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Garab Dorje's Three Points James Low Eifel Autumn Retreat September 2005 Transcribed by Jo Féat Edited by Barbara Terris Page | iii Excerpts Clothes show themselves when you put them on. If some dress is just folded in a drawer, you don't know what it's like, you have to hold it up, and even then you don't know what it's like because you still have to put it on. It's only when you put on the clothing that it reveals itself. In the same way subject and object are revealed through the body of the mind. This body of the mind is the dharmadhatu – infinite awareness. ∞ I was watching a little video for children about an elephant who wanted to fly. The elephant couldn't fly, but some friends managed to get him up a tree, and then a friendly cloud came and floated underneath. The elephant jumped from the tree onto the cloud and he fell right through it! In the same way, emptiness is like a cloud and we are like elephants. Until we become very light, we will keep falling through. We won't be able to stay in emptiness because we are too solid. ∞ Finding your mind is not an intellectual enquiry but is a case of actually looking, as if you were a bird watcher who had heard that there was some rare bird in the forest. He would go into the forest, find the likely place and just wait. He has an idea that the bird is there but he can’t run around with crumbs in his hand saying, 'Come on, birdie, birdie...' In the same way you cannot find your mind by very actively looking. You have to wait for the mind to show itself. Whenever some answer arises to the question, ‘Where is my mind?’ stay with that answer. Let the answer be there, and see what happens. ∞ This tumbling experience of being ourselves, arises in relation to the environment. The more we open in a fresh way with the environment, the less stable we will become. This is at the heart of the dzogchen teaching: you cannot control your self-identity. Because our self is part of the world, it will change as the world changes. ∞ If you go to the barber, the barber will hold a mirror behind your head. When you look in the mirror in front of you, you see your reflection in the mirror behind you and in that way you see what they have done to the back of your hair. Without the mirror you wouldn't see; a mirror helps you to see things you couldn’t otherwise. The teacher in the state of the transmission is like a mirror and by looking into it hopefully we can see something more of ourselves. It's not that the teacher is teaching you about yourself, but it's about trying to recognise yourself. ∞ Dust will form on a mirror. The mirror is only a metaphor; it is just an image. The space-like unborn nature of the mind offers no basis for dust to adhere to. This means, especially when you sit in meditation and a thought seems to stick to you – what is it sticking to? ∞ If you believe samsara and nirvana are different – if you believe that in samsara things are very bad and in nirvana things are very good – then you have two factories. One that makes samsara and one that makes nirvana, and the things in nirvana are all very nice and shiny. This is not the case from the point of view of dzogchen, where they say there is one ground – one factory – and it makes both samsara and nirvana. ∞ Rather than changing the object, whether it's good or bad, what we're doing is loosening the bond of identification and attachment www.simplybeing.co.uk © James Low Page | iv Contents Staying close to the flow of experience ______________________________________ 1 Pure from the very beginning ___________________________________________________ 2 How we are depends on the context _____________________________________________ 4 We believe the story rather than attending to the reality ____________________________ 5 The Function of taking refuge ______________________________________________ 7 Mahayana, tantra and dzogchen views of refuge ___________________________________ 9 To use dharma means to work hard _____________________________________________ 11 Giving up the indulgence of internal tendencies _________________________________________ 12 I am a follower, centred inside something much bigger than myself ___________________ 14 Metaphor of escaping a car that isn’t going to stop ______________________________________ 15 Human bodies and vajra bodies ______________________________________________________ 16 Resting in the nature of the mind _______________________________________________ 16 Stillness, movement and the space element ______________________________________ 17 The whole world is an aspect of ourself __________________________________________ 20 All that you are is from others _________________________________________________ 20 Garab Dorje’s first point: Ngo rang thog tu tro pa _____________________________ 21 ‘Everything is good’ is not a kind of homogenisation _______________________________ 22 One ground and two paths ____________________________________________________ 24 Jagged surfaces rub together: buddha nature has no corners or edges _______________________ 24 How can you recognise your face if you are wearing a mask? ______________________________ 26 Who is the ‘I’ that is present? ________________________________________________________ 27 Attachment and its nature _______________________________________________ 28 Attachment catches me with its hook _________________________________________________ 30 www.simplybeing.co.uk © James Low Tantra makes use of projection ________________________________________________ 31 Three poisons ____________________________________________________________________ 31 We arise due to causes and conditions ________________________________________________ 33 The essence of tantric practice is bhakti _______________________________________________ 34 Garab Dorje's second point: Thag chik thog tu che pa __________________________ 36 Don’t let thought be your master _______________________________________________ 38 In order to see the emptiness of things, we have to allow them to pass ________________ 39 Using Phat! to cut the link with arising thought ___________________________________ 40 Cutting through inhibition, shame and fear _____________________________________________ 42 Comments regarding Phat! practice __________________________________________________ 43 Exploring the concept of emptiness ________________________________________ 44 All manifested things are constructs ____________________________________________ 44 Our attention determines our relationship with objects ___________________________________ 45 We are not things; we are a process of being ___________________________________________ 46 Questions __________________________________________________________________ 47 No one view is correct ________________________________________________________ 48 In the absence of emptiness, impulse anger and attachment take over ______________________ 49 The best way to deal with anger _____________________________________________________ 50 Attachment is the energetic quality of ignorance ________________________________________ 51 The mind and the content of the mind ______________________________________ 53 Metaphor of watching like a bird-watcher _____________________________________________ 53 Metaphor of ‘join the dots’ puZZle ____________________________________________________ 54 Metaphor of an elephant falling through a cloud ________________________________________ 57 Manifestation comes from emptiness _________________________________________________ 58 X marks the spot. Searching for treasure _______________________________________________ 59 Different views reveal different things. Metaphor of French butchering ______________________ 60 www.simplybeing.co.uk © James Low Questions and responses ___________________________________________________________ 61 Ego is redundant __________________________________________________________________ 63 Becoming de-skilled __________________________________________________________ 64 Feeling at home in not knowing ______________________________________________________ 64 Mind like the sun: not mind like a searchlight ___________________________________________ 66 Duality is the main problem _________________________________________________________ 66 Attending: finding ourselves by being with ourselves _____________________________________ 67 Metaphor; contrasting a mirror and a photograph _______________________________________ 68 Some remarks on Refuge (going) and Dzogchen (being) _____________________________ 69 Garab Dorje's third statement: Deng drol thog tu che pa _______________________ 70 Movement: allowing whatever comes to come ___________________________________ 70 Movement from ‘I like…’ (subject side) to ‘it is good’ (object side) ____________________ 72 Are the five poisons really poisonous? ___________________________________________ 73 There is no self apart from interaction ___________________________________________ 75 UnfreeZing the froZen flow __________________________________________________________ 75 The world we live in _______________________________________________________________ 76 Impulsiveness versus spontaneity ____________________________________________________ 77 What does it mean to be compassionate? ______________________________________________ 78 Other people _____________________________________________________________________ 79 The three aspects of our primordial nature _____________________________________________ 81 Questions and responses ___________________________________________________________
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