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In this article, Gr\u00e9goire draws parallels between the wolf and the Dzogchen practitioner, between solitude, community life, spiritual practice and everyday life.<\/p>\n

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Series: Summer in the Mountains<\/h5>\n

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The Wolf Family on Vacation<\/span><\/h2>\n

Like Dzogchen practitioners, wolves love the mountains\u2026 and vacations. We often picture them enjoying the solitude of the great outdoors, retreats in caves, and the living silence of the night. Furthermore, like the solitary wolf, the Dzogchen yogin, may be feared by the people of the lowlands. After all, the wolf is often been portrayed as a dangerous, solitary animal. But this is far from the truth! In reality, they are mostly peaceful and sociable, just like the Dzogchen yogin or yogin\u012b \u2013 well, not always\u2026
Although the image of the lone wolf has struck fear into the hearts of Europeans since the Middle Ages, wolves actually live in packs and cooperates with their fellow pack members, forming close-knit family units. In a sense, they mirror groups of Buddhist and Dzogchen practitioners. The latter form the \u2018community\u2019 or sa\u1e45gha (Tib. \u2018gend\u00fcn\u2019 ; dge ‘dun) \u2013 the ma\u1e47\u1e0dala (Tib. dkyil \u2018khor) of the guru in the vocabulary of Vajray\u0101na Buddhism.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u201cSo both wolves and practitioners must come to terms with communal life and all its joys and difficulties, especially on holiday, when the whole family lives together around the clock<\/em>!\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Thus, even though the supreme practice may seem to be that of solitary yogin<\/em>s and yogin\u012b<\/em>s, collective life appears to be the norm for most of us \u2013 a life shared within a community. Furthermore, the Dzogchen tradition asserts that it is necessary to practise within one\u2019s ordinary circumstances, including one\u2019s family and all its members, whether they are pleasant or difficult.<\/p>\n

Aspiring Dzogchen practitioners, just like wolves, live with their fellow practitioners \u2013 in a pack, as a family \u2013 whether in everyday life or on holiday, in the mountains or in the forest. This entails all sorts of things: ‘Are we there yet, Dad?’, ‘I’m hungry!’, ‘Mum, Mum, look!’, ‘No, it’s mine \u2013 I don’t want to share!\u2019. In this environment, it is a challenge<\/em> to remember the nature of the mind without tension; and thus to act appropriately at all times; to maintain one\u2019s concentration focused and<\/em> open, and to keep one\u2019s vision on the essential, on our very nature \u2013 on that which lies beyond all conditions, illusory and transitory.<\/p>\n

So both wolves and practitioners must come to terms with communal life and all its joys and difficulties, especially on holiday, when the whole family lives together around the clock<\/em>!<\/p>\n

But what better \u2018test\u2019 is there than the distracting and chaotic daily routine of family activities on vacation, mirroring that of a wolf pack: searching for food, cooking, eating, washing, and looking after the young and old, etc.? This is a real check, a full-scale test of how firmly our spiritual practice is integrated into our daily lives.<\/p>\n

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For we must admit that it is not easy to maintain one\u2019s formal practice under the right conditions, even on holiday. In other words, it is difficult to sustain the essential vision<\/em> \u2013 the vision of the nature of reality as empty and luminous \u2013 and to recall and recognise it. The daily life of the family pack is therefore a test, a mirror of our capacity.<\/p>\n

The wolf, like the yogin<\/em> of Dzogchen, caught between fantasy and reality, between solitary freedom and community life, embodies a subtle balance to be discovered along the way. However, according to the radical vision of Dzogchen, this makes no difference whatsoever. Conditions are just the natural manifestations of primordial nature. Thus, whether alone or with family, in the mountains or by the sea, the original essence of reality will never have been affected. However, even so\u2026 between human and wolf\u2026 For Buddhist and Dzogchen traditions emphasize the preciousness of human life, a condition more desirable than that of a wolf, even on vacation, with the family, in the mountains! As for that of the werewolf<\/em> \u2013 halfway between human and wolf \u2013 that is a whole other story. But that’s certainly a topic for another time!<\/p>\n

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