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Tilopas **Six Words Of Advice**
Citta
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Tilopa was a great Siddha and Yogi.
He was the teacher of Naropa.
Who was the teacher of Marpa Lotsawa.
Who was the teacher of Milarepa, who was the teacher of Gampopa.
Who founded the Karma Kagyu.
From Tilopa flowed the unbroken transmission of Essence Mahamudra.
Tilopa gave Naropa a teaching which became known as The Six Words Of Advice
Because in the original Tibetan there are just six words. However it takes a lot more than six words to translate them because they deal with very subtle ideas
One translation goes
' No analysis
No reflection
No cultivation
No Intention..
Let it settle itself
and rest, '
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one question, may be a stupid question, but still asking - in above 6 words, there is No Intention.. - the question is can we live without having any intention in mind?
if i consider myself, i think i am not without intention even for a second - even if i sit in meditation, the act itself is an intention to sit - then there is intention to watch the natural breath - after the sitting time, through out the remaining day by doing normal day activities which includes work activities - there is always something going in the mind to try to figure out something, so the intention becomes so subtle thing that obviously it should be there, otherwise why would i figure out something or do something like eating food or drinking water, if i take the basic things, leave the other things like work activities. may be i am too stupid to ask the above question, or may be it is something like a child who started to learn the numbers 1 2 3 is trying to understand trigonometry's theorems - but somehow with No Intention.. thing something inside me feels something is missing somewhere, may be my understanding of the thing - so just trying to understand this No Intention.. thing.
is it really possible to have no intention in mind and live in this world? please suggest. thanks in advance.
No intention except to be with things as they are.
Neither passive nor manipulative.
A ' still point of the turning world '.
Since "six words of advice" seems to turn into a whole lot more words, I guess five words might be better: "One word is too much."
Erm . Is it a lemon ? A finger pointing to the moon ? The cyprus tree in the yard ? A pound of flax ? Am I close ?
There is another rendition in my notes
(with tibetan for interested aggregates)
Don't recall/ Let go of what has passed/ mi mno
མི་མནོ་
Don't imagine/ Let go of what may come/ mi bsam
མི་བསམ་
Don't think/ Let go of what is happening now/ mi shes
མི་ཤེས་
Don't examine/ Don't try to figure anything out/ mi dpyod
མི་དབཡོད་
Don't control/ Don't try to make anything happen/ mi sgom
མི་སགོམ་
Rest/ Relax, right now, and rest/ rang sar bzhag
རང་སར་བཞག་
may it be good, may it be useful!
Yes thats a nice rendition.
Could be simplified as:
Go to sleep.
Which would be the complete opposite of what is being said.
or could be simplified to two words perhaps -
'just be'
Or as a Bikkhuni once said to me:
'Simplify!'
The clearest and easiest way to experience this is formal sitting.
Being a still point in the arisings of every day experience, rather than a life of yogi stillness, is not so easy. Without attention, awareness, recalling and mindfulness we get caught up . . .
The theory is, there is intention right up to the moment of awakening. In the moment of awakening, there is no intention.
No, but the practice does lead to a place where you're not attached to living in this world, so I guess you hold your attentions more lightly at that point. Enlightened people including the Buddha definitely act with intention.
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No. Even if there is no self, there are still intentions since intentions are not self.
The only important question is whether that intention is accompanied by greed, hatred and delusion which is absent in the case of an enlightened one. Thus there can still be an intention to eat, walk, talk or relieve oneself.