What is Enlightenment ?

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UPAYA PROGRAM Feb 7 2021

Prof. Anne C. Klein / Lama Rigzin Drolma

Rice University & Dawn Mountain, A Center for Tibetan Buddhism

ack@rice.edu www.dawnmountain.org

First Pith Practice of Jigme Lingpa

Let all thoughts of past, present, and future be without support

དུས་གསུམ་གྱི་རྣམ་རྟོག་ཐམས་ཅད་རྟེན་མྟེད་ཁ་ཡན་དུ་གྟོད་ལ་འཕྟོ་གནས་སྟོ་སྟོའྱི་ཐྟོག་ཏུ་དྲན་པ་བྱར་བ་བཞག་གྟོ སྟེམས་་སྟོང་བདུན་་147.6 ff

And easing into an unbridled openness, place your mindfulness right on movement and stillness.

- c.f Steps to the Great Perfection, Cortland Dahl, p.31

དུས་གསུམ་གྱི་རྣམ་རྟོག་ཐམས་ཅད་རྟེན་མྟེད་ཁ་ཡན་དུ་གྟོད་ལ་འཕྟོ་གནས་སྟོ་སྟོའྱི་ཐྟོག་ཏུ་དྲན་པ་བྱར་བ་བཞག་གྟོ སྟེམས་སྟོང་བདུན་147.6 ff

Form in Space

“We do not realize that

primordial wisdom is present in the body …

Citations from Longchenpa from Treasury of Tenets (Grub mtha’ mdzod)

Barron translation, 344; Tibetan text, 185a.

“Supreme primordial wisdom abides in the body. …

Prajñāparamitā Lady Perfection of Wisdom

Yeshe Tsogyal, The Great Bliss Queen, Prajñāparamitā White Yeshe Tsogyal

\ Nothing, not even one thing

Does not arise from me

Nothing, not even one thing

Dwells not within me.

Everything, just everything,

Emanates from me.

Thus I am only one!

Knowing me is knowing all

Great bliss.

from Secret Scripture Collection/mDe lung gsang ba

p. 38 in Unbounded Wholeness, Klein & Wangyal

First Pith Practice of Jigme Lingpa

Let all thoughts of past, present, and future be without support and easing into an unbridled openness, place your mindfulness right on movement and stillness. --Steps to the Great Perfection, Cortland Dahl, p.31

དུས་གསུམ་གྱི་རྣམ་རྟོག་ཐམས་ཅད་རྟེན་མྟེད་ཁ་ཡན་དུ་གྟོད་ལ་འཕྟོ་གནས་སྟོ་སྟོའྱི་ཐྟོག་ཏུ་དྲན་པ་བྱར་བ་བཞག་གྟོ

--Tibetan text 147.6 ff

When your body is initially growing Inside your mother’s womb There is a great convergence of channels at your navel center, The vital essence of your entire body.

--- Longchen Rabjam (14th century) in Treasury of Philosophical

Tenets citing Blazing Lamp Tantra