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- Medium article - Heart Sutra and the nyams of Dzogchen - Aleander Vezhnevets - 2022, Sept 7
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- Summary
- This is an insightful article on the esoteric practices of the Tibetan Buddhist Nyingma school of Dzogchen practice.
- It provides a first-hand account from a Western practitioners perspective and written in a clear, easy to understand language that stresses the phenomenological aspects and uncluttered with too much specialized esoteric language, other than the Tibetan or Sanskrit names of the major practices.
- For anyone seriously practicing b meditation, of any or even no spiritual tradition, It helps to provide useful and major insights and experimental landmarks of the meditative journey into exploring the relationship between form and emptiness
- The description helps to locate one in what it might be like to return to the pre-linguistic world of the newborn, experiencing an undivided reality for the first time, as a gestalt that does not reify all the emerging phenomena into separate silo'd objects
- These descriptions on
- recognising form from an emptiness starting point and
- recognizing emptiness from a form starting point
- remind me off the Guru Rinpoche song of Khenpo Tsultruim Gyamtso Rinpoche:
- https://ktgrinpoche.org/songs/guru-rinpoche-prayer
- All these forms that appear to eyes that see
All things on the outside and the inside
The environment and its inhabitants
Appear, but let them rest where no self’s found
- Perceiver and perceived, when purified
Are the body of the deity, clear emptiness
To the guru, for whom desire frees itself
To Orgyen Pema Jungnay, I supplicate
- All these sounds that appear for ears that hear
Taken as agreeable or not
Let them rest in the realm of sound and emptiness
Past all thought, beyond imagination
Sounds are empty, unarisen and unceasing
These are what make up the Victor’s teaching
To the teachings of the Victor, sound and emptiness
To Orgyen Pema Jungnay, I supplicate
- All these movements of mind towards its objects
These thoughts that make five poisons and afflictions
Leave thinking mind to rest without contrivances
Do not review the past nor guess the future
If you let such movement rest in its own place
It liberates into the dharmakaya
To the guru, for whom awareness frees itself
To Orgyen Pema Jungnay, I supplicate
- Grant your blessing that purifies appearance
Of objects perceived as being outside
Grant your blessing that liberates perceiving mind
The mental operation seeming inside
Grant your blessing that, between the two of these
Clear light will come to recognize its own face
In your compassion, sugatas of all three times
Please bless me, that a mind like mine be freed
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