Sounds a lot like zen! ...Bill!
--- In [email protected], "ED" <seacrofter001@...> wrote:
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> Garab Dorje, the first master of Dzogchen, manifested as a human being
> in the third century B.C.E..
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> His final teaching before he entered the Body of Light was to summarise
> the teachings in Three Principles, sometimes known as "The Three Last
> Statements of Garab Dorje." He left behind this testament for all the
> Dzogchen practitioners of the future.
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> The Three Statements of Garab Dorje are:
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> "Introduce in the state directly" refers to the transmission by the
> master, who, in various ways, introduces and brings the disciple to
> understand the condition of "what is", the individual's primordial
> state. This is the Base.
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> "Do not remain in doubt" means that one must have a precise knowledge of
> this state, finding the state of the presence of contemplation which is
> one and the same in all the thousands of possible experiences. This is
> the Path
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> "Continue in the profound knowledge of self-liberation" is the Fruit.
> That means, the complete and unchangeable knowledge of self-liberation
> is totally integrated with one's daily life and in all circumstances one
> continues in that state. All the hundreds and hundreds of original texts
> of Dzogchen can be considered to be an explanation of these three verses
> of Garab Dorje."
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> from "The Crystal and the Way of Light" and "Dzogchen, the
> Self-Perfected State" - by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu
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> top <http://www.dzogchen.org.au/index.php?page=chnn#top>
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