I really enjoyed it. So straightforward, no metaphysics, no unnecessary complexity.
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“Subtle dullness” at its worst, in the TMI way of taking.
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Yes, this is called “sleepy shi-né” in Dzogchen. It’s easy to mistake for né-pa (the goal of shi-né).
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Whereas I took the cessations
@OortCloudAtlas describes to be sudden, to start from a state of high awareness (within which the senses have fully disassembled into buzzing), and the quality of the unconsciousness to be more like a faint than sleep. -
Ultimately this may not matter, since for Dzogchen the practice is simply the presence of awareness in whatever state you find yourself in (including deep sleep and presumably also extreme mental dullness), but from a path pov the methods of locating awareness might differ
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Yes, then there is also the not sleepy but not cessation vanishing of sense experience, except you’re just in some sort of formless awareness or what have you There are references to all experience vanishing in some of the tsalung and nyngthig literature, but I dunno.
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Anyway, even without interpretation & translation error, the most convincing accounts in namthars are so wrapped up in the metaphysics that I don’t know why good it does. I like this story, either way. Now I’m going to go and sit, repent for the sin of being gobby on twitter
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