By Ken Wilber
In the previous causal level, you are so absorbed in the unmanifest dimension that you might not even notice the manifest world. You are discovering Emptiness, and so you ignore Form. But at the ultimate or nondual level, you integrate...
]]>Dudjom Rinpoche
That moment is like taking a hood off your head. What boundless spaciousness and relief! This is the supreme seeing: seeing what was not seen before.” When you “see what was not seen before,” everything opens, expands, and b...
]]>By Patrul Rinpoche
The practitioner of self-liberation is like an ordinary person as far as the way in which the thoughts of pleasure and pain, hope and fear, manifest themselves as creative energy. However, the ordinary person, taking these really ...
]]>Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
All thoughts in being dharmakaya are free.
The nature of thoughts is luminous clarity, which is the true nature of mind-beyond fabrication, transcending all conceptual descriptions. Luminous clarity is the dharmaka...
]]>Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
The real buddha is the nature of our mind. Right now, our buddha nature is covered by obscurations that we need to purify. We also need to gather the two accumulations of merit and wisdom. A practice in which we think that the ...
]]>By Dzogchen Master The First Jamgon Kontrul Rinpoche Homage to the Guru, the teacher. The View and Meditation of Dzogchen can be explained in many, many ways, but simply sustaining the essence of present awareness includes them all. Your mind won’t be found elsewhere. It is the very nature of this moment-to-moment thinking. Regard nakedly […]
]]>Padmasambava
And in the present moment, when (your mind) remains in its own condition without constructing anything, awareness, at that moment, in itself is quite ordinary. And when you look into yourself in this way nakedly (without any discursive ...
]]>When we observe our own minds, we notice that an infinite number of thoughts follow each other in continuous succession. If we give our full attention to each thought in turn, observing the first thought, the second thought, and so on, each one disappears of itself, and what we always find is emptiness, nothing concrete. The original texts of Dzogchen affirm in this regard that "finding nothing
]]>Patrul Rinpoche
The famous nineteenth-century dzogchen master Paltrul Rinpoche explained self-liberation concretely and precisely:
"The practitioner of self-liberation is like an ordinary person as far as the way in which the thoughts of pleasure and pain, hope and fear, manifest themselves as creative energy. However, the ordinary person, taking these really seriously and judging them as
]]>Sogyal Rinpoche
Just as the ocean has waves, and the sun has rays, so the mind’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. The ocean has waves, yet the ocean is not particularly disturbed by them. The waves are the very nature of the ocean. Waves...
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