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In Dzokchen, compassion is much more than the virtue of loving kindness. Nor does the word compassion in the Dzokchen context denote its English etymological meaning, “suffering together” or “empathy,” although both these meanings may be inferred. Essentially, compassion indicates an open and receptive mind responding spontaneously to the exigencies of an ever-changing field of vibration to sustain the optimal awareness that serves self-and-others’ ultimate desire for liberation and well-being.
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― The Flight of the Garuda: The Dzogchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
― The Flight of the Garuda: The Dzogchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
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For the meditation of the antidote to desire,
in the middle of one’s forehead
there is an area of white bone the size of a thumb
visualized to be shining with white light.
That area increases, becoming the size of one’s head.
It is then visualized as the size of one’s body.
It is then visualized to the extent of where one can see.
Then visualize that it includes all appearances.
As such, the billion worlds become white.
Having become familiar with that whiteness in that way,
the suffering of des
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