The Mind of Clear Light
If you close your eyes in a bright room or outside, notice the colors that you see on the inside of your eyelids. Most see an orangey like color. Notice this color.
Keeping eyes closed, now notice what "it" is that is noticing the colors.
There is an "awake awareness" in which the orange color is appearing. What is this "awake awareness"?
Now cover your eyes and notice the darkness. Is the "awake awareness" the same as when seeing the orange color? Notice how the "awake awareness" is a constant while the appearances are always changing.
That "awake awareness" is the "Mind of Clear Light".
It's easy to notice the "awake awareness" with various sensory perceptions, during the occurrence of the perceptions.
But now, with eyes closed, let yourself daydream a bit and notice if the "awake awareness" is as notable as while seeing the colors with closed eyes. It can be discovered that it is much more of an either/or; either you fully experience the day dream or you notice the "awake awareness", but not both at the same time.
That's because day dreaming, night dreaming, thinking and conceptualizing all diminish the vivid "awake presence" of awareness. The awareness is always present but it's self-knowing vividness isn't. The energetic vividness becomes invested into the mental fabrications.
This is why we get "lost" sometimes in our day dreaming. It's even more true while dreaming at night. Our consciousness within the dream has lost all its clarity as regarding who or what it's actual condition is. The heavier or more dense the mental fabrication whether as thinking, day dreaming or night dreaming; the less "awake awareness" is oriented to its true condition.
Samsara is day dreaming. Upon a moment of consciousness "waking up" from all thinking and day dreaming, the wisdom and awake qualities of the Mind of Clear Light become self-illuminating spontaneously.
The Mind of Clear Light is our Buddha Mind. It's the empty, aware space that hosts all its energetic expressions. While in a physical embodiment, it's provisionally localized behind the forehead and slightly above the eyes.
All experience occurs in that empty aware space, like holograms appearing in an empty mirror. The quality of knowing awareness belongs only to the empty mirror, never to the appearances.
We never see the "outer world" as out there, although it seems so, but we only experience the mind's sensory perceptions and "objects" within our inner space; the Mind of Clear Light.
From experience, it seems the Mind of Clear Light has the capacity to invest its cognitive energy into day dreaming, night dreaming, thinking; or not.
Otherwise no exit from samsara could be possible; the looping of self-centered day dreaming would go on endlessly.
The continuity of the samsaric trance occurs much like a flow of electricity in a car battery. The positive pole of the battery is the arising of a subjective self which due it's being a fixed element in mind, draws energy from the negative pole of stored samsaric traces, conditioning and memory, continuously.
Without the terminal or pole of a subjective self, the flow of samsaric mentation ceases immediately. All of this is occurring within the Mind of Clear Light, behind the eyes and forehead.
You and a Buddha have the identical Mind of Clear Light. In your case your mind is beclouded by daydreaming and thinking; a Buddha is not daydreaming or thinking, hence the Buddha's totally clear, cognitive capacity is imbued with intrinsic wisdom, uncaused joy, telepathy and clairvoyance.

"When one realizes that this process of analysis does not lead anywhere, discovers for oneself that this analytical process has no end and has no meaning, then perhaps one will have a mind that begins totally to be aware of the whole problem." ~J. Krishnamurt

The moment the mind deeply recognizes that ALL thoughts without exception are fiction, the mind collapses into stillness.

There is no other "liberation" than the liberation from thought's stories.

The idea of being an individual person is just a fictional thought.

The idea of there being other individual persons is just a fictional thought.

The idea of there being an independent, objective universe is just a fictional thought.

The idea that there is a god or Self is just a fictional thought.

The idea there is only emptiness is just a fictional thought.

The idea that something is not perfect is just a fictional thought.

The idea that you need to survive is just a fictional thought.

The idea that there is some kind of enlightenment to attain is just a fictional thought.

The idea that something is important is just a fictional thought.

It's not about stopping thinking, but rather it's about seeing that thinking is the mind day-dreaming about its own fictions.

Recognition of the Tenga Tulku, Bodhgaya, March 21, 2017
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Quantum Physics and Prasangika Buddhist View
"From the 'I' and the aggregates of body/mind, down to the atomic particles, everything is labeled on another label. Something is imputed to one base, which is labeled on another base, and that base is labeled on another base. Everything exists being labeled. Everything is a label, starting with our aggregates of body/mind. So, from the I and the aggregates of body/mind down to the atomic particles, everything is completely empty of existing from its own side. The concrete things that appear to us are hallucinations."
Lama Zopa
Quantum Physics professor at Oxford, England, Vlatko Vedral:
"But Buddhism tells us that we should not confuse the label with the object. More importantly, just because we have a label for something, it does not mean that this something is real. Quantum physics is indeed very much in agreement with Buddhistic emptiness."
"Discovering a particle means observing certain effects which are accepted as proof of its existence.’ Eddington claims here that a particle is just a set of labels that we use to describe outcomes of our measurements. And that’s it. It all boils down to a relation between our measurements and our labels!"
Richard Conn Henry, Professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins:
"There is another benefit of seeing the world as quantum mechanical: someone who has learned to accept that nothing exists but observations (descriptions) is far ahead of peers who stumble through physics hoping to find out ‘what things are’. "
"In place of “underlying stuff ” there have been serious attempts to preserve a material world — but they produce no new physics, and serve only to preserve an illusion."
As Sir Arthur Eddington explained: “It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character.”
Liberation in Buddhism is based on the realization of twofold emptiness;
that's the whole essence of liberation.
Emptiness is like seeing all factors of mind, awareness and energy are empty like clouds with no solid center and with no static duration. There is fundamentally nothing happening, but what "isn't happening" is vividly apparent as though happening, like a dream at night.
The first fold of emptiness insight is seeing there is no self, soul, mind or personal identity except what is fictionally believed; much like who you convincingly "seem" to be in a dream at night.
The second emptiness insight is seeing that everything that appears as objectively real, acquires its illusory status of existence purely from thoughts that say so. All phenomena "exist" only by virtue of their conceptual descriptions.
Seeing and directly knowing the empty, yet vivid nature of ALL subjective and objective phenomena, is what Nirvana is.
This isn't a gradual result, rather it's an "all at once" insight that sees the generic nature of ALL phenomena to be empty, without exception. It's the sudden, all-inclusive, all-pervasive nature of the emptiness insight that springs open the

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"I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no body of information which will lead your mind back to the Tao. Today I speak in this fashion, tomorrow in another, but always the Integral Way is beyond words and beyond mind. Simply be aware of the oneness of things." ~Lao Tzu

"Zazen" practice gives solid experience of Dzogchen Rigpa. There is no more stronger practice for it. I can only recommend it is very strong meditation practice and the original practice of historical Buddha, Tathagata himself.

Zazen is indeed like a light of Sun, Buddhas zazen is infinite.

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Zazen can be learned conveniently in the SoTo Zen centres, or some good instructory videos and books. it is padma-asana with dhayani mudra (dhyana=zen, also Dhyanic Buddhas) and WITH backed ass ! :)

Zazen a Dzogchen

Is there any "practice" that enhances what is pointed out in Dzogchen, Mahamudra or Zen, that is in itself not a gradualist method or approach?
Yes indeed! The sitting practice of Soto Zen called "shikentaza" is ideal. Shikentaza means "just sitting".
Dogen Zenji described it as the practice "of" a Buddha, not a means to become a Buddha. So there is no expectation of gaining some higher state or enlightenment.
However, by engaging in lengthy sessions of shikentaza the mind becomes crystal clear and transparently vast.
It's like if you have a jar filled with water, mud and sand, and you swirl it around, the water is murky and unclear. If you set the jar down, just leaving it still, the sediment settles to the bottom and the water becomes perfectly clear automatically.
Likewise by leaving the mind alone and undisturbed, it's turbulence will settle down and the mind will become crystal clear on its own. But it's important that no self-effort is exerted nor any expectations be held.
Here's how:
One style is to sit in a relaxed meditation posture on a cushion or on a chair; with back straight. Either look at a point on the floor slightly in front of the body, or look straight out, slightly upwards, and keep the eyes fixed and not moving.
Breath slowly and naturally.
Your mind-state is that of being a mirror; all thoughts and perceptions appear in consciousness but nothing is engaged with. You are simply present and aware with no other agenda.
An alternative practice it to do all the same, but look into the sky without moving your eyes with your mouth slightly open.
The longer you sit in shikentaza the better; the more settled and clear the mind becomes. When it becomes crystal clear and transparently empty, profound wisdom insights will arise spontaneously over time.
This was my core practice since I was 16 when I was a student of Japanese Soto Zen master, Matsuoka Roshi. I started with forty minute sessions in the Zendo, and worked up to two to three hours of unbroken shikentaza. It usually took at least two hours before the wisdom (rigpa) insights began arising spontaneously.
It's especially beneficial to practice in nature if possible or at least in a room that has some good fengshui (aesthetic balance).
(Thogal is also such a practice)

To be in a deluded state is to sense you are a perceiver and experiencer of an already existing environment, instead of being the projector of it.

Instant Buddhahood

Actors remain as their true identity while they "assume" or mentally generate their role's character and personal identity as the script dictates.

The actor generates the mood, emotional tone and the character's physical comportment as accurately as possible.

But at no time is the professional actor's original identity modified by the roles it pretends to be.

That being so, then it also must be that the "assumed identity" is occurring in the same mental space as the actor's true identity. The assumed identity is just a temporary overlay or mask being generated by the actor's mind itself upon and within the true identity of the actor.

The actor could assume many different complete identities over time without ever conditioning or altering his or her true identity in any way. At the end of a work day, the actor always goes home as the original identity.

Rigpa is a Buddha. A Buddha has a true "identity" as defined by the inherent, and unconditioned attributes of all Buddhas. The Buddha can creatively generate infinite numbers of imaginary identities to assume, just like our actor could.

But for most of us, our Buddha Mind is projecting our identity as one that doesn't recognize its nature as being merely a fictional projection (tsal) of the Buddha Mind (Rigpa) itself.

In other words, you are fully a functioning Buddha in this exact moment who is projecting an identity that doesn't know it's merely a self-projection. It's this ignorance that is the first link in its samsaric stage play.

It seems the assumed character has become fused somewhat permanently in its script and role without knowing the true nature of itself as being the energetic projection (tsal) of the unconditioned actor or Buddha fully engaged in its active performance.

Here's how to snap out of the karmic character role and its samsaric script immediately:

Close your eyes. Sense your personal identity as your full name invokes. For me it would be like thinking "I am Jackson Peterson".
Contemplate and feel fully your unique self and sense of "me".

Next, still with eyes closed; sense your consciousness is a fully active and functioning Buddha. You are that perfect Buddha. Your mind IS the Buddha Mind. Stay with this contemplation until fully felt with some sense of conviction.

Now sense that AS a Buddha, that you, AS a Buddha are imagining yourself to be your ordinary personal self-identity. Notice how both aspects are occurring in the exact same mental space. Stay with this for a little while.

Now shift back and forth several times from sensing yourself as your personal self-identity (karmic self) and then as your being a Buddha .

After doing that for a few minutes; then sense you are a Buddha "in the act of projecting your egoic identity". It's like sensing you are a Buddha Mirror and you are projecting your egoic identity as a reflection that is appearing in your transparent and perfectly clear Buddha Mind.

Practice with this "recognition" exercise until identity fully shifts into your true Identity as an always present and changeless Buddha.

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts..."

William Shakespeare

Ever Present Clear Light
Q. What is your condition in this moment?
A. It's a rather beclouded state of uncomfortable consciousness.
Q. What is it that is knowing that condition? Could it be that the clear light of awareness is the cognitive aspect of the condition itself?
Isn't it like the clear glass of a mirror in which the reflections appear? Could a reflection appear absent the ever-present clear glass of the mirror?
Does the ever-present clear and transparent glass ever change as do the reflections?
In Dzogchen we can notice that no matter what mental, emotional or perceptual phenomena appear, that which knows those occurrences are happening is the perfect clear light of awareness (rigpa) itself.
So whether karmic mind or the egoic self are present or not, the clear light of rigpa is always equally their host, just like the clear glass of a mirror always hosts it's reflections in its transparent emptiness.
In any experience, notice the aware and empty quality of the "noticing" itself. By doing so, the reflection or experience reveals its true nature to be awareness itself appearing momentarily as the occurrence. The ocean is manifesting a wave.
In this moment of "seeing", the formative or energetic aspect of the occurrence releases upon the arising.

How does one enter the direct path of Dzogchen without any preparation, development or further maintenance?
Notice the ever-present quality of an aware observing that is only a naked knowingness and empty observingness. It's not produced or fabricated. It's the only "constant" in all experience.

Ucim Zazen, Buddhuv Zazen, linie transmise.... tak jak me to naucil Mistr. pokud by se chtel nekdo presne Zazen naucit (Buddhovo cviceni-osviceni), naucim, piste POSTA, zajdeme na Staromak nebo si necham poslat zafu a muzeme na travniku, v parku, bydlim v lese :D Praha, musite prijet.

Presna transmise pro Skutecne Telo Buddhy, klicova poloha tela a mysli, odlozeni tela a mysli, Dharmakaya Buddhismus, ja jsem Mahayana, ochrance Dharmy, ochrance Mahayany a Vajrayany.

Zazen Mistra Dogena, to je Rigpa, to je Hishiryo - Beyond consciouness.

(tohle je sice silna medicina ale je to naprosto bezpecne. Techniky z FB zkousejte na vlastni nebezpeci, ikdyz to taky buduje charakter :)

zazen je i tady, 4 skupiny, na Staromaku, cilize je to 5 krat tydne zazen... rano vecer

Skupiny a jóga :: Centrum Lotus
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Zazen is infinite, infinity eternity.....