Spaciousness: The Radical Dzogchen of the Vajra-Heart: Longchenpa's Treasury of the Dharmadhatu

because these four affections are the natural response to the suffering of beings that arise in its spontaneous awareness. Our own happiness manifests as these boundless qualities of bodhi-mind. “Compassion” is the six perfections of wisdom: generosity, morality, patience, perseverance, concentration and meditation. The nature of mind, bodhi-mind,

“Compassion” in Dzogchen implies the four boundless states of mind: loving kindness, sympathetic joy, compassionate response and equanimity,

While having the eyes open and looking, it is the experience of suddenly seeing. While dreaming, it is the sudden recognition that we are dreaming. So long as these exercises and concepts are considered functions of nonaction and thus doorways into the nondual, we remain in the realm of radical Dzogchen.

In Dzogchen, all buddhafields and pure-lands are the same, but in Vajrayana the buddhafields are characterized by the different buddhas that populate them. Adi-buddha such as Kuntuzangpo, buddha-deities such as Vajra Kilaya, or nirmanakaya buddha such as Padma Sambhava, may dominate, and any of these buddhafields will probably show a threefold repr

The nature of all samsara and nirvana is this luminous mind, Unmanifest, unproduced, indeterminate spontaneity,

The truth of Dzogchen is the legacy of being human.

Luminous mind is the actual condition of everything,

Perhaps the paradox of an endless stream of timeless slices of experience is the best way to express the nullification of space-time.

The crux is the place where dualities are resolved, where mind is never distracted or drawn out; it has no motivation and remains in its natural disposition, transcending all goal-orientation. At that place lies the crucial recognition of intrinsic spaciousness itself; resting therein, whatever arises naturally subsides, vanishing, released just as