Lama Shabkar

What kind of shape and color does it have?

When you haven't found the dwelling place of mind after precise examination, try finally

to determine where the mind goes when it moves.

Through which door of the sense organs does it leave?

when it reaches outer objects in split seconds?

Does the body go?

Or is it only the mind that goes?

Or do the body and mind go together?

In this way, examine and analyze.

When an emotion or a thought first arises, find the place from which it arose.

Then, in the present moment, look at where it remains and whether or not it has colour and form.

Finally, when it spontaneously vanishes, find out where it went when it disappeared.

Investigate how the mind leaves at the time of death.

Analyze this precisely until you have established with certainty

that it is inexpressible and utterly empty intangible beyond birth and death beyond coming and going

It brings no benefit to parrot the examples and statements of others by just saying, it is emptiness.

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For example, people may say that there aren't any tigers in a place where they are rumoured to be, but you may not feel convinced that this is true.

Instead, you may be disturbed by doubts about it.

But when you yourself have traced the root of mind and have arrived at certainty about it, it is as if you had gone to a place where tigers are said to live and had explored the whole region from top to bottom to see for yourself if there are any tigers.