Chetsang Rinpoche Snow Lion Publications CommentVirupa: LadaIn Dzogchen, Mahamudra on February 2, 2009 at 5:23 pm Mahasiddha VirupaBy detaching itself from the dualityof observation and observer,the mind achieves self-liberationfrom division;By thus smashing the contrived practitioner,the mind frees itself from striving and seeking;By discarding the concern for the fruitof inner development, the meditatorunshackles himself from hope and fear;By eliminating the sense of the self or the I,the mind emerges victorious in its battleagainst inner adversaries;By dismantling the clinging to substance,the meditator will gain liberation fromboth samsara and nirvana. CommentGreat PerfectionIn Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Vajrayana on January 22, 2009 at 8:47 pm H.H. Dudjom RinpocheAll that appears is exalted Bodhisattva Great Compassions body;Resonant sounds are the six-syllable mantras wisdom speech;All recollection and thoughts are clear light, the exalted Bodhisattvas wisdom mind.Yet, these are not newly fashioned: Know that they exist self-manifest.Sustain this knowledge within the natural state and you will be liberated. CommentMahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free WakefulnessIn Dzogchen, Mahamudra on August 13, 2008 at 10:05 pm Chokyi Nyima RinpocheThe ability to dissolve thoughts is essential to attaining liberation, says renowned Dzogchen teacher Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. Devotion and Pure Perception are two principles that lie at the root of Vajrayana practice that lead beyond confusion to thought-free wakefulness.Meditation training, in the sense of sustaining the nature of mind, is a way of being free from clinging and the conceptual attitude of forming thoughts, and therefore free from the causes of samsara: karma and disturbing emotions. Please do not believe that liberation and samsara is somewhere over there: it is here, in oneself. Thought is samsara. Being free of thought is liberation. When we are free of thinking, we are free of thought. The problem is that the causes for further samsara are being created continuously. We spin through the six realms and undergo a lot of suffering. Compared to the other life forms in samsara, we human beings do not suffer that much. We dont experience the unbearable, overwhelming suffering that countless other beings do. But for some humans, their mental or physical pain may be unbearable. If we continue to allow our ordinary thinking to run wild, we cannot predict what is lined up for us in the future, where we will end up, in what shape or form. The bottom line is this: we need to know how to dissolve thoughts.Ego-clinging is simply a thought. Clinging to the notion of self is a thought. Clinging to the notion of other is also a thought. Clinging to duality is a thought. The concept of good is a thought, and the concept of evil is a thought. A neutral concept is also a thought. Whenever there is thought, it follows that there is clinging. The attitude of clinging follows the tracks of the three poisonspassion, aggression and ignorance. Since the formation of thought involves the three poisons, that means that thinking causes samsara, the endless suffering of cyclic existence. Whenever there is involvement in thought, our experience will be samsaric. Deluded thinking is the root of samsara.Deluded thinking forms karma and disturbing emotions. When there is