Dzogchen: BuSuKu – von Keith Dowman

Datum gelesen: 15.06.2025

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Meine Notizen

• Simply sitting is the stance that Sakyamuni took under the bodhi-tree in Bodhgaya 2500 years ago. 'Buddhism' is what happened when a group of institutionally-inclined meditators abandoned the bodhi-tree and instated in its stead a course of social mores, behavioral discipline and meditation technique. At the core of the meditation, however, the basic practice of simply sitting was not forgotten and it became known in Tibet as Dzogchen and Chakchen (Mahamudra) and in China as Chan and in Japan as Zen.
• Nonmeditation implies 'doing nothing' or 'nonaction', which may initially suggest a vegetative state but is quickly realized experientially as unitary identity with the awareness of the nature of mind inseparable from the color and shape — from the form — of sensory perception.
• In the awareness that transcends the relative mind, there is no possible progress or development and therefore no path to walk and no goal to achieve.
• In this perpetual, basic, comprehension of spacial dimension as illusory we have lost the sense of 'self' and 'other' of 'possession' and 'loss' so that movement and speech are a constant Expression of selfless giving, of offering, in a spirit of celebration and devotion.
• For that reason the techniques of liberation taught in the lower vehicles, in psychology and psychiatry, as methods of liberation or ultimate self-improvement are invalid and must be understood merely as relative improvement according to artificial — social — criteria.
• Look at this finger pointing directly at pure presence — It stresses the nonaction of nonmeditation in a nutshell. Look at this: No matter the emotional quality of the perception, whether happy or sad, whether appearances are fearful or pleasant, whether mind is active or passive, without tilting towards any antidote, whatever may appear, looking nakedly at its essence, looking into the appearance as it arises, without modifying it in any way, just letting it be, pure presence in its radiance arises from within.
• One should realize that one does not meditate to go deeply into oneself and withdraw from the world. Everything is perfect just as it is, completely pure and undefiled.
• Generally with Dzogchen practices, it is important to begin with short sessions throughout the day. As you grow more accustomed to the practice, you may increase the duration of each session, having fewer and fewer of them, until eventually you may have one session per day or per week.