The Unity in Duality Education
The aim of the four-year Unity in Duality Education, developed by Tarab Tulku Rinpoche, is to give back to the individual - both through its theoretical basis as well as through its practical application - the knowledge and the means to reclaim power over themselves as well as over their experience of reality. To this end, the Unity in Duality Education comprises an integral system of Science of Mind and Phenomena in their mutual interrelation, Personal Development as well as Spiritual and Psychotherapeutic Application.
The philosophical knowledge of Tendrel, or the interdependent nature of all that is, has been expressed by Tarab Tulku Rinpoche in the form of the three inter-determining unities of subject-object, mind-body and energy-matter. These three inter-determining unities at the same time comprise the central Unity in Duality paradigm basic to the Unity in Duality Education Rinpoche has created. In the Unity in Duality Education, this knowledge is presented in accordance with traditional Buddhist philosophy, as contained in the Sutras and respective commentaries. In its exposition of Tendrel, Buddhist science of mind and phenomena is systematically built up, thereby developing an increasingly subtle understanding of the nature of existence as interdependently arising. Out of his own deep understanding of this basis of Buddhism, Tarab Tulku Rinpoche has extracted essential aspects and is presenting them in such a way, that the fundamental structures and interconnections become evident without any previous Buddhist knowledge and training.
In the modern cultures reality is mainly based on conceptual understanding. If we cannot understand something intellectually, we might find it interesting, but it won't ever become part of our living reality. In order to give a solid foundation to the development of the individual there needs to be an integrated understanding of the basic tenets, relating to questions such as: "What is reality?" "What is the subject's experience of reality?" and "How is the one related to the other?" However, in accordance with Tarab Rinpoche, already on this philosophical level such an understanding must not remain abstract theoretical knowledge, but must be integrated as a living knowledge within one's own experience. In short, what is required in the U.D. science of mind and phenomena is an integral understanding of the view of Tendrel, the interrelated nature of existence, whether related to subject and object, body and mind or matter and energy, or for that sake to any of the Eight Tendrels of Nargajuna or any other pair of opposites. It is Rinpoche's view that any of these pairs of opposites, are only opposites at a surface level whereas at a more subtle level they are united. Realizing and implementing this understanding in our everyday life would make a great difference to our way of experience of existence and thereby deal with our life, as expressed in the end of Rinpoche's Tendrel paper:
"Implementing the understanding of the integral nature of existence of these Four Pairs of Opposites - Unities, or even better, if we could embody the experience of these, many of our problems in life would decrease and instead give rise to a positive impact in terms of harmony and insight, which could carry us far beyond our present condition, both individually, inter-culturally, inter-nationally as well as in our connection with nature. And in order to integrate the oppositions and the unities for transcending the connected problems, insight into the Unity in Duality nature of reality by means of the three unities of body-mind, subject-object and energy-matter seems to be very beneficial".
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H.H. the Dalai Lama & Ven. Tarab Tulku
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