{"id":1034,"date":"2013-02-09T15:59:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T20:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2014-08-30T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T20:03:09","slug":"self-arising-primordial-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/all\/self-arising-primordial-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-arising Primordial Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within the essence of ultimate truth, [yang dag don gyi ngo bo la]<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;there is no buddha or ordinary being. [sangs rgyas dang ni sems can med]<br \/>\nSince awareness cannot be reified, it is empty. [rig pa &#8216;dzin pa med pas stong]<br \/>\nGiven that it does not dwell in emptiness, [stong pa nyid la me gnas na]<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;it abides in its own state of supreme bliss. [rang gi bde chen sa la gnas]<br \/>\nThe majestic ruler of all buddhas [sangs rgyas kun gyi rje btsan pa]<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;is\u00a0understood to be one&#8217;s own awareness. [rang gi rig pa shes par bya]<br \/>\nThis monarch, naturally manifest awareness, [rang snang rig pa&#8217;i rgyal po nyid]<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;is present in everyone, but no one realizes it. [kun la yod de kun gyis rtog pa med]<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Self-arising Primordial Awareness&#8217; (Tibetan: \u0f62\u0f72\u0f42\u0f0b\u0f54\u0f0b\u0f62\u0f44\u0f0b\u0f64\u0f62\u0f0b, Wylie: rig pa rang shar) is one of<br \/>\nthe Seventeen tantras of the Dzogchen Upadesha.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/Df2go\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia entry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the essence of ultimate truth, [yang dag don gyi ngo bo la] &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;there is no buddha or ordinary being. [sangs rgyas dang ni sems can med] Since awareness cannot be reified, it is empty. [rig pa &#8216;dzin pa med pas stong] Given that it does not dwell in emptiness, [stong pa nyid la me &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}