{"id":51271,"date":"2022-10-29T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzogchentoday.org\/?p=51271"},"modified":"2024-08-01T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:20:09","slug":"in-the-translators-workinghouse-the-forge-of-lexicon-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzogchentoday.org\/in-the-translators-workinghouse-the-forge-of-lexicon-1\/","title":{"rendered":"In the translator\u2019s workinghouse: the forge of lexicon 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||3px|||&#8221;][et_pb_column _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_post_title _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; 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Let&#8217;s open the doors of our workinghouse-mind: in Tibetan there are <em>rig pa<\/em>, <em>gnas lugs<\/em>, <em>sems nyid<\/em>, and <em>ye shes<\/em>, all of which refer to this unconditioned state, but from different angles.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; specialty=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;4px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text module_id=&#8221;back-patrul&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_3_text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; header_3_text_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; header_4_text_color=&#8221;rgba(255,255,255,0.73)&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#121516&#8243; 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_builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px||true&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>Funny little beasts<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Let&#8217;s review these funny little beasts that are these words so small that try to name an absolute too big for them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>rig pa<\/em> (say \u201crikpa\u201d) can be translated as &#8220;primordial knowledge&#8221;; <em>rig<\/em>, in fact, carries with it the idea of primary science, of intrinsic cognition; <em>pa<\/em> is there only to create a noun, to make the second leg of the word-animal;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>gnas lugs (\u201dneluk\u201d)<\/em> is composed of two important terms: <em>lugs<\/em> means here &#8220;the way, the manner, the state&#8221;; while <em>gnas<\/em> is a verb which means &#8220;to reside, to remain, to be there&#8221;: one could thus translate &#8220;the way things remain&#8221;, or just as well, &#8220;the state of being there&#8221;; but then one loses a little the idea of a state which is &#8220;as it is&#8221;; from then on, one can make one&#8217;s choice on the adjective &#8220;natural&#8221;, which gives &#8220;natural state&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>sems nyid (\u201dsemnyi\u201d)<\/em> is even more interesting to translate and imposes a radical choice: <em>sems<\/em> means mind, in the sense of the mind in its most normal and ordinary sense, the thinking mind; <em>nyid<\/em> is a suffix that we put in Tibetan at the end of words to create a concept, it is the English &#8220;-ness\u201d; here we are quite embarrassed, because in English when we put end to end &#8220;mind&#8221; and &#8220;-ness&#8221;, it gives us &#8220;mindness&#8221; which is not an existing word; we could choose &#8220;spirituality&#8221;, but this word abounds in various meanings and in a general way, designates more systems of thoughts and practices than an unconditioned state; still embarrassed, we try various neologisms: after all in French we have other suffixes such as: &#8220;-ment, -age&#8221;, which gives rise to a whole zoo of unusable lexical bugs: &#8220;mindment; mindage&#8221;. One would be covered with ridicule to express these findings in public&#8230; How to make this &#8220;-ness\u201d of the mind&#8221;, this fundamental, first meaning? This is where the solution comes: &#8220;nature of the mind&#8221;! That is to say the naked, direct and clear aspect of the ordinary mind.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-token-index=\"0\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\" data-reactroot=\"\">ye shes<\/span><span> (\u201dyeshey\u201d) In some contexts, it is translated as wisdom, but here we would like to insist on the aspect of direct experience, without intellectual mediation, of an ultimate and fundamental absolute which goes far beyond our ordinary and limited conception of wisdom-beyond-white; another glue: <\/span><span data-token-index=\"2\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\" data-reactroot=\"\">ye shes<\/span><span> can also be translated as &#8220;primordial (<\/span><span data-token-index=\"4\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\" data-reactroot=\"\">ye<\/span><span>) knowledge (<\/span><span data-token-index=\"6\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\" data-reactroot=\"\">shes<\/span><span>)&#8221;, a solution we had already chosen for <\/span><span data-token-index=\"8\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\" data-reactroot=\"\">rig pa<\/span><span>. Ah the choices! Are we stuck with a lack of vocabulary ???!!!!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span>Let&#8217;s go back, we have to translate<\/span><span data-token-index=\"1\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\" data-reactroot=\"\"> rig pa <\/span><span>again.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our choices are only provisional and as Philippe Cornu would say, translations are never definitive.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>rig pa&#8230; rig pa<\/em>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>rig<\/em> designates a direct, inherent and intrinsic knowledge of the mind, in a naked act devoid of any obscuration: it is a naked science because without ambivalence, without precaution, a fearless knowledge of what is, the presence of the ultimate of all things, in all phenomena; it is the prime, primeval, obvie knowledge of a state-base-and-source, of this state-which-is-not-a-state, it is a limpid evidence that imposes itself to the dzogchen practitioner\u2019s gaze&#8230;evidence? Eureka ! Would we translate <em>rig pa<\/em> by primordial evidence ?! That can work&#8230; until the next time!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So here we are with : &#8220;primordial evidence, natural state, nature of mind, primordial knowledge&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Are these translations good? Are these words only beasts from the zoo of our mind and did they come to light only to distract us? 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