GUIDED MEDITATION ON CLEAR SEEING

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche leads a short guided contemplation, with the option of writing your answers down. He poses a series of questions in turn: which emotion is most difficult for you, how often it comes up, what makes it hard to work with, what story you tell yourself when it arises, and how long it typically lasts. He asks whether you can step back from it once you notice it, and closes by suggesting you sum up what you found in a short sentence. He describes it as a brief sample of a longer practice.