Blazing Light, Love's Song

As the world watches today’s election procedings, we meditate with our hand on our heart radiating light, love, and presence through the mechanism that is shared by all beings: the heart.

Radiant clarity, peaceful equanimity, a smile of loving presence, courtesy and respect.

May all of our meditations, from all the traditions and sources we benefit from, pour luminous clarity and warm-heartedness into the world, into the U.S. during this election and after, and into all moments of our day, each day.

We begin with the quotation from Tuesday’s post and today’s session:

“Since pure awareness of nowness is the real buddha, in openness and contentment I found the lama in my heart.”
The Vajra Essence, vol 3, pg. xv.

In order to receive the potential support that this quotation is offering, one is invited into the range of meaning of each term within Dujom Lingpa’s words. Pure, awareness, nowness, real, buddha, openness, contentment, lama (teacher), heart. Each word is layered, related to a common and/or intrinsic quality, and can be experienced right now, or any time any where. Therefore, the invitation is to flow, not to get hung up on definitions.

With that freedom, each person can and will experience nowness; each person will feel the expanse of openness and possibilities or the contraction of being unopen. Etc.

We meditate!

We’re back! Let’s bring something from the week-long retreat to the morning practice: essence.

The term “essence” was not a feature of discussion, per se, but featured strongly in people’s experiences as we meditated. That was evident in their sharings and the glow that pervaded the field and frequently radiated from individuals.

Let’s set our online morning practice with a quotation from Dujom Lingpa: “Since pure awareness of nowness is the real buddha, in openness and contentment I found the lama in my heart.” The Vajra Essence, vol 3, pg. xv.

We have been opening to nowness and awareness for a while now in the morning practice. Is it “pure awareness” and Dujom Lingpa’s nonconceptual nowness? Not for this practitioner. Not yet. But, the tastes of Presence, nowness, simplicity, and awareness “in its seat” keep me oriented and orienting to the “pure” of the moment, the “now” that IS the only now for any of us. Humbled, I bow to simplicity, with the sense that whatever simple openness is, it is a worthwhile direction (inward, that is).

May you discover pure awareness now!