[Llew Watkins]

Thanks Mark, I must’ve read the Traleg Rinpoche article a long time ago, but I am excited now to revisit it as I’ve found Traleg Rinpoche’s writing very inspiring of late in its scholarly clarity.

[Llew Watkins]

As a side thought. There’s a good glossary in the back of the Rain of Wisdom, but have you come across a glossary for the way that Trungpa Rinpoche uses language? His own particular turns of phrase and the instances where they have their roots in specific terminology used by other teachers from the lineage; Jamgon Kongtrul the Great, Dakpo Tashi Namgyal or whomever. I would like to see a glossary with precise definitions, I wonder if this is something the Nalanda translation committee or perhaps one of his editors have ever compiled or begun to compile?

[Llew Watkins]

Hi Tillie,

That sounds spot on to me. Embryonic compassion or the sore spot seems to be the fuel or impetus for the relative bodhichitta practice. Absolute bodhichitta practice is glimpsing the shunyata experience; absolute bodhichitta fully realised must be a resting in one’s own nature/ tathagatagarbha/ the inner wound. At this point absolute compassion spontaneously arises because there is nothing to protect.

[Llew Watkins]

Perfect, thanks Andy.

[Llew Watkins]

Thanks for the clarification Barry that had slipped by me 🙂

[Llew Watkins]

I wrote a paper about this once drawing on Longchenpa that might be of interest: https://www.whitneycrocodile.com/post/mind-made-world-transcending-past-and-future-through-experience-of-bardo
It was given at a science fiction conference and therefore also incorporates some other more fantastical elements.

[Llew Watkins]

Alexis, just one quick thought that occurs to me is to connect to the drala in the skyscraper, in the city, because you describe this happening so beautifully in nature. I’ve heard Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche commented the lights of the city, and I think specifically the London underground, could be especially helpful for practice.

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