Primordial Grace - Dzogchen Thogal

Primordial Grace - Dzogchen Thogal Teachings, poetry and artwork by Robert Olds

Full Moon Blessing May illumined Hearts stand witness to the Beatitude of BeingThe Primordial Joy inherent in the arisin...
02/01/2026

Full Moon Blessing

May illumined Hearts stand witness to the Beatitude of Being

The Primordial Joy inherent in the arising waves of Living Light

And the Grace of the Sun shining through the dewdrop of our Home

To Ignite a Prayer within the sacred Circle of Creation

For All Beings to continue to Walk in Beauty within Origin’s Blessings

Through Earth Mother’s EyeRemember the Kinship with Ancient Gestures Countless moments below the Threshold of Culture Pr...
01/26/2026

Through Earth Mother’s Eye
Remember the Kinship with Ancient Gestures
Countless moments below the Threshold of Culture
Presence of Innumerable Beings
Digging Weaving Secreting
Cellular lineages carried in the Holy fluids of Earth
Timeless Oceans transmitted Endlessly
On the Sea of Mother’s Eye
Flows through countless Hands and Feet
Beings shaped within the fluidity of Light
The Fertile Essence of Inner Radiance
The aura of Ancientness expressed in Union
Of spheres riding upon the Sky of Mother’s Eye
The Circle, just as it is

Remember and Return
To Our Mother Our Home Our Refuge

Bonfires in the NightOur Children's feet are held in the FireAs Earth becomes a Prison PlanetA Prayer Cries out in the B...
01/17/2026

Bonfires in the Night
Our Children's feet are held in the Fire
As Earth becomes a Prison Planet

A Prayer Cries out in the Burning
Of Illumined Presence
And Aware Heart’s Witness

Returning to Origin’s Heart
With Blended Tears
For Radiance is in the Rain

And Toss a Stone into the Basin of Origin
Creating Rings on Bright Water
The Circle’s Fluidity of Light

Making Every Step you take
In the Ashes of Our Time
A Prayer for All Life and Earth’s Renewal

The Earth Refuge

Living as a PrayerWith all the Love  the Joy and the SorrowTo the Luminous Heart of Calling RingsRecognized deep in your...
12/31/2025

Living as a Prayer
With all the Love the Joy and the Sorrow
To the Luminous Heart of Calling Rings
Recognized deep in your Heart
A Presence
An Inward Translucent Focus
Quiet Plain
A Stone that had been Tossed
Finds its place in the Luminous Depth
Realizing the Source of its own Rings
To Flow within a Radiant Field
Seeing with the Eyes of Pure Being
To a Union that has never been Separate
A Luminous Ring of Presence

Many Blessings for the New Year!

Solstice PrayerMay the Sun of your HeartRise upon the Rainbow Fluidity of All BeingTo Breathe in the WholenessAlive at e...
12/20/2025

Solstice Prayer

May the Sun of your Heart
Rise upon the Rainbow Fluidity of All Being
To Breathe in the Wholeness
Alive at every moment
And send out waves of Eternal Love
To cool the heat
Heal the wounds
And Set the Seed in the Hearts of All
To a new beginning for this Loving Sphere of Beauty
Abiding in the Primordial constant of Grace

Within the grief of the setting Sun
The Rays still Speak
The Spectrum of inherent Beauty and Love
In the failing breath of our times
Lies the spark of Unlimited Grace

The Living Prayer
Peaceful Cross of Openness
Offering of All Knowing
And Rhythm of Pure Being
The Seed of an Eternal Sun
Waits In the Heart’s of All

May we Live again as a Prayer
In the Simplicity and Grace of the Circle

IWalking Blindfolded in Wide Angle VisionWithin the Slow Rhythms of the Earth Helps to close off the Mind’s Interference...
12/06/2025

I

Walking Blindfolded in Wide Angle Vision
Within the Slow Rhythms of the Earth
Helps to close off the Mind’s Interference
The Boundaries maintained by your Eyes
And the Learned Response to Perception
Surrendering Solidity Certainty Distance Motion
Flowing and Continuous
No coming no going no here no there
Loosening the Knots
Opening to a Timelessness
Of Heart’s Perception
Becoming the Song and Response
Arising moment by moment
Remembrance of the Lost Way of Seeing
Light of the Heart Guiding You
To the Presence and Connectivity of All Being

II

Before the Spheres of Radiance
No All No Light No All No Being
Essence
Never Ending Never Beginning
Neither Present Nor Void
Inherent Will and Intent of Pure Potential
Yet an Extinction of any Absolute
Before Space
And the Arc of Radiance
The Threshold of a Spark Held Unfired
Horizon
A Resonant Tone to the Prophecy of Being
And The Fires of Becoming
And the Perception of Being
First Grace of Radiance
Past Present Future Living as One
Spiral Singularity of All
Like Seeds upon a Sunflower
Rings of Radiance
A Timeless Encirclement

III

The Sacred Primal Joy of the Circle
And the Presence of All Potential
The Remanent of First Grace Seeded in your Heart

The Prism of Wide Angle Vision - Light and the Spectrum of LoveWide angle vision allows in all the Prismatic ColorsWhich...
11/19/2025

The Prism of Wide Angle Vision - Light and the Spectrum of Love

Wide angle vision allows in all the Prismatic Colors
Which then floods the mind and opens the Heart
Wide angle vision opens you beyond the refracted prism of our visual world
Opening your Heart to reconnect with the deeper qualities of Origin
The Spirit that moves through All Things
And if you are Open and Allowing,
Origin will then draw you further into Openness of Original Heart
Transcending your Ordinary perception
The eyes then become the Prism
For Light to touch the Heart Seed

An Unconditional Love exists as a Spectrum
Radiating out of the Intent of Essence
A Primordial Purity manifesting the display of Radiance
And a Seed of this Light rests in the Heart’s of All Beings
This is the Primordial Seed
Planted at the First Grace of Radiance
A Spontaneously arising Spectrum of Intent
Beyond all notions of time and space
This Intent, this Wholeness of Being
Encompasses Empathy, Compassion, and Love
Waves of Living Light that radiate out of Origin's Heart

This Loving Wholeness is reflected in the Colors of Origin
The White light of Radiance and First Grace
Offers a Lucid, Fluid, and Reflective Openness
Red offers to Kindle and Enliven
Bringing Inspiration and Creativity
The Color of Yellow-Gold
Offers a Balancing, Nurturing Interconnectedness
Green Light offers the Fresh, Quick, Active
Manifestation of Life
The Color of Blue Light brings an Expansive
Vast, and All Encompassing Space

This Spectrum of Love is Relational, Touching All
This is a Primordial Love
A Love of Expanse
A Dance of Living Beauty
A Love within the Song of Stars
Remembrance of this Love
In our daily life
Is Living Life as a Prayer

A New Moon Blessing

dzogchen-thogal.org
Acircleisdrawn.org

11/04/2025

Primordial Grace is a guidebook for to the natural wholeness of the complete path, reuniting with Original Heart or Rigpa and the Thogal practice as a prayer for all life.
Primordial Grace is offered as a seed of hope. Within a seed is the energy to live and grow in the rubble of this age and reestablish human connection with the primordial grace of Earth, Original Heart (Rigpa), and Thogal Visions of Radiance.

Bare of Leaves Branches Straining to cover the SkyLeaves having Fallen AwayAlone and Wounded Eyes Searching the Skies Le...
10/30/2025

Bare of Leaves
Branches Straining to cover the Sky
Leaves having Fallen Away
Alone and Wounded
Eyes Searching the Skies

Let Go like Fallen Leaves
Upon the Earthen soil
Waiting through Winters Dark Night
Origin Watching
With Eyes of a Wolf’s Spirit

With the Hunter’s Intent
Catch the Heart of All
In an Evanescent Pursuit
To an Embrace that is not Held
A Wholeness that is Essence

When Branches begin to Fall Away
Worn White and Smoothed by an Endless Sea
Remain Waiting in the wilderness
With the Calling and Spirit’s Aware Eyes
Awaiting an Infinite Breath of Primordial Joy

Fall blessings

Dzogchen-thogal.org
Acircleisdrawn.org

10/21/2025

Primordial Grace, Earth
Original Heart, and the Visionary Path of Radiance
by Robert and Rachel Olds

Primordial Grace offers the natural wholeness of the complete path, practices for returning to an active awareness of a visionary world along with the transcendent openness of Original Heart, as well as, the most clear and detailed instruction of the Four Visions of Radiance or Thogal.

Primordial Grace is offered as a seed of hope. Within a seed is the energy to live and grow in the rubble of this age and reestablish a living connection within the natural world.

Primordial Grace includes:
Meditations in Nature
Meditation Practices of Letting Go
Blindfolded Walking
Meditation practices for Opening Your Heart
Dreaming
Death
Illumination
Vision Quest
Crossing the Pass
Meditation practice of Original Heart
And The Four Visions of Radiance (Thogal)

Primordial Grace is available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats
amazon.com
amazon.ca
amazon.fr
Audible.com, Audible.ca

Other books by Robert and Rachel Olds
Water Drawn Before Sunrise - a spiritual memoir
Luminous Heart of Radiance, Drawings of the Togal Visions
Distance Becomes Sky
Walking in Beauty for Water - Poetry and Essays

dzogchen-thogal.org
acircleisdrawn.org

10/20/2025

In the Stream of Beauty
Comes the Light

With a Lucid Heart
Released within Light’s Blessings

To be an Offering
Within the Beatitude of Being

Full Moon Blessing!Life arising like a Luminous Blue Damselfly Alighting upon a Heart’s StreamOrigin’s Rays creating a p...
10/06/2025

Full Moon Blessing!

Life arising like a Luminous Blue Damselfly
Alighting upon a Heart’s Stream
Origin’s Rays creating a perfect shadow of Lucid Wings
So delicate So perfect
An organic web of strength and Purpose
And suddenly off and away

Passing On

Realizing the Intent within One’s Heart’s Stream
Aware and Blended within Origin’s Heart
And when the Intent is Fulfilled
The Ties loosen into the Arms of Joy
In the Light of Spacious Presence
The Humbleness of Returning Home
The Simplicity of Water into water

A Remembrance of the All Encompassing Wonder of Being

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