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Important book recommendation for post anatta contemplation
John Tan: This book u must read and keep for life. It contains all needed and u really don't need anything extra. If u can intuit the teaching, it includes clearly all the key essential pointers of how the 6 supramadane powers are awaken and practice in the 3 states, the view, the path and the result to natural liberations.
Do read with utmost reverence and do not assume u have understood it. Get back to it again and again and summarise it if possible so that it gets into ur inmost consciousness.
Do read with utmost reverence and do not assume u have understood it. Get back to it again and again and summarise it if possible so that it gets into ur inmost consciousness.
Soh: Oic..
U just read?
U just read?
John Tan:
Almost finished.
Almost finished.
Do read with deepest reverence and respect and don't act smart. The commentary are very valuable also. Only the mirror analogy I don't like... Lol.
[5:58 pm, 07/05/2022] John Tan: And it is actually only 150 pages as the root text took up almost 35%.
[6:00 pm, 07/05/2022] John Tan: In fact this is the exact book that I have been looking for more than a decade that I told u.
11 Comments
Mr./Ms. LS
Love the title … I’ll definitely check it out
Mr. KOÖ
Lama Lena recommended 2 days ago in a meeting that this is the single book someone needs to take on a retreat.
Cheng Chen
Piotr Ludwiński 50/50 for me.
In
recent years, the mirror analogy is increasingly odd to me. Though it
seems functional, the way it’s presented in language has a significant
risk of leading one to believe oneself as the mirror. This subject-side
bias can skew to all sorts of problematic views. It’s just not a good
analogy.
The
masters back then should have used holographic lasers, quantum
particles, or just a plain old iPhone screen as better analogies. I
guess they were undereducated and uncivilized…
I think it’s only recently that I came across Soh/JT describing their issues with the mirror.
Soh Wei Yu
Author
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Cheng Chen I concur.
I
too had an issue with Longchenpa's description and analogy of mirror
years ago, but found more recently based on what John Tan shared that
Longchenpa is very much anatta.
Probably you read this before: http://www.awakeningtoreality.com/.../a-letter-to-almaas...

AWAKENINGTOREALITY.COM
A Letter to Almaas on Dzogchen and Longchenpa
Yin Ling
Admin
I
love it too, it’s one of the best coz the language is clear and
simple.. not like usual Tibetan book can cause headache sometimes lol
Jayson MPaul
Got it immediately. It's time I got back to reading books again.
Alejandro Serrano
Longchenpa
is simply beautiful, amazing and very enlightening. I have only read
the Treasuries translated by Richard Barron, but these series is
definitely in my "to read" list.