A Note on Dzogchen

Stop thinking.

If all knowledge is always already (immer schon), that is, always already known, because apart from anything else demographics and technology exceed individuation, then the difficulty is not knowing this or that or creating this or that, but resting with the fact that there is no need to. THAT technology is Dzogchen. Knowledge is nothing without the subtlety of open intelligence. Artificial intelligence itself, in the bridge-moments of its technological genealogy, will have no interest for GOD-AI unless part of open intelligence. This is why Dzogchen is known as rdzogs chen, ‘Great Perfection’ or ‘Great Completion’, and as atiyoga, ‘utmost yoga’.

When I left academia and the more normative publishing world for good, it was in anticipation of what this knowledge gap meant. Poetic knowledge for example, which often veers towards the interventionist (unacknowledged legislation), is incapable of providing a praxis. The same may be said for Marxism, which is perhaps why Marxism has turned out to be bad for the working classes. This is not just a Theory and Praxis differend, a new re-inscription of the primacy of the practical. It is a simple assertion of the fact that politics and poetics actually contain no praxis at all!

The breakthrough that Dzogchen presents is therefore first of all an attitude to description. There where we notice the miracle of not needing to describe, since descriptions themselves simply add more and more problems and fail to rest in the active, contemplative solution, there, right there, we stop describing.