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Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World

Adapting Dzogchen

This is the heart of the Dzogchen Today! project’s mission: to make the wisdom of a thousand year old tradition accessible today, in the present conditions.

Adaptation

What are the adaptations of the Dzogchen Today! project?

The Dzogchen Today! project focuses on making the spirituality, thinking, practice and experience of the Great Perfection tradition accessible to as many people as possible today.

Texts Adaptation

The traditional texts we still have access to today are in Tibetan. In addition to the traditional translation, an effort to adapt the texts to today’s thinking is being made by the project’s translation group.

Practice Adaptation

The traditional practice was usually done in privileged conditions and often in isolation from the world, something that is increasingly difficult to do today. The practice must adapt to our modern life.

Teachings Adaptation

The traditional teaching context was specific to the Tibetan cultural and linguistic area and it is now essential to adapt it to fit perfectly with our culture and our vision of life.

Rituals Adaptation

Traditional rituals can evolve to meet the way we live today, while preserving the living nature of the act and its profound meaning.

Living Conditions Adaptation

It is absolutely necessary that the practice of Dzogchen also helps us to adapt to the changing living conditions of today and tomorrow.

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In the Dzogchen Today! project, specific working groups are developing a process of reflection and adaptation in five main areas of activity.

Living Conditions Adaptation

Rituals Adaptation

Teachings Adaptation

Texts Adaptation

Practice Adaptation

Adapting Dzogchen

by Maréva Bernard

How to adapt Dzogchen today?

The adaptation of Dzogchen is on the one hand innovation and on the other hand the foundations. To innovate without roots is to forget where we come from and therefore not to know where we are going.

The most crucial thing is to adapt the forms while keeping the heart of the tradition fully alive in these new forms.

Preserving to Adapt, Adapting to Share, Sharing to Preserve. This is the heart of the Dzogchen Today! project

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INTERESTED IN DZOGCHEN ADAPTATION?

If you think, as we do, that the great traditions have a role to play in helping us meet today’s challenges, don’t hesitate to write to us, and we will see together how best you can participate.

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Some examples to get inspired

Beyond Déjà Vu

by Denis Martin | October 9, 2024 | Blog, Reflections on life, What about me? | 0 Comments

In “Beyond Déjà Vu”, Denis tackles the illusory reality and the need for a path to tread even if everything is already perfect at the Base.

I broke the code

by Paul Baffier | September 25, 2024 | Blog, Reflections on life, What about me? | 0 Comments

Nemo’s recent Eurovision victory with the song “I broke the code” has (re)exposed one of the foudations of our recent culture: iconoclasm.

The great natural peace

by Johanne Bernard | September 18, 2024 | Blog, General Introduction to Dzogchen, What about me? | 0 Comments

In “The great natural peace” Johanne talks about the beginning of a path, which is neither a path nor a beginning…

Nenikekamen!

by Grégoire Langouet | July 10, 2024 | Blog, Daily Life Testimonials, Dzogchen Testimonials, Reflections on life, What about me? | 0 Comments

With “Nenikekamen!” Grégoire compares the marathon, the flagship event of the Olympic Games, to the Dzogchen path.

The Era of Everything and of Nothing

by Mila Khyentse | June 12, 2024 | Blog, What about me? | 0 Comments

In “The Era of Everything and of Nothing”, Mila Khyentse talks about the process of extremes in our modern societies from the Dzogchen view.

I do therefore I am

by Damien Brohon | May 15, 2024 | Blog, Reflections on life, What about me? | 0 Comments

In “I do therefore I am”, Damien observes how the Dzogchen view frees us from the illusion of a self fabricated by action.