Mahamudra Worked my ass of yesterday, mowing, weeding, trimming, cleaning, and today I feel like shit - even my earlobes are sore. But by abiding in the great space, pains of the body and dramas of the psyche - they diminish, like looking at the street from a great height. Oh, the pains are still there, no getting around that - but it's one small voice in a vast expanse, holding everything in its sphere. This natural freedom, cutting though self-concern, is the bliss of an extended nervous system turned out into space itself. This wonderful taste of Mahamudra the alpha and omega of suffering's end even amidst life's ordinary pains is due to the expansion of View, letting all take their rightful place. No effort required to change phenomena, no need to accept nor reject, allow awareness to rest in its own place, and let it swallow the entire Cosmos. May 13, 2001 (1 of 2)