Karma Lingpa – Luminous Emptiness

Reflections on Verse 13 – Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness

05/09/2024 | Leave a Comment

The Terton Karma Lingpa discovered the Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness on top of Mount Gampodar when aged 15, together with the text commonly known in the west as the Tibetan Book of the Dead – more correctly called Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State The Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness is […]

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Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness – Verse 10 – Karma Lingpa / Padmasambhava

16/08/2024 | Leave a Comment

These verses from Self-Liberation: Through Seeing with Naked Awareness are as if directly spoken face to face with me by Karma Lingpa. How potent! Mind’s nature is empty It is certain that the nature of the mind is empty and without any foundation whatsoever. Your own mind is insubstantial like the empty sky. You should

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Verse 27 – Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness – Karma Lingpa / Padmasambhava

19/05/2005 | 3 Comments

Because of the unobstructed nature of the mind, there is a continuous arising of appearances.Like the waves and the waters of the ocean, which are not two (different things),Whatever arises is liberated into the natural state of the mind.However many different names are applied to it in this unceasing process of naming things,With respect to

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Happiness and sadness of life - painting by Purvasha Roy

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Joy and Sadness

31/12/2004 | 7 Comments

When you are born you cry, but the whole world is overjoyed. When you die the whole world cries, but you may find the great liberation. Bardo ThodolKarma Lingpa

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Verse 4 – Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness – Karma Lingpa / Padmasambhava

09/12/2004 | Leave a Comment

Emaho! It is the single (nature of) mind which encompasses all of Samsara and Nirvana. Even though its inherent nature has existed from the very beginning, you have not recognized it; Even though its clarity and presence has been uninterrupted, you have not yet encountered its face. Even though its arising has nowhere been obstructed,

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