Buddhist Philosophy, translated from Tibetan

This practice releases tremendous energy which is usually constricted by the process of maintaining fixed reference points.

We should free ourselves from our past memories and preconceptions of meditation.

It should not become a specialised or formal event, bloated with seriousness and solemnity.

We should experience everything totally, never withdrawing into ourselves as a marmot hides in its hole.

All phenomena appear in their uniqueness as part of the continually changing pattern.

We should realise that meditation transcends effort, practice, aims, goals and the duality of liberation and non-liberation.

We should not attempt to re-experience them because to do so only serves to distort the natural spontaneity of mind.

Practice should be free and non-conceptual, unconstrained by introspection and concentration.

We should learn to see everyday life as mandala — the luminous fringes of experience which radiate spontaneously from the empty nature of our being.

The presence of awareness in the primordial state has no bias toward enlightenment or non-enlightenment.

We are intrinsically enlightened and lack nothing.

This ground of being which is known as pure or original mind is the source from which all phenomena arise.

With no effort or practice whatsoever, liberation or enlightenment is already here.

This enables us to see the ironic and amusing side of events that usually irritate us.

There should be no feeling of striving to reach some “amazing goal” or “advanced state.”

Dzogchen Practice in Everyday Life
By HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

The everyday practice of dzogchen is simply to develop a complete carefree acceptance, an openness to all situations without limit.

These patterns are vibrant with meaning and significance at every moment; yet there is no significance to attach to such meanings beyond the moment in which they present themselves.

We should realise openness as the playground of our emotions and relate to people without artificiality, manipulation or strategy.

Vast unoriginated self-luminous wisdom space is the ground of being — the beginning and the end of confusion.

This is the dance of the five elements in which matter is a symbol of energy and energy a symbol of emptiness.

We should experience everything totally, never withdrawing into ourselves as a marmot hides in its hole.

The future is only a projection of our present conceptions.

In meditation we can see through the illusion of past, present and future — our experience becomes the continuity of nowness.

But by welcoming the sensation of fear with complete openness, we cut through the barriers created by habitual emotional patterns.