The Supreme Source

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III. Dzogchen Atiyoga

The fundamental point of the practice of Dzogchen, called tregchöd [also khregs chod] or "release of tension," is to relax into the state of contemplation, while the way of remaining in this state is called chogshag [cog bzhag or chogzhag], "leaving as it is."

• Tregchöd/Trekcö (khregs chod) → "cutting through" or "cutting through hardness/solidification"
  • It is a cutting through the knot of ma rig pa
  • A direct seeing that whatever arises is empty, luminous, and ungraspable

• chogshag → "let it be," "settle as it is," "leave it just as it is"

So in a compact formulation: khregs chod is the breakthrough; chogshag is the noninterference of remaining.

• machöpa → "not corrected" or "not altered"

"...Dzogchen atiyoga is a path complete in itself."

Practice: contemplation – to relax.

Kunjed Gyalpo – one of the original atiyoga tantras

Dzogchen Atiyoga – three fundamental aspects:

1. The base – the primordial state of the individual
   1. The "three wisdoms" or three natural conditions
      1. Essence
      2. Nature
      3. Energy
   2. Mirror
2. The path
3. The fruit