Longchenpa: Not Without Sadness, But Free From It — Live Reading & Meditation

Here's the complete description, clean, with every edit folded in — ready to paste. Longchenpa: Not Without Sadness, But Free From It — Live Reading & Meditation Even the hardest states — anger, fear, grief, anxiety — arise as the display of awareness's own creative power, and awareness is never caught in them. Not without sadness, but free from it. In this reading and meditation we come to the eleventh section of Longchenpa's The Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena, closing on his dedication for the whole treatise. Longchenpa shows that everything, held within the single expanse of awakened mind, is equal to space: pleasure and pain, confusion and purity, every reaction that moves through us. Nothing needs to be rejected, cleansed, transformed, or meditated away. We rest in the single natural state of evenness and let it all be equal — and in that resting, the difficult states lose their momentum and positive ones flourish. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ About These Readings Dzogchen — "the Great Perfection" — points to something simple: what you are is already awake, already free, and was never otherwise. Nothing here is achieved or fixed. We spend our lives running away from our own psychology, from whatever moves through us. These readings turn that around. They point — back to the awareness already reading these words, already knowing itself, already free — and to the discovery that this, our own heart and mind, is not a place of fear but a place of refuge and Wholeness. Thoughts, emotions, feelings, perceptions — whatever moves through our day, our lives — arise and pass and leave no trace. No pain. Awareness is never trapped in them. We come home to this freedom and let it saturate our lives, a flourishing of positive mind-states in us and in everyone we meet, in sympathetic resonance. Always return to your own present experience. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Join Live Readings & Meditation Sessions Daily online gatherings exploring meditation, awareness, healing, and direct experience through guided readings, silence, and dialogue. To receive Zoom invitations, or to inquire about online or in-person group meditations in Santa Monica and Burbank, please write to: 💌 Email: [email protected] 💌 https://www.consciousnesstourguide.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ With Gratitude The Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena (Chöying Dzöd) was composed by Longchen Rabjam (Longchenpa) in fourteenth-century Tibet. This reading follows the English translation by Richard Barron (Lama Chökyi Nyima), published by Padma Publishing. The English is theirs; I have only given it voice. If you wish to purchase the book, follow this link — it comes directly from the publisher, in support of the translators who made this text speak in our language: 🔗 https://tibetantreasures.com/products... These readings are offered freely, for the benefit of all beings. This channel is not monetized. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ About the Channel Teachings, reflections, live readings, and guided meditations on Awareness, Beingness, and the Freeflow of self-liberation — shared for the benefit of all beings. If this resonates, subscribe and join us in recognition of what is already Awake and Free ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Keywords Longchenpa, Dzogchen, Basic Space of Phenomena, awakened mind, timeless awareness, expressed awareness, resting in evenness, natural liberation, nondual awareness, guided meditation, meditation reading, Tibetan Buddhism, spiritual awakening #Longchenpa #Dzogchen #Meditation #Awareness #Consciousness #GuidedMeditation #SpiritualAwakening #TibetanBuddhism #NondualAwareness #NaturalLiberation