One should constantly back up from thinking’s dogma and allow instead the last thought to win. Expressing itself naturally, the just-as-it-is arises. As long as we believe even the tiniest bit of experience is not dependently arisen emptiness, the sufferings of existence elaborate as seemingly real. Then the causes for death are many and those of life few. Unprepared, all too soon we drown again, and swooning from the unbearable, again we awake unaware in another senseless round. So adopt acceptances today—abandoning and realizing—by coming clean in your life with an authentic Guru. Then practice the effortless as prescribed above. This is how the deathless state is won and how the Buddha’s Dharma rolls.
His Eminence Deshung Rinpoche, Kunga Tenpay Nyima, introduced Vajra Breathing by saying something like this: ‘I know you’re interested in the highest Tantric practices His Holiness will give you in India. But I can teach right now the best one. And it’s very simple.’ The year was 1980. ‘Vajra Breathing’ is how Sonam Tenzin, I believe, translated it. Rinpoche showed us the basic pranayama rounds of ‘three-threes,’ blowing stale air out through our nostrils, left, right, (and together) center. Then he demonstrated breathing in steadily through his nose, instructing us to visualize a white OM. Then he demonstrated retaining that breath, telling us to visualize a red AH. He finished by saying to breathe out measuredly, with a blue HUNG in mind, so as not to rustle even a hair in the nostrils. I don’t remember him saying to imagine our breath going out farther and farther, with each round, as I believe is taught in the Nong Sum. But I’m certain he stre...
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