Namgyalgar North, Australia, Day 3, March 20, 2102

This teaching is the advice of my teacher Khyenrab Chokyi Ozer, who was a student of Zhenga Rinpoche. Khyenrab Chokyi Ozer was a very important student of Zhenga Rinpoche and also a Dzogchen practitioner. He was very learned and most scholars from the different traditions in Tibet are in his lineage as students. So you can see that Khyenrab Chokyi Ozer was a very important teacher. Khyenrab Chokyi Ozer gave us these teachings and instructions, particularly tsigsum ned-deg, the text written down by Patrul Rinpoche, and when he finished the teaching he gave us this advice. It was only a few words of advice of what you should do for the future on your path, but even though there were only a few words the indications are very precise.

The Three Transmissions

First it says that with three transmissions, and you know what the three transmissions are, you receive these transmissions and in that way you can receive direct introduction in the Dzogchen way. Through this you discover your real nature. When you discover your real nature you receive a real piece of the teaching and the enlightened beings and you discover what your real nature is.

We have body, speech and mind, the three gates, and we know how to deal with this and first we receive transmission and discover our real nature. We need to work with experiences and when we experience direct introduction we discover our real nature through that experience. So it is not only introducing us to our real nature, but when we are on the path we are living in circumstance and circumstance is related to our body, speech and mind. Everything is connected to these different experiences. So with these experiences, day after day, we are integrating more and more, and we can have total realization. So that is why the second part explains how we develop of our visions, how we develop our experiences, and then in the third part, which I explained yesterday, we discover the three kayas, the dharmakaya, sambogakaya and nirmanakaya, and it explains the qualifications of the enlightened beings; everyone has that potentiality in their real nature.

Once we discover that and we are in that state, everything slowly matures and we manifest all the qualifications of the three kayas. So there is no need that to construct anything based on something known before. We have already recognized and are recognizing and we are in the state and manifesting; the sun is shining in the sky, there are no clouds and we can see the full manifestation of the sunshine. In the same way, when we have overcome all our obstacles, then all manifestations become something real, not only imagination. So this is how we mature our practice.