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- Sun Oct 30, 2022 11:50 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
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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...
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 7:04 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
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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...
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 6:46 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
- Replies: 508
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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...
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 6:05 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
- Replies: 508
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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...
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 3:57 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
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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...
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 3:34 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
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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...
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 3:01 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
- Replies: 508
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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...
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 2:34 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
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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 ...
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 1:37 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
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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 ...
- Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:57 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
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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 ...
- Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:48 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
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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...
- Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:29 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
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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 ...
- Sat Oct 29, 2022 6:36 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
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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 ...
- Fri Oct 28, 2022 3:12 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
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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...
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 11:29 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
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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...
- Mon Oct 24, 2022 6:33 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
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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!
- Fri Oct 21, 2022 4:32 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
- Replies: 508
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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...
- Fri Oct 21, 2022 3:29 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
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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.
- Fri Oct 21, 2022 12:19 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
- Replies: 508
- Views: 25934
- Fri Oct 21, 2022 12:09 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Aphantasia & Dzogchen / tantric practices
- Replies: 508
- Views: 25934