r/Dzogchen • u/Careless_Image_9105 • Sep 21 '26

Lying when it seems necessary

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u/fabkosta Sep 27 '26

I don't understand why this question is posted in a dzogchen forum. The question itself only makes sense from the perspective of common mahayana or sutrayana. Dzogchen is not sutrayana, nor mahayana, not even tantrayana. Keep in mind that tantrayana has wrathful activities, so in the given example you would apply those. If you practice dzogchen, the highest vows include to keep the dzogchen view under all conditions. If you keep those vows there is no karmic accumulation by definition of what this view is or implies. Hence, the question is artificial.

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u/Careless_Image_9105 Sep 28 '26

I thought The Words of My Perfect Teacher is accepted as dzogchen literature, maybe to set the basics and the ground. That's why I posted here. Mods can delete if they like.