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I think we are getting into very interesting territory here. How does Dzogchen, and Buddhism, go "beyond" the non-duality of Awareness/Pure Witness/True Self in Advaita? Because it treats the clarity of mind as being empty/non-arisen, and therefore avoids reifying clarity into some sort o...

Yes it is distinct. When I practiced Advaita there was always dualism however subtle. Practicing Dzogchen this is recognizable. I think we are getting into very interesting territory here. How does Dzogchen, and Buddhism, go "beyond" the non-duality of Awareness/Pure Witness/True Self in ...

Is the difference in the non-duality of Avaita Vedanta and the non-duality of Dzogchen an intellectual difference, or an experiential one? Is it "same taste", but interpreted differently? * I'm asking as I have known many that have "realized non-duality" through Avaita, and will...

Is the difference in the non-duality of Avaita Vedanta and the non-duality of Dzogchen an intellectual difference, or an experiential one? Is it "same taste", but interpreted differently? * I'm asking as I have known many that have "realized non-duality" through Avaita, and will ...

The primary difference is in the nature and implications of "non-dual". The puruṣa of Vedanta is "non-dual", however it is an ontological, transpersonal, homogenous, unconditioned existent. Which means that Advaita is a substantial and reductive non-duality. Whereas one's nature...

For ChNN Rinpoche's webcast, which one of them are Direct Introduction or Pointing Out Instructions for Dzogchen Realization and which ones are transmission of secondary practices? How can you tell?

In Dzogchen, the goal seems to be to uncover ones Primodial Awareness. Is this state of Primodial Awareness, the quality of luminous emptiness, the same as the Non-Duality of True Self/Pure Witness as described by Advaita Vedanta? To elaborate further, most Advaita and Neo-Advaita teachings seem to ...