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Larchfire: Photography from India, Nepal and Tibet, plus quotations primarily from traditions in Yoga and Buddhism

What we call life and death are simply concepts — relative designations that are attributed to a continuous state of being, and indestructible awareness that is birthless and deathless. While impermanence – the constant ebb and flow of appearance and dissolution – characterizes all phenomena that we can see, hear, taste, touch or mentally conceive, this pure, primordial mind endures all transitions and transcends all boundaries created by dualistic thought. Although we may cling to this life and fear its end, beyond death there is mind, and where there is mind there is uninterrupted display: spacious radiant, and continually manifesting. —Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, <i> Buddhadharma </i>
<i> L1540 Bodhgaya </i>

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What we call life and death are simply concepts — relative designations that are attributed to a continuous state of being, and indestructible awareness that is birthless and deathless. While impermanence – the constant ebb and flow of appearance and dissolution – characterizes all phenomena that we can see, hear, taste, touch or mentally conceive, this pure, primordial mind endures all transitions and transcends all boundaries created by dualistic thought. Although we may cling to this life and fear its end, beyond death there is mind, and where there is mind there is uninterrupted display: spacious radiant, and continually manifesting. —Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Buddhadharma L1540 Bodhgaya

door Bodhgaya Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche