Longchenpa's work, Jewel Ship, is a guide to the kun byed rgyal po, the fundamentally important Dzogchen text dealing with the state of pure and total presence, which is the actual basis of any individual - the nature of mind.
"Our experience of life is in large part determined by our conditioned belief system: we believe in certain things, cherish particular hopes, entertain specific fears, and generally point ourselves in some direction based on this focus. The teachings in this text advise us to relax our focus and allow the wider perspective of total openness to flood through us and light our world from within. When we are able to relax like this, the energy we invest in maintaining our usual focus is released, freed into its natural condition. In the process of letting go of a specific focus, however, we tend to let go of one thing, only to replace it with another - something we believe to be more "true" or perhaps more "spiritual"...We usually think of experience in dualistic terms: good or bad, enjoyable or painful, dull or enriching, desirable or awful. Even in a spiritual context experiences are evaluated according to how beneficial, transcendent, calming, or powerful they may be. This text points to experience that is unqualified yet includes and is at the heart of all possible experiences..." Merrill Peterson.
You Are The Eyes Of The World new Edition by Longchenpa And Translated By Kennard Lipman And Merrill Peterson. Introduction By Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche.
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