Enochian wrote:Getting transmission, getting a guru, getting a lineage and getting samaya vows would only make me more conditioned.
It would take me AWAY from enlightenment.
It is because you have limited view of the meaning of guru,lineage and samaya that you think that. For me those words means vivid openness and freedom.
/magnus
"We are all here to help each other go through this thing, whatever it is."
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
Enochian wrote:Getting transmission, getting a guru, getting a lineage and getting samaya vows would only make me more conditioned.
It would take me AWAY from enlightenment.
How is it possible to be taken away from enlightenment ? ... if not "already enlightened" it is useful as deconditioning tools (when correctely used)
Sönam
By understanding everything you perceive from the perspective of the view, you are freed from the constraints of philosophical beliefs.
By understanding that any and all mental activity is meditation, you are freed from arbitrary divisions between formal sessions and postmeditation activity.
- Longchen Rabjam -
gnegirl wrote:Its kinda funny, 'cause even the direct-transmissions schools like Rinzai Zen require a Zen master to facilitate the process.
I understand this. But Dalai Lama himself gives 50% of it away when he says there is a discrepency between thoughtforms and reality. And this is in every nonrestricted book in the bookstore by him.
There is an ever-present freedom from grasping the mind.
Mind being defined as the thing always on the Three Times.
gnegirl wrote:Its kinda funny, 'cause even the direct-transmissions schools like Rinzai Zen require a Zen master to facilitate the process.
I understand this. But Dalai Lama himself gives 50% of it away when he says there is a discrepency between thoughtforms and reality. And this is in every nonrestricted book in the bookstore by him.
You might have some idea about emptiness. But you don't understand Dzogchen at all.
Enochian wrote:I take refuge in the Triple Gems. And I also have a Mahayana aspiration to obtain perfect omniscient Buddhahood as fast as possible to help infinite sentient beings.
Enochian wrote:Getting transmission, getting a guru, getting a lineage and getting samaya vows would only make me more conditioned.
It would take me AWAY from enlightenment.
You seriously need to read "Old Man Basking in the Sun," and "Eye of the Storm," both by Keith Dowman, same translator for "Flight of the Garuda." Dowman gives commentaries in these that support your assertion. You are not alone in thinking this way.
gnegirl wrote:Its kinda funny, 'cause even the direct-transmissions schools like Rinzai Zen require a Zen master to facilitate the process.
I understand this. But Dalai Lama himself gives 50% of it away when he says there is a discrepency between thoughtforms and reality. And this is in every nonrestricted book in the bookstore by him.
You might have some idea about emptiness. But you don't understand Dzogchen at all.
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Why would I understand Dzogchen? I never had transmission.
There is an ever-present freedom from grasping the mind.
Mind being defined as the thing always on the Three Times.
Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away
"Antigonish" (1899)[2]
--William Hughes Mearns
"Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise." --Surangama Sutra
Phenomenon, vast as space, dharmata is your base, arising and falling like ocean tide cycles, why do i cling to your illusion of unceasing changlessness?
If you 100% NEED a transmission to understand your natural state, it would NOT be natural would it?
Not necessarily.
Plants need sunlight to grow. Pretty natural.
"All phenomena of samsara depend on the mind, so when the essence of mind is purified, samsara is purified. Since the phenomena of nirvana depend on the pristine consciousness of vidyā, because one remains in the immediacy of vidyā, buddhahood arises on its own. All critical points are summarized with those two." - Longchenpa
Enochian wrote:
If you 100% NEED a transmission to understand Dzogchen, that means it is conditioned.
No, it just means that people are conditioned.
Dzogchen is a personal experience of one's actual state. For that you simply need someone who has that knowledge to show you the same. It is not something you will ever figure out on your own. That is your limitation, not the limitation of the teachings.
It is for example like a begger who uses a rock for a pillow, never dreaming that inside the rock is a precious diamond.