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 play in.
   -- Michaela Haas, from "Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the
      Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West"
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+~
+Drawing from Longchenpa, Jamgon Kongtrul explains the method of awakening in
+the Dzog-chen system, calling it the “Liberation as Ever-Perfect,” as the
+primordial buddha Samantabhadra...  Liberation as Ever-Perfect does not refer
+to the liberation of a buddha that has occurred in the past, such as that of
+Buddha Sakyamuni, but to the way in which countless beings are liberated right
+now and will continue to be liberated in the future simply by realizing their
+primordial purity.  The basis, the path, and the ultimate result in this
+system are all of a singular, undifferentiated nature: total, pure awareness.
+Thus, the primordial freedom that one seeks to attain by practicing the
+spiritual path is something that one already possesses.  Intrinsic freedom is
+itself the path that leads to the actualization of the goal.
+  -- from the Translator's Introduction, "The Treasury of Knowledge: Book One,
+     Myriad Worlds", by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye