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Six words of advice - Tilopa
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14-10-13 下午11:58
http://www.unfetteredmind.org/includes/sixwords.pdf

Another good Mahamudra list:
Don’t recall
(Let go of what has passed) 

Don’t imagine
(Let go of what may come)

Don’t think
(Let go of what is happening now)

Don’t examine
(Don’t try to figure anything out)
 
Don’t control
(Don’t try to make anything happen)

Rest
(Relax, right now, and rest)


RE: Six words of advice - Tilopa
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14-10-14 上午1:44 回复Richard Zen。
This also sounds like the dzogchen "pointing out" - are they essentially the same thing?  I always liked these tibetian ideas.

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14-10-14 上午9:02 回复Not Tao。
I think this looks more like instructions for Shikantaza since it looks for all the possible clingings that could be there and what to let go of. Of couse you wouldn't want to do this in daily life when you actually need to think, recall etc.

RE: Six words of advice - Tilopa
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14-10-14 下午3:32 回复Richard Zen。
This might be something to examine, but I don't think these pairs match up:

Don’t recall
(Let go of what has passed)

Don’t imagine
(Let go of what may come)

Don’t think
(Let go of what is happening now)

If you're letting go, does that really mean stopping various mental processes, or does it mean allowing them without inhibitions. The last one especially, I think letting go of what's happening can cause a lot of thoughts to "break loose" so to speak. I think I favor the bottom lines over the top. The top sounds like a lot of "doing," which goes against the very last line saying to rest.

RE: Six words of advice - Tilopa
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14-10-14 下午5:29 回复Not Tao。
Yeah the second lines are more detailed. Letting go is not repressing.

RE: Six words of advice - Tilopa
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14-10-14 下午11:19 回复Richard Zen。
Song of Mahamudra - by Tilopa, its like these words but more comprehensive. always calms me down without fail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaZHrg_7EAA


RE: Six words of advice - Tilopa
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14-10-14 下午11:48 回复(D Z) Dhru Val。
Very relaxing.