View and Meditation of the Great Perfection
from Dzogchen Master
Jamgon
Kontrul Rinpoche
Homage to the Guru, the teacher.
The View and Meditation of
Dzogchen can be explained in many, many ways, but simply sustaining the
essence of present awareness includes them all.
Your mind won't be found elsewhere.
It is the very nature of this moment-to-moment thinking.
Regard nakedly the essence of this thinking and you find present
awareness, right where you are.
Why chase after thoughts, which
are superficial ripples of present awareness?
Rather look directly into the naked, empty nature of thoughts; then
there is no duality, no observer, and nothing observed.
Simply rest in this transparent, nondual present awareness.
Make yourself at home in the natural state of pure presence, just being,
not doing anything in particular.
Present awareness is empty,
open, and luminous; not a concrete substance, yet not nothing.
Empty, yet it is perfectly cognizant, lucid, aware.
As if magically, not by causing it to be aware, but innately aware,
awareness continuously functions.
These two sides of present awareness or Rigpa-its emptiness and its
cognizance (lucidity)-are inseparable.
Emptiness and luminosity (knowing) are inseparable.
They are formless, as if nothing whatsoever, ungraspable, unborn,
undying; yet spacious, vivid, buoyant.
Nothing whatsoever, yet Emaho!, everything is magically experienced.
Simply recognize this.
Look into the magical mirror of mind and appreciate this infinite
magical display.
With constant, vigilant
mindfulness, sustain this recognition of empty, open, brilliant
awareness.
Cultivate nothing else.
There is nothing else to do, or to undo.
Let it remain naturally.
Don't spoil it by manipulating, by controlling, by tampering with it,
and worrying about whether you are right or wrong, or having a good
meditation or a bad meditation.
Leave it as it is, and rest your weary heart and mind.
The ultimate luminosity of
Dharmakaya, absolute truth, is nothing other than the very nature of
this uncontrived, ordinary mind.
Don't look elsewhere for the Buddha.
It is nothing other than the nature of this present awareness.
This is the Buddha within.
There are innumerable Dharma
teachings.
There are many antidotes to many different kinds of spiritual diseases.
There are many words in the Mahamudra and Dzogchen nondual teachings.
But the root, the heart of all practices is included here, in simply
sustaining the luminous nature of this present awareness.
If you search elsewhere for something better, a Buddha superior to this
present awareness, you are deluding yourself.
You are chained, entangled in the barbed wire of hope and fear.
So give it up! Simply sustain present wakefulness, moment after moment.
Devotion, compassion, and perfecting virtue and wisdom are the most
important supportive methods for completely fulfilling this naked,
nondual teaching about present awareness, the innate Dharmakaya.
So always devote yourself to spiritual practice for the benefit of
others and apply yourself in body, speech, and mind to what is wholesome
and virtuous.
Sarva mangalam.
May all beings be happy!
Source:
Dzogchen.org (Lama Surya Das)