Yoga of the Crown Dzogchen

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Matt J
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Yoga of the Crown Dzogchen

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There are a few pith instructions I often come back to. Two of them are termas discovered by Nyangral Nyima Özer.

1. The Pointing Out of the Staff
https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-ma ... -the-staff

2. The Pointing Out of the Old Lady
https://gardrolma.org/wp-content/upload ... imized.pdf

Evidently, this is a part of a (unbeknownst to me) a further sub-division of instructions, in this case the Yoga of the Crown or the Crown Pith described by David Germano as an " as an uncompromising non-duality zeroed in on original purity."
https://www.thlib.org/collections/texts ... ermano/b7/

I also came across this great article by Jean Luc Achard further describing it and defending it in a very pragmatic article:
https://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/coll ... 31_03.pdf

Just thought I would post it here and see if there are any other English language resources on this terton and tradition.
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Re: Yoga of the Crown Dzogchen

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Nyangral has always interested me. Him and Guru Chowang seemed to have the most direct and straightforward approaches to Dzogchen. Apparently the Yangti class also came from him?
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Re: Yoga of the Crown Dzogchen

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Passing By wrote: Sun Dec 04, 2022 4:10 am Him and Guru Chowang seemed to have the most direct and straightforward approaches to Dzogchen.
This just isn’t true, and is a fiction spun by western scholars.
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