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What are the Tibetan Oral Teachings on Enlightenment?

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The Tibetan Masters of the secret oral tradition are not silent upon how one may go beyond the opposites and mental concepts to experience what they call Lhang Tong, or transcendent insight. It is done, they say, through non-activity. This is not to be confused, however, with the quietism of certain Christian or oriental mystics. Nor does it deny one a normal everyday life, or demand rigorous disciplines of emotion or body. To exist is a kind of activity, and it is but normal to eat, sleep, walk, read, speak, laugh, love, breathe, etc.

The non-activity they mean is 'that of the disordered activity of the mind that unceasingly devotes itself to the work of the builder erecting ideas, creating an imaginary world in which it shuts itself like a chrysalis in a cocoon'. This is very reminiscent of Jung's suggestion to patients that they allow fantasies to arise in the mind, and then to watch these fantasies, attempting to see their cause, and the underlying forces at work. It is an attempt to step back from our convictions, ideals and morals; to set them loose, and watch them as a silent watcher, who does not interfere, condemn, or condone.

This information is taken from Alexandra David Neal's book Secret Oral Teachings of Tibetan Buddhist Sects.

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