Rigbai Kujyug

Abstract

There are a few things about this book that I want to point out. Firstly, although the layout of this book is such that the short commentary immediately follows the translation of the original text, readers unfamiliar with the Dzogchen teaching might find the explanation in the short commentary too condensed. Readers are, therefore, recommended to proceed to theiilong commentary after reading the General Introduction, before returning to the short commentary for a summary. The Six Vajra Verses can be divided into three parts of two verses, each explaining the base, the path and the fruit of the Dzogchen teaching, although ultimately when one fully understands what Dzogchen is, all three are one and the same thing: our primordial state, the real condition as it is. Because of the integral nature of the subject, it is practically impossible to use arbitrary divisions for the explanation of the different·aspects of the teaching. As a result, the long commentary is mostly continuous, ithout sub-divisions. I have left it to the readers to findout the different aspects of Dzogchen teaching for themselves,providing only brief indications at the top of the pages.