Vajrarastra
“The basis for realizing enlightenment is a human body. Male or female - there is no great difference. But if she develops the mind bent on enlightenment, the woman’s body is better.” - Padmasambhava
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Non-Dual Rigpa
The Dzogchen teachings state that rigpa is a non-dual state. That means there is no subject knowing an object. That is saying that there is no "perceiver" as a subject perceiving experiences as "perceptions" appearing to a perceiver.
There is no "knower" that experiences are occurring or happening "to". There is no "receiver" of sensory information in rigpa.
Many mistake rigpa for being a state where the mind is clear and empty while it is experiencing exterior perceptions and sensations without labelling or conceptualizing them. For many rigpa is the condition of being a "perceiver" of experiences without any resistance, grasping or self-identification. This is still a dualistic witnessing state, not rigpa. The intellect assumes this detached "observer" position and thinks it's rigpa: "Nothing bothers me or touches me because I am just this pure observing". Or it tries to hold this detached "pure observer" position against all odds: "standing as awareness". This is of course just a new version of samsara.
All of these views still leave the "perceiver" intact as a subjective self. In rigpa there is no
one having or perceiving experiences because there is no subject and object in separation.
As a crude example, imagine you are only a single eyeball. You can see objects in the distance. But if we remove the distance by reducing the distance to exactly zero distance from the center of the eyeball to the center point of the object, subject and object would be one piece. Knower and known would be occupying the exact same spot. Rigpa is this non-dual state.
There is no one perceiving incoming sensory perceptions in rigpa. There is no one observing thoughts in rigpa. There is no one that emotions are occurring to. There is no one that experiences physical pain. There is no one that suffering occurs to. There is no one who loves another. There is no one that experiences bliss. There is no one that a realization occurs to. Rigpa is non-dual. All of these delusions of dualistic separation disappear in rigpa.
Non-dual means the knower and the known occur as one undivided wholeness. The idea that a "knower" as rigpa exists as a pure, changeless perceiver of experiences is delusion. When experience is left "as-is", without a subject who is leaving it "as-is", there is no perceiver of the environment. There is only "environment" which is inclusive of the entire moment where the experience is not divided into a perceiver and perceived. It's as though you are everything with no "you" left over to notice, and no separate "everything" conceptualized and labeled to notice. There never was a separate "you" there to notice anything.
This is why the mind realizing "twofold emptiness"; emptiness of a self as a perceiver and emptiness of appearances as separate things to be perceived, is absolutely necessary for the non-dual state of rigpa to appear.
The Dzogchen teachings state that rigpa is a non-dual state. That means there is no subject knowing an object. That is saying that there is no "perceiver" as a subject perceiving experiences as "perceptions" appearing to a perceiver.
There is no "knower" that experiences are occurring or happening "to". There is no "receiver" of sensory information in rigpa.
Many mistake rigpa for being a state where the mind is clear and empty while it is experiencing exterior perceptions and sensations without labelling or conceptualizing them. For many rigpa is the condition of being a "perceiver" of experiences without any resistance, grasping or self-identification. This is still a dualistic witnessing state, not rigpa. The intellect assumes this detached "observer" position and thinks it's rigpa: "Nothing bothers me or touches me because I am just this pure observing". Or it tries to hold this detached "pure observer" position against all odds: "standing as awareness". This is of course just a new version of samsara.
All of these views still leave the "perceiver" intact as a subjective self. In rigpa there is no
one having or perceiving experiences because there is no subject and object in separation.
As a crude example, imagine you are only a single eyeball. You can see objects in the distance. But if we remove the distance by reducing the distance to exactly zero distance from the center of the eyeball to the center point of the object, subject and object would be one piece. Knower and known would be occupying the exact same spot. Rigpa is this non-dual state.
There is no one perceiving incoming sensory perceptions in rigpa. There is no one observing thoughts in rigpa. There is no one that emotions are occurring to. There is no one that experiences physical pain. There is no one that suffering occurs to. There is no one who loves another. There is no one that experiences bliss. There is no one that a realization occurs to. Rigpa is non-dual. All of these delusions of dualistic separation disappear in rigpa.
Non-dual means the knower and the known occur as one undivided wholeness. The idea that a "knower" as rigpa exists as a pure, changeless perceiver of experiences is delusion. When experience is left "as-is", without a subject who is leaving it "as-is", there is no perceiver of the environment. There is only "environment" which is inclusive of the entire moment where the experience is not divided into a perceiver and perceived. It's as though you are everything with no "you" left over to notice, and no separate "everything" conceptualized and labeled to notice. There never was a separate "you" there to notice anything.
This is why the mind realizing "twofold emptiness"; emptiness of a self as a perceiver and emptiness of appearances as separate things to be perceived, is absolutely necessary for the non-dual state of rigpa to appear.
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