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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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Dzogchen

Mind Itself Is A Vast Expanse, The Realm Of Unchanging Space

31/07/2024 | Leave a Comment

Mind itself is a vast expanse, the realm of unchanging space. Its indeterminate display is the expanse of the magical expression of its responsiveness. Everything is the adornment of basic space and nothing else. Outwardly and inwardly, things proliferating and resolving are the dynamic energy of awakened mind. Because this is nothing whatsoever yet arises

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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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Dzogchen

So Simple, Always None-Other Than …

22/07/2024 | Leave a Comment

There’s endless texts and teachings, vast arrays of philosophy, and no end to the arguments and positions – all seeking to point the way to this …. what? …. this coming home to what you are. But when it comes down to it, it’s oh so simple. Rest in that empty, luminous awareness, that space-like

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Mahamudra Mahayana

Examine the Nature of the Unborn Mind

15/03/2007 | 3 Comments

Second slogan of the 7 Point Mind Training. What is this teaching pointing at? Well, just like the previous slogan it emphasises the ultimate aspect of mind. Previously we were enjoined to examine the nature of appearances. What is the nature of what we experience, of all the phenomena which appear to our ‘minds eye’?

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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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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…