The experience of walking through the door is like opening a door to the outside and allowing the air outside to merge with the air inside.

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

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.

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,

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

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.

According to him, the first nine cantos are exposition of view; the tenth canto is on meditation; the eleventh on conduct; the twelfth on immediate results; and the thirteenth on final results.

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

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