Weather Report This phrase—directed thought and evaluation—has been popping into my mind, as of late, largely in relation to renewed interest in questions of agency, choice, volition, intention, and so-called free will. I’ve contemplated these issues previously, and recorded my provisional conclusions in Do I Choose My Thoughts?—which I invite you to check out, if you haven’t already. It’s an …
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This passage from Unbounded Wholeness teases out the role of scripture and pointing-out instructions (aka "essential precepts") in a so-called direct path such as Dzogchen: * * * * * * * * * * * Authenticity, like Dzogchen in general, will not lay out a path to Buddhahood. It's path is Buddhahood. Yet two of its authenticating methods, scripture and essential precepts, are specifically …
The Heart-Essence & Its Play "Even though unbounded wholeness cannot be solely "this"or "that," existent or nonexistent, the bon-nature itself, "heart-essence of that definite base," is unchanging. The appearances that arise from it, however, are indefinite: they are nirvanic for the realized, samsaric for the unrealized. Indefiniteness, then, is not a statement about external objects. …
The Liberated Spontaneity Of Wholeness Via Unbounded Wholeness, here's a distinction worth contemplating: "It must be understood, however, that even without the effort of "taking up [or] putting aside," enormous perseverance is required to realize the Dzogchen view. In this regard, the Authenticity's distinction between artful endeavor ('bad pa) and effort (rtsol ba) is critical. Effort …
Is it okay to fall in love with an adverb? In the following passage--a verse from the Bon/Buddhist text Authenticity of Open Awareness, as cited in Unbounded Wholeness: Dzogchen, Bon and the Logic of the Nonconceptual--it's "thinglessly" that creates that little flutter in my heart: playfully, delightfully :) Although [unbounded awareness] is not an external object, through the mere indication of …
Looking at the sun going down, the eyes of Copernicus had seen the world turning. Looking at a glass of still water, the eyes of Boltzmann saw atoms and molecules frenziedly moving. ~ Carlo Rovelli, from The Order Of Time Attended a lecture, last night, by Buddhist scholar/practitioner Anne C. Klein. The teaching was rooted in the deep poetic wisdom of Longchenpa's The Basic Space Of …
