Contemplation and Non-Doing: Solitude, Absorption and Letting-be as Structural Principles of Contemplative Religious Practice
Entangled Religions June 18, 2026 Dylan Esler
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Dylan Esler
2 papers in the library · publishing 2025-2026
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The Notion of ‘Effortlessness’ in the Dzogchen Commentaries by Nubchen Sangye Yeshe
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer November 7, 2025 Dylan Esler
Effortlessness is a key theme in the self-understanding of the emergent Dzogchen tradition's approach to contemplative practice, as explored in the commentaries by Nubchen Sangye Yeshe (ca. 844–mid-tenth century). The work examines the apparent paradox of learning the meditative skill of uncontrived effortlessness, where the process of meditative training and the content or ideal of this training are supposed to coalesce.