Lama Surya Das.

09-06-2004, 12:38 PM

Namaste,

'According to the Dzogchen tradition our practice aims for
simplicity. Dzogchen means the innate great completeness. It points
to our own innate wholeness, our own true Buddha nature, our
untrammelled spirit, perfect and pure from the beginningless
beginning. It is what we call the Buddha within -- not an oriental
Buddha, not an historical Buddha, not one of stone, not male or
female, but the Buddha nature within each of us, true and wise,
loving and compassionate. We want to come back to that, awaken it,
cultivate it -- that is what the path is about. We don't get it from
outside, from someone or somewhere else, or even from our own ideas
of what we are.

The Hevajra tantra says we are all Buddhas by nature but must,
through our own spiritual work, awaken to ourselves.'

This indicates to me that in the Dzogchen tradition, Sadhana is of
the essence of awakening. Purification of the
Buddhi........ONS..Tony.