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The Mirror 9 June 1991 THE MIRROR The international newspaper of the Dzog-chen Community Volume 1 Issue 9, June 1991 Tsegyelgar Individual potentiality "We bought the 165 acre parcel after extended negotiations with its owner, but it seemed well worth To learn Dzog-chen means to discover our Dzog-chen waiting for. Naturally, we did not think there Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche spoke about Dzog-chen teaching and its goal in September, 1990, at Merigar. was a problem with access to it..." page 6 Tashigar Spain Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche will "...our primary goal must be to develop this internal connection..." visit Spain. Woody Paparazzo's impressions page 3 and thoughts during a visit to Germany Tashigar. Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche will page 6 visit Germany. page 7 Merigar Italy The Merigar summer program An interreligious meeting in which includes special practices Florence page 7 page 5 Poland A letter from Lublin The Year of Tibet page 14 1991 Finland A conference of Nordic The Dalai Lama's scheduled visits Tibetologists inseverai Europeancountries during Marti stones in Tibet. Individual stones potentiated by a sacred syllable. this summer. page 15 The Path of The Buddha. An A practitioner interested in know how to follow it. capacity, and we are all different Nepal exhibition in Helsinki with rare old realisation must not becom e passive In the Dzog-chen teaching Once we understand what the Master Lobpon Tenzin Nam dak. in photographs. but be aware and active. Buddha knowledge is more important than is, we understand what the teaching Kathmandu page 4 Sakyamuni had infinite wisdom and meditation. Meditation is only a is. The teaching is a knowledge page 14 omniscience, which is total means to reach realisation. beyond colour and form. The realisation. He said: "I give you the Meditation can have different teaching is a knowledge that the Australia Dzog-chen Community way, but realisation depends on meanings but it is always only a interested peoplemust discover. The News from Melbourne and Wat INTERNATIONAL you." The practitioners who are means. principle is not that you go to a page 5 VIDEO COMMITTEE interested must follow the path. In You have to understand well what Master, and he tells you what to do. this world there is no Master better We are human beings and humans Following the International meditation really is and how it USA than Buddha Sakyamuni, and he functions, otherwise you become can reason and speak. When we Translation Committee, there has West Coast could not make other individuals passive. There are many ways, just receive a teaching, it is not now been nominated an international Seven years of yantig in Conway realised. This means that you have necessarily something that we must comm ittee responsible for checking as there are so many different to be active; first of all you must individuals and different conditions; follow blindly. page 15 all video related material in the East Coast understand what the teaching is and we have our conditions and our Continues on page 2. Community. California News page 4 page 7 Computer typestyles Tsegyalgar program USSR August 3rd to 11th: practice A Russian letter from Fabio Putting the right horse out front in Tibetan retreat on the land in Buck huid, A..S .I.A.. "Andricovich" Andrico based on a retreat schedule page 5 Projects inGalenteng proceed. From prepared by Norbu Rinpoche. A.S.I.A., Giovanni Boni, who is an By Reíd Fossey Fabio Andrico will be there to Tibetan orchestra engineer, Fulvio Rossi, who will In the last three to four yean the Western teach Yantra Yoga which is an document all the work on-the-spot, humanist has taken a leap into the integral part of this program. page 10 twentieth century. Rather than packing andAndrea Dell'Angelowill be We need to know how many the illustrious scholar's pen and visiting the projects later in the people are coming. Community infamous typewriter, the philologist of Tibetan theatre summer. the future is already astride the "typestyle tel. 413 369 4466. On the 19th of August in Chengdu, jockey", using tools of a far more Every weekend work projects on page 11 they will meet Donatella Rossi and sophisticated nature to creale a stock of the land: Guardians Ilia kang and Phuntsok Wangmo, Rinpoche's non-European fonts for languages from a tool shed under construction; niece and an expert in medicine. Bengali to Vietnamese. tree pruning; bush clearing. Books page 3 page 13 CalltheGekod tel.4136259263. page 12 2 Individual potentiality Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche examples, but it seems many people the circumstances, and the same is true Merigar, September 21 st, 1990 are notable to understand very well. I of the methods. There are many, many do not mean everybody, because there methods, but the most important thing What is Dzog-chen teaching? First of are also many people who certainly is that a practitioner understands what all it says, "Open your eyes and look at understand. If everyone could a method is used for and in which way what is around you; what the concrete understand, what a marvellous thing it it must be used. A method always has conditions are." In this way you can would be. Also you must not always its own principle, likea way of working understand the teaching, the teacher think that everything is so easy. with an experience. Many methods do and everything. We must see if the Milarepa, after having killed thirty not make it clear. But in the Dzog-chen sense of the teaching corresponds to our people, felt very guilty and thought, Teaching you can understand the condition or not, whether it is useful "Oh, now I must go, and do principle, because knowledge is the for our existence or not. If someone purification to obtain realization, it is principle. Therefore in this way a does not examine this clearly and says, impossible to live like this. I have to practitioner does not become a slave of "Ah, this is the fantastic teaching of find a way to become realized ". Then the method, he canuse the method. You such and such a Master with this title it is said that he went to a Master, and have learned many, many methods and and name", it means he is passive. We the first Master he met taught Dzog- you have also learnt how to apply diem. must not be passive because if we are chen. This Master told him, "If you You must understand their value. Many passive we cannot become realized and meditate in the morning, you will become people come to me to follow the Dzog- if we do not become realized we lose realized in the morning; if you meditate chen Teaching. First of all they ask me, a lot of time and we do not have a lot of in the afternoon, you will become "I have followed other Teachings and that. realized in the afternoon." Milarepa I have learned other techniques, methods thought, "Ah.evcnifldidsomanycvil It is not necessary to be old to die. and ways of doing things, but when I actions, the path is that simple, so there Everyday there are accidents in follow the Dzog-chen Teaching can I is nothing to worry about". So he stayed airplanes, cars, ships and trains and all use them or not?" This kind of person for two days with this Master and the people die. Even if there is not a has the idea, " Now that I follow this concluded nothing. Finally also this precise cause, nobody knows what will Master, I must foUow only the Dzog- Master understood and told him, " You happen We live in this circumstance, chen methods." There really does not had better go to another Master who will so we do not have any guarantee that we exist a label such as the 'Dzog-chen give you something harder." And will live another week or a month or method'. Everything can be a Dzog- finally Milarepa met M arpa who a year. We only believe it, saying, chenmethod. You must understand what always tortured him. Then he felt better "Next year we'll do this and that" and Dzog-chen is, we are Dzog-chen. Wc and finally he managed to purify sometimes we go further and say, "We'll are not methods, we are beings. We Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche himself. But you see how many do this and that in two or three years" . have our state and infinite potentialities. sacrifices he did for so many years. It We are trying to discover this This is also useful because if I do not who follow me think, "I always hear before you become realized. For may be that Milarepa did many evil potentiality. Then what do we need to live other people will live and things this", but even if they have heard it, if it example, if we have the capacity to actions, but I do not think that Milarepa discover this? We have many means, must progress. But deep down we do does not work it means that they have to integrate a Uttle or to find ourselves in was stupid, and we too must not think and these are methods. Therefore we not have any guarantee. listensome more. Even ifwe do not like the state of presence, then it also that it is so easy. Especially when we can use this method or that method. Therefore time is precious, we cannot to listen, this is exactly what we need to becomes manifest in our daily Ufe, an speak of a teaching like Dzog-chen, There is no problem.
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