{"id":47992,"date":"2022-07-26T14:18:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzogchentoday.org\/?p=47992"},"modified":"2022-11-28T10:41:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T09:41:45","slug":"mountain-yeti-cup-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzogchentoday.org\/mountain-yeti-cup-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mountain Yeti and the cup of tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Feature 14&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;2px||0px|||&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; border_width_bottom=&#8221;1px&#8221; border_color_bottom=&#8221;#d9c6a4&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; module_class=&#8221;column1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;||50px|&#8221; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;&#8221; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; padding_tablet=&#8221;||50px|&#8221; padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221; padding_phone=&#8221;||50px|&#8221;][et_pb_blurb title=&#8221;@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9hdXRob3IiLCJzZXR0aW5ncyI6eyJiZWZvcmUiOiJXcml0dGVuIEJ5ICIsImFmdGVyIjoiIiwibmFtZV9mb3JtYXQiOiJkaXNwbGF5X25hbWUiLCJsaW5rIjoib24iLCJsaW5rX2Rlc3RpbmF0aW9uIjoiYXV0aG9yX2FyY2hpdmUifX0=@&#8221; image=&#8221;https:\/\/dzogchentoday.org\/wp-dzogtodaychen-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/DSCF7828.jpg&#8221; icon_placement=&#8221;left&#8221; image_icon_width=&#8221;33px&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.1&#8243; _dynamic_attributes=&#8221;title,content&#8221; header_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; header_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||-2px|||&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; header_font_size_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; header_font_size_phone=&#8221;18px&#8221; header_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; icon_font_size=&#8221;33px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; icon_color__hover_enabled=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; icon_color__hover=&#8221;#13204d&#8221; title_text=&#8221;DSCF7828&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9hdXRob3JfYmlvIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsiYmVmb3JlIjoiIiwiYWZ0ZXIiOiIifX0=@[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; module_class=&#8221;column2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_blurb title=&#8221;@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9jYXRlZ29yaWVzIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsiYmVmb3JlIjoiIiwiYWZ0ZXIiOiIiLCJsaW5rX3RvX3Rlcm1fcGFnZSI6Im9uIiwic2VwYXJhdG9yIjoiIHwgIiwiY2F0ZWdvcnlfdHlwZSI6ImNhdGVnb3J5In19@&#8221; use_icon=&#8221;on&#8221; font_icon=&#8221;&#xe08c;||divi||400&#8243; icon_color=&#8221;#e2e2e2&#8243; icon_placement=&#8221;left&#8221; image_icon_width=&#8221;33px&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.6&#8243; _dynamic_attributes=&#8221;title&#8221; header_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; header_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; body_text_color=&#8221;#967b5d&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px|&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||26px|||&#8221; header_font_size_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; header_font_size_phone=&#8221;18px&#8221; header_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; icon_font_size=&#8221;33px&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; icon_color__hover=&#8221;#13204d&#8221; icon_color__hover_enabled=&#8221;on&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>In this article, Johanne talks about the encounter with Dzogchen: how it can happen and what the introduction can look like. A bit like the mountain yeti with a cup of tea!<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;right&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||2px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;right&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;2px||1px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_code _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; positioning=&#8221;fixed&#8221; position_origin_f=&#8221;center_right&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;|30px|||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][DISPLAY_ULTIMATE_PLUS][\/et_pb_code][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px||true&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"notion-enable-hover\" data-token-index=\"0\" data-reactroot=\"\">How does one encounter Dzogchen?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>You are sitting, in a conference room or at home, you are listening to a teaching, or you are reading a text. You are focused, sometimes <span class=\"discussion-level-1 discussion-id-551438ca-0854-4049-9133-3b418d5b2c37 notion-enable-hover\" data-token-index=\"1\" data-reactroot=\"\">a little sleepy<\/span> if it is just after the meal. Everything is going on as usual, except that, without you really being aware of it, your perceptions are subtly modified: the space becomes wider, clearer too, the details are more precise&#8230; It is different but not clear enough to pay attention. And then suddenly, for a moment, there is no longer anything. And from this void, an experience emerges. An experience totally unknown, and yet at the same time familiar. An experience so brief that you wonder if you have even lived it, while the state <span class=\"discussion-level-1 discussion-id-1835f926-67e9-447b-bf18-06dfea835c7f notion-enable-hover\" data-token-index=\"3\" data-reactroot=\"\">born<\/span> from this experience is still present. What happened?<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text quote_border_weight=&#8221;0px&#8221; quote_border_color=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0)&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.6&#8243; text_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; link_font=&#8221;|100|||on|||#000000|&#8221; link_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; quote_font=&#8221;Cormorant Garamond|700|||||||&#8221; quote_text_color=&#8221;#bf9e77&#8243; quote_line_height=&#8221;1.3em&#8221; header_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; header_2_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; header_3_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; header_3_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; header_4_letter_spacing=&#8221;12px&#8221; header_5_font=&#8221;|300|||||||&#8221; header_5_text_color=&#8221;#bfbfbf&#8221; header_5_letter_spacing=&#8221;12px&#8221; header_6_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; header_6_letter_spacing=&#8221;12px&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|||||&#8221; quote_font_size_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; quote_font_size_phone=&#8221;&#8221; quote_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you ask people around you how they discovered Dzogchen, each one will surely give you a different context: they discovered it through an article, a friend who talked about it, a word in a dictionary&#8230; But all of them will talk to you at some point about the same thing: an experience they had, as unexpected as it was striking. They will tell you that they find difficult to talk about it, that there is no word for it, but that it was at that moment that, for the first time, they really encountered Dzogchen.<\/p>\n<p>In the Dzogchen tradition, we speak of an experience on the nature of the mind.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; specialty=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;4px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text module_id=&#8221;back-patrul&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_3_text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; header_3_text_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; header_4_text_color=&#8221;rgba(255,255,255,0.73)&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#121516&#8243; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||-200px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;10px|10px|10px|10px|false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;The nature of the mind, when we enter the path of Dzogchen, at the beginning, it is a bit like the Yeti of the mountains: we hear a lot about it, but we have not yet met it (&#8230;)&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; specialty_columns=&#8221;2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/dzogchentoday.org\/wp-dzogtodaychen-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cup-of-tea.png&#8221; title_text=&#8221;cup-of-tea&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_fullwidth_image][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px||true&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.6&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>The Mountain Yeti<\/h3>\n<p>The nature of the mind, when we enter the path of Dzogchen, at the beginning, it is a bit like the Yeti of the mountains: we hear a lot about it, but we have not yet met it, and deep down, we do not really know what it looks like, or even if it exists. Sometimes you think you see it, but you&#8217;re not quite sure&#8230; You say to yourself &#8220;Oh, this is it!&#8221; And then not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>The cup of tea<\/h3>\n<p>My Dzogchen master says: &#8221; When we experience the nature of the mind, we know it !&#8221; He also says: &#8221; The experience on the nature of the mind can happen at any time, but especially when we do not expect it: when we get up to make a cup of tea, or when we take, by surprise, a door in the face.&#8221; He also says, finally: &#8220;The nature of the mind is not encountered, it is spontaneously present.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My master is very good at pointing out the Mountain Yeti&#8230; Because, let&#8217;s start from the beginning. The meeting with Dzogchen, it is above all the meeting with a holder of Dzogchen. Someone who is able to show you the Dzogchen view directly, through his own experience and integration. 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