In a recent talk on the Bardo–the transition between life and death–Nyogen Roshi highlights an insight from a modern Tibetan master’s commentary on a classic text: Each of us exists in the Bardo right now. The only thing that keeps us from seeing the poignant rising and falling of each moment, and from realizing our practice as “the doorway to repose and bliss,” is our addiction to our thoughts and fantasies. “If you’re talking to yourself,” Roshi says, “that’s the flaw that floats on the eye of this Buddha-mind. Your conditioning, your likes and dislikes, your belief system–all this is false. No thinking–that’s the complete teaching. It will, in fact, change your life.”
Mind Beyond Death by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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