Tawa – Luminous Emptiness

Cintamani - the wish fulfilling jewel of Bodhicitta

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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Dzogchen

Natural Great Peace by Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje

06/10/2024 | Leave a Comment

Rest in natural great peace This exhausted mind Beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought Like the relentless fury of pounding waves In the infinite ocean of samsāra. Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang DorjeNatural Great Peace So clear, so direct. This is the start and the end of it. Rest in natural great peace, the nature of

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Dzogchen

Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness – Verse 10 – Karma Lingpa / Padmasambhava

16/08/2024 | Leave a Comment

These verses from Self-Liberation: Through Seeing with Naked Awareness are as if directly spoken face to face with me by Karma Lingpa. How potent! Mind’s nature is empty It is certain that the nature of the mind is empty and without any foundation whatsoever. Your own mind is insubstantial like the empty sky. You should

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Mahamudra

Madhyamaka and Shentong – Beyond Thought

16/08/2004 | Leave a Comment

In response to a quote from a song of Milarepa, where: Rechungpa experienced a glimpse of emptiness and felt lost, because there was nothing to hold on 🙂 Interestingly enough, this is precisely what Madhyamaka method leads to … the realisation that there is nothing whatsoever to hold onto, and whatever we turn to in

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Vajrayana

Everything In Place

16/08/2004 | Leave a Comment

S’funny how from here, right now, it seems like everything is in place, is in exactly the right place! The practice = Chod The teachings = Mahamudra The teacher = Shangpa Rinpoche The lineage = Karma Kagyu What more could I need? Every circumstance that presents itself, whatever it is, I already have all that

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Buddha with Cintamani (wish fulfilling jewel)

Mahamudra

Madhyamaka and Shentong – Luminosity and Emptiness

16/08/2004 | Leave a Comment

In response to the notion that: the teachings of Madhyamaka (Great Middle Way, or UmaChenpo in tib.) are the foundation of the view in Kagyu tradition. I didn’t say that Madhyamaka was the foundation of the Kagyu view. I actually said that within the tradition it is often said to be “most useful for clarifying

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Vajrayana

Mantras, Relative and Ultimate Truth – Views

14/07/2004 | Leave a Comment

Hi, many thanks for your considered response. I certainly agree with you on the role of words in teachings as skilful means which are used like fingers pointing to the moon – in order to get us to directly perceive that which cannot be captured by words alone. However, I would take issue with an

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