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The sign of learning is to be more gentle and disciplined.
The sign of practice is to have fewer selfish emotions.
What obscures our underlying wakefulness is thinking and emotions.
Be free of the two obscurations, especially the subtle cognitive obscuration.
The training is to recognize the nature of mind as thought free wakefulness.
This cannot be done by thinking which covers over awareness.
Awareness is not known by thinking because it is not an object of thought; therefore your real nature is not accessible or known from thought.
All formed things are produced and then perish; they arise and cease. But this unity of being empty and cognizant does not arise and does not cease; it is unformed…understanding that these are a unity eliminates duality.
Thought free wakefulness is unformed and unconstructed.
In the gap between thoughts you risk discovering thought free wakefulness…innate suchness…fresh present wakefulness.
This gap must be recognized, the recognition stabilized and then the underlying awareness realized.
That will be the same as never being distracted.
This “where to look” is the knowing of one that is the knowing of all.
It takes effort and desire at the beginning to know our real nature but it becomes effortless.
There are many things to do but this is the most important to know.
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