"The Universal Reality of Emptiness, of Nonduality"
Recorded as part of a special event co-organised with Samadhi, in this video Venerable Robina Courtin shares teachings on Mahamudra meditation.
According to Buddha’s amazing view about the human mind, we all have so much potential. The very word “buddha” in Tibetan - Sangye - expresses this potential. “Sang” implies the total eradication from our mind of all ego, all fears, attachment, anger, jealousy and other states of mind that cause us so much pain. “Gye” implies the development to perfection of all the goodness within us: love, compassion, wisdom, and confidence.
In Lama Yeshe’s book, Mahamudra: How to Develop Our True Nature, of which Venerable Robina was an editor, Lama Yeshe explains so clearly, so simply, how to get in touch with our natural potential through meditation on the mind itself.
Lama Yeshe tells us that Mahamudra is “the universal reality of emptiness, of nonduality” and its unique characteristic is its emphasis on meditation: “With Mahamudra meditation, there is no doctrine, no theology, no philosophy, no God, no Buddha. Mahamudra is only experience.”
He relies on the First Panchen Lama’s well-known Root Text of Genden Mahamudra, which in a few short pages provides the pith instructions for, first, overcoming distraction and resting in meditative stillness on the clarity of one’s own mind, and then by using a subtle wisdom, penetrating its ultimate nature, its emptiness. As always, Lama Yeshe’s words are direct, funny, and incredibly encouraging. He gets us to go beyond the ego’s addiction to a limited sense of self and to taste the lightness and expansiveness of our own true nature.
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