Four chokshyaks

Four chokshyaks (Tib. ཅོག་བཞག་བཞི་, Wyl. cog bzhag bzhi) — the ‘four ways of leaving things as they are’ in Dzogchen practice.

“View, like a mountain, leave it as-it-is.

Meditation, like an ocean: leave it as-it-is.

Action, appearances: leave them as they are.

Fruition, unaltered: leave it as-it-is.”

The last one is sometimes given as “Fruition, rigpa: leave it as it is.”

Alternative Translations

• fourfold freely resting (Erik Pema Kunsang)
• four methods of settling imperturbably (Richard Barron/Lama Chökyi Nyima)
• four states of imperturbable rest (Glossary from Dzogchen, by HHDL)
• four ways of leaving things in their natural simplicity (Glossary from Dzogchen, by HHDL)