Friday, January 27, 2006

The mistaken ideas about the essence

The mistaken ideas about the essence arise from fixated attachment that solidifies the present mind as being negative. You believe that noble and positive wisdom will be attained only if present mind is relinquished. This is a mistaken idea in the Mahamudra tradition, because there is no wisdom higher than present mind itself.

--Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Introduction to HH the IX Karmapa's Ocean of Definitive Meaning

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