Four chokshyaks 四全放／四直定

Four chokshyaks (Tib. ཅོག་བཞག་བཞི་, Wyl. cog bzhag bzhi) — the ‘four ways of leaving things as they are’ in Dzogchen practice.
大圓滿立斷竅訣：身如山全放、眼如海全放、行為自解全放、覺性任運全放。另譯「四直定」：見量如山直定，修量如海直定，行量顯現直定，果量覺性直定。

“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.”

"To be freely resting like a mountain is a measure of view; To be freely resting like an ocean is a measure of meditation; To be freely resting in appearances is a measure of conduct; To be freely resting in pure presence is a measure of fruition. The being that knows these four modes in full measure Knows the definitive meaning of the Great Perfection." ~ from Jigme Lingpa's "The Yeshe Lama: Jigme Lingpa's Dzogchen Atiyoga Manual"

Alternative Translations

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

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