Chokma is a Chickasaw word meaning 'good'. I am a student of the Buddhadharma living in a small community in middle Tennessee. The land we occupy was ceded by the Chickasaw tribe in 1816.

31st December 2009

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So, having understood the essential point of bringing whatever arises onto the path, the accomplished one who thinks of his body as a retreat hut does not rely on the number of months and years he has spent in retreat since his is not a path that gives great import to the accomplishment of remaining in solitude in itself.  Having developed to his full measure in this very life, he strives to maintain the flow of the unelaborated natural state. Though good or bad thoughts and emotions arise, he does not engage in any activities such as applying the moxibustion of the antidote to the object of rejection or applying the patch of naked apprehension that is the idea: “Whatever good or bad thoughts and emotions arise, they are just thoughts and emotions.”  Throughout day and night he crosses over without interval to a state of non-elaboration, as unconcerned as an old man watching a child at play. Because of this his skill in concept-free vipasyana is perfected, and he lays hold of the secure place where all that arises - be it stillness or movement, cognizance or gnosis, good concepts or bad concepts - is the expanse of the Great Perfection, gnosis and emptiness inseparable, transcending the intellect. Then as they say in the Great Perfection:  “Realization is changeless, like space.”Though such a yogin appears ordinary in body, his mind resides in the enlightened mind free of all activity, the dharmakaya. Because of this his worldly perceptions are the mandala of the lama, whatever arises is all pervasive wisdom, the objects of perception are symbols and books, and the paths and stages are inseparable in the relaxed enlightened mind. From the expanse of the primordial liberation of samsara and nirvana, the aiding of sentient beings and teaching in accordance with their circumstances arise effortlessly and spontaneously. ~ Jigme Lingpa, The Lion’s Roar That Destroys the Deviations of Renunciants Meditating on the Seminal Heart, Schaik, Wisdom, 2007, p 232

So, having understood the essential point of bringing whatever arises onto the path, the accomplished one who thinks of his body as a retreat hut does not rely on the number of months and years he has spent in retreat since his is not a path that gives great import to the accomplishment of remaining in solitude in itself.  Having developed to his full measure in this very life, he strives to maintain the flow of the unelaborated natural state. Though good or bad thoughts and emotions arise, he does not engage in any activities such as applying the moxibustion of the antidote to the object of rejection or applying the patch of naked apprehension that is the idea: “Whatever good or bad thoughts and emotions arise, they are just thoughts and emotions.”  Throughout day and night he crosses over without interval to a state of non-elaboration, as unconcerned as an old man watching a child at play. Because of this his skill in concept-free vipasyana is perfected, and he lays hold of the secure place where all that arises - be it stillness or movement, cognizance or gnosis, good concepts or bad concepts - is the expanse of the Great Perfection, gnosis and emptiness inseparable, transcending the intellect. Then as they say in the Great Perfection:  “Realization is changeless, like space.”

Though such a yogin appears ordinary in body, his mind resides in the enlightened mind free of all activity, the dharmakaya. Because of this his worldly perceptions are the mandala of the lama, whatever arises is all pervasive wisdom, the objects of perception are symbols and books, and the paths and stages are inseparable in the relaxed enlightened mind. From the expanse of the primordial liberation of samsara and nirvana, the aiding of sentient beings and teaching in accordance with their circumstances arise effortlessly and spontaneously.

~ Jigme Lingpa, The Lion’s Roar That Destroys the Deviations of Renunciants Meditating on the Seminal Heart, Schaik, Wisdom, 2007, p 232

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