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Relatively speaking, everything in our world and experience appears and exists. Absolutely speaking, those same entities are not what they seem to be.
The solidity of these objects begins to fall apart when we examine them more closely, whether we use the logical reasoning of analytical meditation or the empirical methods of science as the basis of our investigation. That is, our perception of them is transformed through a stage-by-stage process that breaks down the object into different, smaller and smaller parts, and then into nothing at all.
—Dzogchen Ponlop
Mind Beyond Death
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Relatively speaking, everything in our world and experience appears and exists.
Absolutely speaking, those same entities are not what they seem to be.
The solidity of these objects begins to fall apart when we examine them more closely, whether we use the logical reasoning of analytical meditation or the empirical methods of science as the basis of our investigation. That is, our perception of them is transformed through a stage-by-stage process that breaks down the object into different, smaller and smaller parts, and then into nothing at all.
—Dzogchen Ponlop
Mind Beyond Death
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There is nothing that exists in a substantial and real way outside the mind. The way that we define any object, as well as our experience of it, is simply our mind’s projection.
Whether fearful or blissful, our experiences arise from our mind.
Whatever after-death experiences we may have, they are also simply
projections of our mind.
If we can transcend our confusion through understanding the nature and
qualities of mind, then our experience of all appearances becomes very
workable.
–Dzogchen Ponlop
Mind Beyond Death
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The experience of the gap between the cessation of
one moment and the arising of the next is nothing less than the “moment
of truth” that will determine our direction and shape our future
experience.
In Tibetan, we say that in each moment we are at a fork in the road.
Whichever fork or direction we take, it is important to realize that all
appearances are, ultimately speaking, aspects of the nature of our own
mind. They do not exist in a manner that is independent of our minds.
—Dzogchen Ponlop
Mind Beyond Death
