Thug je — Beyond-mind compassion

It is not about squeezing ourselves, it comes naturally and spontaneously out of utmost relaxation. It is the natural manifestation of kadag and lhundrub at once — thugje: compassion, compassionate energy, energy. It is not a directional compassion, it is non-directional, not will involved, it is natural energy. Thugje — noble heart. It is something that naturally comes with total relaxation.

“In the moment you completely yield, what naturally is, comes forth by itself.”

— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Such noble heart, thugje, is self-recognized, it is our own primordial state. Noble is just a word used also for the octuple path. It is noble in the sense that it is the absolute, it is not mixed with confusion, it integrates it.

In the vast sky of pure awareness, No thought of self or other arises. Within the stillness of kadag, the primordial purity, Flows the luminous spontaneity of lhundrub.

Unborn, unceasing, the noble heart shines, Neither clinging nor rejecting, No effort to summon its glow — It blooms in the space of surrender.

To yield completely is the gate, No squeezing, no striving, no weight. Compassion, not bound by direction, Is the song of the unbound, vast perfection.

Thug je, noble heart, radiant and free, Not crafted, not sought — simply to be. When confusion dissolves, like mist in the sun, The pathless path reveals itself.

Embrace the ceaseless dance of all things, Form and emptiness, the gift they bring. In total relaxation, truth manifests — Thug je, the primordial energy, forever pervades.