What is the Wisdom of Dzogchen? In this episode of Wisdom of the Ages, Host Ayn Cates Sullivan welcomes guests Chris von Hassett and Rachel Wilkie to talk all about the practice of Dzogchen. They share the difference between awareness and the deluded mind, how meditation can bring peace into your life, the Shamatha practice, and more! Tune in to this episode to learn all about the practices, impact, and Wisdom of Dzogchen.
WOA – Wisdom of Dzogchen
Ayn Cates Sullivan
Welcome and blessings. This is Ayn Cates Sullivan host of Wisdom of the Ages. And I am also the host of a new podcast with co-host Mirabai Dev here on the Superpower Network called Messages of Infinite Light. Please go check it out. We’re doing all sorts of solutions for an evolving humanity very upbeat.
So let me tell you about the show today. And most of us exist in some kind of state of anxiety, fear, anger, depression, divisiveness, loneliness, some sort of suffering. And the pandemic really hasn’t helped and our normal distractions aren’t there either. But there is another way and it doesn’t necessarily involve drugs or alcohol or any other way we have of checking out. Today we’re, we’re going to talk about what it is to check in. What happens when we become aware.
So today, we’re gonna be diving into the secrets taught in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition that is dzogchen. So my guests today are, actually I have two guests, which is going to be really fun. Are Chris Von Hassett and his beautiful friend, Rachel Reed Wilkie. Now, we’re talking about his book, this new book Entering the Mind. Rachel Reed edited and narrated the book and it’s going to be out on Audible soon. It’s a great way. I love Audible books actually. It’s a great way to really dive into the teachings you can press pause, do some of the practice meditations.
But let me tell you about Chris. Chris Von Hassett is a writer, editor and publisher of Riot Material Magazine. He’s also a decade’s long practitioner of dzogchen, considered by some to be the highest wisdom practice known to man, so it’s definitely worth checking out. In his new book Entering the Mind, C von Hassett takes us luminously, I love that word, into the life affirming, heart awakening, consciousness altering terrains of mind and its natural state, where he shows us how to recognize it within ourselves, then realize it through a holistic, wholly committed practice. And he really does do that in the book. So Entering the Mind has been described as the definitive meditation guide for our times, I loved it.
And in fact, I want to read you a little passage from the book. It’s on, it’s on page 17 from a chapter called Toward the Sun, and it goes like this:
You have your awareness, which is stable and unchanging. It cannot be harmed in any way. But more importantly, it can never be destroyed. If a meteorite were to streak down from the sky and strike you, where you stand, this will be beyond that fortune. ut your awareness, however, after a short restful slumber, will continue on in a very natural way. Without the slightest diminishment in its ability to perceive. It would remain stable, cognizant, and ever ongoing. It is this ground level awareness that we call the natural mind. And it is this mind we aim to recognize in our meditation.
So I just thought that was beautiful, especially this this idea of a meteorite strikes and we’re gone. What’s left? Awareness, so just beautiful. Anyway, you can find out more about my guest on riotmaterial.com/enteringthemind and when we come back from the short break we’re going to talk more about Entering the Mind, the power of meditation and the wisdom of dzogchen. Stay tuned, we’ll be right back.
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