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    King Doha: Saraha's Advice to a King
    King Doha: Saraha's Advice to a King
    King Doha: Saraha's Advice to a King
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    King Doha: Saraha's Advice to a King

    By Traleg Kyabgon

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    While on the one hand, it is said that Mahamudra is a very advanced form of meditation, on the other, if one were already advanced one would not need any instructions. Mahamudra manuals often tend to explain everything step by step as if the reader does not know anything. Obviously then, they are meant for people like us. In the King Doha, Saraha gives a step by step account of the pitfalls a meditation practitioner can fall into and how to avoid them. With a background of practicing extensively in the tantric tradition, he gives his reasons for considering the Mahamudra approach an appropriate path. Based on a commentary by Karma Trinleypa, Traleg Rinpoche gives a straightforward and clear explanation of Saraha's message to us as practitioners of Mahamudra.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShogam Publications
    Release dateApr 3, 2017
    ISBN9780648332107
    King Doha: Saraha's Advice to a King

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      King Doha - Traleg Kyabgon

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      OVERVIEW OF MAHAMUDRA

      Buddhism: More than One Approach

      Sometimes people think of Mahamudra practice as too esoteric and profound to be practiced by those who are not experienced meditators. From my point of view, though, that’s not the right attitude to take. As a practice, Mahamudra is presented gradually. The traditional manuals even teach us how to settle the mind through shamatha (Skt.).¹¹ This in itself implies the intended recipients are not particularly advanced. If they were, one would hope this would be something they would already be familiar with.

      Mahamudra teachings are designed for all of us who want to learn something about ourselves and how to deal with our experiences. They are about learning how to be, in fact, which is what Mahamudra puts emphasis on. Mahamudra meditation is like other forms of meditation insofar as it teaches how to settle the mind, but Mahamudra teachings, and Dzogchen teachings, for that matter, are quite unique.

      They are unique in that they teach us to settle the mind in terms of how to be, as opposed to what to do. A lot of Buddhist teaching is about what to do and what not to do—you do this, you don’t do that, you refrain from this, you engage in that—and if you do this, you will become holy, you will be doing something that other people are not doing. In many ways Buddhism has always taught people to go against the grain. The whole notion of going against samsara is like that. Everybody is immersed in samsara, so anyone who dares to go against samsara is going against the grain, against the mainstream, against what is acceptable and regarded as worth pursuing by most people.

      When Buddhism says we become holy through the cultivation of certain virtues, even that is a form of rebellion. It involves non-acceptance of what is normally regarded as the good thing to do. In Mahamudra though, notions of what to accept and what to reject, what to cultivate and what not to cultivate are not encouraged as much. Mahamudra and Dzogchen¹² teachings are not simply about what to do or not do, but, as mentioned earlier, about learning how to

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