does not matter… This course keeps inviting me to live it … than think it…
Or is it that the time is running out and there is a realization that I better do something with all that is in my head!!! before I forget it all in my rebirth soon…
Soudi