If skillful means is the spontaneous compassionate activity of the Unborn, then the field in which that activity appears must be understood in its true nature. Otherwise, appearance is mistaken for fabrication, and the luminous display of awakening is reduced to a collection of produced things. For this reason the great Dzogchen teaching introduces the term rang snang — self-arising display — not as a philosophical position, but as a direct indication of how all phenomena actually are. read more