"This book provides a lucid introduction to the high existential reality of Dzogchen. In a dozen chapters Dzogchen is introduced as a mind-yoga that trancends the Buddhism that nurtures it. This is the Dzogchen that is taking root in the West at the stance that is required as an existential panacea and a guarantee for survival of the human race. The notion that it is our ordinary conciousness, already present, available to all, that is our 'all-good' nature itself, seems to be at the heart of Dzogchen. Free from its religio-buddhist context, Dzogchen as presented here stands alone as the mindset that can give here-and-now clarity."--