Rather than time or no time,
measurement of time now redundant,
a single unbroken flow,
without beginning, middle or end,
we call 'hyper-sameness'.
In such sameness appearances are ambiguous
and thoughts are indiscrete and unknowable
and the universal significance of natural perfection
insinuates itself into the poor intellect;
the conceptual process, objectless,
involuntarily stops in its tracks.
Without ever knowing delusion
root ignorance is automatically cut,
eradicated from the first without trying -
but surely we all know that!
All coarse materiality, besides,
evanesces by itself in the moment,
and with no place to go simply vanishes:
in fact, the body has never existed;
there is only gnosis without past or future.
Everything, outside time or even in time,
as unity, duality or multiplicity,
visible, invisible, or evanescent,
invisible but resonating or vibrating,
everything holds its place but transcends it -
surely everyone knows that everything is timeless!
The pathless path
is the path always under our feet
and since that path is always beneath us,
if we miss it, how stupid!
The dynamic of involuntary concentration,
irrespective of meditation, is always present -
but surely we all know that!
Surely we all know that our selves
and the things we want and cling to,
from the very first, in reality,
are all images of intrinsic gnosis.
The five passions, self-imposed shackles,
from the first occur together with gnosis -
surely we all know that!
The four material elements,
earth, water, fire and air,
constitute the body -
surely we can all see that!
The distilled elixir of the most secret instruction
resounds spontaneously in every ear -
surely we can all hear it!
Or don't we have ears to hear?
The tang of natural spaciousness and gnosis
indelibly surrounds us -
surely we can all smell it!
Or are our noses blocked up?
The three elixirs rolled into one secret precept
have always been the flavor of body-mind -
surely we can all taste it!
Or have we lost our tongues?
The phantasmagoria of pure vision
is always with us, day and night,
like a shadow, a part of the body -
or are we shadowless corpses?
Surely we can all feel it!
Happiness, hand in hand with suffering,
inexpressibly, is intrinsically present -
or are our minds too dull to notice?
The build-up of samsaric propensities,
primordially, is the pure dimension of being -
pity him who has not noticed!
In the field of sense organ, object and consciousness
every recollection and apperception, every flicker of the mind,
arises as the dimension of perfect enjoyment -
how can we fail to see it!
All goal-oriented conventional activity
and all chatter, gossip and laughter,
is the dimension of magical emanation -
surely we all know that! Or are we so dull?
Every impulse and stirring of the mind,
seamless, like a flowing stream,
our constant mental enchantment,
is effortless, natural meditation -
surely we can't miss that!
Looking closely at matter and energy,
and at thought, sound and form,
it is all insubstantial projection,
and this view that empties our urban samsara
has always been with us, though unseen -
surely our doors of perception are now open!
'Liberation', synonymous with happiness, whatever the method, is thus the purpose of life. Dzogchen assumes a stance not only outside and beyond the innumerable schools of Buddhism and Hinduism that provide methods of attaining that release, but by default beyond all religious systems whatsoever, including the Judeo-Christian and Muslim, and all secular systems of belief including nihilist, atheist, hedonist and humanist. (p xvii)
The
innate awareness of this pristine nondual brilliance is called rigpa, which herein
is translated as 'gnosis'. (p. xviii)
Dzogchen 'nonmeditation' is a spontaneous noncontingent continuity - a timeless synchronicitous awareness. (p. xvii)
...first is the mind's spontaneous function of disengagement from sensory and mental objects of attachment and simultaneous self-identity with the light of which they are made. This is called
Breaking Through, or Cutting Through (trekcho), into the original purity - or alpha-purity - where natural perfection lies. In the spacious luminosity of alpha-purity there may still be a gap between the mind of the hyper-yogin with its all-suffusing light and this last vestige of self-consciousness, and this is eliminated by the natural flow of nonmeditation upon the brilliance of the light through its apparent nuclear components known as 'holistic nuclei' which may be compared to the pixels of light in a hologram. This phase of hyper-yoga is called
Jumping Through (togel) and implies entry into the state of spontaneity that belies causality. (p. xix)
Dzogchen provides a deconstructive view that allows automatic access to the spaciousness of the intrinsic complete and perfect reality that is the nature of mind. This lurch from a reliance upon the rational mind to an existential understanding of reality occurs in the light of deep initiatory experience, which is known technically as an introduction to the nature of mind. (..) The intellect is redundant in the momentary insight into every experience of the flow of experience as compassionate emptiness and light. (p.xx)
Initiatory experience is present in this very moment and nothing can be done to facilitate its event.
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