In 1970 and in the following years, the \u201cnatural state,\u201d what Rinpoche called \u201cthe meditative state\u201d and \u201cthe awakened state,\u201d was, at least for me, at the center of everything he taught. It wasn\u2019t just a matter of theory, but what I experienced whenever I was with him, alone or in groups. Over time I discovered how to find my way there on my own. Throughout my seventeen years studying with him, this was the central theme and the main point in my interactions with him, up to the time he died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Rinpoche\u2019s own teachings unfolded over time, this emphasis became less explicit, more implicit. In his Vajrayana teachings, though, at least for me, \u201cpointing out\u201d this natural state was always the centerpiece of every program he taught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As my teaching evolved, I felt that I needed to bring students not just to understand, but to directly experience the natural state as the ground and essential point of their own being, and of Rinpoche\u2019s entire lineage and, beyond that, of Buddhism itself. I felt that otherwise everything remained too conceptual and too abstract. But how to do that?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In 1970 and in the following years, the \u201cnatural state,\u201d what Rinpoche called \u201cthe meditative state\u201d and \u201cthe awakened state,\u201d was, at least for me, at the center of everything […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dharma-ocean-blog"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/cdn.dharmaocean.org\/online-resources\/nature-3329358_1920.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"dharmadev","author_link":"https:\/\/www.dharmaocean.org\/es\/author\/dharmadev\/"},"yoast_head":"\n