Nirmanakaya – Luminous Emptiness

A Shower of Wisdom – A Guru Yoga of Garab Dorje

05/12/2024 | 1 Comment

ཨཱ། བདག་གི་སྤྱི་གཙུག་པད་ཟླའི་གདན་སྟེངས་སུ། ། ah, dak gi chitsuk pé dé den teng su Āḥ! At the crown of my head, upon a lotus and moon-disc, དཔལ་ལྡན་རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ། ། palden dorjé sempa trulpé ku Is the nirmāṇakāya emanation of glorious Vajrasattva, དགའ་རབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་དཀར་གསལ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུའི་ཆས། ། garab dorjé karsal tulkü ché Garab Dorje, brilliant white and with nirmāṇakāya ornaments, མཚན་དཔེའི་དཔལ་འབར་ཆོས་འཆད་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཅན། ། […]

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Dzogchen

Vairotsana’s Wonderful Cuckoo’s Song Of Awareness

30/09/2024 | Leave a Comment

The Six Vajra Verses of Vairotsana Hey, Mahasattva, Magnificent Being, listen! The nature of multiplicity is Nondual and things in themselves are pure and simple; being here and now is construct-free and it shines out in all forms, always all good; it is already perfect, so exertion is redundant and spontaneity is ever immanent. VairotsanaOriginal

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Prajnaparamita, transcendent wisdom as deity, 13th century Buddhist statue from Java, Indonesia

Vajrayana

Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya

30/11/2004 | 7 Comments

I used to imagine that the Buddha was so very far away. Enlightenment was so inconceivably difficult to attain, and the path there so very long. With my swirling emotions and obscurations, how long the journey seemed, and how very hard I had to strive in order to reach the state of perfect Awakening. When

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General Buddhism

What Would a Buddha Do?

28/09/2004 | Leave a Comment

In response to: What would Buddha actually do in case, He was in my shoes? In case Buddha was in my shoes, He would look like a common person, totally “normal”. One couldn’t realize Him from the outside as being an Awakened One. One thing that springs to mind here is dependent origination. Beings or

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Vajrayana

Mantras and Sambhogakaya

10/07/2004 | Leave a Comment

In response to the notion that: whenever we use words, we already operate on relative level 🙂 Words are just fingers pointing to experiential meaning in both cases. I’d entirely agree with you in the sense that the word itself, i.e. the concept, can only be a relative truth, from the two truths perspective of

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Thanks Chris, that's exceedingly kind of you. I love the Gateless Gate quote - everything's the same nature indeed!

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