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"What is arousing bodhicitta according to the uncommon approach of Dzogchen? This is something that is not even mentioned in the other vehicles. It is 'summoning forth or evoking mind as wisdom'. There is a difference between 'generating bodhicitta using the mind' and 'summoning forth or evoking the mind as wisdom'. What is the uniqueness of generating the heart of the enlightened mind 'as wisdom'? It begins from the same premise as the motivation of the sutra vehicle, from the realization that 'all sentient beings who do not realize sunyata and who are deluded wander endlessly in the ocean of samsara'. But the key point here is that all these sentient beings are recognized as having within themselves inherent wisdom, self-abiding dharmakaya--the self-knowing rigpa, the unity of space and wisdom, that is the actual lama who is the all-pervasive sovereign, the glorious primordial buddha Samantabhadra. That actually resides in us all, and so we wish: 'May I be able to bring all sentient beings to the level where they realize this'.
*"You could also call this intrinsic wisdom 'self-arising rigpa' or 'buddha nature', but whatever term you use, according to Dzogchen it exists spontaneously within all sentient beings, without ever wavering or fluctuating. It is because they fail to see or realize this that beings are deluded and cling dualistically to concepts of 'self' and 'others'. So our aspiration is to bring them to the primordially pure level of Samantabhadra. However, this is not the attainment of enlightenment as something separate, or some buddhahood to be achieved, as it were, from outside, since it already exists within them. Rather, it is a question of actualizing the wisdom that they already possess within themselves."

Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche
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