A friend said something I thought was insightful that people should hear. He did not want to post this openly himself, though. Really says something about the level of intellectual honesty in contemporary Buddhist discourse, no? Anyway, posting because I think it's useful. 1/6
One can play Dzogchen philosophy without ever actually recognizing the nature of mind as practice. One doesn't need to play Dzogchen philosophy to recognize the nature of mind as practice. This makes no claim about what he did or didn't literally mean in a metaphysical sense.
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There is a danger of people playing metaphysical language games, thinking they are practicing Dzogchen, but not gaining any insight. It is therefore more *useful* to take his words as teachings, if the goal is liberation.
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This doesn't rule out the possibility that his statements were also literally metaphysical in nature. Maybe you're right about that. I would just posit that this is a separate inquiry.
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