Tao Te Ching
Robert Beer
Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State
These powerful and potentially life-changing teachings distill realizations passed down orally from teacher to student for hundreds of years. Described as arising from the Buddha’s third turning of the Wheel of Dharma, this tradition branched into several schools when they came into Tibet. The oldest of these became known as Nyingma, the Old School, and the teachings in this lineage as Dzogchen. Namkhai Norbu was an important agent in transmitting these insights and practices to the West, this book one of his ways of doing so. Translated by John Shane
Themes
Quotes from Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State
“All the philosophical theories that exist have been created by the mistaken dualistic minds of human beings. In the realm of philosophy, that which today is considered true, may tomorrow be proved to be false. No one can guarantee a philosophy's validity. Because of this, any intellectual way of seeing whatever is always partial and relative.”
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“In general, people speak as if there is a kind of religion created by Buddha Shakyamuni. That is not a correct point of view. Buddha never created any kind of school or religion.”
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“It can happen that a phrase intended to indicate a state beyond concepts just becomes another concept in itself, in the same way that if you ask a person their name and they reply that they have no name, you will then perhaps mistakenly call them ‘No name’.”
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“Our mind is the basis of everything, and from our mind everything arises”
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“There is no truth to seek or to confirm logically; rather what one needs to do is to discover just how much the mind continually limits itself in a condition of dualism.”
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