Embodying the Great Perfection
Part IV: Realising Spontaneous Fruition
Ian Baker · 151 minutes
Fruition as base, path and fruit, opened with the death of Dudjom Yangsi at 33 and Dzongsar Khyentse's letter on the vast chasm the great Dzogchen masters warn of between Dzogchen and the teaching of Dzogchen. Ian Baker sets passages from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra beside Tilopa's instructions to Naropa, arguing that the inner fire and the spheres of light predate their Buddhist iterations. He describes a reverse breathing tummo rather than leading one, and closes on community, and on the depth that only retreat gives.
Death and dying Dzogchen