Monday, August 12, 2013

Links to Guru 's Speech 10-8-2013 Seattle


2013年8月10日聖尊蓮生活佛盧勝彥開講「大圓滿九次第法」-西雅圖雷藏寺
http://vimeo.com/72124717


08/10/2013 Nine Stages Dharma of the Great Perfection (Dzogchen) by Grand-Master Lu - Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple
http://vimeo.com/72124728

Yidam for this session is Amitabha Buddha - the Infinite Light & lifespan Buddha.


[[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzogchen
Excerpts only. 


The word Dzogchen has been translated variously as Great Perfection, Great Completeness, Total Completeness, and Supercompleteness. 
These terms also convey the idea that our nature has many qualities that make it perfect. 

These include indestructibility, incorruptible purity, non-discriminating openness, flawless clarity, profound simplicity, all-pervading presence and equality within all beings (i.e., the quality, quantity and functionality of this awareness is exactly the same in every being in the universe).


A homonymous term dzogchen designates a practice and also a body of teachings aimed at helping an individual to recognize the Dzogchen state, 
to become sure about it, 
and to develop the capacity to maintain the state continually.


The Dzogchen teachings focus on three terms: View, Meditation, and Action.

1. To see directly the absolute state of our mind is the View; 
2. the way of stabilizing that View and making it an unbroken experience is Meditation; 
3. and integrating that View into our daily life is what is meant by Action.


This open awareness of Dzogchen, or rigpa (also comparable to the Buddha nature), is said to lie at the heart of all things and indeed of all Dzogchen practice and is nothing less than "... 
primordial wisdom's recognition of itself as unbounded wholeness... the incorruptible mindnature."

This reflexive awareness of Enlightenment is said to be inherent within all beings, but not to be attainable by thought.

Chogyal Namkhai Norbu points out that Dzogchen "refers to the true primordial state of every individual and not to any transcendent reality." 

In discussing the Nyingma text, the Kunjed Gyalpo Tantra (kunjed gyalpo = 'the all-creating king', synoymous with Samantabhadra Buddha), Namkhai Norbu explains that Kunjed Gyalpo is in fact "beyond" the dualism inherent in the notion of an 'individual'. 

He writes:
The transmission of knowledge comes from the state of rigpa that has never been stained and has never been hindered. 

This is Adibuddha, or "primordial Buddha", Kunjed Gyalpo... 

The state of Kunjed Gyalpo is knowledge, and in knowledge there is not even the concept of "one and two", otherwise we have already entered into dualism. 

Also, the concept of "individual" presupposes dualistic vision. But Samantabhadra is beyond all this...

Klein and Wangyal comment on the ultimate "one taste" and dynamic stillness of the Dzogchen state:

{{quote}... cause and effect, sentient beings and Buddhas, subjects and objects, path and goal are ultimately revealed to be of one taste: movement from one to the other is no movement at all, really, but a dynamic stillness.}}


There can be found within Dzogchen a sense of Reality as limitless wholeness, a multiplicity which is yet all of one "taste", which is a borderless wholeness. 

According to Lopon Tenzin Namdak, it is unconditioned and permanent, changeless, not originated from causes and conditions, blissful, and the base or support of numerous exalted qualities.

"It is at once base, path, and fruit". 

"That reality, unbounded wholeness, is naturally complete." 

Also: "...the essence and base of self-arisen wisdom is the all base, that primordial open awareness is the base, and that recognition of this base is not separate from the primordial wisdom itself. 

...that open awareness is itself authentic and its authenticity is a function of it being aware of, or recognizing itself as, the base. 

...The reflexively self-aware primordial wisdom is itself open awareness (rigpa), inalienably one with unbounded wholeness." ]]

Quite a lot to digest? 

Listen to Guru's speech and you will probably understand the above extracts I found online. :)


Coincidently, I also shared some of the concepts shared by Guru in the above speech, some hours earlier on Saturday evening [Singapore Time] with attendees of fire puja. 



Cheers all


Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef


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