What Is Dzogchen?

Dzogchen is a Tibetan Nyingma Buddhist word for pure consciousness. It’s our original reality. We are pure consciousness. It is also called Rigpa; other traditions have other names for this pure reality.

Dzogchen is non-duality, where there is no separation between appearances and that which is aware. By virtue of one, the other is known; knowingness is simultaneous, like a mirror and its reflections.

Our comments and opinions about the reflections come a moment later … and we get carried away again into knowing something, as opposed to pure knowingness itself.

Pure consciousness is always present. It just needs to be realised by the recognition of being either occupied or in a vacant state.

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When our mind isn’t thinking about anything, we fall into silent vacancy. This is a state of not knowing, which is also called undecided or common indifference – an ordinary, mundane state.

Become aware of that which notices this; the one who is not thinking.
Recognise a thought-free knowingness which is totally open,
not taking sides but at one with everything that appears.
This is non-duality.

You can resolve that that is your true nature.
There is nothing other than this.
It is the state of luminosity – the light or clarity that dispels darkness.

Absolute truth is absolutely not complicated.