Dzogchen: Resting in Awareness

A practice card

A very gentle taste of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection — resting in awareness itself, held here exactly as the tradition holds it.

When

When you want to rest, for a moment, without doing anything to your mind at all.

How

Sit, and let your attention settle without aiming it anywhere. Don’t follow a thought, and don’t push one away. Don’t try to make the mind calm or empty — just notice that awareness is already here, plainly, before you do anything to it. Rest in that noticing, effortlessly, for as long as it holds.

Try it

A thought, simply noticed

Nothing you type is kept. It floats off the page.

Traditionally received

Dzogchen is traditionally received directly from a qualified teacher, through what’s called “pointing-out” instruction. This page offers only the outer gesture of resting in awareness — a taste, not the transmission itself.

The tradition says awareness was never elsewhere.

The tradition calls this effortless. Here it is only a moment of not interfering.

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