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Ground (Dzogchen)

Ground (Dzogchen)
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Overview

concept within Tibetan Buddhism

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  1. It was the practice for a time to paint on dark grounds. Tintoret probably introduced them. Titian's best pictures are not painted on a dark ground. The ground in question was red-brown, and when the subject was drawn upon it, the strongest shadows were laid in; the colours of the lights impasted very thickly in the bright parts, and scumbled towards the shadows, so that the dark ground appeared through the thin…

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe's Theory of Colours

    Names Ground several times; states what Ground is.

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  2. And to this extent the essence is not abstract reflection into self, but into an other. The Ground is the essence in its own inwardness; the essence is intrinsically a ground; and it is a ground only when it is a ground of somewhat, of an other. We must be careful, when we say that the ground is the unity of identity and difference, not to understand by this unity an abstract identity. Otherwise we only change the…

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel

    The chapter “A.--ESSENCE AS GROUND OF EXISTENCE.” is titled for Ground; names Ground several times.

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  3. For the perception is not yet expressed as the real perception of these grounds over which it rules; but the truth of consciousness simply is this very movement of pure perception. The true ground is, however, spirit, and the spirit of the people—a perception of the constitution of a people, and the connection of the individual with this real universal spirit. Laws, morals, the actual social life, thus have in…

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy

    Names Ground several times; states what Ground is.

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