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Interview with Lama Surya Das | Night Club Podcast
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Lots of interesting ideas elicited in this dialogue. I liked how he brought the Bardo into almost ever aspect of being (before birth, between perceptions, between thoughts . . . ). His favorite quote about dukkha was hard to understand the exact word, but it reminds me of the Nepali proverb, “Dukkha, Sukkha eeoti ho” (pain and pleasure are the same thing).
I want to hear it many times, what a way to present so much beauty!
If we are stuck in samsara than talking about buddha nature can only be an idea to us. so it’s helpful to recognize that our experience is real, even if it is deluded, so that we can mindful of it. and then we are being partly enlightened because mindfulness is the base of the enlightened experience. shout outs to yogachara for its practical view of vijnapti matrata, consciousness/experience only
One of the most interesting and charged topics in the Yogachara is around what “mind only” really means. It’s not an reifying honorific, but a pejorative. It is partly promulgated to challenge the supremacy of materialism, ie, an idealistic counter to that extreme view.