From Rigdzin Shikpo’s talk on Death and Dying Then there’s what seems to be the external world – which is also totally mysterious and, in a sense, unfathomable. And that also you can rest in. And that never becomes an object of mind. I know one thinks, ‘Well, the external world; that’s all around us. […]
From Rigdzin Shikpo’s talk on Mandala Principles in the Dzogchen Tradition The most important thing perhaps in a dharma mandala is that the central principle should be what is called bodhicitta, the awakened heart, which is wisdom and compassion in union. And what you want to send out, as it were, through the gates of the […]
From Heart of Buddha: Mandalas and Longchen Rabjam’s Notions of Mandalas (Oxford 2015) And it’s said in the Buddhadharma that this sense of the un-satisfactoriness of everything is much greater than we imagine. The reason why it doesn’t seem so universal at first is because we manage to shut our eyes to a lot of […]
From Heart of Buddha: Mandalas and Longchen, Longchen Rabjam’s Notions of Mandalas (Oxford 2015) Longchen Rabjam talks about the mandala of reality, the mandala of the deities themselves that are—and I love to use this phrase that comes from a Guru Rinpoche text—“like the rays of the sun, distinct and yet the same. They are […]
