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The foremost samaya is when you compose yourself in a state in which you in actuality experience the fact that all sights, sound and awareness are visible emptiness, audible emptiness and aware emptiness. To have that certainty is called keeping all the hundreds of thousands of samayas.<ref>''Empowerment & Samaya'', [[Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche]] from ''Dzogchen Essentials: The Path That Clarifies Confusion'' compiled by Marcia Binder Schmidt. Published by Rangjung Yeshe Publications.</ref>
The foremost samaya is when you compose yourself in a state in which you in actuality experience the fact that all sights, sound and awareness are visible emptiness, audible emptiness and aware emptiness. To have that certainty is called keeping all the hundreds of thousands of samayas.<ref>''Empowerment & Samaya'', [[Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche]] from ''Dzogchen Essentials: The Path That Clarifies Confusion'' compiled by Marcia Binder Schmidt. Published by Rangjung Yeshe Publications.</ref>
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*word of honour (Light of Berotsana)
*word of honour (Light of Berotsana)


==Teachings on Samaya Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha==
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==Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha==
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], [[Lerab Ling]], 29 July 1994
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], [[Lerab Ling]], 29 July 1994
*[[Khenpo Namdrol]], [[Lerab Ling]], 20 July 1995
*[[Khenpo Namdrol]], [[Lerab Ling]], 20 July 1995

Revision as of 13:14, 26 July 2013

The Vajrayana precepts are called samayas (Skt.) and are obtained through receiving empowerment. In Tibetan the word is damtsik (Tib. དམ་ཚིག་, Wyl. dam tshig) and there are several ways of explaining its literal meaning. To make this very simple, dam means sublime, and tsik is a statement. Thus samaya is a statement that is true, genuine, pure, real. To apply oneself in a way that is in harmony with how the truth is, is called keeping the samaya. When the samayas are described in detail, there are hundreds of thousands that can be listed, but all of them can be condensed in this way.

The foremost samaya is when you compose yourself in a state in which you in actuality experience the fact that all sights, sound and awareness are visible emptiness, audible emptiness and aware emptiness. To have that certainty is called keeping all the hundreds of thousands of samayas.[1]

Categories and Subdivisions

Alternative Translations

  • word of honour (Light of Berotsana)

References

  1. Empowerment & Samaya, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche from Dzogchen Essentials: The Path That Clarifies Confusion compiled by Marcia Binder Schmidt. Published by Rangjung Yeshe Publications.

Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

Further Reading

  • Tulku Thondup, Enlightened Journey: Buddhist Practice as Daily Life (Boston: Shambhala, 1995), 'The Empowerments and Precepts of Esoteric Training', pages 106-133.