GURU RINPOCHE, THE LOTUS BORN - Eight Kinds of Silence in Dharma Practice

GURU RINPOCHE, THE LOTUS BORN

Eight Kinds of Silence in Dharma Practice -

1.With silence of the body, without fanatical fixation, you will avoid the allurement of violation.

2. With silence of the speech, you will keep your practice free from mindless rhetorical diversion.

3. With silence of the mind, you will not be affected by mindless deliberation. Thus, enabling you to reside in the pure consciousness of dharmakaya (the non-dualistic primordial mind), without the hindrance of ordinary cognisance.

4. With silence of sense-gratification, you will set yourself free from the conceptual fixation of pure and impure experiences. Thus, enabling you to be blessed with an existence devoid of conflict, and bring about the protective influences of the Tantric Assembly.

5. With silence of transmission, do not offer instruction to people who are unsuited for such teaching. Thus, enabling you to receive the blessing of the lineage.

6. With silence of behaviour, act unpretentiously and without deceit. Thus, enabling you to make advancement and protect the mind from afflictive influences.

7. With silence of experience, do not form attachment with your experience, and do not elaborate your encounter to others. Thus, enabling you to attain full enlightenment in this lifetime.

8.With silence of realisation, do not cling to mundane longing and reside in the calm abiding of non-duality. Thus, enabling you to be free from the bondage of samsara in the moment of realisation.