So .... not unlike Archimedes, I suppose, I was soaking in a bath last night. (I mean, warm water is warm water, whether appearing in 21st-century Colorado or in ancient Greece, right?) Though rather than pondering ways to measure the volume of irregularly-shaped objects, I was reading Shankara's Crest-Jewel of Discrimination. At least this was the plan. But on this particular evening, for …
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Cutting Through
In this illuminating Q & A, Alan Wallace clarifies the distinction between “awareness of awareness,” and what in Dzogchen is referred to as “trekchö,” i.e. cutting through conceptual mind completely, to fully reveal Rigpa: the primordial purity beyond conceptual elaboration. Though I recommend listening to the session in its entirety, here’s a transcript of this particular exchange, which is …