Ground luminosity

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Ground luminosity (Tib. གཞིའི་འོད་གསལ་, Wyl. gzhi'i 'od gsal) —

Sogyal Rinpoche writes:

In Dzogchen the fundamental, inherent nature of everything is called the "Ground Luminosity" or the "Mother Luminosity." This pervades our whole experience, and is therefore the inherent nature of the thoughts and emotions that arise in our minds as well, although we do not recognize it.[...]

What happens at the moment of death, for everyone, is this: The Ground Luminosity dawns in vast splendor, and with it brings an opportunity for total liberation—if, and only if, you have learned how to recognize it.^[1]

dngos - 1) reality, real, actual, incarnate, genuine, explicit, direct, concrete, to exist actually to have real existence, proper, fully, concreteness, manifest, ture, in person, reality, embodiment, concreteness, embodiment.

2) abbr. {dngos po}

3) ground luminosity, substance, thing.

4) has himself // true; the main; actuality; actual expression/ presence; actual, real [RY]

dngos - real[ity], [real] existence (existent)/thing, matter, material, (objective entity, substance, substantiality, property, goods, given thing, perceivable entity serving as a base for cognition/ imputation, substance, substantial entity, functional/ effective thing, that which is able to perform a function, subject, category, that which corresponds to the meaning of a word, fact, phenomena, activity, being, essence, article (in a household, (conditioned entity, {yod pa}, {ngo bo}, nature, {dgongs pa}, meaning, solidity, impermanent thing, objects, Bhava, (8th year, male wood dog, topic, exist[ent], ground luminosity, actual[ity], incarnate, genuine, explicit, direct, proper, full, concrete[ness], manifest, the main [aspect], embodiment;