...The particular method of Dzogchen is called the Path of
Self-Liberation, and to apply it nothing need be renounced, purified, or
transformed. Whatever arises as one's karmic vision is used as the
path. The great master Pha Tampa Sangye [South Indian Yogin of the 11
century (ed.)] once said: It is not the circumstances which arise as
one's karmic vision that condition a person into the dualistic state; it
is a person's own attachment that enables what arises to condition him.
If this attachment is to be cut through in the most rapid and effective
way, the mind's spontaneous capacity to self-liberate must be brought
into play. The term self-liberation should not, however, be taken as
implying that there is some 'self' or ego there to be liberated. It is a
fundamental assumption...at the Dzogchen level, that all phenomena are
void of self-nature. 'Self -Liberation', in the Dzogchen sense, means
that whatever manifests in the field of experience of the practitioner
is allowed to arise just as it is, without judgement of it as good or
bad, beautiful or ugly. And in that same moment, if there is no
clinging, or attachment, without effort, or even volition, whatever it
is that arises, whether as a thought or as a seemingly external event,
automatically liberates itself, by itself, and of itself. Practicing in
this way the seeds of the poison tree of dualistic vision never even get
a chance to sprout, much less to take root and grow.(p33)
So the practitioner lives his or her life in an ordinary way, without needing any rules other than one's own awareness, always remaining in the primordial state through integrating that state with whatever arises as part of experience -- with absolutely nothing to be seen outwardly to show that one is practicing. This is what is meant by self-liberation, this is what is meant by the name Dzogchen - which means Great Perfection - and this is what is meant by non-dual contemplation, or simply contemplation....
So the practitioner lives his or her life in an ordinary way, without needing any rules other than one's own awareness, always remaining in the primordial state through integrating that state with whatever arises as part of experience -- with absolutely nothing to be seen outwardly to show that one is practicing. This is what is meant by self-liberation, this is what is meant by the name Dzogchen - which means Great Perfection - and this is what is meant by non-dual contemplation, or simply contemplation....
~ Dzogchen teacher, Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche
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