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- Wed May 17, 2023 8:06 am
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Urgyen Menla Initiation by James Low
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1496
Re: Urgyen Menla Initiation by James Low
Yes, but this not a Dzogchen teaching. So the question stands. This forum sometimes gets clogged up with non-Dzogchen topics and that’s annoying.
- Tue May 16, 2023 2:05 am
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Urgyen Menla Initiation by James Low
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1496
Re: Urgyen Menla Initiation by James Low
This is fine and all, I’m sure, but what is it doing in the Dzogchen sub-forum?
- Sat May 13, 2023 6:19 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
- Replies: 603
- Views: 39340
Re: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
Oh that’s perfect
- Fri May 12, 2023 10:39 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
- Replies: 603
- Views: 39340
- Fri May 12, 2023 10:16 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
- Replies: 603
- Views: 39340
Re: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
The point you fail to recognize, or have not been shown, is that once the radiance of rig pa has been exposed and identified for what it is, whether there are thoughts or not does not matter, just as one is able to identify someone's face in a crowd after one has been introduced to them. Further yo...
- Fri May 12, 2023 5:44 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
- Replies: 603
- Views: 39340
Re: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
But if, as you say, "Thoughts are just the expression of awareness" ; how will that approach ever end? It is not an approach: the mind is just the radiance of rig pa mixed with karma vāyus. When those vāyus subside, so does the mind. When those vayus are active, also the mind is active. T...
- Wed May 10, 2023 7:33 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
- Replies: 603
- Views: 39340
Re: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
So, sure, if one is truly sustaining rigpa they are not distracted by appearances, thoughts, etc. It's not the case that those appearances and thoughts necessarily completely cease… And here we touch on the fundamental point Jules doesn’t understand. And it’s impossible one could be anything other ...
- Tue May 02, 2023 8:57 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
- Replies: 603
- Views: 39340
Re: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
* “…splits the 5th into two to total 7 positions.”
- Tue May 02, 2023 7:33 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
- Replies: 603
- Views: 39340
Re: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
Yes, Longchenpa splits the fifth into total seven positions. Just to clarify, though, not all seven positions are faulted. The statement that the basis is primordially pure is faultless.
- Tue May 02, 2023 5:43 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
- Replies: 603
- Views: 39340
Re: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
Oops, I meant to say “The former (Genuine Meaning) is really just an elaboration of the latter (Buddhahood).”
- Tue May 02, 2023 3:16 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
- Replies: 603
- Views: 39340
Re: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
This is the error of assuming the basis is only lhundrup, the first and most important error of the six mistaken positions about the basis. Where can I find / what are these “six mistaken positions”? Longchenpa’s Precious Treasury of the Genuine Meaning or Vimalamitra’s Buddhahood in This Life are ...
- Mon May 01, 2023 4:43 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
- Replies: 603
- Views: 39340
Re: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
As Adeu Rinpoche explains: There are four stages of development in Dzogchen. The first stage comes with recognizing rigpa, which is sometimes called manifest dharmata, or innate nature—the natural state seen as it actually is. As you progress and your experience deepens, the second stage is called ...
- Mon Apr 17, 2023 4:55 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
- Replies: 603
- Views: 39340
Re: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
However I still feel there is no need to mature and ripen anything. No need to change or improve anything in the rigpa that recognise the basis. In a real sense, you’re quite right. But from the standpoint of the path, there is a continuum of going from not recognizing rigpa at all to recognizing i...
- Mon Apr 17, 2023 6:20 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Good book on meditation - a manual , if you will
- Replies: 233
- Views: 10127
- Wed Apr 05, 2023 1:25 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: direct introduction in EU?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 6278
Re: direct introduction in EU?
Female priests, lamas. etc. are not for me. I was certain that your avatar picture didn’t just *coincidentally* resemble Pepe the Frog, and now it’s confirmed. Wow, a far-right incel Buddhist. Can’t say I ever expected to see that in this lifetime lol. But yeah, gotta stay away from that she-rigpa. 🙄
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 4:14 pm
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Amitābha Mantra
- Replies: 2
- Views: 907
Re: Amitābha Mantra
I’ve come across the idea that amideva is a corruption of amitābha. Although I know there are some who say to recite how your teacher does, I prefer to utilize as close to the Sanskrit as possible. Has anyone seen amitābha used in the mantra in Lerab Lingpa’s short Amitābha sadhana? If you hope to ...
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 4:09 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
- Replies: 603
- Views: 39340
Re: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
Not so sure about the vajra master requirement. You can feel free to consult the Rigpa Rangshar, one of the 17 Nyingthig tantras, where it has a clearly worded section on the qualifications of being a guru who transmits Dzogchen. As Joe mentioned, it’s also in Vima’s Buddhahood in This Life, if you...
- Mon Mar 06, 2023 6:41 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Natural thogal?
- Replies: 155
- Views: 13104
Re: Natural thogal?
Wow, I’ve been on this forum since its inception and I’ve just had my first post disappeared. If the moderators knew how much astounding objective truth I held back when I made my comments, they’d have made them themselves. And I got no message about my post being deleted, explaining why it was dele...
- Mon Mar 06, 2023 6:29 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Natural thogal?
- Replies: 155
- Views: 13104
Re: Natural thogal?
(I deleted my duplicate post)
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:21 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Natural thogal?
- Replies: 155
- Views: 13104
Re: Natural thogal?
Longchenpa quotes this opinion of Kumarāja in chapter ten of his commentary on the Treasury of the Dharmadhātu: As it is said, "Here some confused ones, who are not knowledgable in the tantras, make random comments and cling to words literally, think these four cog bzhag are the method of equi...