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This calligraphy shows the characters \u201cDayuan\u201d (\u5927\u5713) \u2013 this is a Chinese translation of the Tibetan term \u201cDzogchen\u201d (\u0f62\u0fab\u0f7c\u0f42\u0f66\u0f0b\u0f46\u0f7a\u0f53\u0f0b), which means \u201cGreat Completion\u201d or \u201cGreat Perfection\u201d.\u00a0 The character da (\u5927) shows a person with outstretched arms \u2013 \u201cbig\u201d, \u201cgreat\u201d, or \u201cimmeasurable\u201d.\u00a0 The character yuan (\u5713) shows \u201cmembers encircled\u201d \u2013 all parts integrated together; yuan also suggests the round shape of the full moon.<\/p>\n
In Tibetan Buddhism, Dzogchen is considered the apex of the Nine Yanas, sometimes called Atiyoga \u2013 \u201cutmost union\u201d \u2013 the peak of the spiritual path.\u00a0 The full moon.<\/p>\n
Dzogchen is characterized by view, method, & fruition<\/a>.\u00a0 The view recognizes all beings as fundamentally luminous and complete by nature.\u00a0 The method \u2013 although it sits atop the various tantric arts \u2013 the central Dzogchen method<\/a> is to simply abide in naturalness without doing anything in particular.\u00a0 Fruition is the direct experience of our nature unmediated by concepts or effort.\u00a0 Dzogchen is thus considered a path of immediate awakening<\/a>.<\/p>\n My wuweidao lineage teacher, Liu Ming, received Dzogchen transmission prior to being adopted into the Liu-family Daoist lineage.\u00a0 Upon receiving Daoist transmission, he recognized that the Dao De Jing was essentially a pith Dzogchen scripture describing the utmost fruition of the spiritual path. \u00a0Rather than being a secret teaching reserved for advanced practitioners who have striven through successive stages however, the Dao De Jing sits as the original inspiration of Daoism.\u00a0 Ming thus taught wuweidao as a non-conceptual abiding that sits at the basis \u2013 and apex \u2013 of Daoism.<\/p>\n What we refer to as wuweidao is thus a Daoist expression of Dzogchen.\u00a0 Ming even named his school \u201cDayuan Circle<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0 Our path is completion-stage teaching \u2013 it\u00a0is NOT a path of progress or accumulation.<\/p>\n Much of Chinese Daoism is a path of learning and developing and working toward Dao.\u00a0 Refining and transforming toward an exalted spiritual goal.\u00a0 In our tradition, we encounter completion-stage at the very beginning \u2013 the \u201cgoal\u201d (Dao-De<\/a>) is already established by nature.\u00a0 So we practice wuwei <\/a>not as some strategy to advance toward Dao \u2013 we practice wuwei as a means to embody and express what is fundamentally so of itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This calligraphy shows the characters \u201cDayuan\u201d (\u5927\u5713) \u2013 this is a Chinese translation of the Tibetan term \u201cDzogchen\u201d (\u0f62\u0fab\u0f7c\u0f42\u0f66\u0f0b\u0f46\u0f7a\u0f53\u0f0b), which means \u201cGreat Completion\u201d or \u201cGreat Perfection\u201d.\u00a0 The character da (\u5927) shows a person with outstretched arms \u2013 \u201cbig\u201d, \u201cgreat\u201d, or \u201cimmeasurable\u201d.\u00a0 The character yuan (\u5713) shows \u201cmembers encircled\u201d \u2013 all parts integrated together; yuan also … Continue reading “Completion-Stage Teaching (\u5927\u5713)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}