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<blockquote data-quote="JUPITERASC" data-source="post: 1167985" data-attributes="member: 6273"><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>MUNDANE ASTROLOGY </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>12th HOUSE </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>HIDDEN</strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>OCCULT</strong></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Mysterious </strong></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Being aware of thoughts as they arise ~ Kalu Rinpoche <img src="https://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/styles/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":smile:" title="Smile :smile:" data-shortname=":smile:" /></strong></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>When you meditate, do not try to have good thoughts</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> do not try to keep away bad thoughts, do not try to stop thoughts</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>and do not try to go after them.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> Rather, rest in a state of being aware of the thoughts as they arise. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>This way, when bad thoughts arise, they arise out of the emptiness of mind </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>and fall back into the emptiness of mind. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>The same is true for good thoughts. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>This same process of examination </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>can be applied to the many other traps of personality and physiology. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>For instance, are your emotions of desire and anger coming from the same mind</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>or from different minds? </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>And, as to the sounds, tastes, sights, smells, and sensory experiences </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>which can be so pleasing or displeasing to you</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>are these coming from the same mind, or from different minds? </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>When you take the time to thoroughly examine such issues</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> you will eventually come to conclusions </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>that help formulate later stages of realization.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> In realizing the inherent emptiness of all reality</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>you will realize that the essence of the mind</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> (which is also empty) </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>pervades all things</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>as such, it is the seat of dharmakaya. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>When you recognize that </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>the clarity of the mind is also its natural state of being</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>you will realize that clarity as such is the seat of sambhogakaya. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>For a buddha, who rests in natural liberation in dharmakaya</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> the clarity of mind, the seat of sambhogakaya</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>allows knowledge of the three times of past, present, and future. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>In recognizing that the many thoughts that arise in the mind</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> are essentially unimpeded</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>you will realize that unimpededness as such is the seat of nirmanakaya. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>It is wholly because of the unimpededness of pure mind that</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> buddhas manifest in forms of ordinary and supreme incarnations</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> in the nirmanakaya state</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> in order to benefit all sentient beings.</strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>– Kalu Rinpoche</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>from the book "...Gently Whispered:</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> Oral Teachings by the Very Venerable Kalu Rinpoche..."</strong></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1174504592i/408904._UX160_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://huntingtonarchive.org/resources/images/buddhistIconography/trikaya/04.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
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