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I don't think Higgins has been 100% successful in connecting the question of the difference between kun gzhi and chos sku to the deeper question he sees in it - what liberation means in Dzogchen. I think part two of this book would have been stronger and more interesting if he'd focused on the latter question, which is of much greater depth and import.
— Mar 11, 2026 01:50AM
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Soteriology is seen as a task of recovery or retrieval, a clearing process that brings to light what is already present though temporarily and adventitiously obscured. It emphasizes, in the words of Paul Ricoeur, "mind's attempt to recover its power of thinking, acting and feeling-a power that has, so to speak, been buried or lost-in the knowledge, practices, and feelings that exteriorize it in relation to itself."
— Feb 08, 2026 02:55AM
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I love that Higgins calls it *Prasangika-Madhyamaka. That actually shows some chutzpah.
— Feb 07, 2026 01:37AM
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Without a doubt the best and highest-calibre western scholarship on Dzogchen that I know of.
— Feb 06, 2026 05:32AM
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Perhaps the answer to the latter question is as "inconceivable" and thus inarticulable as the texts all say?
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Keith wrote: "Perhaps the answer to the latter question is as "inconceivable" and thus inarticulable as the texts all say?"Well, he certainly says several things about it that are interesting and important - for example, that in Dzogchen discourse, they almost always use the intransitive word grol ba for liberation instead of the more common verb thar pa (moksha), which means “freedom from.”
Higgins: “Freedom reframed in this way has nothing to do with capacities and properties of agents. It has more to do with how we are than what we can or cannot do.”
Mm, *that* is a good observation
