It conditions all of our experience and in our habitual conditioning we no longer recognize rigpa. This is the automatic discursive storyline which is constantly running in our minds. Essentially the activity of habitual mind is to automatically and compulsively accept and reject whatever arises in the field of experience. The only thing that obstructs the recognition of rigpa is our habitual mind or 'ego'. The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes onto oneself." Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche The word Dzogchen in Tibetan means "The Great Perfection." The basic ground of our experience is and has always been a fundamentally pure and unstained awareness – a "time-transcending awareness." Through various skillful means and connection with an authentic lineage – a realized teacher – practitioners of Dzogchen come to recognize this basic awareness (rigpa) and train in stabilizing that recognition. The nature of things naturally appears and is naturally present in time-transcending awareness. What is Dzogchen? "Since all things are naked, clear and free from obscurations, there is nothing to attain or realize.
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