Alan Wallace: Dzogchen Meditation Instructions

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How wonderful!
Son of the clear light vajra essence, your own mind is
the basis of all of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa.
The origin from which it first emerges is empty.
The location in which it resides in the interim is empty.
The destination to which it finally goes is empty.
Perceive the essential nature of emptiness!
It has no form, shape, color, or source.
It is neither one nor many, and it is neither emanated
nor reabsorbed.
It transcends the parameters of existence and nonexistence.
It is empty of the conventional words of negation and
affirmation.
It is spontaneously actualized as great emptiness.
It is a mirror that transcends causes and conditions and
is able to give rise to all manner of reflections.
Whatever light or dark colors arise, the character of its
essential nature is unchanging.
This is an analogy for the mind and pristine awareness.
Do not regard the mind and pristine awareness as two
grounds.
Do not mistake pristine awareness for the mind!
The mind refers to something projected by pristine
awareness.
The night does not occur during the daytime, and the day
does not occur during the nighttime.
Space does not turn into either one.
Distinguish between the mind and pristine awareness in
this way.
Observing one thought after another is the path for
achieving śamatha, but you don’t enter the authentic
path.
Moreover, sustaining your own consciousness of clarity
and cognizance allows for thoughts to release themselves.
But you don’t directly get to the point.
Identify the ground pristine awareness!
O child of wisdom and pristine awareness, the secret
treasury of the ḍākinīs is your inheritance!
Düdjom Lingpa: The Foolish Dharma of an Idiot Clothed in Mud and Feathers
Translated by Alan Wallace
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[@davidmickles5012]

Another method one might call "self inquiry" is to begin by asking.. "What is it that is experiencing this?" Or.. "What is it that is aware right now?" or "What is it that knows I am aware?" Keep asking until it "appears." Then repeatedly familiarize yourself with this practice over time. Then begin to look into the nature of this "knowing-awareness." What are its qualities if it has any? Does it change? How old is it? What color is it if any? What does it feel like? Does it have a location? Does it have a form? etc. etc. etc. These questions help you to clarify and become more familiar with its complete nature. Understand however that "rigpa" or "awareness" does not appear as an object which you can examine in the usual sense - it is too close and too immediate to be an observable object. Rather, it is the one who is investigating.

[@xB0RNFR0MPAINx]

"what is it that is aware right now?" What else could it be than myself? I am aware that I am aware. I don't understand this reasoning. It's like you're trying to trick yourself that there is some entity in your mind but separate and above it. This is crazy. What else could it be than the mind. Your entire experience is the mind. The mind creates it. Are you insinuating that you can connect to the consciousnesses itself and somehow separate yourself from your own mind?

[@davidmickles5012]

@@xB0RNFR0MPAINx You dont have to connect to what you already are. You are the awareness that is aware of your thoughts. Its subtle, and easily "blocked" by thoughts. Thoughts, concepts and perceptions **appear** to a "knowing" right? That's what awareness is, it's the knowing of the thoughts and images and feelings that appear in experience right? So what I'm asking here is what is it (in me or in you) that experiences? Like right now, as you read this you have these letters and words that you are seeing on your phone or computer screen... So what is it that is aware of these words? What is it that is aware of this experience you are having right now? You have to actually look at this moment of experiencing and answer those questions directly from experience, not from a theory you have heard or learned. So putting aside what someone else taught you, what is it that presently knows you are reading these words? PS- just to add.. To answer this question conceptually (above) is not really the point. The "inquiry" (what is it that is aware..) is a method designed to bring your awareness home, to itself, to a **recognition** that is not conceptual. Concepts, thoughts and ideas are objects that appear to your awareness, but awareness is not an object, thought or an idea. And so if you come up with any kind of conceptual answer to the inquiry you can rest assured that you have missed the mark.

[@solomon_2.0.1]

Very clever cuts and most importantly the essentials. Turjeche!

[@AlexHop1]

Thank you!

[@simibignall5688]

Awesome

[@ShiliinSainEr]

Is this a new video or a re-upload of an old one?

[@ElizabethReninger]

I believe it's an excerpt from a previous one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eniUnGt7lL53oNE

[@1rocknroy]

Isness

[@gulumayroz]

I do believe you cut out the stage mention of "substrate mind" (Bhavanga), in y original recording...??❤️🙏🌈

[@1rocknroy]

StillnessMovement, color no color, soundno sound

[@JazenValencia]

It's best to start Qi-Gong meditation first before moving on to Dzogchen. Doing Qi-gong with binaural beats will advance you years in a year. You'll be surprised.

[@laiika511]

You can’t trick me

[@AG-yx4ip]

I’ve been exploring this for months now in a daily basic. But I cannot get there -The further I got is to the awareness of awareness and I feel I don’t really get what I am doing , things start to melt- Or maybe I already did but didn’t recognize it .

[@mattgarrett3768]

I got to this stage also and maybe I can help. Awareness of awareness is just another step and seems to be the last but there is still a sense of a subject and object. As in, something is still aware of being aware. However, even the witnessing can be observed. And if you stay with this, the experience of witnessing can be 'seen' as well, and then the subject will dissolve over time. Mooji, the teacher, explains this in his videos such as "Witnessing the witness". Hope this helps A G.

[@AG-yx4ip]

@@mattgarrett3768 thank you very much for you answer. I am taking things without rush . I started meditating only 6 months ago so I have a long way …

[@ezeeproproperties8352]

This isn't something you should be doing as a daily meditation. Yes, it's an instruction but you'll find it exceptionally difficult to stabilize this view. Even to get a taste of what's being pointed out is rare and requires a lot of merit. Alan Wallace has the ability to give you a direct taste of your own mind's unadulterated (for want of a way more accurate and eloquent term) nature. It can last for several seconds which is so much more than the finger snap duration that most teachers guide you too. You should begin with ethics, mental balance and then wisdom. Sila, the foundation. Then shamatha. For this subject, Alan has an exceptionally clear, comprehensive and rich offering of knowledge🙏. Then wisdom. Using your now superbly serviceable and balanced mind to engage in insight meditation (vipassana) to come to know the nature of self and reality. But by doing this with a unified mind, it becomes irreversible and you become an Arya. You become a stream enterer and you will have arrived at the authentic path. The path that's irreversible. You will never fall back into the general bin of samsara again. You will never be reborn with anger, craving, confusion, ADD and ADHD. You will never be reborn less than an Arya,a pure one, a precious one 🙏

[@DupesZakkas]

Look up alan wallace the way of shamatha retreat and may it benefit 🙏 By day 5 session 3 you'll taste ordinary awareness, should be be ripe, ready and receptive of course 🙏🙏🙏

[@ThoseWhoDare]

You must receive a pointing-out- instruction in person from a qualified teacher. Dont do too many experiments from youtube videos without the support of a teacher and the Sangha 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@Sociable_Graces]

To be fortunate enough to be present at the moment a teacher gives the pointing out instruction and to knowingly be able to receive it is an extremely rare event. That said, agree a support system is in order for deep spiritual practice.

[@wttthm]

Always question anyone who says you “must”, “should”, or “shouldn’t”.

[@garrettbaker6875]

@@wttthm , Is this something I should or shouldn't do ? ;)

[@williamcallahan5218]

All scriptures are only pointing. They all point to Stillness, Silence, Awareness. Just follow the pointing and be guided by what you already are, Awareness. Awareness will guide you home. The warnings about needing a teacher or guru are useful, but (in context) they were written during a time in history when the teachings were kept secret (and were passed down orally) and hard to come by. All you really need is an earnest desire, a fire that will light the Way, and I suspect if you are here and reading this you are on your way...

[@1rocknroy]

You must ALWAYS hold your mother's hand when crossing the street.

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You are not qualified and not permitted to teach Dzogchen😡😡😡