The view of the Great Perfection is that all sentient beings at this time possess the essence of the sugatas, the foundational Buddha nature; this is the basis of all sentient beings.

When one ascertains the nature as it is, this ascertainment is called the "view". The view then is the primary practice. Maintaining the view for months and years, with enthusiastic effort, is called "meditation". While one is engaged in meditation, the unfailing ability to observe one's behaviour according to cause and result is called the "conduct".

All dharmas, including samsara, nirvana, and the path, have no true, inherent existence whatsoever and are nothing other than the nature of utter openness, or emptiness. This type of meditation will eventually lead to the unmistaken realisation of the non-duality of appearance and emptiness. Appearance does not become void, and voidness does not become appearance. Appearance and voidness are experienced in a state of non-duality.

When the conflicting emotions and their habitual propensities are cleared, you will be able to see that your primordial nature is perfectly pure and that this purity is the nature of existence and the nature of each and every one of us.

When you are able to become free from the stain of dualistic grasping and clinging, through the practice of the view, meditation, and conduct, you will then realise the all-pervasive purity of phenomenal existence and that the primordial nature of each and every sentient being is that of a perfect Buddha.

-- Yangthang Rinpoche