Living Like We Mean It. Living Like We Already Know It.

Citta

" In rigpa we embrace the View. We cease our eternal confusion and live out what is the case. That our primordial nature is not modified by experiences of any kind . It is prior to all experience and all beings..whether gods or maras.
We see that this great matter is already the case. It has no taste, no battle, no need and no rejection."

Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche.

DairyLama

Citta said:

" In rigpa we embrace the View. We cease our eternal confusion and live out what is the case. That our primordial nature is not modified by experiences of any kind . It is prior to all experience and all beings..whether gods or maras.
We see that this great matter is already the case. It has no taste, no battle, no need and no rejection."

Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche.

Thanks for the quote. Could you give a brief explanation of what "rigpa" and "the View" are?

Citta

Rigpa is non dual primordial awareness. The View is the mindset that sees everything as perfect just as it is.

DairyLama

Citta said:

Rigpa is non dual primordial awareness. The View is the mindset that sees everything as perfect just as it is.

Thanks. I used to "do " Dzogchen, but it was a long time ago and I couldn't remember what these terms meant.

Citta

To be honest I hadn't meant to post it in Buddhism for Beginners......doh.

pegembara

The View sounds like -Suchness, Tathata or The Way Things Are (Not Otherwiseness)

Tathata (suchness, thusness). "Merely thus," "just such": everything is such as it is and in no way different from that thusness. This is called "tathata." When tathata is seen, the three characteristics of anicca, dukkha, and anatta are seen, sunnata is seen, and idappaccayata is seen. Tathata is the summary of them all -- merely thus, only thus, not-otherness. There is nothing better than this, more than this, other than this, thusness. To intuitively realize tathata is to see the truth of all things, to see the reality of the things.

Bhikkhu Buddhadasa

I like to walk alone on country paths, rice plants and wild grasses on both sides, putting each foot down on the earth in mindfulness, knowing that I walk on the wondrous earth. In such moments, existence is a miraculous and mysterious reality. People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child--our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Citta

Sadhu !