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Self Illumination

When the attentiveness of our own Consciousness turns inward within its own conscious nature, it self-illuminates and self-knowing Wisdom spontaneously arises.

How?

Dzogchen master,Tsoknyi Rinpoche:

"The way to do this is just to turn your attention slightly inward, not to look deeply inside, just to turn your focus from outward to inward in a very light way."

Lopon Tenzin Namdak:

"The introduction (to rigpa) is very simple: we just look back at ourselves."

“There is an oral instruction about the way to look. It is said,
“It is as though your eyes were looking through the back of your head instead of looking forwards.” Mingyur Rinpoche

"It is as though your eyes are looking backwards instead of forwards as they usually do. You are looking out with your eyes but are looking back at the same time. Do not try too hard with this though, otherwise you will really make a big mistake. You just sort of look back ..." Mingyur Rinpoche

“By directing the attention back to rigpa awareness, the arisings dissolve back into their origin and its essential nature, rigpa awareness.” Longchenpa

Dzogchen perhaps learned this essential method of self-realization from the Katha Upanishad (300 b.c.) which predates historical Dzogchen (700 a.d.) by about 1000 years. This Upanishad refers to this ultimate Nature as the “Great Self” (Maha Atman) and many early Dzogchen Semde tantras refer to Samantabhadra, our True Nature, as also the “Great Self” or Dagnyid Chenpo

The Katha Upanishad puts it this way: “God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.”

Further, in non-dual samadhi, it’s discovered that the entire universe is Consciousness too and was only disguised by the names, concepts and labels describing it as being something other than Consciousness.