Cintamani - the wish fulfilling jewel of Bodhicitta
Dzogchen

The Great Potency of Bodhicitta – Dzogchen Semde Tantra

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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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In Dzogchen, what is Natural Perfection / Spontaneous Presence (Lhungrub)?
Dzogchen

In Dzogchen, what is Natural Perfection / Spontaneous Presence (Lhungrub)?

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This post is an exploration of Natural Perfection or Lhungrub in Tibetan (ཀ་དག་) – the third of a series of posts on Dzogchen key terms. Natural Perfection is pointing to the natural, effortless manifestation of phenomena from the ground of being (Gzhi). It is the dynamic aspect of the mind that allows for the continuous arising of

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Garab Dorje
Dzogchen

A Shower of Wisdom – A Guru Yoga of Garab Dorje

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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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AI rendering of Ryokan - Zen Monk and Poet
Zen

Reflections on Ryokan’s Zen Poems – The Butterfly and the Flower

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I turn to Ryokan’s poetry over and over again. For me, nobody captures in poetry the magical essence of the spiritual life, indeed, of life like he does. How wonderous his words, painting pictures – pictures that rest in the heart, illuminating form and emptiness, and their interplay. When all thoughts are exhausted When all

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Samantabhadra
Dzogchen

In Dzogchen what is Primordial Purity (Kadag)?

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This post is an exploration of Primordial Purity, or Kadag in Tibetan (ཀ་དག་). It is sometimes also translated as “original purity” or “alpha purity.” The concept of Kadag is central to Dzogchen. It refers to the inherent, unconditioned purity of the nature of mind and reality itself. Kadag is not something to be created or attained but is

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The Mahasiddha Tilopa
Mahamudra

Severing the Bardo ‘Once and for All’

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‘Question and answer’ oral instructions of the Wisdom Ḍākinī to Tilopa Shrī vajraḍākinī namo! Tilopa asked the wisdom Ḍākinī: what is awakening [Buddha]? The wisdom Ḍākinī responded: Tilopa! When the mind looks at mind, the ‘looker’ is mind, the ‘looked at’ is also mind. Like space gazing at space, both the ‘gazer’ and the ‘gazed

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Vairotsana
Dzogchen

Vairotsana’s Wonderful Cuckoo’s Song Of Awareness

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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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