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title: "Stages of Mahamudra"
date: 2015-08-19
description: "[caption id=\"attachment_1143\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"200\"] Tilopa[/caption] At first a yogi feels his mind Is tumbling like a waterfall; In mid-course, like ..."
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# Stages of Mahamudra

[!(https://www.hologramthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/11891215_1200620829964246_988278587353067974_n-200x300.jpg)](https://www.hologramthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/11891215_1200620829964246_988278587353067974_n.jpg) Tilopa

At first a yogi feels his mind
Is tumbling like a waterfall;
In mid-course, like the Ganges
It flows on slow and gentle;
In the end, it is a great
Vast ocean, where the Lights
Of Son and Mother merge in one.

-- Tilopa from The Song of Mahamudra