Jax
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Personal stuff is best in email. General questions and engaging in a dialectic towards understanding is good here...
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Rigpa has no need to remove obstructions. It has never been afflicted or obstructed and therefore needs no purification of kleshas etc. Rigpa is nirvana. The progression of profound depth of Buddhahood is infinite.
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Releasing is spontaneous... not a doing. Its like the mind seeing a rope is not really a snake. Emptiness is not something that can "reign". The mind either sees a projection empty or not... but not in a general all inclusive way unless in rigpa.
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Realization of anatta has been realized here... lol
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Yes, emails are fine; [email protected]
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Wow! So many questions! My book is designed to bring one to the level of "threkchod" realization. Then anyone having really completed the book successfully is prepared to do thogal. I then would teach that by skype of in retreat. I don't charge money for anything I teach, including retreats. If you are interested in further discussions personally, email me at; [email protected]
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There is no Bodhisattva Vow in Dzogchen. There are no rules, samaya or vows in actual Dzogchen. In Advaita the Ground is a mystical Divinity as Self that is "unchanged" by conditioning. In Dzogchen there is no Ground that can be conditioned.
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The Nyingma Dark Retreat is quite different. I did it under Norbu's immediate personal supervision. Its based on the Yang-ti of Dung Tso Repa's Seven Levels of inner states. It results in Rainbow Body.
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Light experiences are meant to be "interior" not some light to see... The Light is consciousness.
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There is no danger from learning and practicing thogal, none at all. However the "sun gazing" is very dangerous for one's eyes. One can cause permanent damage to one's retina. One should use light bulbs and candles instead. The way I teach thogal is totally safe. The phenomena don't arise unless the person is actually ready (trekchod stable).
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I would recommend going slow. Relax with shamatha and stablize shamatha first. More grounding. I don't like the symptons. I always try to the cool the system down when I hear from people with what you are sharing. Putting the pot on the back burner at low heat is much safer. Lots of walks in nature, forgetting about "teachings" and just relaxing. Then I would dialogue to get a feel for your situation in greater detail. This format is not so good for this situation. Email me: [email protected]
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Dark Retreat practices from the cycle of Dung Tso Repa. Now this stuff is really powerful!
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I have made a study of quantum for over 30 years and have some insight into the basics, especially as being taught currently by highly respected physicists for public consumption. A vision of the universe is appearing to be in great accord with Dzogchen teachings on energy and consciousness. ESP, synchronicities etc. are more easily explained knowing David Bohm's and Karl Pribram's work on the holographic universe and brain. What's really interesting is Quantum Information physics. These guys have actually made a working teleportation experiment. Instead of the universe being "energy" it is seen to be "information" as "q-bits". Q-bits are the basic. They appear from emptiness or nothingness with no prior cause. They are outside of dependent origination. The entire universe is only these bits of information. Consciousness and brains are the information processors that turn the information into a visible universe. I have a whole chapter in my book on this topic and how it relates to researched cases of the "Body of Light" occurrences in recent Tibet.
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He also taught Yang-ti that is even higher than thogal, to such a large crowd.
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Advaita postulates a "background" substrate. In Dzogchen we have "essence, nature and energy (thugje). This equates to Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya and Nirmanakaya. All appearences and rigpa have these three aspects as one nature. The essence or Dharmakaya aspect is the Ground from which the other two appear. Advaita postulates this Ground to have an abiding character or identity as the "Self" etc. Many texts in Dzogchen describe this Ground in many different ways. Its a condition of "omniscience", emptiness as having no substance or location in space or time, "space-like" because it has no border or center, reflexively sensitive as in compassion, Clarity as in vivid "presence". It is "empty" of adventitious karmic stains, but not empty of its own inherent qualities. When the karmic self-consciousness collapses back into the Ground, from which it arose, the Sambhogakaya arises as a Buddha. When the that Buddha embodies in the human dimension it is called a Nirmanakaya. So in the "essence" aspect, Dzogchen is in perfect accord with Madhyamaka and Prajnaparamita teachings on the absence of any imputed self, yet it has all the qualities of a Buddha.
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Sure... however it may be useful for others to relate to the dialogue as well. I am also experimenting with this mode of transmission, it has been workable for some.
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Yes, through the initial conversations...
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It may be more interesting if anyone would like to engage in this "direct introduction" process. This can be done for some in this format of "one on one" communication, Q and A. If anyone is interested, we can begin the dialogue now. Once a dialogue begins, just follow along, short comments are ok, but a focused cycle of communication should not be interrupted by others. However, only those truly serious about this should participate...
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Clear Light is rigpa. It's the energy aspect as "Cognitve Illumination". It's a bit like the event horizon of a black hole ( the transparent glow of Ultimate Emptiness)
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Ah! Nice!! :-)
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To really get a flavor of the deeper elements of Dzogchen in the higher level of practice known as Thogal, I will share this: "Many don't understand the principles of thogal and yang-ti. These both change the paradigm radically. The heart as "citta" is considered the location of Ground Rigpa in all thogal and yang-ti traditions, both Bon and Buddhist. This Ground is the Dharmakaya. Out of this Ground arises "path rigpa"(son-light) a clear light thigle located in the brain. The "wrathful deities" arise as the display of this thigle called the "thigle dronma" in yang-ti. The yeshe aspect is the "mirror-like wisdom" in which all appearences appear like reflections. It is your "consciousness". It is the Sambhogakaya. It either recognizes its Basis (Mother-light)in the heart-citta or not. Actually they are always "one" as they are connected by the central channel. It is this thigle of conscious Clear Light that goes in and out the body in Phowa. OBE and at death. This is the consciousness that "recognizes" or not. When it recognizes its Ground as Dharmakaya, its a Sambhogakaya Buddha. When it fails to recognize its Basis, sem arises as the manifestation of this "ignorance". Ignorance is not a thing, its the "non recognition". This "non-recognition" is the first link of the 12 nidanas. "Right View" is "recognition" as pointed out or realized. As dualistic mind, (sem) arises due to the inner karmic energies as karmic prana mix with the Clear Light in the small channel between the lungs and the heart -citta. When all these polluted karmic pranas are brought into the central channel, they transform into their basis as "yeshe lung". (Wisdom wind) In Dzogchen by remaining completely present and relaxed in the natural state alone the karmic prana reverts to its basis as "yeshe lung" naturally without having to be brought into the central channel. Some are using a Hinayana model to understand Dzogchen that ignores the energy aspects of how Samantabhadra embodies within a physical dimension through the subtle and unchanging Vajra Body of Light. This is like the difference between the view of Newtonian physics and quantum mechanics."
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Hey Jeff! I didn't use the term "unique perspective". That seems to be a mental construction. Experiences have never happened to anyone. They are arising in "free fall". The sense of "I am experiencing this from my unique perspective" is just a thought, arising without an actual unique perspective knowing this. These are good questions. But there is an ultimate basis that defies all description. I call it Quantum Intelligence. However it lies within experience not as an observer of it. Its quite mysterious. When accessed its Known. And its beyond description. Its not a "higher power", but rather is Power, the Power that is all that is happening. When the skandha of consciousness dissolves either in meditation, insight or death, the Clear Light is momentarily Known, but not often not recognized as one's True Nature. The wave doesn't "cease" but rather collapses back into its origin which is a huge expansion, not cessation. The harmonizing comes after the mind's collapse... There is neither Light or mind to mind transmission actually. Nothing is "transmitted". Its purely within oneself. It's a sudden "turning the Light around". By the way, I have a lot of yogic experience with Taoism as well as 30 years of study, practice, Tai Chi, I-Chuan, Chi Kung, Nei Kung and meditation. My main awakening came doing Taoist yogic light circulation practices regarding the "mud ball palace" in the brain. Yes, I do share this with others... I teach two classes per week and have private students. I have several Dzogchen groups on the internet, FB and Yahoo Groups. My last retreat in Sweden, audio recordings are posted on YouTube. My book is a "direct introduction" and is meant specifically to be totally transformative.
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Trekcho means "cutting through". "Cutting through 'sem' or karmic mind the source of contraction and tension. When that "thorough cut" occurs the experience is "kadag", the primordially pure nature. We then continue in that totally relaxed but vividly clear state of rigpa.
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Every perception or experience is unique, but there is no individual having those experiences or perceptions. Experiences are not "happening" to someone. Just like waves are not "happening" to the ocean.
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Well, the Mind of Clear Light is an absolute state, as the empty continuum. In its Clear Light status that Clear Light Mind is known as timeless and changeless Knowingness. It is not a self nor a Self. It can't be established as this or that or nothing. It is known in the prajna moment of "form is emptiness and emptiness is form". It is this continuum that reincarnates, embodies, yet has no fixed identity of its own. This can only be known in moments of Rigpa. However it has the qualities of unconditional love, power and omniscience. Everything is its Light. But we must leave this Buddha Mind fully "unestablished". Words and concepts just get us further from this pure Mind of Clear Light. The Totality is a vast cosmic single Hologram, known in Dzogchen as the Thigle Chenpo or vast Hyper-Sphere. Labelling this as a Self or God or background etc. is the mistake of Advaita. Its empty of all possible description regarding its ontological nature.
