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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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Dzogchen

Pointing Out the Nature of Mind – Dudjom Rinpoche

28/09/2024 | Leave a Comment

This Rigpa which is pointed to is nothing like the words used to point to it. Yet beings cannot help trying to point to it with words! No matter that any concept that forms in your mind is not ‘it’ in ‘itself’. Any object, any subject, any this or that is not it. Beyond all

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Other

Mary Oliver’s Profound Poem ‘The Summer Day’

31/08/2024 | Leave a Comment

Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean – the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down –

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Nondual Shiva Tantra

Some, Who Have Closed Their Eyes – Lal Ded

23/07/2024 | Leave a Comment

For some reason the bhakti poetry of Lal Ded, (also known as Lalla and as Lalleshwari), always resonates deep in my heart. Some, who have closed their eyes, are wide awake. Some, who look out at the world, are fast asleep. Some who bathe in sacred pools remain dirty. Some are at home in the

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Vajrayana

Shangpa Rinpoche’s teachings on Chod

22/05/2006 | 5 Comments

How often it’s stuck me over the years that I am ultimately blessed to have received the teachings on Chod from Shangpa Rinpoche! So often I’m at a particular place in my sadhana, and gratitude and joy flood through my mind, realising what an extraordinary thing this is, this Chod of Mahamudra practice. So often

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General Buddhism

Beads on a String

15/11/2004 | 5 Comments

It has really struck me over the weekend how much the continuity of meditation is facilitated by a daily practice. For many years when I started on the Dharmic path, I was fiercely concerned that I should meditate every day, following my teachers advice. Like many things in those days, there was a sense of

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Vajrayana

Calling Me Back Home

09/11/2004 | 2 Comments

Two nights ago I watched the final episode of Michael Palin’s new TV series – ‘Himalaya’, a series which followed his trek through that extraordinary region. Most of this last episode was set in Bhutan, and showed wonderful views of the environment there, the mountains, the valleys, and life in villages and monasteries. Calling me

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Vajrayana

Echoes Beyond Time

14/10/2004 | 1 Comment

I was reflecting this morning on how certain things seem to reach out to me from beyond time and space. They are so deep, so closely connected to me, indeed, they seem to be me in a sense, in the sense that I cannot separate or distinguish between them and me. For example, some dharma

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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…