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the backdoor approach
ken mcleod talks about backdoor instructions from the mountain hermit tradition of tibet:
body like a mountain.
breath like the wind.
mind like the sky.
body like a mountain.
breath like the wind.
mind like the sky.
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Wrong deity, that.
breath is wind.
mind is sky.
to say "like" sounds like 'self-view' is still there
This made my day
A story from the Blue Annals: Rechungpa requested that Milarepa allow him to go to Central Tibet and Milarepa gave him instructions before leaving. He approached Asu, a Nepalese guru, for instruction and Asu sent him out begging for alms to support him. He went to the kitchen [back] door of a monastery to beg and a monk closed the door on his foot [because he was not a monk]. He sang a song saying, "You, without the hidden precepts of the teacher, seek to attain Buddhahood by rinsing your mouth with water [a Vinaya precept.]" This caused the monk to shed tears, which he blamed on the smoke from the kitchen fire.