Dzogchen Meditation
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Dzogchen is a specialized kind of meditation
There are several well known teachers of Dzogchen including Gangteng Rinpoche, Namkai Norbu, Tenzin Wangyal and Lama Surya Das. The Dalai Lama has also written a book on Dzogcehn.
The following quote gets at the heart of dzogchen meditation:
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Overview of the Five Warrior Syllables
"Our fundamental awake nature is not produced or created, but is already there. In the way the vast expanse of the sky is present but may be obscured by clouds, we too are obscured by habitual patterns that we mistake for ourselves. The practice of the Five Warrior syllables is a skillful means that can support us to release our negative and limiting behavioral patterns of body, speech, and mind, and make room for a more spontaneous, creative, and authentic expression. In this practice, we recognize, connect with, and trust what is already there. In a relative sense, we begin to practice loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity, qualities that bring great benefit experienced and expressed in our relationship with self and others. Ultimately, the practice brings us to the full recognition of our true self. In the teachings, the metaphor for this experience is a child, recognizing her mother in a crowd - an instant, deep recognition of connection, an experience of home. This is referred to as the natural mind, and that mind is pure. In the natural mind, all virtues are spontaneously perfected."
Dzogchen Meditation is Sometimes Referred to as Skygazing
Through this practice of natural meditative awareness, our innate wakefulness completely unfurls and reveals itself. We gradually release our small, narrow, egotistical, dualistic minds into the nondual, skylike, infinite Buddha mind, while meditating on the expansive, inclusive nature of rigpa: our natural wisdom-mind and innate wakefulness. In this practice, we merge the finite, thinking heart-mind with the absolute, unconditional infinity of essential Buddha nature.
The sky, which represents the element of expansive space, in this meditation practice is without shape or content. No one can say exactly where it begins or where it ends. It just is. This makes it an ideal subject or metaphor for Dzogchen meditation. SkyGazing meditation leads us into a way of being that is in perfect harmony, attunement, and oneness with nature, including everything and everyone around us-and with our own true nature, too. In SkyGazing meditation, we dissolve into the infinite by becoming one with the open sky.
There are three stages to SkyGazing meditation:
Arriving; Intensifying and Allowing.
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Lama Surya Das Teaching Dzogchen on DVD
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Dzogchen requires no rigid rules or Buddhist beliefs, yet it can awaken us to life immediately-as soon as we begin to practice it.
For centuries, these teachings were secret, unavailable outside the monasteries of Tibet. Yet it is said that Westerners are ripe for such teachings, and so, with Natural Meditation, you can learn dzogchen as it has been transmitted for centuries-in front of a trusted and gifted teacher.
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Quote from the Way-of-Light Yahoo Group on Dzogchen
"Indeed, in Dzogchen at the level of thogal, it is understood at the 4th level, all causes for mental, emotional and physical appearances within the vision of samsaric experience are completely dissolved or exhausted. All the bag-chags, klesha etc. have reverted to their essential nature as primordial light, the essence of the elements. Hence no causes or seeds remain that would trigger a rebirth into samsaric realms ever again. That is why the Body of Light occurs... the physical body has reverted into the essence of the elements as pure Light, which is the manifestation of the Sambhogakaya. This is slightly different at the realization of the level of trekchod. In this case all the seeds and causes have self-liberated but the physical body dissolves into a level of the subtle elements known as the atomic body which is not a complete dissolution into the essential pure Light of the Sambhogakaya. Yet the body disappears, much like the Taoist immortals. Both are just fine... the rest will dissolve in the bardo. However according to the Kalachakra Tantra, one must experience total dissolution of all mental, emotional and physical body constituents while one is incarnate or one must reincarnate into a physical body again to finish the job."This is a quote by Jax who runs a yahoo group called way-of-light.
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This book is an 8 week program on meditation for beginners where each week the book teaches you a different meditation technique. The program has you meditate for just 8 minutes a day every, which taught me to concentrate on my meditation more while building a habit of meditating every day. Although I have tried some Zen meditation in the past, the techniques I learned in this book gave me better tools to meditate. After completing the book I have been able to keep up with my meditation practice. If you would like to build a lasting meditation practice in your life, I highly recommend it.
Dzogchen by the Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama: ...it is quite difficult to have an experience of Dzogchen, but once you do have that experience, it can be extremely beneficial in dealing with your day to day life, your job, and your career. This is because that kind of experience will give you the ability to prevent yourself from being overwhelmed by circumstances, good or bad. You will not fall into extreme states of mind: you will not get over-excited or depressed. Your attitude toward circumstances and events will be as if you were someone observing the mind, without being drawn away by circumstances.
For example, when you see a reflection of a form in a mirror, the reflection appears within the mirror but it is not projected from within. In the same way, when you confront the situations of life, or deal with others, your attitude too will be mirror-like.
Also, when a reflection appears in the mirror, the mirror does not have to go after the object that is reflected: it simply reflects, spontaneously, on the surface. The same with you: since there is no attachment or agitation at having these 'reflections' in your mind, you will feel tremendous ease and relief. You are not preoccupied by what arises in the mind, nor does it cause you any distress. You are free from conceptuality or any form of objectifying. And so it really does help you, in allowing you to be free from being caught up in the play of emotions like hatred, attachment, and the like.
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TENZIN WANGYAL said: In the Dzogchen tradition, the very reason people are introduced to form practice is to introduce formless practice, the nature of mind. The master introduces you to yourself. In formless meditation, we abide without any judgment, without observer and observed, abiding in the boundless view. Spontaneous meditation and flexible action is what formless meditation really is. In the process of doing it, we experience emptiness, clarity and bliss. However, if we grasp for these, they do not work. You have to be aware but not grasp, which we call self-liberation.
Formless meditation is ultimately about self-liberating the observer. No one is grasping, because there is no observer to grasp. Everything is effortlessly self-liberated into space. This is the experience of emptiness, which in turn leads to fearlessness. With nothing there, there is nothing to fear. Yet there is also unceasing clarity: the flow of life never stops, experiences never stop. Everything is lively and fully there, without anybody doing anything.
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- Ligmincha, Charlottesville, VA
- Tenzin Wangyal offers dzogchen meditation retreats at Ligmincha in Virginia, and also at Chamma Ling in Crestone.
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- Dzogchen means the innate great completeness. It points to our own innate wholeness, our own true Buddha nature, our untrammelled spirit, perfect and pure from the beginningless beginning. It is what we call the Buddha within.
- Namkhai Norbu
- One of the current famous Rinpoches who offers dzogchen teachings is Namkhai Norbu.
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People suffering from serious illnesses improve their survival chances by adopting a positive attitude and refusing to believe in the worst. Stress is the great killer of modern life. Ancient Eastern mind-body techniques can bring us balance and healing. We've all heard claims like these, and many of us find them plausible. When it comes to disease and healing, we believe we must look beyond doctors and drugs; we must look within ourselves. Faith, relationships, and attitude matter.
But why do we believe such things? From psychoanalysis to the placebo effect to meditation, this vibrant history describes our commitments to mind-body healing as rooted in a patchwork of stories that have allowed people to make new sense of their suffering, express discontent with existing care, and rationalize new treatments and lifestyles. These stories are sometimes supported by science, sometimes quarrel with science, but are all ultimately about much more than just science.
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