Stranded on a desert island...which 3 books would you want?
Stranded on a desert island...which 3 books would you want?
Scenario: You're stranded on a desert island and can only have 3 Dzogchen books with you. Which ones would you pick?
- How foolish you are,
grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention!
- Vasubandhu
Re: Stranded on a desert island...which 3 books would you want?
Mr. G wrote:Scenario: You're stranded on a desert island and can only have 3 Dzogchen books with you. Which ones would you pick?
The unwritten tantra
the sgra thal gyur
the rigpa rangshar
Re: Stranded on a desert island...which 3 books would you want?
Since Namdrols books aren't translated yet..
Treasury of Dharmadhatu (chos dbyings mdzod)
Flight of the Garuda
Circle of the Sun
/magnus
Treasury of Dharmadhatu (chos dbyings mdzod)
Flight of the Garuda
Circle of the Sun
/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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Re: Stranded on a desert island...which 3 books would you want?
then those should be the first translations you publish.Namdrol wrote:
The unwritten tantra
the sgra thal gyur
the rigpa rangshar
we're w-a-i-t-i-n-g.....
Thoroughly tame your own mind.
This is (possibly) the teaching of Buddha.
"I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."
- Descartes, 2nd Meditation 25
This is (possibly) the teaching of Buddha.
"I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."
- Descartes, 2nd Meditation 25
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Re: Stranded on a desert island...which 3 books would you want?
Lama Yangthig
Choying Dzod
and...
The Life of Shabkar!
Choying Dzod
and...
The Life of Shabkar!
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Re: Stranded on a desert island...which 3 books would you want?
Longchenpa's auto-commentary on the Choying Dzod - The Treasure Trove of Scriptural Transmission
Transcripts of several days of teachings on Dzogchen upadesha by one of my lamas
And - for inspiration - Blazing Splendor
Transcripts of several days of teachings on Dzogchen upadesha by one of my lamas
And - for inspiration - Blazing Splendor
Pema Rigdzin/Brian Pittman
Re: Stranded on a desert island...which 3 books would you want?
I don't suppose if I was stranded on a desert island I'd have much time for reading. I'd pick the biggest books possible, and the most edible.
Sergeant Schultz knew everything there was to know.
Re: Stranded on a desert island...which 3 books would you want?
Yeshe Lama
Crystal and the Way of Light
Longchenpa's autocommentary to the Choying Dzod.
Crystal and the Way of Light
Longchenpa's autocommentary to the Choying Dzod.
"All phenomena of samsara depend on the mind, so when the essence of mind is purified, samsara is purified. Since the phenomena of nirvana depend on the pristine consciousness of vidyā, because one remains in the immediacy of vidyā, buddhahood arises on its own. All critical points are summarized with those two." - Longchenpa
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Re: Stranded on a desert island...which 3 books would you want?
Don't lie. You would take this book:
Re: Stranded on a desert island...which 3 books would you want?
Shhhh don't TELL everyone geez!
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Re: Stranded on a desert island...which 3 books would you want?
catmoon wrote:Shhhh don't TELL everyone geez!
Re: Stranded on a desert island...which 3 books would you want?
Heck yes!Clarence wrote:Don't lie. You would take this book:
"All phenomena of samsara depend on the mind, so when the essence of mind is purified, samsara is purified. Since the phenomena of nirvana depend on the pristine consciousness of vidyā, because one remains in the immediacy of vidyā, buddhahood arises on its own. All critical points are summarized with those two." - Longchenpa
Re: Stranded on a desert island...which 3 books would you want?
I'd read it.
Kevin
Kevin
Re: Stranded on a desert island...which 3 books would you want?
Longchenpa's Tshig-Don Rin-Po-Ch'e'i mDzod (extracts in the Ptractice of Dzogchen)
The Big Red book of Dudjom Rinpoché
Shabkar's Fly of the Garuda
The Big Red book of Dudjom Rinpoché
Shabkar's Fly of the Garuda
By understanding everything you perceive from the perspective of the view, you are freed from the constraints of philosophical beliefs.
By understanding that any and all mental activity is meditation, you are freed from arbitrary divisions between formal sessions and postmeditation activity.
- Longchen Rabjam -
By understanding that any and all mental activity is meditation, you are freed from arbitrary divisions between formal sessions and postmeditation activity.
- Longchen Rabjam -
Re: Stranded on a desert island...which 3 books would you want?
Look at the unfathomable spinelessness of man: all the means he's been given to stay alert he uses, in the end, to ornament his sleep. – Rene Daumal
the modern mind has become so limited and single-visioned that it has lost touch with normal perception - John Michell
the modern mind has become so limited and single-visioned that it has lost touch with normal perception - John Michell