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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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Thought obscures our real nature from our awareness leaving us less capable to deal with what is.
The recognition of our real thought free nature is the knowing of one that is the knowing of all.
This can only be a direct experience-not an intellectual one.
The recognition of our non conceptual wakefulness is enlightenment.
Non enlightenment is ignorance of our real nature which usually involves clinging to thoughts and emotions of an inflated, separate self.
All of our dualistic thought is a miss-perception and fragmentation of what is.
It comes from liking this and not liking that until our world is divided by our own judgements of it.
What is, is not conceptual by nature, but with our constant stream of obscuring thoughts, conceptuality is usually how we experience it.
The suffering that comes from duality and polarization is not necessary if we can find the space between our obscuring thoughts and stabilize this recognition of our underlying wakeful nature.
What do we have to lose if we try…suffering?
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It is the direct experience of the recognition of our real, non conceptual, innate wakefulness that is the knowing of one that is the knowing of all. This is not intellectual or there is no benefit.
The recognition comes from our ordinary awareness unclouded by thoughts and concepts.
It is available to us always if not obscured from our view.
We have only to recognize our mind’s nature and remain undistracted which is effortless.
Instead we put our effort into what is out there, while the wish fulfilling jewel is the recognition of our own non dual…thought free…wakeful presence right here.
We live in great abundance but are separated from it by our limited perception. What an irony.
If we want to recognize it we can. It is not OK not to. There is no greater error we can make.
All we have to do, is to recognize our larger real nature by letting go of our small false nature-“I, me, my, mine” .
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Thankfulness 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 true nature.
Now what might that be?
The things that take our attention away are distraction, laziness, carelessness, procrastination 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 get and stay there?
One of the more difficult challenges is to not cling and grasp.
The biggest object of our clinging is to our own identity and the next biggest are all the wants and needs of “me” ,”my”. “mine” that we live with.
We cling to our identity as if it were fixed and real and not impermanent, and we fail to recognize our real underlying nature…non dual, non conceptual wakefulness.
We fail to recognize it because it is obscured from our view by our emotions and thoughts.
Enlightenment is none other than the undistracted recognition of our non conceptual present fresh wakefulness.
In the end, recognition is effortless, but it takes initial effort to not give in to distraction, laziness and self discouragement.
It takes intention and if it’s there, the rest will follow…like the pointing out instruction.
Simply recognize your nature in whatever you experience.
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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.
We think we are separate.
In a sense, perception is partial, incomplete.
It also leads to a false, thought driven, sense of identity.
Fresh present wakefulness is open, without limit or bounds.
It is not conceptual which is limited.
Thoughts can self liberate like a finger writing on water.
Clinging is what makes our thoughts stick to us and we to them.
The finger that writes on water cannot cling to the words it writes.
That is how we should live.
As soon as one is distracted, to arrive back in awareness effortlessly,
When we give up ego-clinging, we are all part of the same whole.
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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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Allow recognition to occur repeatedly…letting be in naturalness.
Recognition is the abiding way.
A moment of complete openness, uncontrived, unconstructed…
fresh present wakefulness…
giving up the whole framework of wanting to achieve something(which is also a thought).
Let your senses be wide awake and don’t hold onto anything.
Let that recognition gain strength…get stabilized…
No word or view to see or maintain…a complete falling away of effort.
Fresh wakefullness is unconfined, unmodified, unconstructed….
Aside from our real underlying nature of things, nothing can be relied upon.
There is no meditation for the nature of mind.
The ultimate refuge is the wakefullness in the space between our thoughts.
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The ultimate refuge is the wakefulness in the space between thoughts.
The heart of practice is this recognition of the natural state.
All thoughts chain our mind.
Our enemy, thought is not easy to deal with because it is all that we know.
There is no other enemy.
The whole framework of the thinking mind obscures our underlying intrinsic nature.
Because our intrinsic nature is not an object of thought, it is unknown to thought and thinking.
Hope and fear are thoughts and it is what it means to be human.
The stickiest thought is grasping which distracts, binds, contains and confines us in our very thoughts.
Grasping cannot be destroyed by grasping, only by it’s cessation.
Let intrinsic nature’s recognition be your practice and protection.
Allow it to happen.
Allow the natural liberation of all thought like a finger writing on water.
Acknowledge the original nature of your mind.
The heart of practice is the recognition of this natural state. THIS IS IT. Don’t look elsewhere.
We usually start assuming an identity at a young age.
We try things out seeing what works and what doesn’t?
There is a lot that would like to capture our attention and keep hold of it.
We learn also by negation “not this”, “not that”.
The mind that we work through moves seamlessly off into thoughts and concepts.
Thoughts and concepts come from the past (or old thoughts and concepts).
The mind has a flaw in accepting thoughts as temporary identity.
Thinking is revered but it’s value is misunderstood.
Thinking births duality (I like this – I don’t like that).
Do you recognize thought free wakefulness? Could it to be your true nature? Could “what is” not be a thought?
This is a spiritual question with a yes or no answer and profound consequences.
Wakefulness,fresh presence,innate suchness,I am that I am, can be recognized and with skill realized.
It is the place to look because it comes from your own awareness which is not outside.
It is easily obscured by your thoughts (covered over) so that you don’t even notice that your underlying fresh presence is still there(closer than the back of your eye lid).
Do you recognize your own true nature?
Is there any knowledge that is more valuable?
Since fresh present wakefulness is not an object of thought, it is not knowable by your intellect.
That which creates duality does not comprehend non-duality.
Fresh Presence 