Longtime buddies David Silver and Raghu Markus talk about Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and the legacy of Dzogchen maintained by his 4 sons.
Seize a duplicate of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche’s memoirs, Blazing Splendor, for a deeper look into his magnificent life.
This time on Mindrolling, Raghu and David have a dialogue about:
- The life and teachings of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, one of many best Dzogchen meditation masters of the twentieth century
- Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche’s sons and the way they proceed to unfold Dzogchen knowledge to the West
- Core rules of Dzogchen philosophy, together with the character of thoughts and nondual consciousness
- Understanding cognitive vacancy and the phantasm of a stable identification
- Why considering dying and impermanence is usually a path to liberation
- Working consciously with loss and mortality earlier than the tip of life
- Not falling into the entice of believing this life is everlasting
- Viewing desires and meditation as parallel practices for awakening
- The endurance and self-discipline required to kind new religious habits
- Dwelling totally whereas recognizing the inevitability of dying
Study coping with the bardo of dying within the ebook In Love with the World by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche or hop into The Bardo Guidebook by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
“Urgyen and his sons and all Dzogchen folks consider that dreaming is as necessary as meditating. Goals are fluid, something can occur in a dream. You possibly can fly, you’ll be able to stroll by means of a wall. What Mingyur says is that’s the excellent analogy for all times itself; life is as fluid and as clear as that dream, however we don’t realize it as a result of we predict it’s stable as a result of we will’t put our finger by means of our hand.” –David Silver
About David Silver:
David Silver is the previous co-host of the Mindrolling podcast. He’s a filmmaker and director, most just lately popping out with Good Disguise. Good Disguise tells the distinctive story of a gaggle of impressed Western religious seekers from the 60s, who in assembly the nice American instructor, Ram Dass, adopted him to India to fulfill his Guru, Neem Karoli Baba, familiarly often called Maharaj-ji. Two days earlier than he left his physique, Maharaj-ji instructed Ok.C. Tewari to deal with the Westerners, which he did resolutely till the day he died in 1997. Silver’s #1 charting MGM/UA/Warners movie, “The Compleat Beatles” is the critically acclaimed biopic film about historical past’s most well-known band. The time period ‘rockumentary’ was first utilized to this two-hour film. Rolling Stone just lately described the movie as a “masterwork.” Silver’s Warner Brothers’ characteristic movie, “No Nukes” additionally began the entire development of music/activism characteristic documentaries.
