Dzogchen · Mahayana · 1910–1991
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Tibetan Mahayana · Nyingma, the Rime movement · The heart of compassion · mind training
For the one caught in anxiety about himself and ready for a radical medicine – to give up the care for himself entirely.
The essence of the teaching: The essence of the path is the complete uprooting of self-clinging through the cultivation of boundless compassion and the intention to serve others without any hope of reward.
Transmission
Dilgo Khyentse led to freedom through the most unexpected thing – through the complete renunciation of the chase for one's own happiness. True happiness, he said, comes precisely when you cease to seek it for yourself. The core of the practice is tonglen, the exchange of self for others: breathe in the suffering of all beings, like a dark cloud, and give to them all your good, all the light, without remainder. Do not wait until you can help in deed – meditate on love and compassion until they become inseparable from the very fabric of the mind. And true generosity lies not in outer giving but in the inner absence of clinging to the giver, to the gift, and to the one who receives. Where there is no defense of the self, a strength never seen before is born.
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