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Von Thomas Bergmann @holospirit

For many who are attemp­ting to under­stand what the sta­te of "rig­pa" means in Dzog­chen, let me sha­re a few words that may cla­ri­fy: The pur­po­se of the Dzog­chen tea­chings is to help peop­le to dis­co­ver their true natu­re. At a cer­tain time for various rea­sons, a clear and cer­tain rea­liza­ti­on of that "true natu­re" will occur. In Zen they call that "sato­ri" or "kens­ho". In Dzog­chen and Essen­ce Maha­mu­d­ra we call that wis­dom moment of rea­liza­ti­on "rig­pa". Its a sta­te of gno­sis or wis­dom that erupts sud­den­ly into con­s­cious­ness.

It is NOT just a very clear and pro­found "here and now" awa­re­ness devo­id of dua­listic mind. The authentic moment is suf­fu­sed with a new non-con­cep­tual per­spec­ti­ve that is more like shif­ting from seeing the view from the bot­tom of a moun­tain to sud­den­ly seeing the full pan­ora­ma from the moun­tain peak. Its a bit "breath taking" at first. Its a dif­fe­rent way of seeing not some new know­led­ge or infor­ma­ti­on. The field of expe­ri­en­ce is "seen" and known dif­fer­ent­ly.

What does this new vis­ta appear like?

First of all, the ent­i­re sen­se of pre­sen­ce is one of tran­s­pa­ren­cy, almost like being an open win­dow wit­hout a win­dow fra­me. The body seems tran­s­pa­rent, espe­cial­ly the area of the head. The "outer" dimen­si­on is ful­ly mani­fes­ting as usual but somehow ins­e­pa­ra­b­le from the pre­sen­ce of total tran­s­pa­ren­cy, emp­ty of soli­di­ty and more like a field of color­ful con­s­cious­ness. The Buddhist phra­se of "emp­ti­ness is form and form is emp­ti­ness" is ful­ly under­stood and expe­ri­en­ced for the first time. Its seems so obvious now. The ent­i­re dimen­si­on is more like a 3D holo­gram floa­ting in a space of total con­s­cious­ness.

You recog­ni­ze that "you" are this total field of con­s­cious­ness that can't be con­s­i­de­red to be any one thing as exis­ting nor as any­t­hing as not exis­ting, but right in the midd­le bet­we­en exis­ting and not-exis­ting, as the free­dom from the ext­re­mes of sepa­ra­te and inde­pen­dent­ly exis­ting "things" and "sel­ves" and the total non-exis­ten­ce of all things and sel­ves. And this can't be con­cep­tua­li­zed, as its a com­p­le­te­ly non-con­cep­tual kno­wing, yet is vivid­ly obvious.

The sta­te of "cer­tain­ty" of self-being beyond all descrip­ti­ons is com­p­le­te­ly pene­t­ra­ting and obvious as well.

So when authentic "rig­pa" ari­ses as just descri­bed it may be very pro­found in futu­re moments or just very natu­ral and ordi­na­ry, but never mis­sing the essen­tial fra­gran­ce of the tran­s­pa­rent and emp­ty natu­re of self-pre­sen­ce. Having known the authentic natu­re of rea­li­ty, one sim­p­ly rests in the sta­te of kno­wing pre­sen­ce and con­ti­nu­es in total spon­tan­ei­ty.

Most peop­le don't "see" or expe­ri­en­ce rea­li­ty this way, not even most prac­ti­tio­ners of Dzog­chen or other simi­lar approa­ches. The rea­son is becau­se their practi­ce and insights are too shal­low. The most com­mon error is sub­sti­tu­ting a very clear and pro­found intel­lec­tual insight for "rig­pa" and then trying to "remem­ber" that con­cep­tual view again and again. What is real­ly nee­ded is a "shift" in the con­trac­ted ener­gy sta­te that pro­du­ces the dim­ming or dull­ness of cla­ri­ty that pre­vents real "seeing". Con­cep­tua­li­zing and intel­lec­tual insight only cla­ri­fies the "thought" aspect on the most super­fi­cial level of ener­gy and actual­ly blocks the spon­ta­neous wis­dom from ari­sing natu­ral­ly. The mind needs to be in a "topic free" con­di­ti­on in order for this enligh­te­ning wis­dom to ari­se.

The­re is a dimen­si­on­less point of "awa­re­ness-wis­dom-con­s­cious­ness" that resi­des in the cen­ter of the crown cha­k­ra in our skull. It is what we call our per­so­nal and indi­vi­dual "point of view" or con­s­cious­ness. Its a point of pure emp­ti­ness that is sur­roun­ded by its various fields of ener­gy ema­na­ti­on. When it is in a con­trac­ted sta­te it expe­ri­en­ces its field of per­cep­ti­on as being "solid" and made up of sepa­ra­te "things". When its not con­trac­ted upon its­elf it expe­ri­en­ces its field as a vast color­ful dimen­si­on of tran­s­pa­rent con­s­cious­ness wit­hout bor­ders or limits... just as I descri­bed "rig­pa" abo­ve. It is this emp­ty point of awa­re­ness that expe­ri­en­ces "rig­pa" or not. It is a point of pure Con­s­cious­ness.

In kun­da­li­ni yoga and other tan­tric sys­tems of India and Tibet, they descri­be this point of pure con­s­cious­ness as being enfol­ded wit­hin a lotus flo­wer, whe­re the petals are fol­ded over the cen­tral point of con­s­cious­ness in the cen­ter. The pur­po­se of ener­gy practi­ces is to trig­ger the "petals" of the crown cha­k­ra to open ful­ly which reveals the cen­ter point of pure con­s­cious­ness in the cen­ter. When this occurs the sta­te of "rig­pa" is obvious and not nee­ded to be pro­du­ced by some "under­stan­ding". We are blo­cking our own sta­te of "rig­pa" by the our con­trac­ted sta­te that locks us solid­ly wit­hin our web or cocoon of thoughts and men­tal ener­gy.

Its inte­res­ting that whe­ne­ver rig­pa ari­ses it feels like the top of the head is wide open to the sky and the soli­di­ty of the skull has beco­me tran­s­pa­rent. If this isn't one's inner expe­ri­en­ce, I would ques­ti­on the depth of the sta­te. The­re is an unde­nia­b­le "vast­ness" and "open­ness" pre­sent in eve­ry moment of rig­pa as well as the tone of sheer delight.

In the appen­dix of my book I sha­re the instruc­ti­ons for trig­ge­ring this "ope­ning" event to occur. For some just recei­ving the "poin­ting out" instruc­ti­ons from a tea­cher of Dzog­chen or Maha­mu­d­ra is suf­fi­ci­ent to bring this "crown cha­k­ra" ope­ning to occur wit­hout any medi­ta­ti­on or ener­gy yoga practi­ce. But only very few have a deep expe­ri­en­ce from the poin­ting out method alo­ne, yet the "poin­ting out" is vital in trig­ge­ring the inner trans­for­ma­ti­ons that will even­tual­ly deve­lop.

For most, if not all, I recom­mend taking a look at the ener­gy practi­ces that do pro­du­ce pro­found insights and "ope­ning" swift­ly... Once you "see" all this for your­self, then you can sha­re this with others as well.

I have one of the "recogni­ti­on" exer­ci­ses pos­ted on my web­si­te that can be a good star­ting point... www.wayoflight.net

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