Mahamudra: Stillness and Motion

[@chokysenge]

Thank you very much Lama Lena!

[@nicholasoberry1010]

The comment at the end about practitioners of Trekchod trying to stabilize an appearance is absolutely perfect. Thank you.

[@GeoSkywalker]

Thank you lama infinite times 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@andrewmarcus8228]

Thank you for your teachings. They are wonderful. Can you talk about the bardos?

[@morpety]

The living Dharma. Just listened to His HOLINESS the Dali Lama and was put to sleep with his recitation of texts which put his audience to sleep too. He never got beyond the realm of thought. He should be demoted to His Learnedness. Here is the transmission of an authentic text projected with the being of an enlightened being full of living pointing. I am inspired by her in-perfection which makes me trust her. Her exposition of secrets withheld puts traditions such as the Gurdjieff tradition to shame. After 40 years of seeking I could without question say this lady is someone I would bow down to as my teacher.

[@taraclover4783]

Thank you lamaLena for sharing this precious teaching from Wangor Rinpoche given by H.H. the 16th Karmapa. Fully dedicating all the merits for the liberation of all sentient beings. Karmapa kheno🙏🙏🙏❣

[@williamcallahan5218]

Is Lena saying kultura aljur as the name of Stillness/Movement Yoga? at 1:16:56? Thanks for any clarification offered.

[@LamaLenaTeachings]

"trul tra naljor", which translates to "moving - stillness yoga", or as Lama Lena calls it, the yoga of dancing stillness.

[@secretlifeofsparrows]

Birwapa = Mahasiddha Virupa?

[@VanadisAlcyone]

Yes, Birwapa is the pronunciation in Tibetan of Virupa

[@Spectre2434]

🙏🙏🙏

[@whitenozze]

Who was the old woman with 1 eye?

[@tarakekaha2065]

I believe Ekazati.

[@garypuckettmuse]

these projections that our own small mind creates are for our convenience to separate a question from an answer to help us proceed on our karmic path. The old woman with one eye may be a symbol in a certain culture like a guardian angel or a self help book telling you what you already know. The old woman with one eye is self pulling away from self in order to put self back together in a more natural way, a less broken way. These cultural projections of "helpers" are very powerful if people imbue them with the powers they are said to possess. Otherwise they are just dolls on a shelf. There is only one creator and one creation and there is no creator and no creation. An old woman with one eye is just there to cup her hands to give a "boost" up that steep hill. And, by the way, I never could relate to these external projections and they were always lifeless and mute "material" objects to me. Oh, but then I began to see the light in them, they are techniques, they are comfort, they are guides and prayers to the "self". Some stuck up people look down upon objects as teachers or even symbols of guru, and it is true that some people practice with objects in very shallow ways such as a projection of some sort of being that can bring luck or money and that gives these practices a less than pristine name but, oh, truly, the self has unfathomable powers and even resting a smidgen of that power in an object can enliven it and empower it -- that object will talk back to you when you address it and it will speak truth to earthly power. That object is capable of taking you by the hand and hacking through a jungle with a butter knife. And then there are objects that come with their own power and it is just recognized. The first time I was a statue of Nataraja I instantly read and heard and saw and felt the complete shattering of all universes in the same instant they are reformed in the instant of one gesture creating one *big bang* on Shiva's damaru. Sometimes a symbol hunts you done like a laser; sometimes you have to be willing in your unconscious mind to bring a symbol to "life" and sometimes the whole exercise just remains an intellectual one which is valuable in it's own way but doesn't have "extra" beyond understanding by intellect.

[@whitenozze]

@@garypuckettmuse I wanted to know the specific lore of the old woman lol, I get the symbolism, just like hearing the stories

[@garypuckettmuse]

@@whitenozze sorry to disappoint but thanks for letting me know how inadequate my response was. the lore is probably on wikipedia or buddhapedia or something. best wshes.

[@obaozai]

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