Like Padmasambhava and Sakyamuni before him, Maticintin, Wisdom Master, HÜMÜH’s founder and spiritual leader, culled the wealth of historical Buddhist Teachings to create a vehicle for the primordial truth which is accessible to our modern Western culture. For a greater ease of understanding, HÜMÜH often uses modern terminology to present the timeless teachings so that people don’t become bogged down in ancient cultural phrasing.

HÜMÜH’s main focus is on viewing life from the overview of divinity, which is non-dual and beyond karma, so that limiting karma is negated entirely. HÜMÜH teaches that all conditions are contained in the mind, or in other words, we are the creators of everything in our lives. All circumstances come about as a result of where we have placed our attention and the feelings we have infused with our attention, in this life and previous lives. The resultant situations and inclinations from this are called karma.

All karma is manifested and expanded upon through the continued focus of our attention. Therefore, if we don’t want something in our lives, we must train ourselves to live in a state of Super-Cognizance or Third Eye Vision,* which removes our attention from it. It is disinterest, not resistance, that dissolves unwanted situations. This is an important distinction. We can never truly let go of anything unless we stop dwelling on it. In light of this, we learn that in order to make our lives what we truly want, we must not see ourselves as victims of some external, controlling force. Instead, we must accept total responsibility for everything we think, feel, and do.

In order to accept that we are the creators of our lives, we need to recognize the full extent of our responsibility. That is why the Teachings of HÜMÜH are focused on overlapping awareness, being aware that we are aware, or Dzogchen. Through developing this non-thinking but all-pervasive awareness of the inherent divinity that animates all sentient life, the student learns to become aware of limiting ego-karma (likes, dislikes, attitudes, opinions, fears) which manifests first, as unconscious images passing through mind, and then is expressed outwardly as unwanted life situations. Recognition of this principle is what allows the student to transcend the illusionary obstacles that stem from living as ego. This opens the door to experiencing life from the divine overview, which is a stance of pure logic that views life with unattached clarity and can respond naturally to all situations for the good of the whole, rather than unconsciously acting self-centeredly from habitual mindsets, which leads to suffering.

Overlapping awareness, or divine overview, is developed through the practice of Clear Light Living Meditation, which is the unification with the emptiness or light of divinity that is beyond the realm of manifestation, or physical life, and is historically known as Mahamudra. Continued...

*Overlapping awareness, being aware of being aware