The goal of Dzogchen is the direct experience of this basis, called rigpa (Sanskrit: vidyā). There are spiritual practices taught in various Dzogchen systems for discovering rigpa.

I think of the Natural primordial state and then there is the mind.

The mind is both good and bad and hard to deal with in many aspects of life.

The mind tells us things like "we love this person or that person and then we are sad when they die."

However, the Natural primordial state is "PURE BEING".

I find I can most easily reach this pure being in places like Mt. Shasta up on the mountain or in forest glades with streams running through them around the same altitude as the City of Mt. Shasta.

I have also experienced this "PURE BEING" at places like Bunny Flat, The Sierra Club emergency lodge for Climbers at Tree line and Panther Meadows and Panther Spring and even on the Summit of Mt. Shasta.

However, once you have experienced the pure being which is separate from mind you will want to stay there forever in Bliss and enlightenment.

Mind is useful in physical survival and for procreation of the species and for raising children.

 However, the Natural Pure Primordial Being is a bliss beyond words likely why it is said that:

"The way that can be thought or spoken of is not the true path or the true way." 

For this primordial natural state of being is the hum of the universe in pure being every where and every when.

 By God's Grace