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May 2025

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Lankavatara 2.VII

ByUmi Dan Rotnem May 16, 2025May 16, 2025

This talk explores wàngxiǎng—the delusive projections that fabricate subject and object—and how their collapse reveals the state of non-possession. We examine why speech becomes just speech, and views just views, when perception is no longer mistaken for reality.

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Dharma Talk | Discussion | Foundational Teachings | Foundations | Lankavatara | Sutra Study

Lankavatara Foundations (1)

ByUmi Dan Rotnem May 9, 2025May 9, 2025

A discussion on essential positions and framing in the Lankavatara scheme. Mind-only non-duality, perfuming, seeds, liberation and more.

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Lankavatara 2:VI (part 2)

ByUmi Dan Rotnem May 2, 2025May 2, 2025

This session tracks Lankavatāra 2.VI through the seven aspects of self-nature, linking them to meditative thresholds—from mind and wisdom to the Tathāgata’s world. We explore cessation, karmic projection, and how insight reconstructs perception.

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