Eight Cases of Goodness not to be Shunned – Discussion Group

On the next four Sundays we will discuss Eight Cases of Basic Goodness not to be Shunned, a song by Lord Gotsangpa (P. 274 in Songs of Realization). Our discussions will be online (Zoom) and will be led by Nancy Hurst, a long-time student of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. Each Sunday we will consider several verses, helping each other understand by contemplating and considering the verses based on previous dharma study.

This week we will discuss up to three verses. How many we cover each Sunday may vary – some verses require more discussion than others. The verses will appear on the zoom screen, but please bring Songs of Realization if you have it. The first three verses are quite appropriate at this time:

I bow to the lord who grants the bliss that is utterly supreme
Which takes away the suffering of illness
For every being that’s everywhere throughout the reaches of space
By administering the medicine of the three kayas.

In the pure space of the sky that’s the sky of essential mind itself
The clouds of negative actions thickly gather
But the mighty force of the powerful wind of the wisdom prana
Doesn’t blow them away, but clears them up like this

The illness and its painfulness have neither base nor root
Relax into it, fresh and uncontrived
Revealing dharmakaya, way beyond all speech and thought
Don’t shun them, pain and illness are basically good.

The Zoom meeting ….

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The password for the meeting is: Dharma