The Dzogchen Healthy Mind Interviews

For more than three decades, the physician and anthropologist Henry M. Vyner has been interviewing Tibetan Buddhist and Bon lamas about their experiences of the states of mind that they have attained and realized as a consequence of their lifelong practice of meditation. This volume contains vivid excerpts from years of interviews that have been done with two of those lamas: the late Penor Rinpoche and Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso. Their words bring to life the experience of having a Natural Mind – the joyful and genuine state of mind cultivated by Buddhist and DzogChen meditators. Browse the Table of Contents to see all of the aspects of the Natural Mind that are described herein by these two eminent masters. These interviews are also scientific documents. The thirty years of lama interviews that have been done by Dr. Vyner contain a multitude of empirical observations of the stream of consciousness that have, in turn, become the foundation of a modern rendering of the traditional Buddhist science of the stream of consciousness. This science has made it possible to compare the Natural Mind to the Egocentric Mind to determine which state of mind is healthier.