User talk:Menmo

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[edit] your edits to Longde and Semde

Thanks for adding the reference to the Three Statments of Garab Dorje. Would you object to restoring something like I had there before, in addition to your edit, about the basic emphasis or thrust of the three divisions? I just took a stab at it with what I'd written -- I'm sure it could be improved. Thanks Zero sharp 21:12, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I feel that your explanation is not hitting the point. Longde is not related to emptiness, it is related to clarity. It is Semde which is more related to emptiness. Menngagde is about how to integrate. But anyway, a public medium like Wikipedia can not be the place where this kind of teachings is presented in detail. Menmo 23:47, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Luminosity/clarity and Emptiness/Voidness are indivisible.
In the Bön and Nyingma Himalayan traditions, the most sublime teaching is Dzogchen (Tibetan rdzogs chen) which is a resolved complex of sutra (Tibetan mdo; Sanskrit sutra), tantra (Tibetan rgyud; Sanskrit tantra) and shamanism. Dzogchen holds that the wellspring of all animate and inanimate, manifest and unmanifest phenomena is an inseparable luminosity/clarity (Tibetan ‘od sal) and emptiness/voidness (Tibetan tong pa nyid) and may be represented and understood metaphorically as light and space respectively. As Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche states (2002: p.129): “The experience of light can help us develop the experience of space just as the experience of space can lead to the recognition of the pure clarity of light.” When light is understood as a metaphor for consciousness, the inherent and indivisible essence-quality of consciousness and space that is the particular view of Dzogchen is evident.

Aum+Ah+Hung B9 hummingbird hovering (talk • contribs) 02:21, 16 February 2007 (UTC)