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Pointing Out the Nature of Mind - Dudjom Rinpoche
This Rigpa which is pointed to is nothing like the words used to point to it. Yet beings cannot help trying to point to it with words! No matter that any concept that forms in your mind is not ‘it’ in ‘itself’.
Any object, any subject, any this or that is not it. Beyond all notions or concepts, yet how to point to it without words and concepts?
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A Biography of Garab Dorje
Read my biography of Garab Dorje on my blog:
https://luminousemptiness.co.uk/biography-of-garab-dorje/
Summary: Garab Dorje, the first human teacher of Dzogchen in Tibetan Buddhism, was born in Uddiyana around the 1st century CE. His birth, shrouded in legend, includes miraculous accounts of immaculate conception. At just seven years old, he ( Read more... ) -
Savaripa on the Nature of Mind
I thought I’d share this quote from Savaripa (Shavaripa) - the eighth century India mahasiddha.
In the process of searching for all that manifests as mind and matter
There is neither anything to be found nor is there any seeker,
For to be unreal is to be unborn and unceasing
In the three periods of time.
That which is immutable
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Immaculate Radiance: A Testament - Longchenpa
Excerpt from the full post:
Today I came across Longchenpa’s final testament - The Immaculate Radiance. I found reading the words of this incomparable Dzogchen master who was giving his final teaching just before he died, profoundly moving. What a life he led! How could you begin to measure his life, perhaps unlike that of any other?
Life is ( Read more... )