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Six words of advice - Tilopa
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10/13/14 11:58 PM
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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10/14/14 1:44 AM as a reply to 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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10/14/14 9:02 AM as a reply to 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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10/14/14 3:32 PM as a reply to 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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10/14/14 5:29 PM as a reply to Not Tao.
Yeah the second lines are more detailed. Letting go is not repressing.

RE: Six words of advice - Tilopa
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10/14/14 11:19 PM as a reply to 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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10/14/14 11:48 PM as a reply to (D Z) Dhru Val.
Very relaxing.