Lama Wangdor from Rewalsar who was a Kagyu Tibetan Lama Came to Mt. Shasta in the 1980s and gave about 100 of us Dzogchen

 I had met Lama Wangdor in Rewalsar, India. His Kagyu Lamasery was watching over the melted footprints of Padmasambhava into the rock above lake Rewalsar then in 1986 when I went there early in the Year. I put my Size 14 Vasques Cascade Boot into one of the Padmasambhava footprints and it fit perfectly so I laughed and how amazing this was. So, the Monk who opened the door to the building surrounding these sacred footprints was amazed and so took me to see and meet Lama Wangdor who then gave my family and I tea which is a sign of a spiritual multi-life connection between the lama and you and your family I think (this is what I have been told by other lamas. So, within a year or two of 1986 Lama Wangdor Came to the U.S. and gave about 100 of us Dzogchen in Mt. Shasta which is one of the Supreme practices of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Dzogchen means "Great Perfection" in Tibetan. It is a high-level practice in Tibetan Buddhism (mostly the Nyingma school) and the Bön tradition. It teaches that your true nature is already pure, clear, and awake, and you only need to recognize this natural state instead of trying to create it. 

Core Concepts

Base: The primordial, unchanging state of the mind, which is empty, clear, and naturally compassionate.
Rigpa: Pure, non-dual awareness that knows itself and underlies all experience.
View, Practice, Conduct: The framework of Dzogchen, where you see the truth of the mind, meditate to rest in it, and act from that awareness in daily life
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Main Practices

Trekchö: "Cutting through" solid confusion and mental chatter to rest directly in naked awareness.
Tögal: "Crossing over" or "leap forward," an advanced practice using light and vision to dissolve ordinary reality into luminous awareness. 

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