The practice of Dzogchen in everyday life
by Khyentse Rinpoche His Holiness Dilgo
The daily practice of Dzogchen is simply develop a complete carefree acceptance, an openness without limit in all situations.
We must realize openness as the playground of our emotions and connect us to people without artificiality, manipulation or strategy.
We should experience everything totally, never to withdraw into ourselves as a marmot hides in its hole. This practice releases tremendous energy which is usually constricted by the process of maintaining fixed reference points. The confinement is the process by which we subtract the direct experience of everyday life.
Being present in the moment may, initially, the trigger fear. But by welcoming the sensation of fear with complete openness, we cut through the barriers created by habitual emotional patterns.
When we engage in the practice discovery of space, we should develop the feeling we open ourselves fully to the entire universe. We should open ourselves with absolute simplicity and nakedness of spirit. It's powerful and ordinary practice of dropping the mask of self-protection.
We should not make a division in our meditation between perception and field of perception. We should not become like a cat watching a mouse. We should realize that the purpose of meditation is not to go "deeply into ourselves" or withdraw from the world. The practice should be free and non-conceptual, unconstrained by introspection and concentration.
Wide unborn space of wisdom is self-luminous base being - the beginning and end of confusion. The presence of consciousness into the primordial state has no bias toward enlightenment or non-enlightenment. This base is known to be as pure or original mind is the source from which all phenomena arise. It is known as a great mother, as the matrix of potentiality in which all things arise and dissolve in natural self-perfection and absolute spontaneity.
All aspects of phenomena are completely clear and free of obfuscation. The entire universe is open and unobstructed - everything interpenetrating.
Seeing all things as naked, clear and free from obscurations, there is nothing to attain or realize. The nature of phenomena appears naturally and is naturally present in the consciousness transcends time. Everything is naturally perfect just as it is. All phenomena appear in their uniqueness as part of the continually changing. These models are vibrant sense and meaning to every moment, yet there is no meaning to attach to such meaning beyond the moment they arise.
is the dance of the five elements in which the material is a symbol of energy and energy a symbol of emptiness. We are a symbol of our own enlightenment. Without any effort or practice, liberation or enlightenment is already here.
The daily practice of Dzogchen is just everyday life itself. Since the undeveloped state does not exist, there is no need to behave in a manner special or try to hit anything above and beyond what you really are. There should be no sense of effort to reach some "amazing goal" or an "advanced stage".
Try to get such a state is a neurosis which only conditions us and serves to obstruct the free flow of spirit. We should also avoid thinking of ourselves as worthless persons - we are naturally free and unconditioned. We are intrinsically enlightened and lack nothing.
By engaging in the practice of meditation, we feel it should be as normal as eating, breathing and defecating. This should not become a special event or formal inflated seriousness and solemnity. We should realize that meditation than exercise, practice, objectives, goals and the duality of liberation and non-release. Meditation is always ideal, and there is no need to correct anything. Since everything that arises is simply the mind game, as such there is no meditation insufficient and no need to judge thoughts as good or bad.
Therefore we should simply sit. Stay simple with your own place in your own condition just as it is. Forget about the feelings of self-awareness, we must not think "I meditate." Our practice should be without effort, without strain, without attempts to control or force and without trying to become "peaceful."
If we find that we disturb one of these ways, we stop meditating and simply remain at rest or we relax for a while. Then we resume our meditation. If we have "interesting experiences" either during or after meditation, we should avoid doing something special. Spend time thinking about experiences is simply a distraction and an attempt to make them become artificial. These experiences are simply signs of practice and should be regarded as transient events. We should not try to re-experience, because doing so only serves to distort the natural spontaneity mind.
All phenomena are completely new and fresh, absolutely unique and totally free of all concepts of past, present and future. They are experienced beyond time (Translator's note: in this case the concept is different from that of eternity).
The continual flow of new discovery , revelation and inspiration which arises at every moment is the manifestation of our clarity. We should learn to see everyday life as mandala - the luminous fringes of experience which radiate spontaneously from the empty nature of our being. Aspects of our mandala are the everyday objects of our life experience moving in a dance or game of the universe. By this symbolism the inner teacher indicates the profound significance and ultimate being. Therefore we should be natural and spontaneous, accepting and learning from everything. This allows us to see the irony and fun events that usually irritate us.
In meditation we can see through the illusion of past, present and future - our experience becomes the continuity of being here and now. The past is only a memory remains in the uncertain present. The future is only a projection of our current designs. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it. So why bother to try to establish a solid ground or illusion?
We should free ourselves from our past memories and our preconceptions about meditation. Each moment of meditation is completely unique and full of potential.
In such moments, we will be incapable of judging our meditation in terms of previous experience, theory or dry of empty rhetoric.
Simply plunge straight into meditation at the moment, now, with our whole being, free from hesitation, boredom or the excitation is enlightenment.
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