Madhyamaka vs Dzogchen - Is this right?
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Madhyamaka vs Dzogchen - Is this right?
Madhyamaka........................................Dzogchen
freedom from extremes.......................... freedom from extremes
dependent origination.............................kadag, lhun grub and thugs rje
two truths...........................................discards two truths
no tantric features............................direct introduction, dream yoga, dark retreat, description of death process, description of empty clarity etc.
freedom from extremes.......................... freedom from extremes
dependent origination.............................kadag, lhun grub and thugs rje
two truths...........................................discards two truths
no tantric features............................direct introduction, dream yoga, dark retreat, description of death process, description of empty clarity etc.
Re: Madhyamaka vs Dzogchen - Is this right?
Something like that. Dzogchen is a part of secret mantra.ConradTree wrote:Madhyamaka........................................Dzogchen
freedom from extremes.......................... freedom from extremes
dependent origination.............................kadag, lhun grub and thugs rje
two truths...........................................discards two truths
no tantric features............................direct introduction, dream yoga, dark retreat, description of death process, description of empty clarity etc.
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Re: Madhyamaka vs Dzogchen - Is this right?
I'd replace the last pair with this:
Analytical Meditation---------------------Tantric practices
Analytical Meditation---------------------Tantric practices
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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Re: Madhyamaka vs Dzogchen - Is this right?
So pretty much the only similarity is freedom from extremes right?Malcolm wrote: Something like that. Dzogchen is a part of secret mantra.
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Re: Madhyamaka vs Dzogchen - Is this right?
Well, no. Madhyamaka is an intellectual idea. Dzogchen starts with an idea, but is primarily a practice and experience. There is no Madhyamaka "practice". It is a paradigm (or perhaps better said a denial of a paradigm) cultivated in preparation for practice.ConradTree wrote: So pretty much the only similarity is freedom from extremes right?
The case could be made that the two ideas are dissimilar also, but enough has been said about that elsewhere already.
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1.The problem isn’t ‘ignorance’. The problem is the mind you have right now. (H.H. Karmapa XVII @NYC 2/4/18)
2. I support Mingyur R and HHDL in their positions against lama abuse.
3. Student: Lama, I thought I might die but then I realized that the 3 Jewels would protect me.
Lama: Even If you had died the 3 Jewels would still have protected you. (DW post by Fortyeightvows)
2. I support Mingyur R and HHDL in their positions against lama abuse.
3. Student: Lama, I thought I might die but then I realized that the 3 Jewels would protect me.
Lama: Even If you had died the 3 Jewels would still have protected you. (DW post by Fortyeightvows)
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Re: Madhyamaka vs Dzogchen - Is this right?
I asked "the only similarity is freedom from extremes right"?
You are talking about differences, which I already addressed in my table in the first post.
Lastly, I am asking Malcolm
You are talking about differences, which I already addressed in my table in the first post.
Lastly, I am asking Malcolm
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Re: Madhyamaka vs Dzogchen - Is this right?
D'oh!ConradTree wrote:I asked "the only similarity is freedom from extremes right"?
You are talking about differences, which I already addressed in my table in the first post.
1.The problem isn’t ‘ignorance’. The problem is the mind you have right now. (H.H. Karmapa XVII @NYC 2/4/18)
2. I support Mingyur R and HHDL in their positions against lama abuse.
3. Student: Lama, I thought I might die but then I realized that the 3 Jewels would protect me.
Lama: Even If you had died the 3 Jewels would still have protected you. (DW post by Fortyeightvows)
2. I support Mingyur R and HHDL in their positions against lama abuse.
3. Student: Lama, I thought I might die but then I realized that the 3 Jewels would protect me.
Lama: Even If you had died the 3 Jewels would still have protected you. (DW post by Fortyeightvows)
Re: Madhyamaka vs Dzogchen - Is this right?
Madhyamaka ultimately discards the two truths as well, they are just a pedagogical methodology. Dzogchen also has dependent origination, which proliferates beginning with avidyā just like Madhyamaka. Madhyamaka uses analysis as its main praxis and doesn't work with energy, so it doesn't work with lhun grub.ConradTree wrote:Madhyamaka........................................Dzogchen
freedom from extremes.......................... freedom from extremes
dependent origination.............................kadag, lhun grub and thugs rje
two truths...........................................discards two truths
no tantric features............................direct introduction, dream yoga, dark retreat, description of death process, description of empty clarity etc.
A proper Madhyamaka view is quite helpful with setting up correct inferential views in Dzogchen though, take this from Rigdzin Chökyi Drakpa for example:
"On the path of tregchö, all the rigidity of mind's clinging to an 'I' where there is no 'I', and a self where there is no self, is cut through with Madhyamaka Prasangika reasoning and the resulting conviction that an 'I' or a 'self' does not exist. Then, by examining where mind arises, dwells and ceases, you become certain of the absence of any true reality."
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Re: Madhyamaka vs Dzogchen - Is this right?
There is no dependent origination in Dzogchen.
Dzogchen has kadag, lhun grub and thugs rje.
Dzogchen has kadag, lhun grub and thugs rje.
Re: Madhyamaka vs Dzogchen - Is this right?
In the system of Dzogchen, dependent origination begins with non-recognition. The conditioned phenomena of avidyā arise dependently. It may be true that from the standpoint of vidyā, dependent origination is seen for what it is, but as long as there is no recognition then appearance is reified in an afflictive way and dependent origination applies.ConradTree wrote:There is no dependent origination in Dzogchen.
Dzogchen has kadag, lhun grub and thugs rje.
This is the specific model of dependent origination [twelve nidānas] which is pertinent in this case; one fails to recognize the appearances of the basis to be self-originated wisdom display, delusion [avidyā] ensues, and the remaining eleven links follow accordingly.
Re: Madhyamaka vs Dzogchen - Is this right?
Wow, that's a niece piece of brief comparative summary and very good basis for a comparative study of systems' non-conventional linguistic expressions and their corresponding psycho-philosophies. Thank you!ConradTree wrote:Madhyamaka........................................Dzogchen
freedom from extremes.......................... freedom from extremes
dependent origination.............................kadag, lhun grub and thugs rje
two truths...........................................discards two truths
no tantric features............................direct introduction, dream yoga, dark retreat, description of death process, description of empty clarity etc.
What would be interesting is: when the two-truths-model is discarded then this necessarily entails a one-truth-model, right? Even if this "one truth" is kind of paradoxical like "The truth is that there are no (real) truths."(negative expression) or "The truth is that everything is (equally) true." (positive expression).