Notes from listening to the tapes…
First Scale in the arpeggio: To the Mind of Transcendence (Self-release) Four notes.

1. Appreciate our precious human life endowed with freedom and opportunity..
2. Death — impermanence — don’t know when. Open spiritually to the possibilities of the moment.
3. Inexorable causality — infinitely flowing from past through present to future. Each moment is intinitely pregnant with potential.
4. Inadequate state of suffering (samsara) of ego-centric self state pitted against the over-whelming odds of the universe of “others.”

The Mind of Transcendence removes the pressure of needing ot accomplish. Provides relief.

Second Scale in the arpeggio: The Spirit of Enlightenment: Mind of Love and Compas sion for All Beings. Five notes.

1. Equanimity — friends, strangers and enemies. These are as they are mainly from how they have repeatedly interacted with you. They have switched positions over the eons.
2. Recognition of motherhood of all beings. Infinity of interconnectedness of all beings.
   All have been our mother in the infinity of past existences in the continuity of spirit. No
   beginning. No end. No First Cause.
3. We remember the kindness of these mothers and have Gratitude.
4. We repay that kindness wherever they are. We want ot be the mother of their re-birth into infinity-hood.
5. We become concerned for them — not our self preoccupation. We choose other preoccupation.
   

Third Scale in the arpeggio: The Quest of Liberation: Mind of Transcendent Wisdom. Self-lessness of subjects/persons- subjective.
Self-lessness of objects – – objective
Five Notes

1. Look ot see what our self would be during righteous indignation. Notice the solid sense of presence. I’m the one. I exist.
2. If we look with all our effort and the absolute, separate essence of Self doesn’t exist, then we will admit that.
3. Look for unity of ”solid self” and life systems. Find a state of floating free — relative existence.
4. Look for solid/absolute self as a process. There is no “tableness” in a table. All dissolves under analysis.
5. Space/Nirvana. Emptiness is like the reflection of a mirror — not real. No ultimate state. Stop seeking escape from relational states. Relative states are the absolute state

Freedom is the womb of compassion.

Tibetans and Buddhists were the supreme knowers of nature — done through internal means — rather than external means
(microscopes, atomic energy, etc. like Western scientists). Self-lessness — no absolute self — instead we have a relative self which is the product of our imagination and the imagination of the world /others.

Realization of self-lessness (emptiness). We have an instinctual miss-learning that “I m the one…
This can’t be dislodged by spacey meditation of not thinking. It is an unconscious self-habit and self-knowledge. We add many more layers of “I’m the ______ (man, father, fat, poor…) on top. The whole structure begins to appear to have absolute substance and reality to us.

Royal Reason of Relativity
All things are empty of intrinsic/absolute essence, because they are a relative — since we relate to them.
Absolute has no limits or boundaries. It is infinite. [In physics, “absolute” is only a subjective view point from the self- observer. All other viewpoints are relative to the observer.]

How do we reconcile the different viewpoints?

1. Intrinsic “knowing” that “I” am absolute versus
2. The logical observation/learning that I am only relative. Through meditation:
3. Shamata one pointedness focus/concentration. Shutting off internal dialogue. Instinctive self remains.
4. Vipasana — like a koan — dislodges self-centeredness. Merge the feeling of intuition (self-centeredness) with the critical relative-self — using concentration until the self-centeredness is broken through. Drill down with the focused concentration.
   

Science once was a branch of philosophy studying the Na- ture ofreality.

Vow of Bodhisattva
I dedicate my life/existence to reaching buddhahood so that I can bring all sentient creatures to buddhahood and out of suffering.

Non-duality: emptiness,relativity
Duality believes in a separate state (Heaven, etc.) where the Absolute Self can hide safely from the pain of relationships.

Reality is freedom, bliss. Keep looking deeper to see and know it.

Mirror wisdom — seeing “crap,” we see freedom and bliss.

Tantra means continuity. Once you have demolished the world of absolutes based on ignorance, critical wisdom moves to develop a world shaped by wisdom — a world with optimal opportunity for each being to develop.
To rebuild the world of wisdom, we need the Mind of Transcendent renunciation. Recognizing the infinite continuity of life and appreciating my human sense of that life.

Our only enemy in the world is our feeling of a solid, absolute self. Dethrone that master by understanding that no absolute thing can be experienced by any relative thing. Any sense of person that I have is relative only — therefore it is constructed — made up of experiences. Infinitely transformable, malleable. Impermanence. I am never stuck in any sense of self. We imagine our selves and can do so in creative new ways — moment by moment.

“Death” = un-intwining the soul from hte absolute self. Can be done often with lucid dreaming, imagination, etc. in one physical lifetime. [Apostle Paul said ” I die daily.”]

The intersections of the imagination of sentient beings are what shapes reality. Once everything is void, “nothing” does not exist — and those things that exist are shaped by mind.
Mind is channeled in shaping things because its not a single subjective mind — it’s an inter-subjective mind of many beings. These shape the world through language — through the Word. Mantra — magically gives Form to things.

People feel trapped in “prisons” of steel made of habits and absolutes/ignorance (“that’s just the way it is.”) when they are really only within a bubble of bliss.

Tantric States of Consciousness
Buddhas can consciously build everyday forms from these deep levels.
Transparent light; Dark light; Sun light; Moon light; Candle Flame; Firefly or sparks; Smoke; Mirage/hallucination; form in ordinary reality

These levels are described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead as levels we move among.
Tibet does not revere ancestors since “to them” there are no dead. My deceased uncle immediately became someone else
— someone I may meet on the streets. Thus reverence for ancestors is transmuted into reverence for fellow humankind.

Om mani padme hum

Tibetans pronouce:
Ome mah’ nee pay may home

This mantra sends relief up and down as needed. To the hells
of heat, it sends cooling. To the hells of starvation, it sends food. Etc.