Nondual Dzogchen and Mahamudra Initiation
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|Awarezen Gompa
Awarezen's initiation into nondual dzogchen and mahamudra — receive direct pointing-out instructions on mind nature, essence, and effulgent display in a guided meditation session.
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Awarezen Gompa
About the event
Nondual dzogchen (great perfection) is a new online offering of rare initiations into the path of the Great Christic Consummation, the heart essence of primordial reality which is the absolute interiority of the Triune God. Traditionally, dzogchen or the great perfection sits at the pinnacle of the Buddhist path as conceived within the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism. In the Kagyu and Gelug traditions, a commensurate approach is known as mahamudra or the great seal.
On the basis of shamatha (serene stillness) and vipassana (clear seeing), dzogchen "practice" involves empowering introduction into the essence of mind and its effulgent display (rigpai tsalwang) from an authentic dzogchen teacher. In mahamudra, the disciple is introduced to the relative and ultimate nature of their own mind through pointing-out instructions. Mahamudra roughly corresponds to the "cutting-through" phase of the dzogchen path. This essential introduction can spontaneously happen in the context of guru yoga in…