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Kadag Trekchö
Kadag Trekchö (alternate orthography Trekchöd and Tregchöd) is a Dzogchen
term and practice meaning "thorough cut" or "cutting through". The Menngagde
or 'Instruction Class' of Dzogchen teachings are for instruction, divided
into two indivisible aspects: Kadag Trekchö and Lhündrub Tögal.
Drubwang Tsoknyi Rinpoche (Schmidt, 2002: p.38) states:
Trekchö is the thorough cut of cutting through, cutting the obscurations
completely to pieces, like slashing through them with a knife. So the past
thought has ceased, the future thought hasn't yet arisen, and the knife is
cutting through this stream of present thought. But one doesn't keep hold of
this knife either; one lets the knife go, so there is a gap. When you cut
through again and again in this way, the string of thought falls to pieces.
If you cut a rosary in a few places, at some point it doesn't work any
longer." (NB: Original quotation not meta-enhanced.)
The "string of thought" and "stream of present thought" in the
aforementioned quotation is cognate with the noise or obscurations inherent
within the mindstream. The 'thorough cut' of this 'cutting through' is to
re-establish the Dzogchen View of the primordial state of the nature of
mind, the essence of the Buddha-nature which is cognate with Dharmakaya.
References
* Schmidt, Marcia Binder (Ed.) (2002). The Dzogchen Primer: Embracing The
Spiritual Path According To The Great Perfection. London, Great Britain:
Shambhala Publications, Inc. ISBN 1-57062-829-7 (alk. paper)
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