Devotion Mahamudra

Devotion Mahamudra

 "You cannot have complete devotion without surrendering your heart.  Otherwise the whole thing becomes a business deal.  As long as you have any understanding of wakefulness, any understanding of the sitting practice of meditation, you always carry your vajra master with you all along.  That is why we talk about the mahamudra level of all-pervasive awareness.  With such awareness, everything that goes on is the vajra master.  So if your vajra master is far away, there is really no reason for sadness-- although some sadness can be useful, because it brings you back from arrogance."

   Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

In the hinayana  shamatha/vipashyana training leads us to a coemergent panic attack.  We realize that our habitual attempt to solidify our experience falls apart.  What co-emerges with that falling apart is a sense of complete openness and space--"no man's land."  By resting in that momentarily again and again we develop a familiarity with that basic space.  Out of that familiarity a sense of tenderness and non-territoriality develops.  We realize that the habitual projections of sems have no legs to stand on-- that no battle needs to be waged.  "The point is there is no point and so we can just let be."  From this "soft spot" in our suit of armour we then encounter the world of "other" which is the bodhisattva path of exchanging ourselves for other.  We realize that this experience of "open-hearted surgery without an anesthetic" is where the path leads us.  At this point in our journey we begin to understand that there is an authentic lineage and an authentic guru who manifests this path for us.  Its almost like we just woke up to the fact that they are the living embodiment of this open space which is actually terrifying and at the same time absolutely true.  Entering the gate of the Vajrayana is said to be like a snake entering a bamboo tube-- we either go towards this naked hearted awareness or we try to hide from it by constructing elaborate defences.  We discover through the path of guru yoga the adamantine truth of vajra sanity and are "engalloped" in the blessings of the lineage.Cost :

$595.00 includes room and board