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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The location of the truth of the Great Perfection is the unfabricated mind of the present moment, this naked radiant awareness itself, not a hair of which has been forced into relaxation. Maintaining this at all times, just through not forgetting it even in the states of eating, sleeping, walking, and sitting, is called meditation. However, until you are free from the obscurations of cognition, it is impossible for this not to be mixed with the experiences of bliss, clarity, and nonconceptualization. Nevertheless, just by not forgetting the nature of one’s own awareness - the kind that is not a tangled mindfulness that gets more tangled in order to be mindful - at some point the unelaborated ultimate truth, transcending terms and examples, will appear. ~Jigme Lingpa, Seeing Nakedly the Natural State of the Great Perfection: Necessary Instructions for Beginners, Schaik, Wisdom, 2007, p 235

The location of the truth of the Great Perfection is the unfabricated mind of the present moment, this naked radiant awareness itself, not a hair of which has been forced into relaxation. Maintaining this at all times, just through not forgetting it even in the states of eating, sleeping, walking, and sitting, is called meditation. However, until you are free from the obscurations of cognition, it is impossible for this not to be mixed with the experiences of bliss, clarity, and nonconceptualization. Nevertheless, just by not forgetting the nature of one’s own awareness - the kind that is not a tangled mindfulness that gets more tangled in order to be mindful - at some point the unelaborated ultimate truth, transcending terms and examples, will appear.

~Jigme Lingpa, Seeing Nakedly the Natural State of the Great Perfection: Necessary Instructions for Beginners, Schaik, Wisdom, 2007, p 235

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