| Dzogchen means "great perfection" and is a | | | | and treat each person, including ourselves, and each |
| meditation practice that helps us to see our true | | | | situation compassionately as a natural, spontaneous |
| nature, the nature of the Buddha. Many people | | | | expression. |
| practice meditation as a way to reach Enlightenment. | | | | Consider a time when you felt open hearted and |
| So, what is Enlightenment? Enlightenment is not | | | | compassion flowed freely from you. Perhaps it was |
| something outside of ourselves that we reach. | | | | when you were with a child who you consoled. That |
| Rather it is something that is already within each and | | | | feeling, that moment, is compassion. We all have |
| every one of us, however it is hidden under unending | | | | experienced moments of true compassion. |
| desire, aversion, anger, grasping and spiritual | | | | Enlightenment is a state of continual compassion and |
| ignorance. When we become skillful, when we stop | | | | loving-kindness. |
| grasping for things and people; when we are loving | | | | What stops us from being compassionate beings? |
| and compassionate, and when we loose our constant | | | | Our minds, cluttered with unending thoughts, |
| striving for more, our internal Enlightenment or | | | | list-making and chatter are barriers to attaining |
| Buddha nature is able to shine forth. | | | | intrinsic wisdom and compassion. Meditation is what |
| Enlightenment, this intrinsic awareness, is our true | | | | helps us to quiet the mind and open the heart which |
| nature, it is who we are, and it informs our actions, | | | | allows wisdom and compassion, our true nature, to |
| thoughts and speech with wisdom and compassion. | | | | flow freely. |
| So, in every situation we come from that awareness | | | | |