Being Right Here: A Dzogchen Treasure Text of Nuden Dorje entitled The Mirror of Clear Meaning with Commentary

by James Low (Commentaries by), Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, KHORDONG TERCHEN TULKU

Overview

The treasure text of Nuden Dorje renders a very clear and authentic account of the view and essential meditation of dzogchen the practice of nondual experience. The presentation is in the Men ngag style, a personal instruction distilling the author's own realization in a manner both beautiful and deeply meaningful. Short verses show with pithy clarity how the various aspects of dzogchen fit together. The text provides both an authentic portrayal of the practice and a clear instruction in how to apply it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781559392082
Publisher:	Shambhala
Publication date:	04/01/2004
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	152
Sales rank:	1,393,758
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

James Low has been a student of the fourth incarnation of Nuden Dorje for over thirty years. He studied Tibetan Buddhism in India with multiple masters and has translated numerous texts with Chhimed Rigdzin. Mr. Low works as a consulting psychotherapist in a London public hospital and teaches dzogchen meditation around the world.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"James Low has made an invaluable contribution to Dzogchen studies with his excellent translation and commentary on this precious Tibetan text. Anyone interested in the view and meditation practices of Dzogchen, the Natural Great Perfection teachings, would benefit from keeping this handbook close to their hearts and minds, as I myself do."—Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within and founder of the Dzogchen Center

"Being Right Here is a must-read for anyone interested in awakening the enlightened nature of the mind."—Tulku Thondup Rinpoche, author of The Practice of Dzogchen and The Healing Power of Mind

"The text is itself a condensed presentation of the entire Buddhist path from meditations on suffering, compassion, and emptiness through tantric visualizations to the effortless freedom and spontaneity of Dzogchen. This short, readable text offers an excellent introduction to the feel, thought, and practice of this ancient Tibetan philosophy of awareness in easily understandable terms and analogies."—Altar Magazine

"Renders a clear and authentic account of the view and essential meditation of dzogchen. . . . An expansion of the traditional concepts embodied in the text and an examination of how they can function in contemporary life."—Watkins Review

Editorial Reviews

"James Low has made an invaluable contribution to Dzogchen studies with his excellent translation and commentary on this precious Tibetan text. Anyone interested in the view and meditation practices of Dzogchen, the Natural Great Perfection teachings, would benefit from keeping this handbook close to their hearts and minds, as I myself do."—Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within and founder of the Dzogchen Center

"Being Right Here is a must-read for anyone interested in awakening the enlightened nature of the mind."—Tulku Thondup Rinpoche, author of The Practice of Dzogchen and The Healing Power of Mind

"The text is itself a condensed presentation of the entire Buddhist path from meditations on suffering, compassion, and emptiness through tantric visualizations to the effortless freedom and spontaneity of Dzogchen. This short, readable text offers an excellent introduction to the feel, thought, and practice of this ancient Tibetan philosophy of awareness in easily understandable terms and analogies."—Altar Magazine

"Renders a clear and authentic account of the view and essential meditation of dzogchen. . . . An expansion of the traditional concepts embodied in the text and an examination of how they can function in contemporary life."—Watkins Review

From the Publisher

This work, also known as The Mirror of Clear Meaning, is a classic work of Tibetan Buddhism and perhaps one of the less accessible, not for its prolixity (as might be said of some of the more ancient texts from this tradition) but for its brevity. Writing in the 19th century Dorje adopted the Men ngag style, using brief, disconnected verses to express personal insight and experience. The essence of the work, as translated and expounded by Low, is a careful rejection of dualistic experience: "The notion of a doer and a deed is just a confusing illusion, like a dream or magic." Many readers should find this approach attractive, as it lacks the intense esotericism or complex cosmologies of other Tibetan Buddhist teachings. Recommended for most collections. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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