But it can happen that a phrase intended to indicate a state beyond concepts just becomes another concept in itself, in the same way that if you ask a person their name and they reply that they have no name, you will then perhaps mistakenly call them ‘No name’.

Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche

from the book Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State

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• A state of total presence
• Observing our conditioning first
• Dont confuse any culture or tradition with the teachings themselves
• Awareness of our own condition
• Integrating one’s practice with one’s life
• The mistaken dualistic mind
• We can’t ignore our reality
• The supreme path for that person
• The Six Vajra Verses