From Original Perfection: Vairotsana's Five Early Transmissions

[johndoe2012]

A really good book, recommended. I would place Dzogchen in a separate section, not even Buddhism. 

 

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Hey, Magnificent Immutable Being, listen!

 

1 Hey, this free-form field, illusive like space, nowhere located, has no object of focus; an unstructured experiential process, it occurs in the slightest subtle projection: the concept of pure being, indeterminable, itself is self-sprung awareness, a ubiquitous, unthinking, authentic presence, and this free-form field needs no alteration.

 

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There is only ever pure being, simultaneously a concept of emptiness and an existential reality. Any slight projection that gives intimation of a putative duality is immediately released by itself. Each thought and concept has, intrinsic, its own automatic release function: as pristine awareness it swallows itself.

 

Thus the natural field of reality cannot be improved upon, and there is nothing at all to be done to attain it. Indeed, there is no object to address in this field, so how can anything be done to it? Any goal-oriented meditative technique employed to discover it is a vain counterproductive attempt that seeks to turn it into an object; but the nature of the causal method itself cannot but find the reality of the pure essence of mind.