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Principles of Khordé Rushen | Lotsawa House

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Generally speaking, within our minds there resides the buddha nature, the actual dharmatā, which is empty and cognizant self-arising rigpa, in which the three kāyas are all fully present. This has always been there, spontaneously perfect. Yet, like the sun obscured by clouds, the enlightened body is obscured by the ordinary body; enlightened speech is obscured by ordinary speech; enlightened mind is obscured by the ordinary mind; and subtle clear light is obscured by the aggregates, elements and sense-sources. Here in saṃsāra, we remain within the confines of karma accumulated through our impure body, speech and mind, as well as mental afflictions and habitual tendencies, and as a result of our failure to recognize our own essential nature, we are deluded. At the beginning, as a preliminary to the path, we must therefore make a clear distinction or separation between the ordinary mind (sems) and pure awareness (rig pa), separating the phenomena of the mind as the domain or division of

Principles of the Dzogchen Practice of Khordé Rushen by Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche Generally speaking, within our minds there resides the buddha nature, the actual dharmatā, which is empty and cognizant self-arising rigpa, in which the three kāyas are all fully present. This has always been there, spontaneously perfect. Yet, like the sun obscured by clouds, the enlightened body is obscured by the ordinary body; enlightened speech is obscured by ordinary speech; enlightened mind is obscured by the ordinary mind; and subtle clear light is obscured by the aggregates, elements and sense-sources.…

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