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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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Innate nature, fresh present wakefulness, intrinsic awareness, empty cognizance, egolessness (rig pa) underly our busy thought driven self.
It is a wakefulness that is not conceptual.
It is usually obscured from our attention by our thoughts that we seem almost to live in or through.
It is valuable if recognized and invaluable if realized.
There is a space between our thoughts and surprisingly that’s more our identity than the preceding or following thoughts.
Another way of approaching this is to search through our awareness for our attention.
Where is our attention?
Our attention is usually what clings, seeking identification with what it wants and shunning what it doesn’t want.
Clinging is what obscures(veils) our underlying awareness and nature (rig pa) from view by our attention.
It short circuits “letting it be”…”letting go”…”letting flow”.
Even if we don’t go with the flow, the flow goes with us.
A finger writing on water lets the words liberate as they are written.
Enlightenment matters, because we need to look in the right place in order to learn to know the knowing of one that is the knowing of all.
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Thanks Giving is always in season.
Giving thanks is recognizing that our continual state of want can be interrupted.
Recognizing is the process of interrupting our non-attention.
The most important thing to recognize is our real nature.
Now what might that be?
The things that take our attention away are distraction, laziness and self discouragement.
The thing that brings our attention into focus is Awareness.
Our real nature is where our Awareness resides when we are not distracted, lazy or discouraged.
Now how do we stay there?
If we recognize fresh present wakefulness as our real nature then there is nothing to do but rest in it, free of concepts and thoughts.
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“An intellectual is defined here as someone who searches externally for knowledge. Such people may have mastered hundreds of different disciplines, but they remain as ordinary people, with the great mystery of their own minds still hidden from them”. Karma Chagme.
Recognition of our real nature is “rigpa” in tibetan/sanskrit.
Non-recognition is marigpa. This is how most of us are. We don’t recognize what is intrinsic to our essence.
“Rigpa (Tibetan; Sanskrit) is the primordial, nondual awareness advocated by the Dzogchen and Mahamudra teachings.
Rigpa is a Tibetan word, which in general means ‘intelligence’ or ‘awareness’. In Dzogchen, however…rigpa has a deeper connotation, ‘the innermost nature of the mind’. The whole of the teaching of Buddha is directed towards realizing this, our ultimate nature, the state of omniscience or enlightenment – a truth so universal, so primordial that it goes beyond all limits, and beyond even religion itself”. Sogyal Rinpoche
You are reading this for understanding through your intellect.
There is nothing more important to realize than our real nature. There is no intelligence that is of more value.
How is your intellect doing at understanding your real nature?
Do you want to know why your intellect can’t do it?
Our underlying nature that needs to be recognized is not an object of thought.
In fact our underlying “thought free wakefulness” is obscured from our recognition by none other than thought itself.
What a paradox.
The wish fulfilling jewel in our own midst, yet unrecognized.
The knowing of one that is the knowing of all, is to us unknown.
Life is not static and it is how we react to the circumstances we experience that we effect further circumstance.
Conditioning tends to bias our reaction to circumstance and produce a knee jerk reaction that is impaired.
Unconditioning ourselves is a good strategy, to react with fresh presence no matter what the circumstance.
This requires close observation and letting go of outmoded behavior.
Going with the flow is easy when our conditioning has been reduced.
We have all experienced being on the wave and not being on the wave but it is an interesting idea that what produces the wave is always with us….our underlying awareness.
Manifestation is what we produce from how we think about what we experience.
Truth is integral to proper manifestation.
“Truth is the realization of freedom from false a wrong views of mind”. Andrew Cohen
No spinning stuff out there that will come back to bite.
“Enlightenment is also the realization of freedom from false and wrong views of mind”. Andrew Cohen
It is also the recognition and realization of our true nature-thought free wakefulness, if it is recognized.
Fresh Presence 