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by futerko
Sun Oct 30, 2022 11:50 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

The basis is just your own consciousness. Accept it and move on. Dzogchen the self-perfected state, p. 53 "The essence is the void, the real condition of the individual and of all phenomena. This base is the condition of all individuals, whether they are aware of it or not, whether they are en...
by futerko
Sun Oct 30, 2022 7:04 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

The basis is just your own consciousness. Accept it and move on. Dzogchen the self-perfected state, p. 53 "The essence is the void, the real condition of the individual and of all phenomena. This base is the condition of all individuals, whether they are aware of it or not, whether they are en...
by futerko
Sun Oct 30, 2022 6:46 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

The unconditioned nature of the base The basis is just your own consciousness. Accept it and move on. Dzogchen the self-perfected state, p. 53 "The essence is the void, the real condition of the individual and of all phenomena. This base is the condition of all individuals, whether they are aw...
by futerko
Sun Oct 30, 2022 6:05 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

Also ChNN stated many times each person has their own basis. Why people continue to remain confused about this is beyond me Perhaps because people don't fully grasp convention? Seems like every time there is talk of non-duality and things being of one nature/taste, people jump to advaitan ideas aut...
by futerko
Sun Oct 30, 2022 3:57 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

yes, I am even more confused by this. On the one hand you seem to be saying that all universals are mere abstractions from particular instances, but surely the very idea of primordial nature is that it is a priori? Not really. The term "ye gzhi," primordial basis, just refers to nature of...
by futerko
Sun Oct 30, 2022 3:34 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

Of course, I take this to be Dharmakirti's point versus Platonic "forms", but I think the nature of mind is a special instance. You are mistaken. There are no exceptions to nominalism in Buddhadharma, not even in Dzogchen. One cannot directly experience "treeness" but in the cas...
by futerko
Sun Oct 30, 2022 3:01 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

Of course, I take this to be Dharmakirti's point versus Platonic "forms", but I think the nature of mind is a special instance. You are mistaken. There are no exceptions to nominalism in Buddhadharma, not even in Dzogchen. One cannot directly experience "treeness" but in the cas...
by futerko
Sun Oct 30, 2022 2:34 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

That of course is impossible. This is like saying that after fire burns out, there is still heat. It seems to me fairly uncontentious to say that the nature of fire remains unchanged regardless of the presence of heat or not. The phrase "beyond time" is not my innovation, eg; There is no ...
by futerko
Sun Oct 30, 2022 1:37 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

Therefore, in Dzogchen, mind is in time and space whereas the nature of mind is beyond time and space That of course is impossible. This is like saying that after fire burns out, there is still heat. It seems to me fairly uncontentious to say that the nature of fire remains unchanged regardless of ...
by futerko
Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:57 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

Seems this discussion has veered into debating second-hand anectodal taglines, e.g., what “pervasive” means in some conversation that may or may not have been understood correctly. Cite something concrete. the discussion is simply about interpretation of terminology, no anecdotes! Sure, but no one ...
by futerko
Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:48 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

Seems this discussion has veered into debating second-hand anectodal taglines, e.g., what “pervasive” means in some conversation that may or may not have been understood correctly. Cite something concrete. the discussion is simply about interpretation of terminology, no anecdotes! Malcolm's comment...
by futerko
Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:29 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

"What is existence? It is the five appropriated aggregates."-Abhidharmakosa citation in Chim Jampaiyangs commentary Since the experience of existence is individual phenomena (as Acharya points out above) and the mind of sentient beings are the experiencer we can understand that this is a ...
by futerko
Sat Oct 29, 2022 6:36 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

Ask him if the dharmakaya pervading all sentient beings means we are all one dharmakaya in the universe of non-dual space and awareness. Go ahead. I dare you. I don't misunderstand anything lamas say. Why? I ask for clarification. I pin down and confront. At some point one just has to accept it. I ...
by futerko
Fri Oct 28, 2022 3:12 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

When one meditates no one else can see my mandala visualizations or path appearances UNLESS the lama and student have clairvoyance. But generally no one else can because of the body. That basis is distinct. But once there's no self and other the notion own basis has no referent. It looks like, in t...
by futerko
Tue Oct 25, 2022 11:29 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

I think it must make it quite difficult to order food from a menu if you can't recall what things taste like! It seems to me you can go quite far with just recalling concepts. You don’t have to remember how chocolate tastes to remember you liked it. Exactly this. There must be some kind of indexing...
by futerko
Mon Oct 24, 2022 6:33 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

I think it must make it quite difficult to order food from a menu if you can't recall what things taste like!
by futerko
Fri Oct 21, 2022 4:32 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

If I say "Apple," or "imagine an apple," does your mind generate an image of an apple? For most of us, I think the answer is "yes," but I grant that some people's minds may be wired differently. Just discovered I have Aphantasia, no apple at all never, not even a light...
by futerko
Fri Oct 21, 2022 3:29 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

Personally, I find I increasingly steer clear of fabrication as the natural path my practice appears to take. I wouldn't sweat it too much.
by futerko
Fri Oct 21, 2022 12:19 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

Tao wrote: Fri Oct 21, 2022 12:14 pm
I know it's green or red, but I cant see red or green anywhere in my mind.
Ah, I see what you mean. I have the same in that case - I cannot imagine the actual taste or colour as if it were present when it isn't.
by futerko
Fri Oct 21, 2022 12:09 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
Replies: 508
Views: 25228

Re: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices

Tao wrote: Fri Oct 21, 2022 8:14 am ...no apple at all never, not even a light or simple image.
It would seem to beg the question of how one knows what object is being referred to. Surely without any associated sensory properties the word "apple" does not refer to anything!

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