Jean-Luc Achard on integration:

"Oh yes there are plenty of things to do. Rushen for instance in order to clearl
y deepen this knowledge and have a direct experience that is not produced by our
discursiveness. Then, the training of the 3 doors. Then specific techniques suc
h as the Four Natural Accesses to properly access the state of Trekcho. You seem
to imply that there is nothing to do: there are things to do to enter this stat
e, and once you're in it you just cultivate it by integrating other things (afte
r having become familiarized with it). This appears to be not understood at all
in this discussion. When you are in this state, you just have to stabilize it. T
his takes the whole path to do so! (Don't bypass it because you don't like it, i
t's precisely like this, one has to practice, period). You may state otherwise b
ut this is not Dzogchen anymore. This is Chan. We don't accept Chan as having a
definitive perspective on the natural state in Dzogchen. This is a sutra-based a
pproach which is at best dualistic (the 2 truths) or at worst nihilistic (don't
do nothing). Then, what is happening in the meditation? Nothing, nothing at all.
No integration. Once you are stable in the experience of the natural, you reali
ze that this experience is uncompounded, unaltered, etc., and you don't have to
do anything to correct it. But in general everybody (including our masters at a
stage in their life) regresses from it. So one has to become familiar with it, t
hrough contemplation practice. But this contemplation practice is aimless if it
just mean sitting and doing nothing. That means that each time you quit your sit
ting meditation, you are regressing from that state because ordinary life is par
ticularly good at putting you back into an ego-centered life. But, if you want t
o integrate the natural state in a non-regressive way, you have to do something
(otherwise it does not do it by itselt just for you). And integration is the ver
y purpose of Trekcho otherwise your Thogel is not going to go very far. So again
, i'm sorry to repeat it, but in while in the Trekcho state, you have to integra
te 4 things (please Jax learn this by heart, I wrote it several times but you by
-pass it constantly whereas it is the core of Trekcho practice and of all Dzogch
en practices):
1. integration of the activities of the 3 doors (there are specific things to in
tegrate here, very precise),
2. integration of the six sense consciousnesses (also specific things here too),
3. integration of thoughts (same as above), and
4. integration of various things (this larger in scope but precise too).
I'm not enumerating this list out of my imagination. This is precisely what one
has TO DO in Trekcho practice. If your Trekcho and experience of the natural sta
te consists in doing nothing, then your result is nothing. If you try to integra
te the 4 modalities listed above (and you have a lot of specific practices in th
ere), then you integrate your whole being to the natural state and that is real
Trekcho."
- Jean-Luc Achard