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The Great Potency of Bodhicitta – Dzogchen Semde Tantra

19/12/2024 | Leave a Comment

All and everything emanates from me,so all and everything, whatever appears,is revealed as transmission,revelation of timelessly pure basic spaciousness. Excerpt from The Great Potency of Bodhicitta A quick excursion of context here before sharing the teaching and reflections! The Great Potency of Bodhicitta is a seminal Dzogchen text categorized under the Semde (Mind Series), one […]

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A Dzogchen Guide to Buddhist Yanas

12/09/2024 | 2 Comments

I’ve been reflecting back quite a bit recently about my journey, and how I’ve taken many approaches at different times – I believe because they’ve each been appropriate at the time. I don’t know if I’ve ever had a ‘one size fits all’ type attitude when it comes to whatever this strange thing that we

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Mahamudra

Tara and Machig Labdron

11/07/2005 | 3 Comments

At the age of fourty-one, Machig Labdron stayed in a retreat cave in Chipug which was blessed for practice. On the fourth day of the last month of spring, in the middle of the night, the majestic Lady Tara appeared, surrounded by numerous dakinis. She bestowed on Machig the four initiations of the five primordial

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Thanks Cosette. I'm happy to hear you found a statue of White Tara. The deities feel like different coloured reflections…

This post is beautiful; thank you for sharing. I understand your observation about the scarcity of images of Prajnaparamita. I,…

Thanks for this. I see this as pointing to two things: 1 - Recognising the nature of your mind -…

Thanks Ali, much appreciated. I've used a number of things to help with slipping back into the contraction of conceptual…

Well explained. I found that it is quite challanging to maintain recognition of rigpa because we are easily caught up…