Lama Surya Das.

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

 

'According to the Dzogchen tradition our practice aims for

simplicity. 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 -- not an oriental

Buddha, not an historical Buddha, not one of stone, not male or

female, but the Buddha nature within each of us, true and wise,

loving and compassionate. We want to come back to that, awaken it,

cultivate it -- that is what the path is about. We don't get it from

outside, from someone or somewhere else, or even from our own ideas

of what we are.

 

The Hevajra tantra says we are all Buddhas by nature but must,

through our own spiritual work, awaken to ourselves.'

 

This indicates to me that in the Dzogchen tradition, Sadhana is of

the essence of awakening. Purification of the

Buddhi........ONS..Tony.