Lama Shabkar - A Guided Meditation on Examining the "Mind" - Dzogchen

[@Stephenskandhas42]

Extraordinary pointing. Why are the most profound teachings so obvious in language and tone, my goodness. Endless thanks to you Sister, once more. What grace.

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Hagz kisses and gratitude from Ethiopia

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[@IAmWord]

I've been really struggling with this personhood lately with work routine seeming to constantly reaffirm this person. I started playing this and there is now more space around things. I Am grateful for the pointers and as much for the space I experience when listening to your narration. Thank you.

[@vajraloka1]

Relax into whatever you are doing with completeness, with no subject working and no concept, pure activity is samadhi no person there but thoughts of "me" and. " them". ( i couldn't before retirement but you Can !!😄😆😅 )

[@santoshheera4713]

It has been very pleasant and clarifying to hear all these teachings through your voice ... deep thanks Samaneri ❤️🙏

[@harjotmahal8985]

These teachings take me to the natural state so efficiently and effortlessly. Mind becomes silent with such peace I've never known before. Atleast I ve started recognizing this space of just being. Much gratitude. Words from the mouth of masters are Mantras that have the power of awakening inherent in them

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[@dariustwesigomwe7507]

Thank you for these readings... With love from Uganda

[@willoanz]

We're blessed to have met with those wonderful yet simple teachings that show us the way out of habitual confusion. Thank you for taking the trouble to present them to us in an easy and agreeable manner without the hardships and efforts that those gems usually required. Like feeding us, spiritual babies with palatable food... ❤

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[@melwynpinto1824]

May the light guide you always and everywhere. Hari Om

[@halatmothership6969]

Dzogchen is wonderful ...thank you

[@margaretpridham5758]

Thank you Samaneri I value your readings deeply. Heartfelt thanks. 🙏 Margaret

[@ceciliaroggero9874]

I’m day by day absolutely grateful for your so loving, intense and direct to the soul videos.. Seeing with great pleasure each more and more followers 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@bigdon37]

SAMADHI TOO ALL🙏❤️

[@paulholbach3716]

Ah one of my favourite meditations. I come back to it several times when I'm too tired to meditate. The same recording is on Sam Harris' Waking Up App in S. Jayasara's Series of Wisdom Texts under Dzogchen & Mahamudra along with other great readings, especially Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche & Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

[@davidmontemayor4383]

Thank you very very much! With gratitude!

[@clausgrasel7389]

Thank you so munch for all these readings 😀😘

[@gregorylent]

always there are smiles, while listening, bells of recognition while the words flow by

[@tavares_ferreira]

🤯 Bless you! Thank you!

[@shadcrow522]

Thank you sister.

[@swingtradingpsychology]

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[@madhavangopalan7463]

Excellent explanation Ignorent of It my gratitude to thou 🙏🌹

[@rahulgandhi752]

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[@sophiyasharma8657]

Dear Samaneri la...as always your voice and these timeless gems of wisdom together bring me back to the view....heartfelt gratitude 🙏🏽

[@SiSwitzer]

Thank you for this reading of a wonderful teaching, the quintessential dzogchen book is such an amazing book and this is a simple but valuable teaching 🙏

[@gyeltshendrukpabuddhism7446]

A wonderful and clear explanation on the nature of mind and beautifully read as always. We are blessed indeed to have such powerful and direct teaching in these challenging times Thank you my dear friend in the dharma ☸ 🙏

[@JoJo-i6e]

དང་པོ་བླ་མ་བསྟེན་ནས་གདམས་ངག་གསན། ། བར་དུ་རི་ཁྲོད་དབེན་པར་ཉམས་ལེན་གནང་། ། ཐ་མར་རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཡོངས་ལ་འགྲོ་དོན་མཛད། ། ཞབས་དཀར་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། ། At the beginning, you relied on the guru and received his instructions. In the middle, you put them into practice in mountain solitudes. And at last, you accomplished the benefit of wandering beings all throughout the land. Shabkar, who is Vajradhara in-person, I bow down and pray at your feet! 🙏🙏🙏

[@Laneline5000]

Thank you!

[@frans7995]

Hi Samaneri , I find your content very useful and beneficial. You read very well and the pauses are great. Thank you. Please read the buddhist theravada suttas! It would be so amazing. I know they repeat a lot of parts, but most of that could be edited out as the repetition isnt necesary for the comprehension of the text. Those suttas are the most profound philosophical texts Ive ever read. Its amazing how old they are and that we only slightly reached such levels of analyitcal precision with Phenomenology around 1900 in the west, which goes to show how sophistacted, powerful, majestic, and beyond comprehension the dhamma expounded by the Tathagata is, that in an age of information and better education and printed books and universities, the tathagatha's knowledge is still unsurpassed.

[@SamaneriJayasara]

Hi Fran, I did respond to your last comment request in regards to this, so I am posting again as you probably didn't see it. All the best Hi Fran, thanks for your message and I'm pleased to know that you are benefitting from these readings. I appreciate your request for reading the Pali suttas and do intend to integrate a few more in the future. We have just been given a new translation of the poems of the early Buddhist nuns and these should work well in this reading format. However, not all the suttas, as you know, really suit the kind of reading format I present here for various reasons. Some do though, and I aim to work on creating some key pointings from the Dhammapada at some point. You may not be aware that I have already read my favourite sutta (The Sutta Nipata) and it is up here on my channel. Here is the direct link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHLFq6Wjp7t3Z80&ab_channel=SamaneriJayasara Also, you may not be aware that Bhante Sujato is also in the process of undertaking the huge task of reading and recording all the 4 Nikayas as we speak, so I figure his presentation and work here will be a great offering and I don't really want to either encroach or duplicate that work. I think he will be uploading his recordings/readings on to his Sutta Central site, so you will be able to find them all there and listen to them. Hope this helps!

[@frans7995]

@@SamaneriJayasara Thanks Samaneri. (I didn't see your last reply.) Indeed those early poems by the nuns are beautiful, wise, they always make Mara leave sad and dissapointed. I'd love to hear those readings. And I always listen to your reading of the Sutta Nipata, that why I wish there were more. And thanks for the heads up on Bhante's undertaking, indeed it is a great offering, for as far as I know, it hasnt been done yet and such recordings would prove very beneficial for people who have lost their sight or just prefer to be read to. All the best as well, I admire your path in life, strive on with headfulness.

[@108rasta]

Phenomenal!!! Well done

[@ElijahGarcia98]

Wonderful! Thank you so much for all these beautiful videos with so much wisdom and truth. Your voice is very soothing and helps you easily grasp the meanings, you definitely know how to pitch it!

[@nunomsilvestre8372]

It’s been some time since you appear in my list. So glad you’re back!

[@arunatamang3783]

Excellent guidance as the lessons have to be learnt fast otherwise the arrows become dud shots

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[@tyanite1]

I know empty is simply the English word used in translation. Not knowing the original language, my intuition says empty doesn’t exactly work in translation. I somewhat know what the authors are driving at, but I can’t help but think something quite significant is lost in translation. “How can a mind be empty when it is full of thoughts?” might be an example to try to express what I mean. Thank you for all you do!

[@vijayaranha9018]

Start with what you do not know

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Gratitude and loving greetings from Israel.

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Sahdu sahdu sahdu

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Om ah ra pa tsa na di

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Painted by Drugu Choegyal Rinpoche

[@SamaneriJayasara]

Yes, I did put that credit in the description under the video.

[@dabrupro]

WOW

[@guythyer4805]

Hi Samaneri, thank you for this recording. I love Shabkar, the biography Life of Shabkar and the newly published text of his "The Emanated Scripture of Manjushri" are both so so precious. I am wondering if you might be willing to do a reading of the 37 Practices of the Bodhisattva by Gyalse Thokme Zangpo. It is such a precious distillation of the Lojong teachings and has been taught so many times by his Holiness the Dalai Lama in recent years that it feels very ripe in the field :) There is also a beautiful book by Dilgo Khyentse giving commentary on each verse of the text. Blessings, Bows and Thanks to you. Guy

[@SamaneriJayasara]

Hi Guy, sure that sounds like a gem. If you have easy access to a PDF copy of it (as I currently don't) you could email it to me at: [e-mail] or point me in the right direction with website link.

[@guythyer4805]

@@SamaneriJayasara awesome. Here are two different translations, I know there would also be a version in the book with Dilgo Khyentse's commentary but I only have a paper copy of that. One advantage of that version is it includes a brief biography that is one of the more precious and inspiring biographical descriptions of a master I've read (and I have read quite a few! :) ) Here are two links to just the text: www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/gyalse-thogme-zangpo/37-practices-all-bodhisattvas and thubtenchodron.org/2010/04/mahayana-verses/

[@guythyer4805]

Another astounding Mahayana text (forgive me if you know this text very well hehe) is the King of Aspiration prayers. Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro used to recommend it to his students as a primary way of purifying their mind, just reciting it hundreds of times (in his biography this is mentioned). I've found it to be an absolute jewel of a mind training/aspirational text. It's the final chapter of the Avatamsaka sutra, which makes it especially resonant as a distillation of the Bodhisattva spirit. Here's a link to Lotsawa House's translation, but there are also books with commentaries on it as well. www.lotsawahouse.org/words-of-the-buddha/samantabhadra-aspiration-good-actions

[@SamaneriJayasara]

@@guythyer4805 Wonderful, thanks for sending those links Guy. Yes, the King of Aspiration Prayers is on my list and I shall add that other delightful one too!

[@guythyer4805]

@@SamaneriJayasara Beautiful. Thank you and good night from the West Coast of the US. :)

[@richstureman4229]

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[@IAm-ur9cq]

the paradox, ....no matter how clever or profound the words, they also are dream words, illusory best not to get tangled in them

[@mohtashimmir8019]

That’s what I keep thinking . Isn’t it better to meditate in silence rather than through these videos ?

[@IAm-ur9cq]

@@mohtashimmir8019 I enjoy listening to the Teachings presented in these videos. But you are right the natural state is prior to the words. “The ego in its purity is experienced in the intervals between two thoughts. You should realise this interval as the abiding, unchangeable Reality, your true Being”. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

[@SamaneriJayasara]

@@mohtashimmir8019 If you listen with you heart rather than your head, you can go beyond the words. Your heart/mind can be still and silent. This is different from a deep samadhi where one is relying on shutting everything in the world out. The natural state (sahaja samadhi) is required here. As you may know, many, many people awakened by listening to the words/teachings of the Buddha or by contemplating a teaching when alone. If the mind is receptive and the heart is open and still, these deep awakenings can happen naturally. Having said all that, it's lovely and beneficial just to sit in silence too - no need to always listen to teachings/readings. They are here just to help people understand the deep dharma and can be helpful as a tool when the mind is scattered.

[@SamaneriJayasara]

@@IAm-ur9cq Yes, indeed - but can't you rest in that state even when there are sounds or words and voices? It is possible and is the natural state. No need to block out or shut out the words. Of course the Ultimate Truth is beyond all words, but these Masters have offered us and left us the gift of their impeccable pointings and words for a reason - to help us awaken. Otherwise, they would have said nothing whatsoever. However, it's lovely and beneficial just to sit in silence too - no need to always listen to teachings/readings. These are offered here just to help people understand the deep dharma and can be helpful as a tool when the mind is scattered.

[@IAm-ur9cq]

@@SamaneriJayasara “but can't you rest in that state even when there are sounds or words and voices?” Certainly! My post was simply to remind (if only myself) that the finger pointing is not the moon...and can never be the moon. Thank you for your videos, I enjoy them.

[@rakeshkanakapura767]

Grateful for your videos sister, but gotta bad head ache after this one, my partner did too, wondering why

[@juandinkerz4636]

Hi I’m wondering what the background music is sounds wonderful

[@haikalsean]

Thank your for this. May I know where the text is taken from?

[@SamaneriJayasara]

Sorry, forgot the add that the first time around. It is in the description now - below the video.

[@lifesrealityis]

What is the first word of the teaching “Amahol” mean? Wonderful meditation. Thank you.

[@SamaneriJayasara]

That was a KZbin auto captions misspelling of the word - EMAHO. It is from Tibetan Buddhism and means an exclamation of wonder and amazement. Thanks for the heads up, I have corrected that auto misspelling.

[@AWNWY972]

Can you find and read Lama Shang Mahamudra explanations? Erik from Budapest/ Hungary

[@candidaarteman8218]

Yesterday a guided Meditation with Samaneri her Self was possible. Later and today I can't fine it. How can I ? It was herself directly. Please let me know.

[@SamaneriJayasara]

Hi Candida, are you referring to the livestream meditation that I gave a few days ago? If so, here is the link and you can find them all in the Jayasara Playlist on my Home page. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXXWZGqPm5aMirM&ab_channel=SamaneriJayas%C4%81ra With best wishes

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I don't mind...

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