dzogchen¶
aka atiyoga aka great perfection aka great completion
analogy: the final summit of mt everest, with ngondro being basecamp
triad¶
in dzogchen the meditation comes before the view
view¶
pristine awareness vast unlimited
meditation¶
cutting through to pristine awareness aka open awareness6
conduct¶
dream like - do not confuse the wide view with the close conduct
nine yanas5¶
dzogchen is atiyoga #9
- Shravaka_yana
- Pratyekabuddha_yana
- Bodhisattva_yana
- Kriya_Tantra
- Charya_Tantra
- Yoga_Tantra
- Mahayoga
- Anuyoga
- Atiyoga
| stage | books | notes |
|---|---|---|
| ngondro | tcic | 4 common and unique foundation practices |
| shamatha | stilling the mind | abide in the calm nature of mind and balance the still mind tuned between laxity and excitation |
| vipassana | fathoming the mind | recognize sunyata |
| 12 links | ||
| 37 factors | ||
| 6 deity aspects | ||
| samayasattva | ||
| jnanasattva | ||
| visualization | ||
| four mudras | ||
| generation | ||
| completion | ||
| samadhi | ||
| mandala | ||
| cutting through |
charts¶
ngondro¶
dzogchen¶
dzogchen is the 9th yana aka atiyoga
generation stage¶
source rigpa wiki?
- vipassana
- emptiness
- forms as nirmanakaya
- sounds as emanations of sambhogakaya
- mental events as dharmakaya
- own body as body of buddha
- own speech as speech of buddha
- own mind as mind off buddha
buddha nature¶
recognition not creation this already exists in humans
- primordial liberation
- primordial awareness
- pristine awareness
motivations¶
- enlightenment of all beings
- shamatha
- recognition of the nature of mind
- bliss
- illuminosity
- compassion
- recognition of the nature of mind
- vipassana
- removes delusions
- recognition of the nature of reality
three words4¶
- relax and detach the mind - recognize and let it settle into it's nature - buddha nature - tathagatarba
- dharmakaya - emptiness
- sambhogakaya - cognizant nature
- nirmanakaya - union of the two
- decide on one point
- gain confidence in liberation
three kayas¶
- dharmakaya
- inherent truth
- sambhogakaya
- it's nature light or energy
- nirmanakaya
- everything we perceive
Dhogzhen
dhogzhen meditation is also called nonmeditation
tibetan rig pa chok shak means open presence in pristine awareness
translates to the great perfection or completion
cuts through the ordinary conditioned mind
perceiving reality from the perspective of pristine awareness
Vajra-essence
- taking the mind as the impure path
- shamatha - fathoming page 23 lists 3 steps
- relaxed - no agitation
- stable - equipose - equanimity increasingly
- vivid actuity of attention without undermining stability
- padmasambhava says practicing being aware of awareness may be all that is needed to achieve shamata and cut tthrough to pristine awareness
- shamatha - fathoming page 23 lists 3 steps
- revealing your own face as the sharp vajra of vipasyana
- the nature - devoid of any origin location and destination
- four chokshyaks - there is nothing to crave or change in this moment everything needed is already there
- cultivate increasing awareness of projections or rejections
- generation stage - see charts
- superior faculties can merge their mind with space for 21 days and cut through to pristine awareness
- revealing the ground dharmakaya
- dissolution of self reveals the ground
- determining the charactistics and qualities of the ground
- wake up pay attention dwell in samadhi
Ahamkara
ahamkara aka i-maker is the primitive preconceptual state of being separate sensation of being right here separate from objects seen as other over there mentation - mentation - manas emerge and afflictive mentation aka klistamanas conceptualization arises and grasping and rejecting objects get categorized and isolated ignorance causing delusion about what is self and what objects are
Russian-dolls
- alan wallace's russian doll anaology
- normal awareness - not meditating
- russian doll of attention fixated on the body falls away
- aware of being aware - meditative state
- aware of the breath while noting & releasing adventitious mental factors as they arise
- russian doll of attention fixated on the mind falls away
- innermost russian doll is pristine awareness
- non conceptual
- wisdom - radiance illuminates
- non duality - ta signifies emptiness
- sunyata - emptiness
- dharmata - suchness arises from emptiness
definitions¶
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primordial awareness is buddhahood it is empty therefore pure and permanently unoccluded
this feature is what allows complete humans to achieve buddhahood and it cannot be lost due to the nature of the mind