Dwelling in the Heart of Reality
D5S1 - Guru Yoga, and When Samsara Begins
Lama Alan · Eva Natanya · 119 minutes · recorded January 1, 2020
Lama Alan Wallace sets the cataphatic question, what do I need to do, against the apophatic, what can I stop doing, and explains why guru yoga is core to Dzogchen: you cannot recognise yourself as a Buddha while seeing your guru as a sentient being. In the practice we dissolve the mentor into the heart, then rest without meditating on anything. Eva Natanya asks how a Buddha ever became deluded, and how the son of God ever fell, and hears that samsara begins in every instant appearances are seen as other.
Emptiness Teacher and student The nature of mind Compassion (karuna) Dzogchen Guru yoga