The Cycle of Night and Day (Namkhai Norbu)
Best Dzogchen Contemplation Guide
[My 5-star Amazon review of “The Cycle of Night and Day: An Essential Tibetan Text on the Practice of Contemplation” by Namkhai Norbu.]
“The Cycle of Day and Night” is exactly what the book’s subtitle says it is: “An Essential Tibetan Text on the Practice of Contemplation.” If you are serious about learning how to practice (or improve your practice of) Dzogchen, the highest, or most direct and immediate, form of Tibetan meditation, then consider this text “must” reading. I’ve been reading spiritual books for forty-plus years, and I have not encountered a better Buddhist text on contemplation. I teach meditation, and I tell my students to get this book.
Although this is an excellent contemplation text, it is not without faults. First, Namkhai Norbu does not deepy grok , and therefore does not properly explicate, the Trikaya. Second, “The Cycle of Day and Night” is only a Mind teaching, and does not address Energy and its conductivity in relation to the en-Light-enment project.
The book is clearly written and nicely edited (by John Reynolds), and once you “digest” its message and are able to practice Dzogchen--nondual primal awareness--you’ll be on the road to Buddhahood—though no one can tell you when you’ll arrive there.
[My 5-star Amazon review of “The Cycle of Night and Day: An Essential Tibetan Text on the Practice of Contemplation” by Namkhai Norbu.]
“The Cycle of Day and Night” is exactly what the book’s subtitle says it is: “An Essential Tibetan Text on the Practice of Contemplation.” If you are serious about learning how to practice (or improve your practice of) Dzogchen, the highest, or most direct and immediate, form of Tibetan meditation, then consider this text “must” reading. I’ve been reading spiritual books for forty-plus years, and I have not encountered a better Buddhist text on contemplation. I teach meditation, and I tell my students to get this book.
Although this is an excellent contemplation text, it is not without faults. First, Namkhai Norbu does not deepy grok , and therefore does not properly explicate, the Trikaya. Second, “The Cycle of Day and Night” is only a Mind teaching, and does not address Energy and its conductivity in relation to the en-Light-enment project.
The book is clearly written and nicely edited (by John Reynolds), and once you “digest” its message and are able to practice Dzogchen--nondual primal awareness--you’ll be on the road to Buddhahood—though no one can tell you when you’ll arrive there.
