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: Wisdom Experience: The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism

Semde in Tibetan (wylie: sems-sde) refers to the 鈥淢ental Class鈥� and represents one of the three Divisions of Atiyoga (Dzogchen).鈥擲emde (sems-sde) teaches that all things are liberated from the extreme of renunciation, because they are not separated from mind-as-such. [...] The spiritual and philosophical goal of the Mental Class (semde) is that the compounded truth of the path, which is endowed with corruption and guided by firm perceptions which cling to the sequence of the vehicle, the two truths, the six transcendental perfections, the two stages and so forth, is determined (la-bzla-ba) in the great expanse liberated from aspects of cause and result, virtue and evil, and acceptance and rejection to be the pristine cognition of great purity and sameness. This is the natural expanse of reality which is the enlightened mind in its natural state, or the fundamental reality of ultimate truth free from conceptual elaboration. In brief, all things which dualistically appear within the subject-object dichotomy are transcended.

The Mental Class, if classified, consists of seven categories.

1. the area of mind which holds the result to be the mind鈥檚 point of origin ('bras-bu sems-kyi byung-sar 'dod-pa'i sems-phyogs),
2. the area of mind which has determined deviation and obscuration (gol-sgrib la-bzla-ba鈥檌 sems-phyogs),
3. the area of mind which shatters the source of axioms (gtan-tshigs khungs-rdib-pa'i sems-phyogs),
4. the area of mind which holds that there is no descent into partiality or bias (rgya-chad phyogs-lhung-med-par 'dod-pa'i sems-phyogs),
5. the area of mind concerning the level of dogmatic philosophical systems (phyogs-'dzin grub-mtha'i sa'i sems-phyogs),
6. the area of mind which transcends dogmatism concerning that which is free from the intellect (blo-bral phyogs-'dzin-las 'das-pa'isems-phyogs),
7. the area of mind which propounds actuality in reference to mind-as-such (sems-kyi phyogs yin-tu smra-ba'i sems-phyogs).

The distinctive doctrine of this [Mental Class] is therefore that [the mind] proceeds to natural liberation at the very moment when it arises. [...] The Tantras which express this Mental Class are said to number two million two hundred thousand verses.

If these are subsumed, they comprise the Three Spaces (klong gsum-po) which are contained in six thousand three hundred sections (bam-po), namely,

1. the Space in which Reality is Inexpressible (chos-nyid brjod-du med-pa'i klong),
2. the Space in which the View is Not Absent (lta-ba min-pa med-pa'i klong) and
3. the Space in which Conduct is Not Present (spyod-pa yin-pa med-pa'i klong).

If further subsumed, these are gathered into the Three Vaults [or Appendices] ('phyong-gsum), namely,

1. the Vault which Directly Reaches the Abiding Ground (gnas-pa gzhi-thog-phebs-pa'i 'phyong),
2. the Vault into the Liberation of Appearances Right Where They Are (snang-ba rang-sar grol-ba'i 'phyong) and
3. the Vault into the Equalisation without Differentiation (ngo-mnyam tha-dad med-pa'i 'phyong)

If this spiritual and philosophical goal of the Mental Class is essentialised: All the apparitions of reality which appear are perfect in reality, the expanse of the enlightened mind, without having to seal all phenomenal appearances with the seal of reality. The awareness of appearances as the expressive power [of mind], or as a mere display [of mind], accompanies them without deliberate recognition

: WikiPedia: Tibetan Buddhism

Semde (in Tibetan Buddhism and Bon) is the name of one of three scriptural and lineage divisions within Dzogchen (Great Perfection atiyoga). Dzogchen is itself the pinnacle of the nine-fold division of practice according to the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Semde texts are mostly said to be translations by figures of the early transmission (7th鈥�9th centuries) of Buddhism to Tibet like Shri Singha, Vairotsana and Vimalamitra. These texts emphasize the "awakened mind" (Tibetan: byang-chub-kyi sems; Sanskrit: bodhicitta), which is the true nature of the mind and is essentially pure and perfect, just like Buddha-hood. Semde texts critique Tantric practice as being based on effort, and instead promote simple and effortless contemplation of the mind and its emptiness, luminosity, purity and inherent gnosis.

Semde texts claim that striving for liberation through structured practices (like tantric visualization and ritual) creates more delusion. Instead, Semde works recommend simple contemplations to recognize the pure and empty awakened mind. The Semde attitude of 鈥渘on-action鈥� (bya ba med pa) to religious practice can be found in the short Semde text called "The Cuckoo of Rigpa" (rig pa'i khu byug). One feature of the practice of contemplation in semde as taught today is "four yogas" (Tibetan: rnal 'byor). The four yogas are: Calm state (gnas pa), Non-movement (mi g.yo ba), Non-duality (mnyam nyid; Sanskrit: advaya), and "Spontaneous presence" or "the self-perfected state" (lhun grub; Sanskrit: 补苍腻产丑辞驳补 or 苍颈谤腻产丑辞驳补).

Semde is known in Tibetan as [wylie]: sems sde; and in Sanskrit as cittavarga; It is also referred to as the "mind division", "mind class" or "mind series".

context information

Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha鈥檚 words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (惫补箩谤补测腻苍补) are collected indepently.

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Starts with: Semder-kalaudi.

Full-text (+163): sems phyogs, Eighteen major scriptures, nam mkha'i rgyal po, rtse mo byung rgyal, srog gi 'khor lo, klong gsum po, rdzogs pa spyi chings, bde ba 'phrul bkod, rdzogs pa spyi spyod, bya ba med pa, sems sde lung chen po bco brgyad, 'phyong gsum, Advaya, gnas pa, Cittavarga, yid bzhin nor bu, Eighteen major scriptural transmissions, thig le drug pa, Mi g.yo ba, mnyam nyid.

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Blue Annals (deb-ther sngon-po) (by George N. Roerich)

Chapter 1b - Detailed transmission history from dynastic period < [Book 3 - Early translations of Secret Mantra]

Chapter 4 - Mind Class < [Book 3 - Early translations of Secret Mantra]

Chapter 8 - Second incarnation series (iii): yag sde pan chen < [Book 8 - The famous Dakpo Kagy眉 (traditions)]

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Guhyagarbha Tantra (with Commentary) (by Gyurme Dorje)

10a. The Zur family (Introduction) < [Introduction]

Foreword

9. The bka'-ma lineage < [Introduction]

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