THE MIRROR The International Newspaper of the Dzog-chen Community Issue 16 International Tibetan Language Seminar TN THIS ISSUE The Real Meaning of Integration Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche page 2 From August 30 to September 4, ethnic majority and marry scholars from all over the those of the minorities. world will meet in Siena and Everything, from Editorial Arcidosso, Italy to speak about the school teaching to page 3 Tibetan language. This is the second bureaucratic language, international seminar dedicated to is conditioned by the this subject, only apparently dominant language and The Lost Mystery specialised. In fact the topic of this involves the risk of Tibet film exhibition language will enable the participants progressive homo­ to deepen one of the most delicate logation of the terms page 3 and undervalued aspects of the and corresponding present historical and cultural cultural habits of the International moment, i.e. the safeguarding of weaker ethnic groups. ancient languages and, as a Within a few years, the Community News consequence, of the most ancient Tibetan people, who Retreats, reports, teaching forms of expression, that have have been living until venues already been condemned, or that are now in a medieval seriously threatened, by linguistic context, have been pages 4, 6,7 nd cultural homologation. catapulted into the 20th he seminar has been organised by century, without The Dalai Lama in e Shang-Shung International instruments to stitute of Tibetan Studies in safeguard and defend Latin America Jlaboration with the University of their identity. This is not at all an exaggeration. homologation in the world, with its page Siena, and with the official To get into the era of planetary With respect to this, not everybody dominant cultural tendencies, before recognition of UNESCO, UNICEF, communication Tibetans must, in knows that the whole body of the of the Spanish, then of the English the European Parliament, the fact, adjust their archaic language, Buddhist doctrines, now known all language, imposed through the XVn Karmapa Ministry of Foreign Affairs, borrowing neologisms from the over the world, is fully preserved mass-media. Is.ME.O. (Istituto per il Medio ed modern languages. only inTibetan. In fact many original It is obvious that a language brings Reincarnation Found Estremo Oriente), Regione Tosca­ But to communicate with the rest of texts in Sanskrit have been lost and about many other things, such as a page 5 na, Comunità Montana del Monte the world it is easier to use the the whole texts of the Buddhist new organization of thought, a new Amiata, Provincia di Grosseto, dominant language, so that Tibetan Canon, the Kangyur, and of its moral and so on. Within an Provincia di Siena and Comune di may become one of the many dead commentary, the Tengyur, can only ecological perspective, the pro­ St. Petersburg Arcidosso. For the first time Tibetan languages of this planet, a language be found in Tibetan. gressive disappearance of the scholars from all over the world will only for learned specialists, the only How is it possible, then, to adjust a languages that used to make this Kalachakra Temple work together to attempt to solve ones who, in the future, will be able language to the modem age without world various and interesting, cannot The history the problems. to read the ancient scriptures. It is a losing a memory that, by now, be undervalued. This is similar to page 10 Specialists in the field know well little as if only the scholars who belongs to the whole of humanity? what happened about the alimentary how difficult the confrontation is study the Cabbala were able to read This is true not only for the Tibetan homologation, if we consider that between the culture of the leading the original version of the Bible. language, if we think of the linguistic until 2000-3000years ago, man used Shamanism in more than 1800 vegetable varieties, Buryatia whereas now only about 60 varieties are commonly used. page 11 From the Baltic to Buryatia The last consideration about the se­ minar is about the importance of Patrul Rinpoche's A glimpse at the recent teaching sound and speech in all cultures, tour made by Namkhai Norbu above all in the oriental and in the Advice Rinpoche in the countries of the so-called "primitive" ones that still page 12 ex-Soviet Union, from Riga, Latvia prefer oral communication. In on the Battio through central Rus­ general sound is considered to be sia to Lake Baikal near Ulan Ude in the origin of all the universe. From Buryatia. At each retreat, a man­ Traditional Bon dala for the Dance of theVajra was this comes the importance of created, in gymnasiums, outside language as the main sign of the Medicine on dance floors, paving stones and ethnic and cultural identity of by Doctor Pasang Yontin canvas, wherever the space was peoples in danger of extinction page 13 available. New Dzog-chen During the seminar, some very rare Communities were formed in each films shot in Tibet between the 30s of the places where Rinpoche and 40s (during German, English, Letters taught and many people were American and Italian expeditions, finally able to have real contact page 14 the latter led by Giuseppe Tucci, the with the Master whose teachings they had only been able to read or famous oriental scholar who died a listen to on tape until the trip. few years ago) will be shown for the Practice Calendar Teachings in the forest of Buryatia close to lake Baikal pages 8 & 9 first time in Italy. page 16 ISSUE 16 2 The Real Meaning of Integration Weusethe term 'integration'widely In the Dzog-clien teaching, if you are in any kind of But if you integrate with a sound, physical body and also the in the Dzog-chen Teaching, but its whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, limitations of our energy and mind. real meaning is that first of all a place and at that moment, you are in a state of rigpa, it doesn't matter, it means that you In order to maintain our physical Dzog-chen practitioner should be in then that is your place, your sacred or holy place. In are in that clarity, in the real nature body, we need material elements: the stateof Dzog-chen whichmeans general people want to go to a holy place such as a of sound. The sound is not something when we are hungry we need food his real condition. To be in tlie real outside you that gives you a terrible and when we are thirsty we need to condition you must discover it, and temple to do practice. But when you are in instant feeling and you are not somewhere drink. All these things are very con­ then you have knowledge of it If presence, then wherever you are becomes a holy else receiving a bad sound. But if crete for the karm ic v ision of a human you have experience or knowledge you are the sound, if you are present being. But if you have knowledge of of the state which, in the Dzog-chen place, your temple. in the sound, there is no question of integration, then there is a way to teaching, we call the state of rigpa thinking or feeling that it is good or relax without developing tensions or the state of contemplation, then bad. In the nature of sound there is and through this there is a possibility you have a possibility to integrate no good or bad aspect. Sound is only to integrate everything in the your contemplation into the sound. So when you are in the state practice, in that knowledge. circumstances of your normal of contemplation and at the same If you remain too much in your condition or your normal condition time you are a sound and you are in consideration of subject and object, integrates in the state of integration, you cannot have any good and bad, developing your contemplation. kind of tension. You automatically concept that there is something to Of course, when we reason with our liberate that problem. That is the accept or reject, then, of course, intellect, integrating all our principle of self-liberation. You are tensions will develop day after day circumstances or normal life in a not transforming a sound into and there will be no possibility to be state of contemplation or integral ing something else. For example, you in the state of integration. If you our capacity of contemplation in the are not transforming bad sound into have knowledge of integration, then relative condition, these seem to be good and then enjoying iL But you there is something to learn, to two different aspects. But when you are that sound and that is very develop that capacity. So one of the are in your real nature or condition different. So that is the principle of most important principles of the there is no d if ference between them. integration. teaching is our real knowledge. It is not a principle which relates to Namkha arted Dualism something external. How can you learn to integrate that We have five senses and, if we in­ Attachment knowledge? In the Dzog-chen clude our mind, they are six. In the Teaching there is a very famous same way we have six sense organs When the great master Tilopa gave practice called namkha arted and the objects of the senses. When advice to his disciple, the (nam-mkha ar-gted). Namkha in eans we have sense contact with objects, Mahasiddha Naropa, he said to him, space.