The Circle Of The Sun, Heart Essence Of Dzogchen Text by the 17th century Nyingma and Kagyu master Tsele Natsok Rangdrol

by Traleg Kyabgon
Editors: David Bennett and Susan Howes
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The reason Traleg Kyabgon decided to translate and give commentary on The Circle Of The Sun was a simple reason –
“It is the best summary of Dzogchen teachings that I have ever seen.”
Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche IX

In Circle of the Sun, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche explains there are many perspectives designed to help us uncover our authentic state, the ground-of-being, as it is often referred to in the Dzogchen tradition. A single perspective can never provide an all-encompassing view of the ground-of-being, because it is something that cannot be understood from any one perspective, in completeness.

Descriptions of aspects of the ground-of-being are divisible on the conceptual level. But in reality the many characteristics do not exist independently. Presenting the different aspects or perspectives of the ground-of-being points us to a place of authenticity that cannot be experienced or fully ex-plained intellectually.

The ground-of-being is seen as primordially pure, free from any kinds of corruptions and embellish-ments. Rinpoche explains the samsaric process by which we disenfranchise from our authentic state, and describes uncovering this authenticity through accomodating all our complexities – aversions, bewilderments, attractions and so forth, equally. In our meditation practice, with a sense of sacred spaciousness, instead of elaborating upon our inner experiences, following or fueling our habitual responsiveness and predetermined prejudices, we accomodate what arises in the mind allowing dis-turbances, embellishments and elaborations in the mind to self liberate.