Primordial awareness

Across all traditions

Passages where rigpa occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.

• Dzogchen · A Lamp to Dispel Darkness · English Primary passage

  With this, as rigpa sheds the covering layer of experiences that involve clinging, its pure and pristine wisdom is laid bare. This is the instruction for cutting through the web of conditioned existence. The Instruction for Remaining in Space-Like Equality This is how you should recognize the pure awareness of rigpa once it is freed from the various layers of ordinary thinking and experience, like a grain of rice freed from its husk—by settling naturally and making use of rigpa’s own self-knowing (or self-illuminating) quality.

• Dzogchen · Some Terms from the Great Perfection · English Primary passage

  It would appear, therefore, that it is on account of differences in method, as employed in the various paths associated with the perfection stage, that different names are used. Focusing on rigpa and rigpa alone ( rig pa rkyang ded ) means that once we have recognized the rigpa of the Great Perfection, in which the actual character of the ground is experienced just as it is, there is no need to train in many different elements of the path.

• Dzogchen · Commentary on Vajra Verses · English Primary passage

  Any sudden rising is rigpa s own radiance, And vivid awareness is insight (vipaśyanā). Directly, upon fading, there s primordial experience. When the ultimate fruition is not yet manifest, but is present as a cause, the stillness that comes from allowing any rising thoughts to settle completely is calm abiding ( śamatha ). This is likened to an ocean free from waves. Any thought which arises all of a sudden through the radiance or expressive power of the real nature is the radiance of rigpa.

• Lojong · Wunsch und Bestreben, Bodhicitta zu erwecken · German

  བདག་མཐོང་ཐོས་དང་དྲན་རེག་འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན། ། dak tong tö dang dren rek drowa kün Mögen alle, die mich sehen, mich hören, an mich denken oder auf irgendeine Art mit mir in Kontakt kommen, ངེས་འབྱུང་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དང་ལྷན་ཅིག་སྐྱེས། ། ngejung changchub sem dang lhenchik kye Entsagung, Bodhicitta und gleichzeitig entstehende Weisheit entwickeln, ཇི་ལྟར་རིགས་པ་ཇི་བཞིན་རྒྱུད་སྐྱེས་ནས། ། jitar rigpa jizhin gyü kye ne und möge sich gleichermaßen Rigpa in ihrem Geist erheben, genau wie es ist, མྱུར་དུ་རྫོགས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ཐོབ་པར་ཤོག ། nyurdu dzokpe sangye tobpar shok damit sie rasch zu vollkommener Buddhaschaft g

• Nyingma treasure texts · Narak Kong Shak · English

  རིག་པ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྟག་ཆད་བྲལ་བ་ལ༔ rigpa yeshe takché dralwa la When the pure wisdom of rigpa is beyond eternalism and nihilism, གཟུང་འཛིན་གཉིས་སུ་ལྟ་བ་ཐང་རེ་ཆད༔ zungdzin nyisu tawa tang ré ché How tiresome is the dualistic view of perceiver and perceived! རྟག་ཆད་གཉིས་སུ་འཛིན་པ་ཉོན་རེ་མོངས༔ takché nyisu dzinpa nyön ré mong How frustrating to cling to things as everlasting or non‑existent! རིག་པ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀློང་དུ་བཤགས་པར་བགྱི༔ rigpa yeshe long du shakpar gyi We confess in the expanse of pure awareness-wisdom!

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