“Cloud Lover”
Above Crystal Lake, the dense soft clouds rolled in coils, smooth rondures stretched out like graceful limbs. My imagination reached out and touched them, created them, rolled and smoothed them. Their tender flesh was clay to my sculpting mind. The clouds were my lover’s thighs all smooth and flawless. They were her breasts, so gracefully […]
Continue reading“The Snow Leopard”
“There, straight ahead of them, on a gray rock, sat a snow leopard. And what a beauty it was! The cat appeared to be about five feet in length, weighing in the neighborhood of a hundred pounds. Its fur was white with black spots. Black rosettes covered its back and its belly was white. The […]
Continue reading“Gyatso’s Teaching”
‘The world that you perceive is an illusion. It is a product of your conditioning, which must be overcome if you are to find unity where you now see only duality. Self-reliance explains itself. While a teacher is of great value to you in your early stages of evolution, ultimately, you must do all the […]
Continue reading“Gyatso’s Teachings”
“‘Mahamudra is the natural state of mind: effortless, pure awareness.” He slowly moved his hand through the air, indicating the calmness of nature surrounding them. “No matter what you do, no matter what situation you are in, whether walking, sitting, eating or lying down, always suspend your attention within the nature of nondual awareness. Samsara, […]
Continue reading“Tibet”
“Looking around, he saw a landscape of breathtaking beauty. From both sides, spined mountains ran down into a valley of deep green. Straight ahead rose three successive ranges of peaks, each of greater height than its predecessor, and the last poking its peaks right into the belly of the clouds. The clouds were softly contoured […]
Continue reading“Pure Consciousness”
“‘Mahamudra,” Gyatso replied, ‘is the realization of the natural state as awareness-emptiness, absolutely clear and transparent, without root. It is unified and beyond the mind, is clear yet thoughtless, pervasive, and vast like space. Its aspect of great compassion is apparent, yet devoid of any nature. Manifesting clearly like the moon in water, it is […]
Continue reading“Celestial Fireworks”
“When the friends reached the bottom of the trail, they turned to look back at the rocky heights. Through some fluke of atmospheric conditions, the sun behind the mesa was shooting out long filaments of white light, filaments that looked like compressed and radiant contrails from multiple rocket launches. The arc of the sun’s top […]
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