Yes, very good! Dzogchen starts from the end, so the base, path, and goal are formally identical: non-duality. However, one can talk about non-duality as if it had base, path, and goal aspects. As you said: the base is some recognition of the inseparability of emptiness & form…
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Replying to @Meaningness @Malcolm_Ocean
The path is to maintain non-dual awareness; there are extensive supportive methods for this, although basically they are all just “maintain non-dual awareness of whatever arises.” The result is lhündrüp: spontaneous enlightened activity as the efflorenscence of non-duality.
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Replying to @Meaningness @Malcolm_Ocean
The “character of enlightened people” is “undefined”—in the sense of unlimited by any conception. Whereas a tantric master is outrageous, larger than life, magnetic, expressive, a Dzogchen master may tend to inscrutability, subtle humor, and apparent ordinariness.
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Replying to @Meaningness @Malcolm_Ocean
Relevant tale concerning three of the greatest Dzogchen masters of the mid-1800s http://arobuddhism.org/drifter/when-did-you-last-see-a-lama.html …
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Replying to @Meaningness @Malcolm_Ocean
I don’t think I’ve heard that one before. I like the version of the hair relic story on that site, was it written by Ngak’chang Rinpoche?
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Question answered. '...as told by Ngak’chang Rinpoche'.
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Replying to @misen__ @Malcolm_Ocean
Yes those were early drafts for what became _wisdom eccentrics_. Highly recommended: http://arobuddhism.org/books/wisdom-eccentrics.html …
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Replying to @Meaningness @Malcolm_Ocean
I enjoyed that book very much - he’s a good story teller.
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Replying to @misen__ @Meaningness
Hmm, the link from the http://arobuddhism.org/books/wisdom-eccentrics.html … to "Order direct from Aro Books" is broken... seems it wants to link here https://www.arobooks.org/books2.html David, do you know who to contact about that?
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @misen__
Thanks for pointing this out! Try aro-web-team@googlegroups.com ? Not sure that will work, but best I know of.
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To answer an earlier question I skipped, yes, I left Aro apprenticeship ~6 years ago when I got too busy for it. So I’m not up-to-date on who to contact about this.
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