As It Is, Volume 1

by Tulku Urgyen

The teachings presented in As It Is, Volume I are primarily selected from talks given by the Dzogchen master, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, in 1994 and 1995, during the last two years of his life. The unambiguous Buddhist perception of reality is transmitted in profound, simple language by one of the foremost masters in the Tibetan tradition. Dzogchen is to take the final result, the state of enlightenment itself, as path. This is the style of simply picking the ripened fruit or the fully bloomed flowers. Tulku Urgyen's way of communicating this wisdom was to awaken the individual to their potential and reveal the methods to acknowledge and stabilize that prospective. His distinctive teaching style was widely known for its unique directness in introducing students to the nature of mind in a way that allowed immediate experience. This book offers the direct oral instructions of a master who inspired admiration, delight in practice, and deep trust and confidence in the Buddhist way.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Genres: Buddhism, Spirituality, Meditation, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Mysticism

224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 1999

About the author

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche ((Tibetan: སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wylie: Sprul-sku O-rgyan Rin-po-che, where "Rinpoche" is an honorific meaning "Precious One," not a surname) was a Tibetan Buddhist Lama of the Kagyü and Nyingma schools, and a teacher of Dzogchen. He is most widely known in the West through the works of Erik Pema Kunsang and Marcia Binder Schmidt.

Reviews

[Vanessa · Rating 4 out of 5]

i love reading Tulku Urgyen the wisdom shines through the words so it is great support though sometimes gets bogged down and complicated by all the Tibetan Buddhist terminology like Dharmakaya Shambogakaya Nirmanakaya kaya this kaya that and other really visualization oriented language when i am not that deep in Vajrayana practice to know what dude is talking about! keep it simple, stupid. (me is stupdi not Tulku Urgyen) so i am starting back at the fundamentals. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/

[Marcy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tulku Uruygen has a uniquely clear voice that reaches across the ages to bring forth clear descriptions of instructions for following the Mahamudra path. These instructions are the perfect accompaniment to lessons from a great teacher or teachers the help one fully train in the Dzogchen tradition. I fully recommend this as both a guide to the ancient teachings and a timeless text for students of all levels of learning.

[Everett Grandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

As It Is

As it is has always been foundation of our being obscured by attachment to... what truly has know solid substance. We look but we rarely see...what is. Westerners are caught up in opium den of conceptional thinking lost in self identity, obscuration of what is actual.

[Wayne Kenny · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can do this.

[Jason C. Dixson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely profound

This book is a transmission of a great master. The way Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche weaves together so many complex topics of Vajrayana with the pith instructions of Dzogchen, is in many ways beyond me. May I have the merit to benefit from his teachings, so I may be a benefit to others.

[REID NUTTING · Rating 5 out of 5]

Want a Blessing, Turn the page.....

Really a powerful book, that placed in the right hands, studied by the right mind.......Magic!
Do yourself a favor...... Read!

[Georgia Copeland · Rating 5 out of 5]

enlightment explained

Tulku Rinpoche is easy to read and understand.
His education, training, and opening to enlighte was interesting and fast reading!

[Duncan · Rating 5 out of 5]

So great!

[Don Flynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a great teacher. These will assist and inspire any practitioner. His autobiography is amazing too.

[George Fowler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exquisite.