> > I still do TM/Sahaj and TM-Sanyama... > > Vaj: > I tend to use mantra as a semde practice... > 'Semde' is Tibetan for the Sanskrit 'cittavarga': meditation on one's innate awareness, which is it's natural state of pure consciousness (citta) - that's why they called it the 'Mind School' in Tibet.
In Tibetan Dzogchen practice, yoga is just 'being aware of being aware' (rigpa). A bija mantra is treated just like any other thought - they all are realized to be just mental projections of the mind. According Sogyal Rinpoche, meditation is simply resting, undistracted, in the View, once it has been introduced. Meditation states Rinpoche, "is not striving, but naturally becoming assimilated into it" (Sogyal 163). "I like to say we have to begin by babysitting our Rigpa, in the secure environment of meditation." - Sogyal Rinpoche Work cited: 'The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying' By Sogyal Rinpoche HarperCollins, 2002
