FYi yantra is a secondary practice.simhanada wrote:Cool, thankyou for the clarificationheart wrote:Just a small comment, I think when ChNNR says "main practice" he means Semde, Longde and Mengakde. Rushan and Semdzin are actually preliminaries to the Mengakde.
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How do you understand the differentiation of main and secondary practices Malcolm?simhanada wrote:FYi yantra is a secondary practice.
As simple as Guruyoga and everything else?
Or as Magnus suggested Semde, Longde. Mannagde?
Where does Yantra and Dance fall under that schema?
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The only essential practice is ate guru yoga. However, we cannot spend our whole life sounding A, so we have other practices too.simhanada wrote:How do you understand the differentiation of main and secondary practices Malcolm?simhanada wrote:FYi yantra is a secondary practice.
As simple as Guruyoga and everything else?
Or as Magnus suggested Semde, Longde. Mannagde?
Where does Yantra and Dance fall under that schema?
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ThanksMalcolm wrote: The only essential practice is ate guru yoga. However, we cannot spend our whole life sounding A, so we have other practices too.
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Hurrah - dialog works!!!simhanada wrote:ThanksMalcolm wrote: The only essential practice is ate guru yoga. However, we cannot spend our whole life sounding A, so we have other practices too.
Thank you all and All!
In summary:
Having received the pointing out instruction / experience, I do my best to remain in Guru Yoga 24/7.
Everything else is gravy.
The gravy is what makes life interesting. It means doing my best to integrate with whatever arises (or doesn't arise) in my continuum.
So I sum this up in the phrase, "Watch it and let it go." I am never saying this. This is what I do (non dually). This is not an intention or a willful act.
It is an un-named display of being in the natural state of Guru Yoga: the famous snake untying its' own knot, etc.
In fact there is nothing to say.
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The way ChNNR explains the Guru Yoga with a white Ah I would say that, if you understand the difference between means and knowledge or main practice and secondary, it is Trechö and so belongs to Mengakde.Malcolm wrote:The only essential practice is ate guru yoga. However, we cannot spend our whole life sounding A, so we have other practices too.simhanada wrote:How do you understand the differentiation of main and secondary practices Malcolm?simhanada wrote:FYi yantra is a secondary practice.
As simple as Guruyoga and everything else?
Or as Magnus suggested Semde, Longde. Mannagde?
Where does Yantra and Dance fall under that schema?
/magnus
"We are all here to help each other go through this thing, whatever it is."
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
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Yeah, in one book Rinpoche actually says that this way of doing GY is more Yangti style. But, though the method may be from mengagde, IMO this covers all three series. There is not one kind of dzogchen in semde, a different kind in longde and another kind in mengagde.heart wrote:The way ChNNR explains the Guru Yoga with a white Ah I would say that, if you understand the difference between means and knowledge or main practice and secondary, it is Trechö and so belongs to Mengakde.
Although many individuals in this age appear to be merely indulging their worldly desires, one does not have the capacity to judge them, so it is best to train in pure vision.
- Shabkar
- Shabkar
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All manuals do separate them on the basis of view and method and this is also true about the ati, chitti and yangti. It certainly aims for the same point, but that could be said for all the nine yanas if one would like to. It is quite interesting, the guru yoga with a white ah, the way it goes from visualization to resting in the natural state. For me it kind of sums up the intention of the inner tantras.Pero wrote:Yeah, in one book Rinpoche actually says that this way of doing GY is more Yangti style. But, though the method may be from mengagde, IMO this covers all three series. There is not one kind of dzogchen in semde, a different kind in longde and another kind in mengagde.heart wrote:The way ChNNR explains the Guru Yoga with a white Ah I would say that, if you understand the difference between means and knowledge or main practice and secondary, it is Trechö and so belongs to Mengakde.
/magnus
"We are all here to help each other go through this thing, whatever it is."
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
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2012: 31st Aug. - 6th Sept.
Longsal Atii Gongpa Gojyed
(Tib. Klong gsal a ti’i dgongs pa sgo ‘byed)
OPEN WEBCAST
TIME ZONE: GMT+2
31st Aug. 4pm - 6pm.
This day is the Full Moon, After Doing a short introduction about this retreat teaching, we altogether do a Short Gana Puja.
1st Sept. 10am-12pm.
I give a transmition of Ati Guru Yoga with the Tridlung of Short Thun Practice.
2nd Sept. 10am-12pm.
Giving the Nyamtrid of Ati Gongpa Gojyed and giving tridlung of Medium Thun Practice.
3rd Sept. 10-12am.
Giving the Nyamtrid of Ati Gongpa Gojyed continue and giving tridlung of Medium Gana Puja.
4th Sept. 10-12am.
Giving the Nyamtrid of Ati Gongpa Gojyed continue and giving tridlung of Longer Thun Practice.
5th Sept. 10-12am.
Giving the Nyamtrid of Ati Gongpa Gojyed till the end and all complete tridlung of Atii Gongpa Gojyed text.
5th Sept. 4-7pm. We do Gana Puja for the end of this retreat and so on.
6th Sept. 10-12am.
Giving some advices for the daily life practices and tridlungs of collective practices and so on. We also do an Ati Guru Yoga altogether for finishing our retreat.
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2012: 31st Aug. - 6th Sept.
Longsal Atii Gongpa Gojyed
(Tib. Klong gsal a ti’i dgongs pa sgo ‘byed)
OPEN WEBCAST
TIME ZONE: GMT+2
31st Aug. 4pm - 6pm.
This day is the Full Moon, After Doing a short introduction about this retreat teaching, we altogether do a Short Gana Puja.
1st Sept. 10am-12pm.
I give a transmition of Ati Guru Yoga with the Tridlung of Short Thun Practice.
2nd Sept. 10am-12pm.
Giving the Nyamtrid of Ati Gongpa Gojyed and giving tridlung of Medium Thun Practice.
3rd Sept. 10-12am.
Giving the Nyamtrid of Ati Gongpa Gojyed continue and giving tridlung of Medium Gana Puja.
4th Sept. 10-12am.
Giving the Nyamtrid of Ati Gongpa Gojyed continue and giving tridlung of Longer Thun Practice.
5th Sept. 10-12am.
Giving the Nyamtrid of Ati Gongpa Gojyed till the end and all complete tridlung of Atii Gongpa Gojyed text.
5th Sept. 4-7pm. We do Gana Puja for the end of this retreat and so on.
6th Sept. 10-12am.
Giving some advices for the daily life practices and tridlungs of collective practices and so on. We also do an Ati Guru Yoga altogether for finishing our retreat.
Bye,
The Webcast Team
Is Nyamtrid a word for a form of transmission?
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It means experiential teaching.Blue Garuda wrote:Is Nyamtrid a word for a form of transmission?
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Thanks.simhanada wrote:It means experiential teaching.Blue Garuda wrote:Is Nyamtrid a word for a form of transmission?
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The other yanas are not Dzogchen. If there was some kind of huge difference between the three series, teachers wouldn't be using Semde to teach Trekcho.heart wrote:All manuals do separate them on the basis of view and method and this is also true about the ati, chitti and yangti. It certainly aims for the same point, but that could be said for all the nine yanas if one would like to.Pero wrote:Yeah, in one book Rinpoche actually says that this way of doing GY is more Yangti style. But, though the method may be from mengagde, IMO this covers all three series. There is not one kind of dzogchen in semde, a different kind in longde and another kind in mengagde.heart wrote:The way ChNNR explains the Guru Yoga with a white Ah I would say that, if you understand the difference between means and knowledge or main practice and secondary, it is Trechö and so belongs to Mengakde.
There was an article about the three series by Elio Guarisco (it's based on Norbu Rinpoche's teachings though) in the DC paper The Mirror. If you're interested I can send the article to you.
Although many individuals in this age appear to be merely indulging their worldly desires, one does not have the capacity to judge them, so it is best to train in pure vision.
- Shabkar
- Shabkar
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Yes, that would be interesting, please do. But if there is a difference in view it should amount to something.Pero wrote: The other yanas are not Dzogchen. If there was some kind of huge difference between the three series, teachers wouldn't be using Semde to teach Trekcho.
There was an article about the three series by Elio Guarisco (it's based on Norbu Rinpoche's teachings though) in the DC paper The Mirror. If you're interested I can send the article to you.
/magnus
"We are all here to help each other go through this thing, whatever it is."
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
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To what do you mean?heart wrote:But if there is a difference in view it should amount to something.
Of course I'm not saying there aren't any differences, there certainly are, but rigpa is the same throughout the three series. This is IMO undeniable.
As for the view, I actually don't find the views contradictory but then the explanations of the various views of the three series are not that clear to me. It could be I'm just not smart enough to understand it.
Although many individuals in this age appear to be merely indulging their worldly desires, one does not have the capacity to judge them, so it is best to train in pure vision.
- Shabkar
- Shabkar
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In general the way the views are defined in all the nine yanas are quite abstract and to understand them fully I think you have to have a deep knowledge of Buddhist philosophy. Still, the whole idea is that the view gets more and more refined and less conceptual. Even within the Mengakde there are the four cycles that have views that are described in this way as increasingly subtle and non-conceptual. Even if it always, even in the lower yanas, it is the same rigpa that we recognize it is obvious that we later might define it conceptually as this or that. I think for example that this is the essential meaning of Karma Lingpas terma translated by John Reynolds as "Self-Liberation Through Seeing with Naked Awareness".Pero wrote:To what do you mean?heart wrote:But if there is a difference in view it should amount to something.
Of course I'm not saying there aren't any differences, there certainly are, but rigpa is the same throughout the three series. This is IMO undeniable.
As for the view, I actually don't find the views contradictory but then the explanations of the various views of the three series are not that clear to me. It could be I'm just not smart enough to understand it.
Thank you for the article, it was interesting.
/magnus
"We are all here to help each other go through this thing, whatever it is."
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
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heart wrote:In general the way the views are defined in all the nine yanas are quite abstract and to understand them fully I think you have to have a deep knowledge of Buddhist philosophy. Still, the whole idea is that the view gets more and more refined and less conceptual. Even within the Mengakde there are the four cycles that have views that are described in this way as increasingly subtle non-conceptual. Even if it always, even in the lower yanas, it is the same rigpa that we recognize it is obvious that we later might define it conceptually as this or that. I think for example that this is the essential meaning of Karma Lingpas terma translated by John Reynolds as "Self-Liberation Through Seeing with Naked Awareness".Pero wrote:To what do you mean?heart wrote:But if there is a difference in view it should amount to something.
Of course I'm not saying there aren't any differences, there certainly are, but rigpa is the same throughout the three series. This is IMO undeniable.
As for the view, I actually don't find the views contradictory but then the explanations of the various views of the three series are not that clear to me. It could be I'm just not smart enough to understand it.
Thank you for the article, it was interesting.
/magnus
The difference in view in the three series is not conceptual, it is experiential.
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Because of the fact that several methods for recognizing rigpa in mengagde are the same in semde and longde (or vice versa) I see no reason to think it is different across the three series.
Although many individuals in this age appear to be merely indulging their worldly desires, one does not have the capacity to judge them, so it is best to train in pure vision.
- Shabkar
- Shabkar
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Ok, whatever you like to beleive.Pero wrote:Because of the fact that several methods for recognizing rigpa in mengagde are the same in semde and longde (or vice versa) I see no reason to think it is different across the three series.
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But why do you think it's different (without bringing thogal in the mix)?Malcolm wrote:Ok, whatever you like to beleive.Pero wrote:Because of the fact that several methods for recognizing rigpa in mengagde are the same in semde and longde (or vice versa) I see no reason to think it is different across the three series.
Although many individuals in this age appear to be merely indulging their worldly desires, one does not have the capacity to judge them, so it is best to train in pure vision.
- Shabkar
- Shabkar
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You just answered your own question. There is also the fact that sems sde does not result in rainbow body.Pero wrote:But why do you think it's different (without bringing thogal in the mix)?Malcolm wrote:Ok, whatever you like to beleive.Pero wrote:Because of the fact that several methods for recognizing rigpa in mengagde are the same in semde and longde (or vice versa) I see no reason to think it is different across the three series.