On Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 May 2026, Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche taught on Trekchö in The Hague, following a text by Longchenpa. Two days, from 09:30 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 17:00.
Trekchö, translated as "cutting through", is a core practice within the Dzogchen tradition. It provides the instructions needed to recognise the mind's original purity and to rest in that natural state without conceptual effort.
What gets cut
The Tibetan word evokes a tightly bound bundle. Cut the rope and the whole thing falls open at once. Nothing has to be removed piece by piece.
What falls away is the apparent solidity of our experience. A thought feels like a thing, a mood like a state you are stuck in, a judgement about yourself like a fact. Trekchö does not fight any of that. It looks for where these things are, and finds nothing.
That is what makes the practice hard to describe without betraying it. In ordinary meditation you do something: you count, you follow the breath, you bring the attention back. Here, every attempt to manufacture the right state is already the misstep. At the same time, nothing is lazier than drifting off and calling it resting. Between those two lies a narrow passage, and there is no instruction on paper for it. This is why the teaching is given orally, by someone who has walked the path.
Longchenpa's text
The weekend followed a text by Longchenpa (1308-1364), the master who organised the Dzogchen teachings and set them down in writing. His work is still the framework within which this practice is taught. Reading these texts, you notice how little has changed in seven hundred years about what gets in a practitioner's way.
Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche
Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche was born in 1980 in Bumthang, central Bhutan. At the age of eight he was recognised by H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as the reincarnation of Adzom Gyalse Gyurme Dorje. He completed the nine-year training in Buddhist philosophy at Shechen Philosophical College and received the title of Khenpo in 2010. He teaches at Shechen College in Nepal and guides monks in three-year retreat in Bhutan.
More about him and the lineage this teaching comes from can be found on the Teachers page.
Continuing the practice
In our tradition, anyone wanting to go further after a weekend like this begins with Ngöndro, the preliminary practice that lays the foundation Dzogchen rests on. We meet for it every Saturday in Hoofddorp. The full programme is on the Programme page.