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Approaching the Great Perfection
By: Sam van Schaik
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Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, is the highest meditative practice of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Approaching the Great Perfection looks at a seminal figure of this lineage, Jigme Lingpa, an eighteenth-century scholar and meditation master whose cycle of teachings , the Longchen Nyingtig, has been handed down through generations as a complete path to enlightenment. Ten of Jigme Lingpa's texts are presented here, along with extensive analysis by van Schaik of a core within Buddhism: Does enlightenment develop gradually, or does it come all at once? Though these two positions are often portrayed by modern scholars as entrenched polemical views, van Schaik explains that both tendencies are present within each of the Tibetan Buddhist schools.
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Being Right Here, A Dzogchen Treasure Text of Nuden Dorje entilted: The Mirror of Clear Meaning
By: Nuden Dorje, James Low
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The treasure text of Nuden Dorje renders a very clear and authentic account of the view and essential meditation of dzogchen, the practice of nondual experience. The presentation is the Men ngag style, a personal instruction distilling the author's own realization in a manner both beautiful and deeply meaningful. Short verses show, with pithy clarity, how the various aspects of dzogchen fit together.
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Beyond Words: Dzogchen Made Simple
By: Lawless, Julia and Judith Allan
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An introductory book to Dzogchen, a form of Tibetan Buddhist Practice that is becoming hugely popular among Westerners. At the heart of the Dzogchen teachings is learning how to integrate meditation with your everyday life without the need for any kind of formal methods or rituals. By applying presence and awareness in all your daily activities, such as going to work, preparing a meal, or driving a car, life itself becomes primary means for spiritual development.
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Bonpo Dzogchen Teachings
By: Lopon Tenzin Namdak & John Myrdhin Reynolds (editor)
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Nowadays there are two principal philosophical traditions followed by Tibetan Lamas. The first is found among the Sarmapas, or Newer Schools, which employ the Prasangika Madhyamaka view of Chandrakirti, not only in explicating the real meaning of the Sutra system but also in their interpretation of the Tantras. The second is found among the two Older Schools, the Nyingmapa and the Bonpo, which emphasize the Dzogchen point of view in elucidating their understanding of the Higher Tantras. Among the Older Schools, Dzogchen, “the Great Perfection”, which lies beyond the process of Tantric transformation, is regarded as the quintessential teaching of the Buddha, pointing directly to the Nature of Mind and its intrinsic awareness, known as Rigpa.
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Buddhahood Without Meditation
By: Dudjom Lingpa
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Widely known by its subtitle, Nang-jang (Refining Apparent Phenomena), presents the view of the Great Perfection through the approach known as t'hreg-chhod (cutting through solidity). It is a direct transmission so powerful that just hearing it read aloud ensures that the listener will escape the suffering of cyclic existence. The nineteenth-century master Dudjom Lingpa received these teachings in visionary dialogue with fourteen inlightened beings, including Avalokiteshvara, Vajrapani, Longchenpa, and Saraha.
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Buddhism, The Spiritual Lineages of Dzogchen Masters
By: Karma Wangchuk
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This book "The Spiritual Lineage of Dzogchen Masters" is an reincarnate line of Lhacam , Padmasal as entrusted and initiated by Padmasambhava. Biographies of Lhaci Pemasal, Pema Ledreltsal, Longchenpa, Pema Lingpa, and Jigme Thinley Ozer.
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Crystal and the Way of Light
By: Namkhai Norbu, Chogyal
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Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen. Chogyal Namkhai Norbu examines the spiritual path from the
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Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light
By: Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
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In Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu gives instructions for developing clarity within the sleep and dream states. He goes beyond the practices of lucid dreaming that have been popularized in the West, by presenting methods for guiding dream states that are part of a broader system for enhancing self-awareness called Dzogchen. In this tradition, the development of lucidity in the dream state is understood in the context of generating greater awareness for the ultimate purpose of attaining liberation.
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Dzog Chen and Zen
By: Namkhai Norbu, Chogyal
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In this text from a lecture originally given in 1981, Norbu Rinpoche discusses the relationship between Zen Buddhism and the various forms of Buddhism that developed in Tibet. Both are direct, non-gradual approaches to Buddhist teaching that continue to be practiced in the West.
"The principle of the Dzog-chen teaching is the self-perfectedness, the already-being-perfect of every individual. Self-perfectedness means that the so-called objective is nothing else than the manifestation of the energy of the primordial state of the individual himself. An individual who practices Dzog-chen must possess clear knowledge of the principle of energy and what it means."
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Dzog Chen Meditation
By: Khamtrul Rinpoche
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The present book is an English translation of rdor sems thugs kyi sgrub pa'i khrid yig rab gsal snang wa. This is an explanation of the complete rdzogs chen meditation practice: being Lo chen Dharma - sri's guide through a Gter bdag gling pa treasure text, a text first taught by the second Buddha Padmasambhava to his inner circle of thirty extraordinary women with wisdom.
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Dzogchen - Innermost Essence Preliminary Practice
By: Jigme Lingpa
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As a preliminary practice (Tibetan:ngon-dro) it begins with sutra meditations on the value and potential of this human life, its frailty and the inevitability of death, the infallibility of karmic actions and their consequences, and the suffering of worldly existence. Following the recognition of these common truths it continues, leading the spiritual aspirant into refuge in the Three Supreme Jewels and, for a Mahayanist (whose selfless attitude is based on pure love and compassion), into activation of the awakening mind - bodhicitta. The work then unites these meditations with a series of practices exclusive to the tantric path - Vajrasattva purification, mandala offering, union with the spiritual master, the chod practice of cutting duality at its source and so forth.
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Dzogchen Essentials; The Path that Clarifies Confusion
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Dzogchen Essentials offers an exciting, diverse selection of material, both new and traditional, for study and practice in the Dzogchen tradition. These teachings are principally about clarifying confusion, the mistaken ways we normally relate to our perceptions of environment, body, and senses.
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Dzogchen Primer; Embracing the Spiritual Path According to the Great Perfection
By: Binder Schmidt, Marcia, editor
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Marcia Binder Schmidt has gathered here the most accessible, down-to-earth writings published on this subject in English and organized it as a study and practice guide for the serious beginner on the Dzogchen path.
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Dzogchen Teachings
By: Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
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This book is a kind of treasure trove of practical-often secret-material that every Buddhist practitioner would love to know. What really happens in initiation? How do you properly use mantras to empower practice? How can you tell when consciousness has emerged from a dying person in order to really help them? Simply not available in such concise, clear, direct terms elsewhere, this compilation of material focuses on the piercingly direct practices of Dzogchen, which encompass much of the range of Buddhist practice. Written by one of the top tier of widely respected and acknowledged masters of the tradition, sophisticated in Western psychology, this volume will be highly valued by a wide range of Buddhist practitioners.
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Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection
By: Dalai Lama
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Dzogchen has been called "the These teaching for our times." Who better to learn it from than the incarnate Buddha, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the perfect reincarnation of the Great Dzogchen Master, the Fifith Dalai Lama? Illuminates the profound theory and practice of Dzogchen. A treasure for scholars and practitioners alike. An unprecedented view into one of Buddhism's most profound systems of meditative practice.
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Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State
By: Chogyal Namkai Norbu Rinpoche
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As Chogyal Namkhai Norbu explains in this very readable book, our natural condition is self-perfected from the very beginning. What is necessary is that we re-awakwen and remain in our true nature.
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Eye of the Storm, Vairotsana’s Five Original Transmissions
By: Keith Dowman
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(Foreword by Bhakha Tulku Pema Rigdzin)
'The five texts translated from Tibetan into English in this book are
considered the first transmission of Dzogchen Ati to Tibet (Snga 'gyur
lnga). They constitute the root and essence of Dzogchen in Tibet -- basic,
raw Dzogchen precepts, appropriately styled 'radical Dzogchen'. This is the
special, extraordinary teaching of our Nyingma lineage. The great masters
have all attained realization through Dzogchen, contemporary masters all owe
their status to Dzogchen, and any attainment in the future will be based on
the precepts of Dzogchen Ati.'
From the blurb of James Low, author of Simply Being:
"Precise and poetic, authentic and elusive, these sweet translations bring
the warm breath of the tradition into our daily lives. This book is a major
contribution to the exciting spread of Dzogchen in modern times, providing
reliable versions of key texts in language which creatively challenges our
assumptions. This new work by Keith Dowman is thoughtful, ripe and poignant,
rich in the fruit of years of learning, working, experiencing and letting
go."
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Fearless Simplicity
By: Tsoknyi Rinpoche
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The Dzogchen Way of Living Freely in a Complex World
Fearless Simplicity is about training in the awakened state of mind, the atmosphere within which all difficulties naturally dissolve. Here, the gifted Tibetan meditation master and author of Carefree Dignity, Tsoknyi Rinpoche , in his exceptional and skillful teaching style, guides us through the methods to be at ease with our surroundings and ourselves. He shows us how to develop confidence and be in harmony with every situation as the basis for true compassion and intelligence.
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Flight of the Garuda, The Dzogchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
By: Dowman, Keith
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As the mystical teachings of Dzogchen are becoming more widely taught in the West, those who wish to gain further insight into these clear and powerful practices will find Flight of the Garuda to be essential.
The book conveys the heart advice of one of the most beloved masters of Tibet. The itinerant yogi Shabkar communicates the essence of the Dzogchen teachings through songs both poetic and poignant.
Along with Shabkar's songs, Keith Dowman has translated four other seminal Dzogchen texts, including one by Patrul Rinpoche that is new to this edition. Dzogchen practice brings us into direct communion with the most subtle nature of experience, the unity of samsara and nirvana as experienced within our own consciousness, bringing the meditator face to face with the nature of reality. Buddhists of all stripes, including practitioners of Zen and Vipassana, will find ample sustenance in these lyrical explications of the Dzogchen view.
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Four-themed Precious Garland
By: Longchen Rabjam
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An introduction to Dzogchen.
To realise the beginningless purity and perfection of all reality as an indivisible unity of Voidness and appearance is to realise Dzog-ch'en, the Great Completeness. The lineage of this Mahayana system of meditation traces from Shakyamuni Buddha and was taken from India to Tibet by such masters as Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava and Vimalamitra.
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From Reductionism to Creativity: Rdzogs-Chen and the New Sciences of Mind
By: Guenther, Herbert V.
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"Dr. Herbert V. Guenther, foremost scholar and translator of Buddhism, has long been most forthright in his insistence that, as a living tradition, Buddhism must be communicated in the living language of our time. Rather than entombing Buddhism in concepts appropriate for another era, he has offered us translations and commentaries that, while being strictly faithful to the meaning of the originals, have been framed in contemporary language. " Hayward
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Fundamental Mind: The Nyingma View of the Great Completeness
By:Mi-pam-gya-tso, comm. by Khetsun Sangpo Rinbochay, tr. & ed. by Jeffrey Hopkins
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The combination of topic, well-known authors, and accessible presentation of the material should make this an important book for practitioners. Khetsun Sangpo Rinbochay provides an illuminating, expansive, and practical commentary on Mi-pam-gya-tso's incisive work on the Great Completeness view of ultimate reality, called Three Cycles on Fundamental Mind.
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Golden Letters
By: Reynolds, John Myrdhin
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According to the Nyingmapa school of Tibetan Buddhism, the teachings of Dzogchen, "the Great Perfection," were first expounded by the Buddhist master Garab Dorje in the country of Uddiyana. This tradition of Buddhist teachings, which directly introduces the practitioner to the Nature of Mind, was then transmitted to India and later to Tibet. The essence of Garab Dorje's message is found in the "The Three Statements that Strike the Essential Points.
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Great Perfection: Outer and Inner Preliminaries
By: Third Dzogchen Rinpoche
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Great Perfection: Outer and Inner Preliminaries contains detailed instructions on the foundational practices of this tradition from the Excellent Chariot, a Great Perfection instruction manual compiled by the 3rd Dzogchen Rinpoche. This profound text is a commentary on the Heart Essence of the Dakinis, the Khandro Nyingtik, the most central collection of Great Perfection teachings in the Nyingma lineage. Distilling the teachings of the Heart Essence of the Dakinis into an accessible, easy-to-practice format, the Excellent Chariot leads the reader through the entire Buddhist path, starting with basic Buddhist contemplations that work to dislodge deeply ingrained patterns of thinking and behaving, and continuing on to the most advanced and secret meditative practices of the Great Perfection.
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Losing the Clouds, Gaining the Sky: Voices of Dzogchen Wisdom
By: Doris Wolter (editor)
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This collection of 31 essays by 21 teachers of Tibetan Buddhism, both Western teachers and Tibetan lamas, provides readers a multifaceted glimpse of the Buddhist practice within the Dzogchen tradition. Sogyal Rinpoche, author of the best-selling Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, contributed seven of the teachings here, but the collection also includes teachings from the Dalai Lama, Ringu Tulku, Francesca Freemantle, Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Dzogchen Pönlop Rinpoche, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, and many others. Three major sections cover Aspects of the Buddhist Path, Authentic Buddhism Today, and Bringing the Transcendent into Everyday Life.
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Mahamudra and Atiyoga
By: Giuseppe Baroetto
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Mahamudra and Atiyoga are particular forms of Buddhist spirituality: Mahamudra, the ‘Great Seal’, is considered by Tibetan teachers to be the essence of both the short path and the final instructions that conclude the gradual common and esoteric paths of Buddhist doctrines; Atiyoga or ‘Extreme Union’ represents the Buddhist Dzogchen or ‘Great Completeness’ doctrine. This volume comprises commentaries on and the transliteration of some ancient Tibetan texts, authored by Buddhist mystics and Tantric teachers of Mahamudra and Atiyoga. Translated from the Italian, the book is based on oral instructions received by the author from Tibetan teachers. It discusses the insights of the sacred texts and the commentaries on them with respect to the nature of consciousness and phenomenal existence, meditation on guru and deity, Tantric sexuality, and the introduction to and realization of non-dual awareness. Simple to understand, the commentaries explain the many meanings of the texts and the symbols and images used. They motivate readers to observe for themselves and personally experience the significance of the traditions and the application of their methods of practice. The volume will be useful to all students and scholars of Buddhist studies, particularly of the Buddhist Tantric tradition, and of Tibetan religion and culture.
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Matrix of Mystery: Scientific and Humanistic Aspects of rDzogs-Chen Thought
By: Herbert V. Guenther
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Utilizing a key root Buddhist scripture, the Guhyagarbha ("Matrix of Mystery"), along with dozens of commentarial Tibetan textual sources, Guenther presents the most profound teachings of the Buddhist tradition, which represent the culmination of religious thought and practice in Tibet. In relating these teachings in modern scientific and humanistic perspectives, he demonstrates how, in many cases, the traditional religious and modern secular perspectives on the nature of reality interface.
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Meditation Differently
By: Guenther
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Phenomenological-psychological Aspects of Tibetan Buddhism(Mahamudra and sNying-thig) Practices from Original Tibetan Sources
Despite the interest in meditation, few works have studied what “meditation” means within the original traditions. “Meditation Differently” presents a translation of an important Tibetan work which contrasts and compares two central traditions of Buddhist meditative practice- the Mahamudra and rDzogs-chen. particularly the sNying-thig version. This translation is supplemented by a detailed commentary based on original Tibetan sources by Dr. Guenther.
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Mind in Comfort and Ease: The Vision of Enlightenment in the Great Perfection
By: Dalai Lama
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Here, in a teaching of out standing completeness and clarity the Dalai Lama sets out the key principles of Buddhism, showing how the mind can be transformed, and suffering ovecome, through love, compassion, and a true understanding of the nature of reality. By illustrating his brilliant overview of the path with his own personal experiences and advice on how to integrate the practice, the Dalai Lama brings these teachings to life.
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Mipham's Beacon of Certainty; lluminating the View of Dzogchen The Great Perfection
By: Pettit, John W.
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Lama Mipham was a great Nyingma scholar of the nineteenth century who wrote a prodigious number of works on all subjects, including numerous brilliant commentaries on both sutra and tantra. His work translated here by John Whitney Pettit as the Beacon of Certainty is particularly famous and is one of the most beneficial for clearing away confusion and doubt regarding views, paths, and meditation.
It is my earnest hope that John Pettit's translation will bring great benefit to foreign students and scholars in the study of both philosophy and meditation practice.
This work is valuable indeed. I pray that all sentient beings may benefit from this text and ultimately attain enlightenment.
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Naked Awareness: Practical Instructions on the Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen
By: Karma Chagme
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In this classic 17th-century presentation of the union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen, Karma Chagme, one of the great patriarchs of both of these lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, begins with an overview of the spirit of awakening and the nature of actions and their ethical consequences. Then, drawing from his enormous erudition and profound experience, Karma Chagme gives exceptionally lucid instructions on the two phases of Dzogchen practice - the Breakthrough and the Leap-over - followed by an accessible introduction to the practice of the transference of consciousness at the time of death.
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Natural Great Perfection
By: Nyoshul Khenpo/Lama Surya Das
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Dzogchen Teachings and Vajra Songs
Natural Great Perfection is an inspiring collection of Nyoshul Khenpo's teachings, providing the deepest possible insight into the practice of the Dzogchen path. The teachings are followde by a collection of spontaneous vajra songs, composed in the tradition of Milarepa, as the delightful play of wisdom consciousness.
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Old Man Basking in the Sun; Longchenpa's Treasury of Natural Perfection
By: Keith Dowman
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Dzogchen is the apotheosis of Tibetan Buddhism and Longchenpa is the pre-eminent master of Dzogchen and one of Tibet's greatest mystical poets. The verses of his Treasury of Natural Perfection (Gnas lugs mdzod) written in the fourteenth century encompass and epitomize the radical precepts of Dzogchen while his auto-commentary elaborates their meaning through a concise prose paraphrase and with illustrative quotations from the Collection of Tantras of the Ancients (Rnying ma rgyud 'bum). Transcending the Tibetan context, Longchenpa delivers a manual of wisdom for all people at all times and shows why the western world has turned to Tibet for its mystical inspiration during the last half century. This transmission of timeless wisdom of the Ancients of Tibet should take its place amongst the world's religious classics. Through the precept 'nonaction' - which is savoured like 'an old man basking in the sun' - Dzogchen teaches the natural perfection of all our experience, and all our lives, just as it is, without need of any alteration. This discipline provides the key not only to our inner enlightenment but to the health and survival of our planet.
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Old Man Basking in the Sun; Longchenpa's Treasury of Natural Perfection
By: Keith Dowman
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