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

Luminous mind is the actual condition of everything,

The truth of Dzogchen is the legacy of being human.

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.

We do not need to brush off dignified and pretentious phrases from the history of Buddhist philosophy in order to describe the reality of being here and now. The alternative of course is to create a new language, a language of existential poetry.

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

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

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

This assumes that the Dzogchen mindset goes a long way to resolving the world's ecological, political and economic problems.

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