Timeless Awareness And Timeless Being In Heidegger and In Longchenpa

Timeless Awareness And Timeless Being  In Heidegger and In Longchenpa

Rudolph Bauer,Ph.D. Diplomate In Clinical Psychology, ABPP

The Washington Center For Consciousness Studies

And The International Center for The Existential Consultation and Psychotherapy

Timeless Awareness And Timeless Being

Heidegger the great Phenomenological Ontologist of the 21 century and Longchenpa  the great  Dzogchen Master of the 14 century both articulated phenomenologically and ontologically  our Non Conceptual  Living  Experience of Being and our Direct Non Conceptual  Knowing of  our Primordial State of Living Being and Beingfullness. Our Being Knows Being and Our Being knows the Living Being of a being. Yes Being is Alive.

Both Heidegger and Longchenpa elaborated the Natural  Phenomenology of Gnosis and Gnosis is our Direct Experiential Non conceptual Knowing of Being.

Gnosis is our Direct Non Conceptual Non Representational   Experiential Ontological Knowing of Being. Both Heidegger and Longchenpa  elaborated the profound and liberating experience of our entering into our  Ontological  Field of Timeless  Awareness and  our Ontological  Natural experience of the Self Liberating  Union of Timeless Awareness in Time.

To be able to be within Ontological Timeless Awareness and Simultaneously   integrate our contemporary experience of Time within Timeless Awareness is the Natural  Existential Timeless Doorway of Personal Self Liberation. This foundational ontological understanding of Self liberation is found both in ancient Dzogchen as taught by Longchenpa and in Contemporary Existential Ontological  Phenomenology as taught by Heidegger. To experience and live within this ontological Beingful Field of Timeless Awareness  is to experience the Ground of Being which is  Our Ground of Being and  is to experience Source as our own Innermost field of Timeless Awareness. Our Innermost Timeless Awareness is The Ground of Being and is Our Innermost  Source, Ontological Source. To become Awareness of Our inner field of  Awareness is to become Aware of Living Source and to become Aware of our power of Self Manifestation of Being.

This experience is the opening experience of our inner Self Liberation and  our inner  Power of our own Self Manifestation of Being.

In this Naturalistic ontological  understanding of Self Liberation unfolding through our personal  experience of Being in and as  Timeless Awareness  and in experiencing Timeless Awareness In Time. To be in Timeless Awareness and simultaneously integrate our Mind into and within our Timeless Awareness is articulated by   both of these great masters of Beingfull Consciousness as Beingfull Liberation  or Ontological Self Liberation. Both Heidegger and Longchenpa  elaborate the 4 Dimensions of Time as the Ontological  Context of our unfolding of  Self Liberation As Pure Being, and of Pure Beingfullness.

The Four Times are our Past dimension of Time , our Present dimension of Time , our  Future  dimension of Time .  The Fourth Dimension of Time  is Timeless Awareness. Timeless Awareness is the Ontological Dimension of Timeless Being. To be able to enter into and experience our Ontological Dimension of the Infinity of the Endless Vastness of Timeless Being which is Timeless Awareness  and to integrate  Ordinary Time into Timeless Awareness brings fouth our Timeless experience of and as the  Ground of Being. Our Timeless experience as Source. This Timeless Experience is profoundly self-liberating.  This Timeless Experience is our endless Infinity metabolizing our  Living Experience of phenomenological Being and Beingfullness.

Timeless Awareness is our experience of  our Primordial Ontological Consciousness manifesting Time as Time Bound Consciousness. Timeless Awareness liberates our Time Bound Consciousness of Mind and as Mind. In time Longchenpa describes how our mind disappears and the functions of our mind are absorbed by Our Being and Our Beingfullness.

Both Heidegger and Longchenpa taught  this  self-liberating Experience of our  Primordial Non Conceptual  Knowingness  as Timeless Ontological Primordial Awareness . This Ontological Knowingness of Being is the experiencing our Field of Being as Primordial  Timeless Awareness As Source and as endless Gound of Being.

This Ontological Direct  Knowing of Being  is called Gnosis, Yeshe, Jnana. This  Ontological Knowingness in Dzogchen is  also called Semde. Sems is the representational knowing of our mind knowing phenomena and Semde is the ontological awareness of our Being  directly non conceptually knowing Being and the Beingfullness of Being and the Beingfullness of Phenomena.

When we are only in our mind we will experience phenomena but the phenomena will feel Beingless and actually meaninglessness. When do not have the union of awareness knowing Being and our mind knowing phenomena , we may experience phenomena as Beingless and as Meaningless and as Emptiness and as Lifeless.

There are Two Kinds of Awareness

There is Psychological Awareness and There is Ontological Awareness! Our Psychologicsl Awareness is  our awareness as and of our  mind. And there is also Ontological Awareness or Primordial Awareness. Ontological Awareness  or Primordial is our  Ontological Knowing Of Being and our Direct Non Conceptual Knowing of the  Being of beings. This Ontological Knowing of Being, is actually our Being As Primordial Ground  Awareness  Knowing Being and the Being of beings and the Being of phenomena.

There Are Two Different Kinds Of Knowing As There Are  Two Different Kinds of Awareness. There is Psychological Awareness and there is Ontological Awareness!

There is our  Mind  Knowing of  Awareness as Psychological  Awareness .This Mind Awareness  is our Psychological Mind of Psychological Awareness of Phenomena. I know this dog, I am aware of this dog. I know my hand, I am aware of my hand. I know my feelings, I am aware of my feelings. And there is Ontological Awareness which is My Being knowing Being and knowing  the  Being of phenomena and the Being of  beintgs.

There are two different kinds of Knowing. There is Our Psychological Awareness knowing Phenomena. There is Ontological Awareness knowing Being and Knowing  the Being of Phenomena.  There is this Important and Vast  difference between  these two ways of knowing, these two forms of awareness. Our Ontological awareness knows Being  and the Being of phenomenal. Our psychological Mind Awareness   knows   phenomena of  our mind and the phenomena of our world.

TWO KNOWINGS

There is Psychological Representational Knowing of our mind and there Is the Ontological Beingfull Non Conceptual  Direct Knowing of our Primordial Beingfull Awareness knowing Being and the Being of beings.

Similarly!

There is Psychological Consciousness and there is Ontological Consciousness.There is our  mind of Conceptual Knowing knowing phenomena and there is our  Awareness field of Direct Non  Conceptual  knowing of Being and knowing Being  within beings

There is our Psychological Awareness of our Mind. Such as  I am aware  of this and I am aware of That. This is our psychological or our conceptual or our representational knowningness of our psychological  Mind and reflects our psychological experience of phenomena. My knowingness of mind is  profoundly psychological, and is  the psychology of thinking and feeling , the psychology of memory, the psychology of affective states and the psychology of realistic experience and psychology of imaginal experience. This is the personal  psychology of love and hate  of fear and terror.

And Then There is our  Ontological Awareness Knowing of My Being Knowing Being and my knowing the  Being of beings. There is again this  Psychological  Knowing of phenomena  and There is again our   Ontological Knowing of Being and the Being of Phenomena and the Being of beings. As Heidegger would say My mind knows metaphysics and my Ontological Awareness experience Being and the Nature of Being. The mind knowing knows finiteness and the awareness knowing is knowing  infinity and endlessness.

Confusion and The Two Forms of Awareness

The confusion around the “two forms of awareness ” is profoundly confusing for  most people. This confusion hides the Natural path of self-liberation. Self Liberation is in the natural embodied realm of Immanence and not the Grandiose drama of Transcendental Consciousness and the Grandiosity  of the  Patriarchal Drama of illusional Omnipotence and delusional Omniscence and as the results of  Self liberation which is  ultimately self liberation through disappearance. There is no whoness and there is no self and there actually is no one there. Sad and  epistemologically weak and fragmented. Ma Rigpa!

There are two ways of Knowing and there are two ways of Experiencing. There is Psychological Experiential Awareness of our Mind knowing phenomena  and  there is the Ontological  Experiential Knowing of our Ontological experience and  our Ontological Awareness of Being. This Awareness of Being is actuality, Realistic actuality.

Thus is our Primordial  Awareness of our Being knowing Being. Thus  our lived experience of Being is actually experiencing Being both as the Being of our Beingfull Awareness as our Ontological Beingfull  Self. And we can experience  Being of other Beings as self, Self and Our Being are intimately In Oneness. This experience of the field of Being  is    our experience of the  field of ontological Consciousness, our  ontological Field of the infinity of Awareness and the Infinity of Being and Beingfullness both as Timelesss Awareness and as Timelessness inf Time.

This is our Primordial Awareness as our Consciousness Knowing Consciousnes and our experiential knowing that Consciousness is our Being knowing Being  and our Being is Consciousness knowing Conscious as the Infinity of Being and beings.

There is our esoteric non-causal dimension of our experience. Our Exoteric psychology of mind does not directly experience Being  just as our Esoteric Ontological Consciousness does experience Esoteric Being and the profound Immanence of  the Being of Phenomena and the Immanence of Pure  Being of beings. In esoteric  there is only ONE BEING.

Consciousness is the language of manifestation and our mind is the language of concretized causality of the binary language of cause and effect as well as right and wrong and good and evil and better and best and even truth and falsity. Our Mind is Exoteric and Our Consciousness is Esoteric. This is really useful to  know and this understanding will prevent endless confusion. These two ways of Knowing can be profoundly confused and confusing but need not be at all.

Primordial Awareness as our Ontological Awareness is our direct ontological state of Being and Beingfull Knowing . Our  Awareness State  Directly knows  Being and  directly and non-conceptually Knows the Being and the Being  of phenomena. This Knowing of Primordial Awareness is Ontological Knowing. Primordial Awareness is Consciousness vast and Multidimensional. Primordial Awareness is Ontological Awareness as Ontological Knowing of Being knowing Being. Primordial Awareness is Consciousness. Primordial Awareness is Pure Being and Pure Beingfullness Knowing Pure Being of beings and the Pure Beingfullness of beings.

Our psychological awareness knows our psychological process and the psychological process of others . To know the psychological process of another is to know the mind of the other. We can even know the Group Mind of others .

Our Two Dimensions of Knowing

There  are Two essential Different Dimensions of Knowing. There is the mind dimension of  our Psychological  Knowing as Awareness that Psychologically as Awareness knows  Phenomena. This Awareness is our Psychological Awareness and this is the Awareness of our   Psycholological Mind. This   Personal Awareness can  focus on our lived experience of phenomena. In Tibetan this mind knowing and this knowing of mind  is called sems. Then there is this  Direct Ontologial knowing of Being which is called Semde. Western phenomenology under Husserl studied this form of psychological knowingness knowing phenomena. Heidegger in his phenomenology studied Being and studied  the Being and Beingfullness of Phenomena. His form of phenomenology was a phenomenological ontology. He study brought forth an ontic ontological understanding of human beings. Dzogchen is an ontic ontological understanding of human beings. We are psychological and we are ontological. We have a psychological understanding of experience and we have an ontological understanding of experience.

This Psychological Knowing of  phenomena   is the knowing of our psychological  mind knowing phenomena. Our psychological knowing of our psychological mind is our psychological knowing of phenomena. .This Psychological knowing of Psychological Awareness of our mind  is profoundly  different than  our Ontological Knowing as and of  Awareness Knowing Being.

Heideggers phenomenology shifted from the Husserl Ontic phenomenological  knowing of phenomena to the Ontological knowing of the Being of Phenomena and the phenomena of Being. This Turning was of profound significance wherein there was now Phenomenological Ontic Ontological Philosophical Method. Dzogchen actualy embodies a ontic ontological philosophical method.

This knowing of Being is our Ontological  Awareness as Being knowing the Being of beings. Our mind, our psychological mind  is our psychological realistic  knowing of phenomena. Our mind can  not know directly or experientially the Being of Phenomena.  Our Beingfull Awareness knows the Being of Phenomena and Knows Being and even the Infinity of Being and Beingfullness. Our Beingfull Awareness is the opening of Timeless Awareness and Timeless Being.

Our mind knows psychologically and our mind    knows the actuality of phenomena Our mind is an embodied mind and not a Transcendental Mind. Transcendental Mind is not embodied. Transcendental Mind is disembodied. Transcendental mind Transcends embodiment, transcends ontological awareness and transcends psychological awareness. Transcendental mind transcends our sense of embodied self , and transcends sense of embodied awareness. And transcends our sense of Embodied Being . Transcendental awareness is disembodied knowing and disembodied experience.

Transcendental awareness  transcends  embodied Being and embodied beingfullness, Transcendental mind transcends phenomena and transcends our  knowingnesss of phenomena. Transcendental Awareness is a dissociative and disembodied experience. Transcendental Awareness is a function of detachment, dissociation and disembodiment. Transcendental Consciousness is the Knowing of Nothingness and the Knowing of Absence , Eternal Absence. Transcendental Consciousness is Beingless.

Transcendental Consciousness is Beingless and Emptiness, the Emptiness of Being and Beingfullness. Transcendental Phenomena is Void and Dissappearance , the disappearance of everything and every one, Transcendental Phenomena is Beingless. Transcendental Phenomena is a perceptual distortion of the actuality of Being and the Being of Phenomena.

Heidegger also called our Human Conscious Knowing of Being Da Sein. This knowing was not the knowing of our thinking thinking mind. The translation is like Being There and Knowing There. Padmashambhava makes fun of our thinking thinking thinking attempt at knowing mentalistially the field of Being. Herbert Guenthers book on Padmashambhava is also a direct   preparation for understanding the work of  Longechenpa. This  Beingfull   Ontological Awareness  knowing  Timeless Being that is beyond our  mind.

Our psychological  mind is psychologically  mentalistic and manifest representationally ideation and emotionally  affectation. Our psychological mind is our reflection and internalization of events and internalization of historical experience, Our mind has both internalizations of experience and memory of experience. Our mind ‘s awareness is a focusing on  phenomena and our lived experience of phenomena.

If you and I are  NOT  able to  experience the profound difference between our psychological knowing of mind and our ontological  knowing as  Beingfull Awareness knowing Being , then we may not be able to actually enter the door of Dzogchen into the Ontological Field of Knowing Being as Being.

The Felt Sense of Knowing

If we do not know experientially the difference between sems and semde , awareness as   mind knowing phenomena  and awareness as Being  Knowing Being , we may not be able to  enter the door of Dzogchen. Entering the door of Dzogchen requires experientially knowing this distinction of the felt sense of phenomena and the felt sense of Being of phenomena. To confuse this felt sense of phenomena and the felt sense of the Being of the  phenomena is to confuse the natural  path of self-liberation.

As Padmashambhava  declares Most people confuse thinking thinking thinking with awareness, and they confuse ontological knowing with psychological knowing. They confuse  the process of conceptual ideational thinking  with Ontological Direct Non Conceptual  Knowing. Thinking  is not ontological knowing. Thinking is not direct knowing. Thinking thinking  is mentalistic experience and mentalistic knowing. Conceptual knowing is not ontological knowing. Representational Knowing is not our Direct Knowing of Being and Beingfullness.

Only direct knowing of awareness teaches direct knowing of Being. That is why Dzogchen is a form of  guru yoga. Guru Yoga is a form of our self revelation of Being revealing Being. Without transmission of the experience of knowing Being  from one person to another, from a mother to a baby, from one person transmitting to another person  is most unlikely that you will try to think yourself into awareness or think yourself into Being.

As Garbe Dorge say Get a Transmission, Practice and Have no doubt. This transmission is natural , Within awareness we have the power of the Transmission Of Being and the Energy of Being.

Of course as Donald Winnicott the great ontological phenomenological psychoanalyst elaborates our first transmission of Beingfull Awareness Consciousness is from our mother. Our mother transmits Being to us both in utero and through our infant life and even later. In truth your mother is your first Guru. Our Mother is our first Guru. Our Mother is the Transmission of Her Being into Our Being. Our mother brings forth the gift of Being and Beingfullness within us.

Padmashambha makes fun of thinking thinking and judgment judgment and judging. This Judgement becomes a fact. Dzogchen is not a function of judgment. Judgment is mental and conceptual. Discrimination is perception of a knowing not of mind but of direct knowing of primordial non conceptual awareness. Experience teaches experience, Our experience of Being is our Being Knowing Being.

There are two different meanings to the word Awareness.The word awareness in Tibetan means sems and this awareness is our awareness of mind knowing  phenomena. This awareness is  of the  mind of phenomena knowing phenomena and the psychology of phenomena.

And then there is awareness as  Semde which is our Being knowing Being as Awareness knowing  Being. Our Being  as Awareness Knows Being and the Awareness as Being is Consciousness as Being. Yes Being is Consciousness and Being as Being Knows Consciousness As Being. Yes Awareness is Being Knowing Being and Awareness is Consciousness knowing Consciousness  as Being.

Yes Awarenesses  Consciousness as Beingfullness knowing Awareness in a Being as Consciousness and as a personal Whoness. Yes Whoness is Consciousness as the personal Beingfull knowing  of a person who is being and who is personal Beingfull Consciousness as Ontological Whoness.

This Ontological Knowing of Awareness of Beingfull Awareness  is the continuation of our lived experience of our Primordial State of Being, and of our personal Being Knowing  Being and our  knowing as  Personal Being.

Our ontological existential lived experience is how to ontologically experience ongoing  continuity of Being in this field of Direct Beingfull Knowingness of Being and even Our Knowing the Being of beings including our own Being and our own Being of our being.

Mind Alone Is Mind Alone

We do not and can not know or experience  Being with our mind alone. Our mind does not experientially know Being and the Beingness of beings. Our mind is informationally based. Heidegger would so often say when a person mind is intellectually knowing Being they are only knowing metaphysically or conceptually or representationally or mentallistically  knowing Being.

Heideggers  phenomenological ontological work was to experientialy know Being Non Conceptually and Directly Non Conseptually  knowng the Being of beings. Language becomes a metaphorical or poetical experience of manifestation. Heideggerian Phenomenology and Dzogchen form of Phenomenological Ontology  are very close. Both Knowings know Being and are the living experience of Being and Embodied Being. Both Knowings Know Being and Know Being through an as forms of Phenomena. Both Knowings Know Being as Consciousness and Consciousness as Being.

We also know phenomena with and through our representational mind. Our Primordial Field of Awareness is our Being Knowing Being. In Dzogchen this Direct Knowingness is Gnosis or Jnana. There are two forms of knowing both in Heidegger and in Longchenpa. There is the knowing of Phenomena with our minds (sems) and there  is the Knowing of  the phenomena of Being through our Being’s Primordial Direct Awareness or Gnosis or Jnana as  Semde.

When we integrate our mind within our field of  awareness and then we can know OUR BEING  and through our Being we know the Being of Phenomena and the Phenomena of Being. Longchenpa and Heidegger were masters of this esoteric of Being Knowing Being. Both Longchenpa and Heidegger had the view of ontic ontological human Beings. Ontic is psychological and ontological is Being.

NOW THERE IS ANOTHER  STEP : The Step of Entering  TIMELESS AWARENESS!

This  next step  is entering   into  Timeless Awareness  as  Timeless  Being  and   Timeless  Beingfullness. In light of this entering into Timeless Awareness  and remaining within Timeless Awareness we will enter into living in and within Timeless Being and Timeless Beingfullness.  We will live within Timeless Awareness as Timeless Being and Beingfullness. Timeless Being is Infinity and Timeless Being is Deathless and Changeless. Timeless Awareness is The Ground of Being. Timeless Awareness is Our Ontological Opening , Timeless Awarreness is Our Ontological Openness as Source.

We can integrate the three times into Timeless Awareness as Timeless Being, We can integrate the Present Time into Timeless Awareness as Timeless Being and we can integrate the Past Dimension into Timeless Awareness as Timeless Being  and we can integrate the Future Time  Dimension into Timeless Awareness as Timeless Being.

We can easily experience the Infinity of Timeless Awareness and the Infinity of Timeless Being. Timeless Being is endless just as Timeless Awareness is Endless Infinity .This Timeless Awareness as Timeless Being has the power  of the metabolization of experience both as Painfull and as Pleasurable. The Vastness of Timeless Awareness magnetizes the life force energy and metabolizes the energy both the from the beneficent and from the malignant. Timeless Awareness also dissolves and metabolizes the malignant energy that people  experience and suffer,

This is a wondefull Step of Profoundly Deepening Our  Ontological Knowingness of Being as Being as Pure Being and  as Pure Source. Yes.. Our Ontological Awareness is Our Open Source of Self Manifestation, our Ontological Awareness is the Ground of Being. This is Longchenpa’s luminous understanding of Timeless Self Liberation. Yes Self Liberation is Timelessness.

Timeless Awareness and Timeless Being

This profound  step of and within our lived experience of Timeless Awareness  is Expressed both in the Phenomenological Ontology of  Heidegger and In Phenomenological Ontology of  Longchenpa. In our unfolding of our ontological Knowing of our Awareness of Being, we can   go beyond our natural ontological awareness knowing of Being and we can enter into  the profound Ontological Timeless Experience of Becoming Ontological Timeless Awareness and thus we can Non Conceptually  directly experience our Timeless Awareness of and as Timeless Being. Our experience of Timeless Being is our Source of Self Liberation.

This profound experience of Timeless Being is a  profound and amazing experience and is the Source of  profoundly   true Self liberation. This experience of Timeless Awareness  as Timeless Being is relatively  available and easy to experience and to Embody and to Become. This wonderful experience of self liberation is naturally easily available and doable JUST AS WE ARE. Self liberation is not a self improvement Drama,. Self Liberation self liberation just as you are now. Self Liberation is not the  drama of earning endless merit or becoming liberated through Obedience Training like your dog Fido.

In our direct experience of our ontological knowing of Timeless Awareness we ontologically experience Timeless Awareness as Timeless Being. In Ontologically experiencing Timeless Being we are then and now open to experiencing Timeless Being as Source. As We experience Timeless Awareness  we begin to experience Timeless Being of beings including our own being. We discover experientially that we are experiencing Timeless Being as the Very Ground of Being, we are experiencing the Groundless Being of Being as Source. And we are experiencing  our  Beingfull  self manifestation as source. Our Timeless Awareness is our doorway into the Ground of Being as Ontological Source of our  Self Manifestation of Being and Beingfullnes.

We can directly experience that we  as our emerging self awareness is Source. This a profound form of self-liberation.  We experience that we are the Ground of Being and we are the self manifestation of the Ground of Being. We are the profound openness of and as Source. We are in the Ground of Being  as The Ground of Being which is infinite in its horizons and vast and multidimensional. As the Ground of Being we experience our awareness and our field of awareness as  Source as Personal Ontological Source.  We experience the ontological drama of self manifestation. As Dudjom Rinpoche would so often say take the power into your own hands and stop begging for help. Take your own self manifestation of your own Luminous Awareness Just As You Are.

This is Longchenpa Self manifestation of Primordial Timeless Beingfull Awareness. This is Heideggers self experience and self  manifestation of Phenomenological Ontological Beingful  Source of Being  and as Timeless Source of Timeless Beingfullness .

Timeless Awareness is Timeless Being and Timeless Awareness is within our Direct  Experientially  Knowing of Timeless  Being in which we can experience  the Timeless  Being of beings.  We can directly experience Pure Being and the Infinity of Pure Being as us as the Open  Source as Open Awareness infinite in its horizons vast and multidimensional.

This is the Wisdom Experience of our  Gnosis of our Direct Non Conceptual Non Representational Beingful Knowingness  knowing the  Reality of Being  and the  Infinite Beingfullness of Reality. We experience our own Primordial Awareness as Luminous Source as we are the Ground of Being as Source, we are the endless  infinity of Beingful Source.

This is Experiential Gnosis of the Innate field of our Beingfull Experience of Consciousness and Our Being as Consciousness. Gnosis is Consciousness Directly Knowing Consciousness and the Felt sense of the Infinity of Consciousness as the Infinity of Being and Beingfullness. Through our Direct Experiencing of Being we experience the Infinity of  Timeless Awareness and the Infinity of our Timeless  Being and the Infinity of Timeless Consciousness. This Timeless  Experience is Deathlessness Awareness  life after life and death after death.

The Experience of Infinity As the Natural Doorway of Self Liberation

We can Directly Experience  the Infinity of Timeless Beingfull Awareness as Timeless Beingfull Consciousness . This experience of the Infinity of our Beingfull Awareness or  the Infinity of our Beingfull  Being allows us to experience the Being of our  being and to experience our Direct Perception and Direct Knowingness of Being and even our knowing the PURE Being of the Beingfullness of Phenomena.

When we experience the Infinity of Timeless Awareness we can experience the Infinity of Being and we experience this Infinity of and as the Ground of Being as Source. We experience within us  the Ground of Being as our Infinity of Primordial Awareness , and we experience the Infinity of the field of of awareness as source. Thus we are embodying the Ontological Youthfull power of Self Manifestation.

This  Beingfull Knowing of Infinity  is not going into the past time or going into the future time  and this beingfull knowing is sustained when we do not let our   self becoming captured by thoughts or  by  fantasies and by conceptualizations. We can stay in our authentic Beingfull condition and in this  our real condition of  our Being knowing Being and the Being of beings knowing our own being as the infinity of Being and the Ground of Being and Beings. We experience the unbound vastness of our own innermost awareness as source. This is self-liberation. And this is also the power of self-manifestation. This is the power of Potential Space. This is the infinite Power of Potential Space, Pure Potentiality of  Pure Infinity.

This Primordial State of Beingful Knowingness is completely beyond our ideational mind  and  beyond our experience of past mind, and present mind  and future mind.

Without letting our  Beingfull  Awareness as our as Beingfull self  becoming organized and being  oriented by our Representational  Conceptualzations and Representational  Affective states of  mind, and neither our conceptualization of the past ,the present. and  the future.

As Heidegger said human beings are Dasein and Dasein is the gift of our Being knowing Being and knowing the Being of the world and the Being  of others directly  and non conceptually, Human Dasein is our human awareness knowing Being and the Being of beings. Human Dasein is the Essence of Dzogchen the Natural Path of Self Liberation. Human Dasein is not the knowing of mind alone, Human Dasein is the ontological Openness of our Being knowing Being.

The Existential Struggle

This existential struggle of being in Being and not being located  in mind alone  is the path of Dzogchen and the path of Phenomenological Ontology.  This is also the path of Kashmir Shavism. To continue to  know the Being of Being and the Being of a being is self-liberation.

Dzogchen does not belong to any tradition, and neither does Dzogchen belong to any one culture and Dzogchen is our existential Real Condition and of course Dzogchen  is Galactic and Cosmological. This is Namkai Norbu  often repeated statement before giving talks. This is the Ontological Liberating Drama of the Infinity of of Self liberation.

So we can   make one further step to sustain our Beingful  self as our Beingfull Awareness  as Being forever and ever in our  Direct  Knowing of Being and the Direct Knowing the Being of phenomena of beings who are Being and who are  the manifestation of Pure Being.

We enter further and more further  into our depth and breath of our Being as we enter into Timeless Awareness which is Timeless Being. To be in Pure Being which is to be In Timeless Being allows us to  continuously experience the Being of beings, and allows us to Be in the Continuity of the Field of Beingfull  Awareness. To be in the field of Beingfull Awareness in continuity    is to Be Being in Timeless Awareness in time. To be in Timeless Awareness and to be in our  awareness of Being as Being. is not the contained  knowing of our psychological mind.

The knowing of mind is very limited and limiting and containing. Our mind is historically based information and reflection. Our mind is not ontological knowingness, our mind is psychological knowingness. Psychological is contained in mind as functions of mind. Thinking thinking and thinking is not knowing directly. You can think Being which is not the experience of Ontologically knowing Being, This is the most fundamental distinction both for Heidegger and for Longchenpa.

The Functions of Our Mind Being Absorbed by Timeless Consciousness

More over As Longchenpa understands and completely and clearly articulates that  one day on  a decisive day the functions of our mind can and will be Absorbed  by Timeless Awareness and within Timeless Awareness as Timeless Awareness. This vast direct knowingness of Being and Beingfullness can skillfully know our mind task and mind problem solving.

This Longchenpa’s most amazing statement. This problem solving of awareness will be more or less direct and immediate problem solving without thinking thinking and more thinking. Awareness as Consciousness can subsume the power of The Knowing of our Mind. Gnosis becomes our own capacity.

As we continuously integrate our mind  within Timeless Awareness and within the field of Timeless awareness Timeless Awareness dissolves and metabolizes the Reification of our Mind  and dissolves the Reified  functions  of our mind and so these Consciousness functions  are assumed by the infinity and power of  Timeless Awareness, Timeless Consciousness. Our mind is very limited in problem solving and our Consciousness is our Direct  Experiential Consciousness  knowing and reflecting  directly  Infinity of Primordial Consciousness.

This Ontological  Assumption of functions  is most important to understand and to know experientially. Dzogchen is not a function of mind ,but Dzogchen is a function  of Primordial Timeless Awareness , Primordial Timeless Being both beyond time and  in time.

Our Primordial Timeless Awareness is the Infinity of Primordial Consciousness . Timeless Awareness is Primordial Consciousness As Timeless Ontological Infinity. This Timeless Awareness as Ontological Infinity is available to everyone as the very Nature of their personal Beingfull Timeless Awareness in Time.

To be in Timeless Awareness is to Be in Being, to be in the ongoing continuity of the Infinity of Being and Beingfull Awareness. Moreover to be in Timeless awareness is to be in Timeless Being. Timeless Being is Pure Potentiality. And to actually experience the Potential Space of Pure Being Pure Timeless Being is to feel the power of the Ground and Source of  Being manifesting within us and through us. And to be in Timeless Being is to experience the Infinity of Being, the Infinity of Timeless awareness, the Infinity of Timeless Manifestation , life after life and death after death.

We are no longer located in Mind alone. To be in Timeless Awareness’ in time is to no longer be located in mind alone or to be in the  History of our Mind Alone. To be in Pure Awareness is to Be In  Pure Timeless Awareness and is not to be in Mind Alone. This is important to know. Your mind’s thinking is historically based and historical configurated from babyhood to present time.  We are most often locked into the Containment of our Mind.

As Padmashambhava would so often make fun of thinking thinking thinking.Thinking like a thing. Yes thinking reifies experience and reifies understanding and reifies Being and the Beingfullnes of Being.

Self liberation is the human Being living not in mind alone but rather living in Timeless Being and Timeless Beingfull Consciousness. Consciousness is vast and infinite in its horizons and multidimensional.

A Way of remaining in Being is to remain in the Direct  Experiential Knowing of Being through Timeless Awareness and within Timeless Awareness. We can integrate  our mind into our Cosmological  Knowing as the Gnosis  of Primordial Awareness and in so doing s we can experience phenomena and we can simultaneously experience the Vast Infinity of Being of the phenomena. When the vast infinity of Being of the phenomena is missing , we are in mind alone.

We can learn to carefully integrate  our mind knowing phenomena. Often and at first  we enter transitional space and we enter and remain  deeply into Transitional Space which is Transitional Awareness  and the Door of Primordial Awareness Opens and we are then embodied by Primordial Awareness  and we are simultaneously embodying Primordial Awareness field infinite in is horizons vast and mulltidmensional.

We can enter from within Primordial Awareness and  enter deeply into  TIMELESS AWARENESS  and then we can integrate Time into Timeless Awareness which is the Knowningness of Timeless Being. This moment  is Now the Doorway into Self liberation.

In Timeless awareness as Timeless Being we experience the Infinite  of Luminous Being in its Horizons. Thus  through this power of infinity we can metabolize experience and metabolize Context thus freeing ourselves from contextualizatons that are situatioinal and historical and profoundly limiting. Thus we experience ontological self liberation free from contextualization and situationalism and the  contextualization of personal and familial history.

Longchenpa goes further and says that on one decisive day you will dissolve your mind and the Functions of your mind will be absorbed and lived out through Primordial Awareness in its vastness and sublimeness and in its infinity of Being.

In a most serious way liberation is self liberation and is freeing our self of psychological mind and embodying the field of Being, the field Of Consciousness as Mind completely and forever. Gnosis is our direct knowing of Being as Being and frees our Binary Mind forever and ever.

A person  can use mind and the concretized method of mind but actually the Direct knowing of Being and the Direct  knowing of Phenomenological Being replaced the Conceptualization and Representational function of  the  mind . Many great Dzogchen masters and Shaivite master and Daoist master I have met did not have a mind. They were thought free consciousness  openness that knows infinity and singularity simultaneously. Their speech was spontaneous without thought or thinking conceptually.

Of course I do not care if you understand this or not. If you think you are your mind alone , and if you really want to be your mind alone ,you may not be able to go further. So This may be  a decisive moment. And actually it great to know that no one cares what you do.There is not great judge or a last judgement. This drama is up to us.

In a way in Dzogchen you are being asked and requested to artfully  relocate your self , to relocate  your Beingfull self from being contained in  your mind alone and relocating  into the field of pure Beingfull   Awareness and thus  ultimately you are  the field of Timeless Awareness in Time.

To locate ourself in the Dimension of Timeless Awareness is to locate ourself in the Ground of Being, as our Source of self-manifestation.  To speak you must speak not from you mind but now you speaking from and within Ground Awareness.To be the Ground of Being we can be in Timeleess Awareness. We can be  in Timeless Awareness and in Time Simultaneously. This is self-liberation.

We are Timeless Awareness and in  Timeless Being and Timeless Awareness as Timeless   Source and we are the  self-manifestation of  Source manifesting our own Being in the world. This experience of Timeless Awareness as Timeless Source is vast and infinite in its horizons and multidimensional. To be in and to be as Timeless Awareness’ in time is to be our  source of self manifestation and power. We are The self manifestation of Being and the power of Beingfull self manifestation.. We are the Creative power of Being and the Destructive power of Being.

Many of Dzogchen praxis are manifestations of Timeless Awareness and this Timeless potentiality. This Space of Potential. This experience of Timeless Awareness in Time is the source of power and self manifestation of Being and Beingfullness in this world. Without Entering the Potential Space of Awareness by being in  mind alone nothing will take place. The power of Transmission is the power of Potential Space becoming activated and manifested by Pure Desire. Desire is Source.

Most importantly as we enter and remain in Timeless Awareness in Time we experience the vast infiniteness’ of Timelessness in Time. The Infinity and the power of Timeless awareness empowers us to experience Self liberation.

Timeless Infinity frees us from the constellation of Context and Situationalism. Timeless awareness is infinite in its horizons vast and multidmension. A person not only experience Timelessness but the power of direct knowing and the freedom of self-manifestation as self-liberation. The power of awareness is also the power of metabolization and thus metabolizes negative states and destructive states of mind.Timeless Awareness is the oceanic source of self action self liberation and self manifestion of Beatific states of luminous experience. The unbound sense of infinity and corresponding Deathless Awareness frees us to become completely free of annihilation anxiety and freedom of the fear of death.

Dzogchen in its pure manifestation primordial awareness is mindless and thinkingless, and is the non thingness of Being and experience. In pure manifestation of primordial Beingfull awareness the reification of mind and the functions of the mind is metabolized and disovled. Thinking thinking and thinking is simply repetitioin ,endless repetitions of mind ideation.

Knowing and thinking are not the same. Knowing is ultimately non conceptual and direct luminous experience. The artiucaltion of the experience is not the same as thinking thinking obsessional mentalistic thinking. Ideation and the manifestation of ideation is actually a thought free activity. Thinking thinking is neither understanding or direct knowing. In thinking thinking thinking you are depending on your mind to create a event of direct knowing. The mind can not do that and so thinks and thinks and thinks and thinks.This is Padmashambhava understanding.

Both later Heidegger and Longchenpa are continuous and similar in understanding. A  person who actually understands Heidegger is Richard Comapcino. He was profound influences by the Jesuits philosopher father  Richardson who was not only an expert in Heidegger but in the symbolic psychoanalyst Jacque Lacan. The understanding of the mutuality o f Dzogchen and Phenomeological Ontology will come from the west and not from the east.

The East is endlessly patriarchal and endlessly Myoptic in their presentation of phenomenological ontological Dzogchen. Many equate self liberation with Obedience. Self Liberation is kind of  good dog bad dog trauma.  Dzoghcen is its own invention and inventiveness that  does not belong to any tradition or any religion or  culture.

Namkai Norbu would always before each lecture say the following:

Dzogchen does not belong to any Tradition, Dzogchen does not belong to any culture and Dzogchen is our real condition . Dzogchen is galactic. Galatic is Cosmological. Awareness which is Cosmological Infinity.

I  would  like mention the Work of Zhihua Yao who wrote the wonderful paper Four Dimensional Time In Dzogchen and Heidegger in 2007 and was published in Philosophy East and West Vol 57,issue 4.  His paper is a nuanceful discussion of the Four -dimensional Time in Heidegger and Longchenpa. Another excellent paper was published in 2015 by Cezary Wozniak and published in the Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. Nr 16(4/2015). This paper also presents a subtle discussion of Four Dimensional Time in Heidegger and Dzogchen. The Title is Exploring the Nature of Time, Reflections on the article  Four Dimensional Time in Dzogchen and Heidegger by Zhinhua Yao.

Finally, The Dakini of Timeless Awareness is Sangwa Yeshe, Secret Timeless Awareness- WISDOM. The Dakini Practice is called Jetsum Troma:A Practice That Opens The Door of Direct Perception. This Dakini Practive of Timeless Awareness is most powerful and most Beautiful

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