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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.
We should realise openness as the playground of our emotions and relate to people without artificiality, manipulation or strategy.
We should experience everything totally, never withdrawing into ourselves as a marmot hides in its hole. This practice releases
tremendous energy which is usually constricted by the process of maintaining fixed reference points. Referentiality is the process by
which we retreat from the direct experience of everyday life.
Being present in the moment may initially trigger fear. But by welcoming the sensation of fear with complete openness, we cut through
the barriers created by habitual emotional patterns.
When we engage in the practice of discovering space, we should develop the feeling of opening ourselves out completely to the entire universe. We should open ourselves with absolute simplicity and nakedness of mind. This is the powerful and ordinary practice of dropping the mask of self-protection.
We shouldn't make a division in our meditation between perception and field of perception. We shouldn't become like a cat watching a mouse. We should realise that the purpose of meditation is not to go "deeply into ourselves" or withdraw from the world. Practice should be free and non-conceptual, unconstrained by introspection and concentration.
Vast unoriginated self-luminous wisdom space is the ground of being - the beginning and the end of confusion. The presence of awareness in the primordial state has no bias toward enlightenment or non-enlightenment. This ground of being which is known as pure or original mind is the source from which all phenomena arise. It is known as the great mother, as the womb of potentiality in which all things arise and dissolve in natural self-perfectedness and absolute spontaneity.
All aspects of phenomena are completely clear and lucid. The whole universe is open and unobstructed - everything is mutually interpenetrating.
Seeing all things as naked, clear and free from obscurations, there is nothing to attain or realise. The nature of phenomena appears naturally and is naturally present in time-transcending awareness. Everything is naturally perfect just as it is. All phenomena appear in their uniqueness as part of the continually changing pattern. 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.
This is the dance of the five elements in which matter is a symbol of energy and energy a symbol of emptiness. We are a symbol of our own enlightenment. With no effort or practice whatsoever, liberation or enlightenment is already here.
The everyday practice of dzogchen is just everyday life itself. Since the undeveloped state does not exist, there is no need to behave in any special way or attempt to attain anything above and beyond what you actually are. There should be no feeling of striving to reach some "amazing goal" or "advanced state."
To strive for such a state is a neurosis which only conditions us and serves to obstruct the free flow of Mind. We should also avoid thinking of ourselves as worthless persons - we are naturally free and unconditioned. We are intrinsically enlightened and lack nothing.
When engaging in meditation practice, we should feel it to be as natural as eating, breathing and defecating. It should not become a specialised or formal event, bloated with seriousness and solemnity. We should realise that meditation transcends effort, practice, aims, goals and the duality of liberation and non-liberation. Meditation is always ideal; there is no need to correct anything. Since everything that arises is simply the play of mind as such, there is no unsatisfactory meditation and no need to judge thoughts as good or bad.
Therefore we should simply sit. Simply stay in your own place, in your own condition just as it is. Forgetting self-conscious feelings, we do not have to think "I am meditating." Our practice should be without effort, without strain, without attempts to control or force and without trying to become "peaceful."
If we find that we are disturbing ourselves in any of these ways, we stop meditating and simply rest or relax for a while. Then we resume
our meditation. If we have "interesting experiences" either during or after meditation, we should avoid making anything special of them. To spend time thinking about experiences is simply a distraction and an attempt to become unnatural. These experiences are simply signs of practice and should be regarded as transient events. We should not attempt to re-experience them because to do so only serves to distort the natural spontaneity of mind.
All phenomena are completely new and fresh, absolutely unique and entirely free from all concepts of past, present and future. They are
experienced in timelessness.
The continual stream of new discovery, revelation and inspiration which arises at every moment is the manifestation of our clarity. 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 aspects of our mandala are the day-to-day objects of our life experience moving in the dance or play of the universe. By this symbolism the inner teacher reveals the profound and ultimate significance of being. Therefore we should be natural and spontaneous, accepting and learning from everything. This enables us to see the ironic and amusing side of events that usually irritate us.
In meditation we can see through the illusion of past, present and future - our experience becomes the continuity of nowness. The past is
only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as
soon as we try to grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground?
We should free ourselves from our past memories and preconceptions of meditation. Each moment of meditation is completely unique and full of potentiality. In such moments, we will be incapable of judging our meditation in terms of past experience, dry theory or hollow rhetoric.
Simply plunging directly into meditation in the moment now, with our whole being, free from hesitation, boredom or excitement, is enlightenment.
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QUOTEDall'altra parte, la consapevolezza intrinseca (per chi ne abbia esperienza) può associarsi a qualsiasi altra pratica di meditazione: sul respiro, sulla creazione dello Yidam, sulla recitazione del mantra e così via. Può associarsi anche a qualsiasi attività "ordinaria"...
Si chiama integrare il Treckchod nella vita di tutti i giorni.Ma è una pratica piuttosto avanzata.
Vediamo di fare chiarezza.Nell'uPadesha
All'inizio ci sono i Semdzin attraverso i quali riconosciamo lo Stato naturale.
Poi ci sono i quattro choshag che nelle tradizioni Bonpo e Nyngamapa si praticano con la pratica delle tre immobilità e con le prime pratiche legate allo Spazio.Poi subito dopo le pratiche del Thodgal che servano ad aprire il canale kati e a stabilizzare il treckchod.
Di fatto anche le tre immobilità che servono a praticare i quattro Choshag sono una forma di Thodgal ma di solito si tende a distinguere le due pratiche.
Dopo vi è un ulteriorie introduzione la famosa introduzione mente a mente .
Dopo si cerca d'integrare lo Stato trovato con le azioni della vita quotidiana .
Prima con le pratiche positive.QUindi associando lo stato naturale con la pratica dello Yidam la recitazione di Mantra e prostrazioni.
Poi con atti neutri e poi se veramente si è nello Stato provare con le azioni negative( di fatto sono pochi a provarci).
QUando si arriva ad integrare con le azioni della vita quotidiana si è raggiunto un alto livello di realizzazione. Solo grandi maestri come Chantral Rinpoche o Lopon Rinpoche viene riconosciuta una tale realizzazione.
Perchè si tratta di qualcosa di veramente difficle da ottenere.
Le spiegazioni di Dilgo si situano a livello del principiante e non viene neanche fatto alcun riferimento specifico alla pratica dei quattro Choshag che vanno praticati in un ritiro specifico.
Si spiega al principiante come estendere questa consapevolezza senza l'ausilio di qualche particolare metodo.
Urgyan RInpoche e altri Maestri come namkhai Norbu RInpoche danno dei consigli molto semplici .Ma siamo molto lontani dalla pratica delle tre immobilità che sono pratiche molto segrete e che vanno praticate in stretto ritiro .Quindi siamo molto lontani dal portare la consapevolezza nella vita di tutti i giorni .
Comunque ne Nyngmapa come nei Bonpo lo Dzogchen viene assunto come punto di vista nei Tantra . Ma nei Tantra lo stato naturale non viene visto come bastante a se stesso e quindi si sente il bisogno di aggiungere qualcosa .Pertanto lo si abbina a pratiche quali lo Yidam.
Come vedete sia a livelli di Tantra (sempre rimanendo nella tradizione antica) di Dzogchen allo Stato naturale vengono abbinate pratiche diverse ma anche con prospettive diverse.
Perciò dico fate attenzione prima di dire saltare a qualche attenzione
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Oddio.. .com'è che le cose più interessanti capitano sempre mentre dormo? 
Comunque, buon giorno a Italo (che ringrazio per la visita), buon giorno a DorjePizza, buon giorno a tutti! ^__^. -
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CITAZIONE (AuspiciousMerit @ 4/7/2008, 11:21)Oddio.. .com'è che le cose più interessanti capitano sempre mentre dormo?
Comunque, buon giorno a Italo (che ringrazio per la visita), buon giorno a DorjePizza, buon giorno a tutti! ^__^
beh, se ti svegli a quest'ora... che t'aspetti?
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CITAZIONE (AuspiciousMerit @ 4/7/2008, 11:21)Oddio.. .com'è che le cose più interessanti capitano sempre mentre dormo?
Comunque, buon giorno a Italo (che ringrazio per la visita), buon giorno a DorjePizza, buon giorno a tutti! ^__^ anche a me succede
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Ciao a tutti, scusate una domanda, forse banale, ma devo capire.
Cosa si intende per mandala ovvero una dimensione pura? Riferito alla nostra, da parte di un essere illuminato. Cioè, la vedono come noi, ma con la consapevolezza che è pura dall'origine perchè tutti i fenomeni essendo originati dalla base, sono per forza puri? Chiaritemi questo aspetto, grazie.
dzogchen, istruzioni essenziali sulla Grande Perfezionevediamo che ne pensate... |