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I saw my Lord with the Eye of my Heart – Al-Hallaj I saw my Lord with the eye of my heart I said: 'Who are You?' He said: 'You!' But for You, 'where' cannot have a place And there is no 'where' when it concerns You. The mind has no image of your exist...

Read my reflections on Sufi al-Hallaj:
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I saw my Lord with the eye of my heart
I said: ‘Who are You?’ He said: ‘You!’
But for You, ‘where’ cannot have a place
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And in my annihilation my annihilation was annihilated and in my annihilation I found you!

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Kabir – The Final State – Luminous Emptiness The ineffable tale of that final simple state: it's utterly different. It can't be weighed on a scale, can't be whittled down. It doesn't feel heavy and doesn't feel light. It has no rain, no sea, no ...

The ineffable tale of that final simple state:
it’s utterly different.
It can’t be weighed on a scale, can’t be whittled down.
It doesn’t feel heavy and doesn’t feel light.
It has no rain, no sea, no sun or shade.
Read my reflections:
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#bhakti
#sufism
#sikhism

Sky Empty and Luminous – Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol Sky empty and luminousbeyond all attachments,Remains.Me, the setting sunresplendent with light,Will not remain at all. I pass behind the western summitTo reappear again soon,Above the mountains of the...

Sky Empty and Luminous
Sharing my reflections on Lama Shabkar's beautiful Dharma song:
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"Sky empty and luminous
beyond all attachments,
Remains.
Me, the setting sun
resplendent with light,
Will not remain at all .... "
#dzogchen
#shabkar
#buddhism
#meditation

The Great Potency of Bodhicitta - Dzogchen Semde Tantra All and everything emanates from me,so all and everything, whatever appears,is revealed as transmission,revelation of timelessly pure basic spaciousness. Excerp

Reflections on The Great Potency of Bodhicitta – a Dzogchen Semde Tantra
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"All and everything emanates from me,
so all and everything, whatever appears,
is revealed as transmission,
revelation of timelessly pure basic spaciousness ... "
#dzogchen #tantra

Pointing Out the Nature of Mind - Dudjom Rinpoche This Rigpa which is pointed to is nothing like the words used to point to it. Yet beings cannot help trying to point to it with words! No matter that any concep

Reflections on Pointing Out the Nature of Mind – Dudjom Rinpoche
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"No words can describe it
No example can point to it
Samsara does not make it worse
Nirvana does not make it better
It has never been born
It has never ceased .... "
#dzogchen

Sufi Mystic Al-Hallaj's Beautiful Poem: Stillness I thought I'd share a few reflections on a very beautiful poem by Mansur Hallaj. A brief biography of Mansour al-Hallaj Mansour al-Hallaj or Mansour Halla

Sufi Mystic Al-Hallaj’s Beautiful Poem: Stillness
I thought I’d share a few reflections on a very beautiful poem by Mansur Hallaj.
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"Stillness, then silence, then random speech,
Then knowledge, intoxication, annihilation; .... "
#Sufism #sufi #nondualism

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In Dzogchen, what is Natural Perfection / Spontaneous Presence (Lhungrub)? This post is an exploration of Natural Perfection or Lhungrub in Tibetan (ཀ་དག་) - the third of a series of posts on Dzogchen key terms. Nat

In Dzogchen, what is Natural Perfection / Spontaneous Presence (Lhungrub)?
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Read the full post with over 100 Dzogchen source quotes.
"All phenomena, uncontrived and spontaneous, arise from the Natural State. Rest in this perfection without striving."
#Dzogchen

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A Shower of Wisdom - A Guru Yoga of Garab Dorje ཨཱ། བདག་གི་སྤྱི་གཙུག་པད་ཟླའི་གདན་སྟེངས་སུ། ། ah, dak gi chitsuk pé dé d

A Shower of Wisdom – A Guru Yoga of Garab Dorje
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With great joy I came across this Guru Yoga of Garab Dorje. What a blessing indeed!
"Āḥ! At the crown of my head, upon a lotus and moon-disc,
Is the nirmāṇakāya emanation of glorious Vajrasattva ...
#dzogchen

Reflections on Ryokan's Zen Poems - The Butterfly and the Flower I turn to Ryokan's poetry over and over again. For me, nobody captures in poetry the magical essence of the spiritual life, indeed, of life like he does. How wo

Reflections on Ryokan’s Zen Poems – The Butterfly and the Flower:
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"Like the little stream
Making its way
Through the mossy crevices
I, too, quietly
Turn clear and transparent."

In Dzogchen what is Primordial Purity (Kadag)? This post is an exploration of Primordial Purity, or Kadag in Tibetan (ཀ་དག་). The concept of Kadag is central to Dzogchen. It refers t

In Dzogchen what is Primordial Purity (Kadag)?
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Reflections and over 100 quotations from the Dzogchen source texts.
"The nature of all phenomena is the great purity of the primordial ground, free from all elaborations."

Severing the Bardo ‘Once and for All’ ‘Question and answer’ oral instructions of the Wisdom Ḍākinī to Tilopa Shrī vajraḍākinī namo! Tilopa asked the wisdom Ḍākinī: what is aw

Reflections on Severing the Bardo ‘Once and for All’ - ‘Question and answer’ oral instructions of the Wisdom Ḍākinī to Tilopa
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"Tilopa! When the mind looks at mind, the ‘looker’ is mind, the ‘looked at’ is also mind.
Like space gazing at space ... "

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Vairotsana's Wonderful Cuckoo's Song Of Awareness The Six Vajra Verses of Vairotsana Hey, Mahasattva, Magnificent Being, listen! The nature of multiplicity is Nondual and things in themselves are pure

Reflections on: Vairotsana’s Wonderful Cuckoo’s Song Of Awareness - The Six Vajra Verses of Vairotsana
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"Hey, Mahasattva, Magnificent Being, listen!
The nature of multiplicity is Nondual
and things in themselves are pure and simple;
... read the full post:

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Natural Great Peace by Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje Rest in natural great peace This exhausted mind Beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought Like the relentless fury of pounding waves In the in

Natural Great Peace by Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje
"Rest in natural great peace
This exhausted mind
Beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought
Like the relentless fury of pounding waves
In the infinite ocean of samsāra."

Read the full post at:
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In Dzogchen what is the Primordial Ground (gzhi)? Inspired by Malcolm Smith's Wisdom Academy course: Dzogchen: Ten Key Terms I've been reflecting a lot recently on the terms he focuses on, as they are so crucia

I want to share an extensive collection of my favourite quotes from the Dzogchen source texts on the Primordial Ground (gzhi):
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Inspired by Malcolm Smith’s Wisdom Academy course: Dzogchen: Ten Key Terms I’ve been reflecting a lot on the terms he focuses on.

A Dzogchen Guide to Buddhist Yanas I've been reflecting back quite a bit recently about my journey, and how I've taken many approaches at different times - I believe because they've each been app

I’ve been reflecting back quite a bit recently about my journey, and how I’ve taken many approaches at different times – I thought I'd share a deep dive on the Buddhist Yanas from a Dzogchen perspective:
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Guide to the Three Statements of Garab Dorje I thought I'd write a guide to the The Three Statements of Garab Dorje. This teaching has been so fundamental for me in relation to Dzogchen. It's extraordinari

I thought I’d write a guide to The Three Statements of Garab Dorje. It’s extraordinarily concise, but in a way all of Dzogchen is contained there in essence.
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