You often hear people speak about EQ, i.e., the so called emotional quotient, as opposed to the traditional IQ

What exactly?

Right now you have the opportunity.
Look for the essence of mind--this is meaningful.
When you look at mind, there is nothing to be seen.
In this very not seeing, you see the definitive meaning.

You must act;
Like a child with perfect spontaneity,
Like a madman unconcerned with what is socially acceptable,
Like a leper unattached to his own physical well-being,
Or like a wild animal roaming about in lonely and desolate places

Attachment to any phenomenon whatsoever,
From coarse form to omniscience,
Should be understood as the play of a demon.

As long as there is an ego, there are demons.
When there is no more ego,
There are no more demons either!

If there is destruction of hope, there is freedom from gods; if there is destruction of fear, there is freedom from spirits and demons.
Free from the extremes of hope and fear I know the ultimate nature of all phenomena.

All phenomena the external world and the internal
world and the beings that inhabit it down to the tiniest hair are without inherent existence since the beginning: they have the nature of voidness.

Now free from the veil of emotional disturbances.
All appearences will manifest as devoid of any actual reality, like a dream or a magical show.

Trump is an EQ genius. Allows him to be a master persuader. Highly undervalued dimension of intelligence

i cant imagine being this autistic desu
i thank the gods every day

EQ and persuasion are polar opposites.

Should bury your ambition and conceit in a pit,
Pour your sanctimony and pride into a river,
Bum your obsessive lust and infatuation in fire,
Cast your selfish aggression and perverse behaviour
on the wind,
And dissolve your shamelessness and deceitful lies
in space.
Protect your secret sexual practices from prying eyes;
Do not be loose with your sexual organs, bind them fast;
Do not flaunt your signs of success;

To a fool who squints
One lamp is as two;
Where seen and seer are not two, ah! the mind
Works on the thingness of them both.
Though the house-lamps have been lit,
The blind live on in the dark.
Though spontaneity is all-encompassing and close,
To the deluded it remains always far away.
Beasts do not understand the world
To be a sorry place. Not so the wise
Who the heavenly nectar drink
While beasts hunger for the sensual.
Like salt sea water that turns
Sweet when drunk up by the clouds,
So a firm mind that works for others turns
The poison of sense-objects into nectar.
When the deluded in a mirror look
They see a face, not a reflection.
So the mind that has truth denied
Relies on that which is not true.
For the delights of kissing the deluded crave
Declaring it to be the ultimately real--
Like a man who leaves his house and standing at the door
Asks a woman for reports of sensual delights.
The stirring of biological forces in the house of nothingness
Has given artificial rise to pleasures in so many ways.
Such yogis from affliction faint for they have fallen
From celestial space, inveigled into vice.

If you think EQ is meant to be some exact score that definitively ranks you amongst the population, then you have low EQ.

As under delusion's power a herd of deer will rush
For the water in a mirage which is not recognized,
So also the deluded quench not their thirst, are bound by chains
And find pleasure in them, saying that all is ultimately real.
This world of appearance has from its radiant beginning
Never come to be; unpatterned it has discarded patterning.
Mind, intellect, and the formed contents of that mind are It,
So too are the world and all that seems from It to differ,
All things that can be sensed and the perceiver,
Also dullness, aversion, desire, and enlightenment.
There's nothing to be negated, nothing to be
Affirmed or grasped; for It can never be conceived.
By the fragmentations of the intellect are the deluded
Fettered; undivided and pure remains spontaneity.
What has been done and where and what in itself it will become
Is nothing; yet thereby it has been useful for this and that.
Whether passionate or not
The pattern is nothingness.
like the analogy of drawing on water,
the continuity of self-arising self-Liberation is unceasing.
Whatever arises is the sustenance of empty naked awareness.
Although the way thoughts arise is the same as before,
the difference in the way they are liberated is the crucial point.
Without this, meditation is but the path of confusion.

To encounter what already is, is the first crucial point.
Make the definitive decision that there is nothing other than this.
Deciding on that alone is the second crucial point.
To possess this, is to rest in the natural state of mind without meditation.
Having confidence in this is the third crucial point.

A is the nature of emptiness [of the mind].
a is liberation from the vastness of [appearances].
Aa is the inseparable union [of appearances and emptiness].
Primordially co-emergent, [this inseparability] like empty space
Does nothing, is not dependent on anything.
In the same way, mind itself, [natural and co-emergent]
Has no support, has no object:
Let it rest in its natural expanse without any fabrication.
When the bonds [of negative thoughts] are released,
You will be free, there is no doubt.
As when gazing into space,
All other visual objects disappear,
So it is for mind itself.
When mind is looking at mind,
All discursive thoughts cease

As in the sky all clouds
Disappear into sky itself:
Wherever they go, they go nowhere,
Wherever they are, they are nowhere.
This is the same for thoughts in the mind:
When mind looks at mind,
The waves of conceptual thought disappear.
As empty space
Is devoid of form, color or image,
So too, mind itself
Is free of form, color or image.
As the heart of the sun
Cannot be veiled by an eternity of darkness
So too, the realization of the ultimate nature of the mind
Cannot be veiled by an eternity of suffering.

Even though empty space
May be named or conventionally defined,
It is impossible to point it out as "this."
It is the same for the clarity of mind itself:
Although its characteristics may be expressed,
It cannot be pointed out as "this."
The defining characteristic of mind
Is to be primordially empty like space;
The realization of the nature of the mind
Includes all phenomena without exception.
Once discursive thoughts are totally abandoned,
Reality is no other than that.

Once emptiness is totally abandoned,
Discriminating wisdom is no other than that.
Once mind is totally abandoned,
Fearsome places are no other than that
Once virtue and non-virtue are totally abandoned,
Gods and demons are no other than that.
Once the six consciousnesses are totally abandoned,
The six classes of beings are no other than that.
Once the eight consciousnesses are totally abandoned,
The eight armies of demons are no other than that.
Once wandering thoughts are totally abandoned,
Magical displays are no other than that,
Once the [ultimate nature] of the mind is realized,
The definitive sign of realization is no other than that.
Abandoning all bodily activities,
Remain like a bunch of straw cut loose.
Abandoning all verbal expressions of speech,
Remain like a lute with its strings cut through.
Abandoning all mental activity,
That is Perfection

This body of ours is impermanent like a feather on a high
mountain pass,
This mind of ours is empty and clear like the depth of space.
Relax in that natural state, free of fabrication.
When mind is without any support, that is Freedom

Remain free of mental fabrications
Like the waves in the water, naturally arising, naturally
subsiding,
Like the passing of a bird in the sky.
All composite phenomena in the world are just like that.

Without any expectations, interest, nor ambition, without a single concern:
Sit naturally at ease and take the sky as your example,
And train in the meditation state without center or edge.
Take the sun and moon as your example,
And train in the meditation state without increase or decrease.
Take the mountains as your example,
And train in the meditation state without shifting or change.
Take the great ocean as your example,
And train in the meditation state without surface or base.
Take your own mind as the meaning,
And train in the meditation state without worry or doubt, without hope or fear.

The world itself is your own mind. Perfectly being in what it is, there is nothing to perfect, nothing to improve.
With nothing negative to reject, and nothing positive to accept, you might as well burst out laughing!

All experience is the manifestation of mind.
As for mind, there is no mind; mind's nature is empty.
Empty and unceasing, mind arises as experience.

By looking into mind deeply, may I be clear about how it is.
Perceptions, which never existed in themselves, are mistaken for objects.
Awareness itself, because of ignorance, is mistaken for a self.
Through the power of dualistic fixation I wander in the realm of existence.
If one says "it is this," nothing has been posited.
If one says "it is not this," nothing has been denied.
Unconditioned pure being transcends intellect.
May I gain conviction in the ultimate outlook.
Not knowing it, I circle in the ocean of existence,
Knowing it, emptiness isn't anywhere else.
"It is everything", "It isn't anything": none of this.
Since perception is mind and emptiness is mind,
Since knowing is mind and delusion is mind,
Since arising is mind and cessation is mind,
May all assumptions about mind be eliminated.

When one looks again and again at the mind that cannot be looked at,
And sees vividly for what it is the meaning of not-seeing,
Doubts about the meaning of "is" and "isn't" are resolved.
Without confusion, may my own face know itself.
Look at objects and there is no object: one sees mind;
Look at mind and there is no mind: it is empty of nature;
Look at both of these and dualistic clinging subsides on its own.
The great bliss of non-attachment is continuous.
Sheer clarity without fixations is free of obscurations.
Passing beyond intellect, non-thought is naturally present.
May these experiences continually arise without effort.
Attachment to good and fixation on experience subside on their own.

After pursuing statements and reasoning
I have condensed and established the true meaning.
All these apparent and existing phenomena
Are nowhere apart from mind, your own awareness.
Since it perceives and is cognizant,
It is like experience that is self-known.
If this mind was not like that
There would be no link and therefore no experience.
This is how I have established the relative:
"Understand that all phenomena are based on mind," as it is said.
This mind that knows emptiness
Is itself the awakened mind

This space and wisdom, perceiving while being empty,
Is what is called 'knowing original enlightenment.'
This self-knowing, while one is still defiled,
Does not depend on other things,
So self-existing wakefulness is just this.
Being aware, it is cognizance.
A natural knowing that is free of thought.
This self-knowing cannot possibly form thoughts.
Without coneptualizing a 'mind,'
Since it is not something to be conceived,
This original wakefulness, congnizant yet thought-free,
Is like the wisdom of the Tathagata.
Therefore, it is taught, "Realize that luminous mind
Is the mind of original wakefulness,
And don't seek an enlightenment separate from that."
Nevertheless, this mind does become disturbed
By the defilement of momentary thoughts.
Like water, like gold, like the sky,
It may be either pure or impure.
But the naturally luminous mind
Is free from even a hair-tip of concrete substance,
Like the analogy of a sky flower.
It does not exist as it seems to be,
Therefore, it cannot be established to be nonexistent.
As everything is mutually dependent,
When one side is invalid, the other side also does not exist.
Mind is neither existent nor nonexistent,
Since each of these [constructs] is negated.
It is also not both,
Since existing and not existing are a contradiction.
It is not a living being
Nor other than living beings.

>ability to read others emotions is the polar opposite of being able to manipulate them
Schizo brainlet fuck off

Some arts, such as Hokuto Shin Ken, can only be mastered by those who have an understand of true sadness.

Therefore, it is free from all constructs.
This is how I have established the ultimate:
"Mind is based on space," as it is said.
Thus unconstructed self-knowing
Perceives while empty, and while empty it perceives.
Experience and emptiness are therefore indivisible,
Like the analogy of the moon in water.
This is how I have established nonduality:
"Space is not based on anything," as it is said.
That to be seen is also just this.
That to train in is also just this.
That to attain is also just this.
The valid truth is also just this.

The non-Buddhist Tirthikas,
In the ignorance of mind itself,
Are submerged in an ocean of erroneous philosophy
Involving a self, supreme godhead, and the like.
The schools of Buddhism, such as the shravakas,
The pratyekabuddhas, and the followers of Mind Only Tradition
Maintain the duality of perceiver and perceived,
And conceptualize nonduality as being the true.
Moreover, thery get caught in the web of concepts
Such as whether the perceived is real or false.

What joy!

Look at the nature of the world,
Impermanent like a mirage or dream;
Even the mirage or dream does not exist.

All things are your own mind.
Seeing objects as external is a mistaken concept;
This mind, as well, is a mere movement of attention
That has no self-nature, being merely like a gust of wind.
Empty of identity, like space,
All things, like space, are equal.
When speaking of 'Mind,'
It is not an identity that can be shown.
Letting it be without seeking is the meditation training,
But to meditate while seeking is deluded mind.
While neither cultivating nor not cultivating
How can you be separate or not separate!
This is a yogi's understanding.
Without understanding this, all possible means
Never bring more than temporary liberation.

Don't recall: Let go of what has passed.
Don't imagine: Let go of what may come.
Don't think: Let go of what is happening now.
Don't examine: Don't try to figure anything out.
Don't control: Don't try to make anything happen.

>Doesnt know what morality or ethics is

Vapors arising from the earth become clouds and then vanish into the sky;
It is not known where the clouds go when they have dissolved.
Likewise, the waves of thoughts derived from the mind
Dissolve when mind perceives mind.
Space has neither color nor shape;
It is changeless, it is not tinged by black or white.
Likewise, luminous mind has neither color nor shape;

Though it may be said that space is empty,
Space cannot be described.
Likewise, though it may be said that mind is luminous,
Naming it does not prove that is exists.
Space is completely without locality.

The essence of mind is like space;
Therefore, there is nothing which it does not encompass.
Let the movements of the body ease into genuineness,
Cease your idle chatter, let your speech become an echo,
The body, like a hollow bamboo, has no substance.
Mind is like the essence of space, having no place for thoughts.
Rest loose your mind; neither hold it nor permit it to wander.
If mind has no aim, it is Free
Accomplishing this is the attainment of supreme enlightenment.
The nature of mind is luminous, without object of perception.
When there is no hope or fear, you have realized the goal.
One attains the king of views, free from all limitations.
Boundless and deep is the supreme king of meditations.
Effortless self-existence is the supreme king of actions.
Hopeless self-existence is the supreme king of the fruition.
Having no mind, without desires,
Self-quieted, self-existing,
It is like a wave of water.
Luminosity is veiled only by the rising of desire.

If you seek a sexual partner, then the wisdom of the joy of union and emptiness will arise.
The union of male and female brings blessings.
Bring it down and give rise to the flower
Deliver it to the places and distribute it throughout the body.
If there is no desire involved, then the union of joy and emptiness will arise.

Wow, this thread got fucked beyond normal shitposting.

when simplicity dawns in the mind,

#When the natural, luminous mind is purified of the discursiveness of the mental events, this
is called the wisdom of simplicity dawning. Yet it is not the case that *the natural,
luminous mind] had not arisen before and needs to be produced.

Do not follow after conventional terms.

#At that time, the expressions and consciousnesses associated with conventional terms
completely disappear. The instruction, therefore, is not to follow after objects and
appearances. "Do not follow" is merely symbolic because, in this state, all dualistic
appearances have dissolved. There is nothing there to follow after.

Rest in a state free of pride.

#Rest in the state of selflessness, free of "me" and "mine"

When self-liberation dawns from within,

#"Within" indicates suchness. It does not indicate *mundane+ consciousness. "Self-liberation"
refers to being liberated from things to relinquish and things to accomplish.

Do not engage in the reasonings of logic.

#This line indicates that, in the state of perceiving reality, it is unnecessary to set forth proof
statements to establish certainty with regard to suchness.

Theres a danger youll just waste your energy.

#This line indicates that applying logical reasonings when resting in the state of perceiving
reality is pointless. It explains the fault that would occur: trying to establish again what has
been established already.

Rest free of thoughts.

When you realize your own mind is emptiness,
Do not engage the reasoning beyond one or many
Theres a danger youll fall into a nihilistic emptiness.
Rest free of clinging.

When you gain resolution regarding your mind,
Do not yearn for the higher cognitive powers.
Theres a danger youll be carried away by the pretentiousness.
Rest uncontrived and loose.

Rest free of hope and fear.

Philosophies are made by mind.
And speculative words mean little,
they are of no use.
In conquering the passions,
Try to subdue your self-conceit,
My dear scientists and scholars.

When you are strong and healthy, You never think of sickness coming, But it descends with sudden force, Like a stroke of lightning.
When involved in worldly things, You never think of death's approach; Quick it comes like thunder, Crashing round your head.
One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.

You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.
In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the fangs of Hell

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting

When you run after your thoughts you are like a dog chasing a stick.
Everytime a stick is thrown, you run after it.
Instead, be like a lion who rather then chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower.
One only throws a stick at a lion once.

This human body, composed of flesh,
Is transient, mortal and delusory.
Since in time I must discard it,
He who would, may take it now.
May the offering of my body serve as a ransom
For all mankind and sentient beings.
Leaving the body as a food offering
Is the guide to subjugate ego

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion,
I have forgotten all difference between myself and others.

Accustomed long to meditating on my teacher as sitting on my head,
I have forgotten all those who rule by power and prestige.

Accustomed long to listening on the secret whispered truths,
I have forgotten all that is said in written or printed books.

Accustomed long to studying, by myself, my own experiences,
I have forgotten the need to seek the opinions of friends and brethren.

Accustomed long to applying each new experience to my own growth,
I have forgotten all creeds and dogmas.

Accustomed long to contemplating on the Unborn, the Indestructible, the Unchanging,
I have forgotten all definitions of this or that particular goal.

Accustomed long to keeping my mind in the uncreated state of freedom,
I have forgotten all conventions and artificialities.

Accustomed long to humbleness, of body and mind,
I have forgotten the pride and haughty manner of the mighty.

Accustomed long to regarding my fleshly body as my hermitage,
I have forgotten the ease and comfort of houses and beds.

Accustomed long to knowing the meaning of the Wordless,
I have forgotten the way to write verbs, and the
sources of words and phrases.
You, oh learned one, may trace out these things in your books

Mental projections way outnumber the atoms in the sun
A great yogi knows what appears for what it is.

Even a hundred men with spears couldnt stop the thought-bubbles of consciousness;
A great yogi knows not to get hung up on them.

You cant lock up the flow of mind in an iron box;
A great yogi knows mind to be intrinsically empty.

Wisdom gods and goddesses dont say no to sensory pleasures;
A great yogi knows this full well.

Its the mind fixated on objects that causes suffering.
If you recognize as spontaneous
The luminous self-awareness, free of fixation,
Youll taste the fruit of the first yoga, one-pointedness.

Luminous mind itself, free of fixation,
Is naturally blissful, without constructs.
If you recognize your very essence to be as clear as space,
Youll taste the fruit of the second yoga, simplicity.

Conceptual thoughts are in nature great awareness;
Cause and effect are non-dual, spontaneous.

Some talk and talk about union, yet their meditation is all conceptual,
They talk and talk about cause and effect, yet their actions are flawed,
Such petty, deluded contemplations
Have no place in the yoga of one-pointedness.

Some talk and talk about no elaboration, but they elaborate plenty,
They talk and talk about the inexpressible, but theyve got plenty of terminology.
Such self-obsessed meditations
Have no place in the yoga of simplicity.

Some talk and talk about non-thought, but how active their mind is!
Some talk and talk about oneness,but they still want to make a point.
Such hazy confusion
Has no place in the yoga of one-taste.

The nature of perceptions is nonarising.
If something arises, it is your clinging to its reality.
While the mind itself is like the sky,
It becomes obscured by thoughts, like the clouds from the south.
Thought as well is luminous wakefulness.
Experience shines like the sun and moon.
Effortless, spontaneous, unconditioned,
In this state, beyond self and others,
I remain continuously in nonclinging wakefulness,
amazing!

Don't you know that the things of this life are deceiving?
Don't you know that enjoyments are magical displays?
Don't you know that pain is in fact pleasure?
Don't you know that pleasures are just a dream?
Don't you know that that praise and blame are just echoes?
Don't you know that perceptions are just your mind?
Don't you know that your mind is the reality?
Don't you know that dharmakaya is your basic nature?

Whatever is experienced is empty in essence,
So there is nothing for mindfulness to hold or lose.

I have tasted the flavor of nonarising,
And likewise realized its practice.

Perceptions are your own mind,
So, understand that this mind is empty.