Dzogchen · 1920–1996
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Nyingma and Kagyu · Dzogchen / Mahamudra · Oral instructions on empty awareness
The clearest modern voice. The one who reduced the practice to four words: "short moments, many times."
The essence of the teaching: The essence of buddha is undivided empty awareness, present in everyone. The path is to move from effortful, dualistic attention to natural recognition, in which thoughts free themselves and leave no trace.
Transmission
Tulku Urgyen taught with utter simplicity: your mind is empty awareness, and to recognize it is not to do something, but for a single instant to notice it. Thoughts bind the ordinary person and liberate the yogin – the only difference is recognition. In the confused they cut a track, like a chisel into stone, and create karma; in the one who has recognized they are like drawings in the air, leaving no trace. Do not suppress thoughts and do not invent a state. Simply notice this nature again and again: short moments, many times, in the midst of walking, eating, speaking. So recognition turns from a rare flash into something as natural as sight.
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