Dzogchen Essentials offers an exciting, diverse selection of
material, both new and traditional, for study and practice in the
Dzoghchen tradition. These teachings are principally about clarifying
confusion, the mistaken ways we normally relate to our perceptions
of environment, body, and senses. Rather than continue the habits of
insisting on a solid reality, we are given skillful alternatives and
practices and the method to integrate them with the view of the Great
Perfection.
Dzogchen Essentials is for the dedicated Vajrayana student.
Carrying on from The Dzogchen Primer, it contains a wide range of
selections upholding the style of the simple meditator, including pieces
by Padmasambhava, Tulku Thondup, Dilgo Khyentse, Dudjom, Tulku Urgyen,
Sogyal, and Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoches. Additional sources and
facilitator’s guidelines enrich study groups and nurture the lone
practitioner.
Marcia Binder Schmidt has been an editor and publisher of Vajrayana
Buddhist literature for over eighteen years. She and her husband, Erik
Pema Kunsang, author and translator, have produced many Buddhist books
and translations in English.
290 pages. Paperback.