There is a stillness that doesn’t come from effort .It doesn’t arrive at the end of striving. It flows—unbidden, ungraspable—like water falling from an unseen source.This is cascading serenity.Not the peace of withdrawal, but the stillness that descends when we are no longer trying to control the flow. A spiritual tranquility that pours through us when all resistance dissolves, and we stand open beneath the falling sky of awareness.

The Waterfall Within

In Dzogchen, we are often reminded not to fixate on states of mind but to notice their true nature: impermanent, luminous, self-liberating. Serenity, then, is not a goal but a glimpse—of what we are when the turbulence of grasping ends.To experience cascading serenity is to feel grace move downward through our being. It is as though the higher dimensions of consciousness descend into form, washing through our body, mind, and heart like a sacred stream.No longer clinging to outcomes or identities, we become like a clear mountain lake: still, reflective, and unpolluted by effort.

Descending, Not Ascending

Many spiritual paths teach ascension—toward the heavens, the crown, the cosmic. Dzogchen, though vast, is also deeply grounding. The pathless path asks us to descend into what is already here: this moment, this breath, this knowing presence.Serenity cascades when we finally let ourselves fall into the now.The waterfall does not ask where it is going. It simply surrenders to gravity, and in so doing, fulfills its nature.So too must we surrender—not to passivity, but to presence.

The View of Grace

Dzogchen’s radical view is that everything—every sound, every thought, every emotion—is already part of the display of awareness. There is nothing to purify or change, only to see clearly.When that view stabilizes, serenity flows naturally, not from suppression or retreat, but from intimacy with things as they are. The struggle stops. The stream returns to its source, even as it pours into the world.This is grace.Grace is not granted. It is recognized. It was never absent.

An Invitation

Sit with yourself today not as a task, but as a waterfall might sit in its streambed. Let thoughts fall. Let feelings rinse through your body. Let this breath arrive like rain.Notice what’s always been here, beneath the noise.A cascading serenity.Soft, silent, sovereign.And perhaps, just beneath it—A presence that watches it all…Untouched, unborn,And infinite.

May this offering ripple peace through the waters of your world.