Creating conducive practice environment
While Dzogchen emphasizes that awareness is present everywhere, creating a supportive environment helps practitioners cultivate stability, inspiration, and continuity in their practice.
Dzogchen methods
Recognizing rigpa
Recognizing rigpa—the pristine awareness at the heart of Dzogchen—is the pivotal moment in practice. It marks the difference between intellectual understanding and direct realization.
Relaxation into natural awareness
Semde practices emphasize not creating or fabricating states of mind. Instead, the practitioner relaxes into the natural condition of awareness that is already present.